From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue May 3 15:07:33 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:07:33 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Listening is Learning site Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5ACB@mail1> Hi, Listening is Learning site- audio description, blog, etc. http://listeningislearning.org/get-involved_events-and-contests.html Regards, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue May 3 15:09:09 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:09:09 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] THIRD ANNUAL YOUNG DESCRIBED FILM CRITIC Contest Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5ACC@mail1> Hi, Forwarding Regards, Lisa April 2011 Dear Young People (ages 7-18) and Audio Description Enthusiasts! AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND-AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECT and the DESCRIBED AND CAPTIONED MEDIA PROGRAM announce the THIRD ANNUAL YOUNG DESCRIBED FILM CRITIC Contest A "Listening Is Learning" Initiative Kids love movies. If you're a young person who can't see or can't see well, audio description provides access to all the visual images of the movies that your sighted peers enjoy. Some films in movie theaters and certain DVDs have description available; many of those DVDs and the older VHS tapes with description can be borrowed at public libraries or state libraries for the blind. The YOUNG DESCRIBED FILM CRITIC Contest wants you to experience these films and the description soundtracks and tell us about them! Young people with a visual impairment have a chance to win prizes for themselves AND recognition for their schools. And--a chance to hold the awesome title: Young Described Film Critic of the Year! All you need to do for a chance to win is to write, type or record your own film review of any described movie. Keep it short: 250 words maximum. There are three age categories: Sophomore (ages 7 to 10), Junior (ages 11 to 14), and Senior (ages 15 to 18). You can enter as many times as you like! The top nominees in each age category will be invited to an Awards Ceremony at the American Council of the Blind 2011 convention in Reno, NV during the week of July 11. Special guest award presenters will be in attendance and while the prizes are still to be determined, we know you won't be disappointed! DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: Friday, June 3, 2011 How to Enter: - Enter On-Line at: http://listeningislearning.org/get-involved_events-and-contests.html - Send us your written entry in regular or large print or Braille via email or postal mail (submissions from outside the United States are fine) to: Just send your review to: ACB-Young Described Film Critic 2200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 650, Arlington, VA 22201 USA email: jsnyder at acb.org phone: 202 467-5083 You will need to include these details: Name: Address: Phone: Email: Which age category? Sophomore (ages 7 to 10), Junior (ages 11 to 14), or Senior (ages 15 to 18). Name of school and class: School address and phone number: Don't forget to attach your review! :::::::::::::: TIP: For "Top Tips for Writing the Ultimate Film Review," visit: http://listeningislearning.org/get-involved_events-and-contests.html JOEL SNYDER Director, Audio Description Project American Council of the Blind jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083 www.acb.org/adp -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 07:47:47 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:47:47 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Photography in Egypt - Blind with a vision Message-ID: <4DC3A7A3.1020304@online.no> Hi, Article about a photography course in Egypt. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1046/feature.htm excerpt "When photographers find a good picture, they get their cameras and shoot. But what if they cannot see? One group of blind photography students has begun to answer this question. Tareq El-Shennawi, 41, public relations coordinator at the Taha Hussein Hall in Cairo University's new central library, is blind, and although he is not a student he was enthusiastic to learn photography with blind students at a workshop held in the library. El-Shennawi plays different sports and has a diploma in diving: although he is blind, this is not going to stop him from enjoying photography. "It helps psychologically when I feel I am doing something like other people," El-Shennawi confided to /Al-Ahram/ /Weekly/ in an interview. "It motivates me when other people feel I have the right to do what they do," and he criticised the idea that a physically challenged person necessarily has limited abilities. "I was wary at first, because I didn't know how to teach blind people photography when this is mainly based on vision," said Riham Zaki, 27, assistant teacher in the educational media department at the Faculty of Specific Education at Cairo University and the workshop trainer. In order to find out more, Zaki started to read about photography for the blind, discovering that such people can use other senses, such as smell, touch and hearing, to help them take photographs. The idea behind the workshop was the brainchild of professor Fifi Zallat from the Faculty of Art Education, Zaki said, explaining that Zallat had approached her because she was looking for someone specialising in mass communication who also taught photography. As a result, Zallat approached Zaki, who then participated with other trainers in a workshop at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Centre. Following the success of this workshop, Zaki