[Art_beyond_sight_advocacy] Audio Description Seminar--Johns Hopkins University

[Joel Snyder]

Hey friends--especially those in the Washington-Baltimore area: 

 

The flyer below (and attached) announces a seminar on Audio Description I'll
be conducting at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Wednesday,
September 30, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm.

 

My friend and colleague John Astin has asked me to introduce audio
description to his students but the seminar is free and open to all. Added
bonus: You'll have a chance to meet John--a Hopkins grad, and an amazingly
versatile actor and director, veteran of dozens of plays on Broadway and
beyond (a one-man touring production with Astin as Edgar Allan Poe) as well
as film and television--you may remember him as "Gomez Adamms" in The Adamms
Family, Evil Roy Slade or as "Dickens" on I'm Dickens, He's Fenster. 

 

Join us in Baltimore on the 30th!

 

 

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How does a person who is blind appreciate Theatre?

Museums?  Television?  Film?

 

Over 21 million Americans are blind or have low vision.  Learn how the arts
are made accessible to this significant but underserved population.

 

AUDIO DESCRIPTION:  THE VISUAL MADE VERBAL

 

A free seminar presented by

Joel Snyder, PhD

one of the world's first professional audio describers

and

President, Audio Description Associates, LLC

Director, Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind 

 

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:30 pm-6:30 pm

John Astin Theatre in the Merrick Barn - Johns Hopkins University

Homewood Campus - Baltimore, MD

Audio Description makes visual images accessible for people who are blind or
have low vision.  Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative,
media describers convey the visual image from television and film that is
not fully accessible to a significant segment of the population.  The 21st
Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act has spawned a cottage
industry for the writing/voicing of description for broadcast television.

BE A PART OF IT!

Who Should Attend?  

Anyone interested in:

- working as freelance description writers for broadcast television

- working as a describer in a local performing arts program

- working as a describer for visual art exhibitions

 

For more information, call JHU Theatre Arts & Studies at  (410) 516-0618

or Dr. Snyder at (301) 920-0218 -  <mailto:jsnyder at audiodescribe.com>
jsnyder at audiodescribe.com

 <http://www.audiodescribe.com> www.audiodescribe.com

 

 

 

 

JOEL SNYDER, Ph.D.

Author of The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and

Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description -

get your copy at thevisualmadeverbal.net

President, Audio Description Associates, LLC   

"The Visual Made Verbal"  T

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Tel: 301 920-0218; Fax: 208 445-0079

 

For more information about audio description, please visit: 

 <http://www.audiodescribe.com/> www.audiodescribe.com   

 

Director, Audio Description Project

American Council of the Blind

 <mailto:jsnyder at acb.org> jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083

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