volunteered to train students at the Taha Hussein Hall." Regards, Lisa From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 09:39:55 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 11:39:55 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] glove from ATMR- drawing? Message-ID: <4DC3C1EB.50806@online.no> Hi, Here's picture of the glove that the ATMR project used with the Wacom - could this be used as a drawing tool for visually impaired? The idea being that the picture would be digital right away. https://www.assembla.com/spaces/atmr/wiki/Prototype_glove Regards, Lisa From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 10:33:46 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:33:46 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Dawn Parkinson, painting with sight loss - RNIB Message-ID: <4DC3CE8A.5010604@online.no> Hi, Youtube video of a British artist Dawn Parkinson, painting with sight loss - RNIB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxrX_8KwnKY&feature=related Regards, Lisa From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 10:53:57 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:53:57 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Alan Constable -artist Message-ID: <4DC3D345.9040704@online.no> Creativity says more than words for one artist A BLIND man who can neither hear nor speak has had a remarkable career as an artist. In an exhibition titled Viewfinder, painter and ceramicist Alan Constable will showcase work spanning more than 20 years at Arts Project Australia, the Northcote studio gallery where he has created the works. Constable?s two-dimensional pastel drawings and oil paintings feature solitary figures, animals and landscapes reinterpreted from old magazines, while most of his three-dimensional works are painstakingly detailed ceramic cameras. Arts Project Australia project and development manager Cheryl Daye said Constable?s style derived from the way he used the little sight he had to focus on a particular part of a scene or subject. ?He looks at an image or object very closely with his face just inches from it and then reinterprets it and makes it his own,? Dr Daye said. ?He has always had a fascination with light and a love of cameras.? Dr Daye described Constable?s cameras as pop-art ceramic works. She said unlike the originals, which have the clean, hard lines of modern design technology, the ceramic cameras appeared soft and malleable. She said Constable?s cameras were highly collectable and his works had been exhibited widely throughout Australia. Alan Constable?s Viewfinder is at Arts Project Australia, 24 High St, Northcote, until June 1. http://northcote-leader.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/creativity-says-more-than-words-for-one-artist/ From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 12:12:46 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 14:12:46 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Universal art book, Artist Catherine Miller - exhibition and book project Message-ID: <4DC3E5BE.90001@online.no> Hi, Article about Catherine Miller, artist, teacher and link to her blogsite, and youtube videos (great! WONDERFUL, excellent) Photo in article really neat - white cane is attatched to a paintroller and used to paint white on a blue wall article etc about book project, exhibition, arts and society (note:have not seen all the videos yet - in process but sending links anyway) Regards, Lisa article excerpt Woman makes art more accessible for all Catherine Miller uses a white cane as a tool to create art. As the first and only legally blind painter to graduate from Pacific Northwest College of Arts, Catherine Miller isn't one who worries about working within the confines of mainstream culture. She's not nervous to speak up about what she sees as a serious disconnect between disability and contemporary art. To explore this phenomenon, Miller is creating "A Somewhat Secret Place: Disability and Art," an exhibit that will run through July, featuring the work of artists and writers with and without disabilities who seek to represent or reference disability in their work. "In the fine art world, they don't have terms to talk about disability art," said Miller, a member of St. Patrick Church in Portland. Miller is currently fundraising for the project through the Kickstarter website while simultaneously holding a call for submissions from Oregon artists, performers and writers. More than 20 artists will be represented in a variety of media: drawing, photography, installation pieces, performance art, painting and literature. "Historically, little consideration has been given to the merit of art by people with disabilities despite the fact that disability is a common variant of the human form," Miller said. By carefully curating the exhibit, Miller hopes to give all of the work equal treatment in an effort to highlight the contributions of disabled artists and the prevalence of disability in art. Since she was a student at PNCA, Miller has been http://www.catholicsentinel.org/Main.asp?SectionID=5&SubSectionID=30&ArticleID=14942 from blog */A Somewhat Secret Place: Disability and Art/*//is Catherine J. H. Miller's first socially engaged work of art. 28 works of art, literature and performance from artist and writers with and without disabilities will be featured in Miller's book and exhibition. Miller's planned inclusive book and exhibition project will create an international conversation that will show that artists/writers with disabilities are capable of expanding what is considered fine art and the common understanding of art history. The show will take place in Portland Oregon's Peal district beginning July 2nd and ending July 30th 2010. There will be an estimated eight events to include a opening, artists talks each week, VIP events, and a closing. Miller's book will offer her theories on the intersection of contemporary arts and disability, and offer definitions and names for four areas of artistic practice in which disability is present. The book will feature works featured in the above mention exhibition, and will be produced and published in 2012 with /Memwar/ /Publishing/ in Canada. This enter project is a individuals art project. However, may organizations (such as Oregon Office on Disability and Health at OHSU) have partnered and sponsored this project along with local art community members such as Mark Wooley, who will be handling all sales of work in the exhibition. Currently the project has $10,000 in in-kind and cash contributions and in the next three month expect to match that figure and acquire a fiscal sponsor. http://asomewhatsecretplace.wordpress.com/ and to donate log on to the Kickstarter website, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/495948280/a-somewhat-secret-place-disability-and-art Universal Book project about Art - Great A Somewhat Secret Kickstarter video - introduces all working around it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cErYUVpmwHw&feature=related 5 youtube videos Somewhat Secret Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONiFWQuSTUQ part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K93XB5Lgp8U&NR=1 part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBOf1s5TLyE&feature=related part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8STSRYmpufM&feature=related part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Chtf8lztk&feature=related From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 12:15:11 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 14:15:11 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Adaptive Device, tablet, books, Esref Argaman Message-ID: <4DC3E64F.8070905@online.no> links to articles and website Vision Is in the Mouth of the Beholder With Adaptive Device http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/741919 excerpt (note: think this is a reference to Esref Armagan) The assignments for our module requested the students to write about artworks that conveyed these meanings, but also had a personal impact on themselves. Working with the director from our National Centre for Arts Health at Tallaght Hospital, we were bowled over by the responses. Their chosen topics included popular music ( /Cancer/ by My Chemical Romance), film ( /Flatliners/ ), poetry (one of Eliot's /Four Quartets/ ), art (paintings by a blind Turkish artist), architecture (the new Birmingham Children's Hospital) and personal narrative (Beethoven's Heilgenstadt Testament on his deafness). The range, content and quality should provide reassurance to future generations of patients and society. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/0503/1224295910258.html excerpt Duo's tactile tablet reaches finals of international tech competition As students of Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology in Chembur, Amit Kulkarni, 22 and Shailesh Lohia, 21 would occasionally meet a particular blind student. A casual conversation with him revealed just how difficult it was for the visually impaired to use the computer or access edu cational materials online."We then realised we had to come up with something that would dynamically convert images online into a format that the visually challenged could access." This moment of awakening led the duo to create such a device over ten months. Their innovation, a tactile tablet, changes icons, diagrams and images into a format that the visually challenged can access simply by touching the screen. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Duo-s-tactile-tablet-reaches-finals-of-international-tech-competition/Article1-692198.aspx book website I read with my hands http://www.tactilegraphics.co.za/index.html From fnugg at online.no Fri May 6 13:22:07 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 15:22:07 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Music from Color, Lottolab Message-ID: <4DC3F5FF.5030709@online.no> **Hi, ** **Beau Lotto on Tedtalks, and Lottolab site. ** **Optical illusions ** **Regards, ** **Lisa ** **excerpt from interview How does Bing Bong fit in with your wider research?** Bing Bong is part of a larger program of research, which is sensory substitution or sensory augmentation. When I say to people that the light that falls onto our eyes is meaningless, people find that really hard to believe. You open your eyes, you look around, you see nothing /but/ meaning; you ask yourself, How could it be meaningless? But that's of course because you're not seeing the light that falls onto your eye, but your brain's perception of that light. You're seeing that light in the context of the millions of years of evolution that our brains have gone through. But if I translate that light into sound, and you instead /hear/ the visual information, you directly experience the meaninglessness of it. Then, through interacting with the world through sensory substitution, you experience yourself literally making sense of it. You begin to hear patterns. Those patterns start having a meaning for you. You're actually an observer of yourself as you do this. Through sensory substitution, we can create prosthetics for the visually impaired --- to make the world navigable. But we can also do things like make music from color, which is an element that I touched on during my TEDTalk . *The brain almost doesn't seem to care what type of information it receives --- it just starts decoding any information it is given. Do I have that right?* The most fundamental thing the brain does is it evolves to evolve. It adapts to adapt. The brain is wonderfully plastic. Now, it's a plastic of different levels of flexibility --- the brain couldn't function without some stability as well. http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/08/beau_q_and_a/ Bing Bong Iphone application http://www.lottolab.org/products.asp Tedtalks http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html Music from Color http://www.lottolab.org/articles/musicfromcolour.asp Lottolab http://www.lottolab.org/index.asp From fnugg at online.no Mon May 9 07:41:08 2011 From: fnugg at online.no (fnugg at online.no) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 09:41:08 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] gallery, theater, sculpture, Esref Armagan Message-ID: <4DC79A94.7010004@online.no> At Viewpoint Gallery, a new perspective on the role of art excerpt The gallery will host four shows a year and at first, she'll be inviting curators who are more familiar to artists who are often not included in mainstream art shows. This summer, she'll work with the Northeast Association for the Blind on a show of visually impaired artists. .... Lawrence met Martinez at Albany Center Gallery and after telling Martinez about the work she was doing with her students, Martinez offered Lawrence and her students a slot in the gallery schedule. Only two of the artists in the show, Lake and Darcy, were artists prior to their injuries. All of the artists have suffered a traumatic brain injury that poses challenges to making art. These artists must overcome multiple obstacles, from shaky hands to blindness, to express themselves. http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/At-Viewpoint-Gallery-a-new-perspective-on-the-1370534.php ------------------------ "Now Eye See You, Now Eye Don't" A visual artist goes blind in this darkly comic production about art, vision, and the healthcare industry. Complete with dancing doctors, a giant rolling eyeball and other visual effects, this original production by Off-Leash Area and celebrated local playwright Dominic Orlando is a humorous and universal story of loss, dignity and hope not to be missed! Performances run April 28, 29, & 30 and May 1, 2, 5, 6 & 7 with a special Pay-What-You-Can performance on Monday, May 2nd. For reservations, call 612-724-7372. The Show: Now Eye See You, Now Eye Don't Created by Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse with Playwright D Location The Ritz Theater Studio Space Organized by Off-Leash Area Phone 612-724-7372 Email offleash at offleasharea.org http://www.outintwincities.com/resources/calendar.asp ------------------------- /*Sculpture for the Blind [I]*/ c. 1920 Constantin Brancusi, French (born Romania), 1876 - 1957 Constantin Brancusi: 1876-1957 A great deal of uncertainty surrounds the origin of the title and the dating of this sculpture. John Quinn acquired it directly from the artist in 1922 as an "abstract woman's head" after seeing it at the artist's studio the previous summer. Not until 1949 was it published with the title /Sculpture for the Blind/.The provocative title indicates that Brancusi intended this sculpture not only to be seen but to be touched as well, perhaps even touched instead of seen. It related to Henri-Pierre Roch?'s later recollection that the work was shown in 1917, at the Society of Independent Artists exhibition in New York, "enclosed in a bag with two sleeve-holes for hands to pass through" (cited in Tacha, Athena C. "Brancusi: Legend, Reality and Impact." /Art Journal/ {New York}, vol. 22, no. 4, {Summer 1963}, p. 241). However, no record of this unusual showing has yet been found. The actual use of this title may derive from a later work, slightly larger and made in alabaster (Mus?e National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), that was shown in Paris at the Salon in 1926 with the title /Sleeping Muse (Sculpture for the Blind)/ and in New York at the 1933 Brummer Gallery exhibition as /Sculpture for the Blind/.The most commonly cited date is based on Roch?'s recollection. But given the 1922 date of Quinn's purchase, as well as the development of related works, it seems more likely that the correct date is about 1920. Ann Temkin, from /Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957/ (1995), p. 180. https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51125.html?mulR=23726%7C15 ----------------- Esref Armagan Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AgO6H0H98 From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue May 10 07:41:56 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:41:56 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference October 26-28, 2012 Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5AE4@mail1> Forwarding: Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference cosponsored by Art beyond Sight and The Metropolitan Museum of Art SAVE-A-DATE: Friday-Sunday, October 26-28, 2012 PLEASE NOTE: the conference will not take place in 2011. The registration form and schedule will be posted on our Web Site: www.artbeyondsight.org If you would like to receive automatic updates on the conference, please send an email to aeb at artbeyondsight.org with your name and title it "conference". We can also find updates and all information on the conference on our blog: http://artbeyondsightconference.blogspot.com/ -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue May 10 11:13:12 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:13:12 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference October 26-28, 2012 In-Reply-To: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5AE4@mail1> References: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5AE4@mail1> Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85257FB5AE6@mail1> Hi, Just to make it clear - am forwarding the following information received from Art Beyond Sight Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference cosponsored by Art beyond Sight and The Metropolitan Museum of Art SAVE-A-DATE: Friday-Sunday, October 26-28, 2012 PLEASE NOTE: the conference will not take place in 2011. The registration form and schedule will be posted on our Web Site: www.artbeyondsight.org If you would like to receive automatic updates on the conference, please send an email to aeb at artbeyondsight.org with your name and title it "conference". We can also find updates and all information on the conference on our blog: http://artbeyondsightconference.blogspot.com/ -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue Jun 28 13:47:00 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:47:00 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] International Tactile Book Competition: Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C29057@mail1> Forwarding: International Tactile Book Competition: The American Printing House for the Blind (APH) is joining Typhlo & Tactus (TT) in an international competition to promote tactile books. TT, an organization comprised of western and eastern European nations, has conducted an annual tactile book competition for the past decade. This year's competition has been opened to the world. A panel of U.S. judges, including APH, will review each entry. The top five books will be sent overseas for final adjudication by an international panel of children and adults with visual impairments, as well as professionals in the field. A single winning entry will be chosen, along with ten shortlisted books. If you live in the U.S. or U.S. outlying areas, this is your chance to create a completed tactile book, designed for a child with visual impairment from birth to 12 years of age, by Friday, September 2, 2011! The TT website provides the competition guidelines as well as a list of suggestions for desirable features in your tactile book creation! All entries must be accompanied by an official TT entry form, found at the TT website http://www.tactus.org/ U.S. entries can be sent to: American Printing House for the Blind 1839 Frankfort Avenue Louisville, KY 40206-0085 Attn: Suzette Wright, TT book competition -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Tue Jun 28 13:50:16 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:50:16 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] AUDIO DESCRIPTION INSTITUTE - July 14-16, 2011 Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C29058@mail1> REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN - AUDIO DESCRIPTION INSTITUTE! REGISTER NOW AT: http://acbconvention.org/index.php?option=com_pmform&view=form&Itemid=26 ACB logo Audio Description logo Audio Description The American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project Announces Its AUDIO DESCRIPTION INSTITUTE - July 14-16, 2011 In Conjunction with ACB's 2011 Annual Conference and Convention John Ascuaga Nugget Hotel Resort Casino - Reno, Nevada Audio Description (AD) 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 (more than 25 million Americans experience significant vision loss). The signing of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act has spawned a virtual cottage industry for the development 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 - Experienced audio describers desiring an updated refresher course. NOTE: freelance writers for broadcast television projects can often be based anywhere in the world-computer equipment capable of accommodating high-speed downloads is a must. Topics Include-- 1) audio description history and theory 2) the "Four Fundamentals of Audio Description" (c) 3) active seeing/visual literacy-developing skills in concentration and observation 4) the art of "editing" what you see 5) vivid language: "The Visual Made Verbal"(tm) 6) "Speak the speech, I pray you"--using the spoken word to make meaning Program - Three full days of intensive, interactive training; - Two continental breakfasts and a Saturday luncheon will be provided; - Registration for the ACB 2011 Conference and Convention is included. The interactive sessions (limited use of lecture, questions/discussion throughout, generous use of media, and individual and group writing exercises) are designed to provide immediate feedback and "give and take," allowing for adaptation according to a sense of participants' grasp of the material. In addition, experienced users of description are a part of the Institute's faculty, providing an important perspective throughout the sessions. This Institute will begin at 8:30 am on Thursday, July 14, 2011 and conclude at 4:00 pm on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (detailed agenda below). Participation is strictly limited. The Institute will issue ACB-sponsored certificates to all successful participants confirming completion of this professional description training program. Institute Director/Staff Joel Snyder-- One of the first audio describers, Mr. Snyder began describing theater events and media in 1981; he is the President of Audio Description Associates with clients around the world (see www.audiodescribe.com for more information) and Director of ACB's Audio Description Project. As Director of Described Media for the National Captioning Institute, he led a staff that produced description for nationally broadcast films and network series including "Sesame Street" broadcasts and DVDs. Snyder has trained describers in 30 states and the District of Columbia and he has brought description to over two dozen countries. Internationally, he introduced description techniques in Japan, Israel, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway and Finland; conducted audio description workshops in London, Prague, and St. Petersburg, Russia; and trained describers for a first-ever audio description program in Sofia, Bulgaria in August/September 1998. Most recently, he developed a team of describers for the second annual Moscow International Disability Film Festival as the result of intensive seminars conducted in Russia. In summer 2008, Snyder presented workshops in Montpellier, Shanghai, Beijing and provided description for the World Blind Union in Geneva. Snyder just returned from training describers in Ireland and speaking on description/conducting description workshops in India, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Dr. Francisco Lima-- Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Dr. Lima currently teaches inclusive education and audio description at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He trains audio describers for work in movies, theaters, museums, and other areas where images need to be accessed by people who are blind (conferences, museums, sight-seeing, etc.). Dr. Lima, one of the only people who are blind who trains audio describers in Brazil, is the editor of the Brazilian Journal of Visual Translation. He is particularly interested in the attitudinal barriers against people with disability and how they apply to audio description and related subjects including the translation of visual images into haptic or tactile configuration. Dr. Lima has studied the capability of people with visual disability to produce, understand and make use of visual images in both his Masters thesis and his Ph.D dissertation; his research has been published in journals based in the United States, England, Germany and the Republic of San Marino. Tuition - $420.00 ($400 plus $20 ACB Convention administrative fee) - credit card payment accepted by secure on-line registration Lodging You can make reservations by calling the Nugget at 800-648-1177; be sure to tell the reservationist that you are with the American Council of the Blind, group code gblind, in order to receive the conference rate and count as a conference attendee. Rates are $87 single/double; add $10 per each additional person in the room. Rates do not include 13.5% tax. To Apply Simply register on-line for the ACB 2011 Conference and Convention by visiting: http://acbconvention.org/index.php?option=com_pmform&view=form&Itemid=26 Contact Joel Snyder at jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083 with any questions -- see you in Reno!. JOEL SNYDER Director, Audio Description Project American Council of the Blind jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083 www.acb.org/adp (tm) ACB logo ADP logo President, Audio Description Associates, LLC "The Visual Made Verbal" (tm) (tm) ADA logo--an eye within an ear 6502 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912 jsnyder at audiodescribe.com -- 301 920-0218 Cell: 301 452-1898 -- Fax: 208 445-0079 For more information about audio description, please visit: www.audiodescribe.com AGENDA 2011 ACB Audio Description Project - AUDIO DESCRIPTION INSTITUTE John Ascuaga Nugget Hotel Resort Casino - Reno, NV July 14-15-16, 2011 DAY I - Thursday, July 14 8:30 am - 6:30 pm * 8:30 am-9:15 am: Breakfast - Introductions * 9:15 am-11:00 am: Opening Workshop - The Visually Impaired User - Audio Description History and Theory - Overview of Fundamentals of Audio Description * 11:00 am - 11:15 am: break * 11:15 am-12:30 am: - Concentration / Observation - Editing What You See * 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch- on your own * 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm: - Language - Speech / Breath Control / Oral Interpretation * 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm: break * 3:45 pm - 6:30 pm: - Audio Description exercises - Viewing / analysis of audio described excerpts DAY II - Friday, July 15 8:30 am - 6:30 pm * 8:30 am-9:30 am: Breakfast * 9:30 am-11:00 am: - Viewing / analysis of audio described excerpts - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes * 11:00 am - 11:15 am: break * 11:15 am-12:30 pm: - Viewing / analysis of audio described excerpts - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes * 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch- on your own * 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - Viewing / analysis of audio described excerpts - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes * 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm: break * 3:45 pm - 6:30 pm: - Viewing / analysis of audio described excerpts - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes DAY III - Saturday, July 16 8:30 am-4:00 pm Breakfast on your own * 8:30 am - 10:45 am: - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes * 10:45 am - 11:00 am: break * 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: - The Mechanics of Audio Description * 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm - INSTITUTE LUNCHEON * 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: - Audio Description practicum--Individual description sessions with selected video scenes * 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm: break * 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm: * Audio Description in the U.S. and around the world * Review / Discussion -- Graduation! -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Thu Jun 30 09:17:56 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:17:56 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] [accessibleimage] Re: VS: Calendar entries for Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month October 2011 Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C2905E@mail1> Hi, Forwarding from Steve Landau, Touch Graphics. Regards, Lisa Hi Lisa, Here's the latest from Touch Graphics! Hope you are having a nice summer. steve landau On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Lisa Yayla > wrote: Fra: Marie [mailto:aeb at artbeyondsight.org] Sendt: 27. juni 2011 19:02 Til: Marie Emne: Calendar entries for Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month October 2011 Dear 2011 participants, Never too early to plan for Fall and, hopefully, for the Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month. Some of you have been sending me some entries for our online calendar http://www.artbeyondsight.org/change/aw-calendar.shtml If you happen to have programs already scheduled, please share them with us so that we can add them as soon as possible. What we need: the date, time and location, program title, a few lines on what it is and, please do not forget, contact information: contact name, email, and/or phone number. If you'd like the entry to include a link to your Website, please be sure to include it, too. See example below. Good news: As you know, Awareness Month has not stopped growing since its inception, and we hope to keep it that way in the future, so help us spread the word on yours programs. We will have weekly Alerts (newsletters) during the month of October and would like to feature innovative past and present programs in them, so please send me information on successful Awareness Month program(s) along with any articles/press coverage on them and, if available a few photos and feedback from the programs' participants. We would like to help you as much as we can to publicize your programs and draw more visitors, so let us know what's going on. If you have any question please call 212-334-8723 or email aeb at artbeyondsight.org Sincerely, Marie September 13 The Jewish Museum, New York City offers a Tea Time Tour of the special exhibition, "South African Photographs: David Goldblatt" at 2:00 p.m. Immediately following the tour, visitors are invited to participate in an interactive activity based on the exhibition and a light reception with museum staff. The Jewish Museum also offers touch tours and tactile books based on its permanent collection, "Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey," and large print binders for all exhibitions. A public verbal imaging tour is offered monthly, and private verbal imaging and touch tours are available by appointment. Service animals are welcome. Please note that all Access tours and programs are free of charge, but require advance registration. Contact the Scheduling and Access Coordinator at (212) 423-3225, TTY (212) 660-1515 or email access at thejm.org. Space is limited. September 21 The Eye Care Center at Southern California College of California, Fullerton, opens its Sixth Annual "Shared Visions 2010-2011 International Art Exhibit" with a 7 to 9 p.m. reception. The exhibit features 90 works by blind artists; it will be on display at the Eye Care Center through mid-August, 2011. Local Southern California artists are featured, as are artists from across the United States, and from India, Israel and Canada. For details contact Arlene Kaye at (714) 992-7865 or akaye at scco.edu, or visit www.sccoeyecare.edu/News and Events/ Shared Visions. Marie Clapot Project Coordinator/Educator Art Beyond Sight 589 Broadway, 3rd fl. New York, NY 10012 (212) 334-8723 fax:(212) 941-6024 wwww.artbeyondsight.org www.nybeyondsight.org www.projectaccessforall.org -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PerkinsProgressReportno1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1975313 bytes Desc: PerkinsProgressReportno1.pdf URL: From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Thu Jun 30 09:40:18 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:40:18 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Touch Graphics wins 2011 Tibbets Award from U.S. Small Business Administration In-Reply-To: References: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C29056@mail1> Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C29060@mail1> Hi, Congratulations to Steven Landau and Touch Graphics on receiving the 2011 Tibbets Award from the U.S Small Business Administration! http://www.tibbettsawards.org/ http://archive.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/sbir/tibbetts/index.html Believe the Tibbets Award was awarded in February so please excuse the lateness of my congratulations. Wonderful work! All the best, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services- From Lisa.Yayla at statped.no Thu Jun 30 09:27:28 2011 From: Lisa.Yayla at statped.no (Lisa Yayla) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:27:28 +0200 Subject: [Art_beyond_sight_educators] Talking Tactile Pen & Apps In-Reply-To: References: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C29056@mail1> Message-ID: <6CC588DF64F27444A0B9D05DDC2BA1A85448C2905F@mail1> Hi, Another very interesting tool from Touch Graphics is the Talking Tactile Pen. Link to information: http://www.touchgraphics.com/research/pen.htm Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOtHT_flaoY&feature=player_embedded Regards, Lisa -Scanned by Exchange Hosted Services-