<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jocelyn Hunter</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jhunter@clb.org">jhunter@clb.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 10:40 AM<br>Subject: Call for Participants - accessibility workshops<br>To: Jocelyn Hunter <<a href="mailto:jhunter@clb.org">jhunter@clb.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-4954984155381792945">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jocelyn Hunter – Senior Director of Communications</span></b><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">My name is Stephany and I'm the Director of Public Programs at the Heurich House Museum in Dupont Circle. We are currently recruiting blind, partially blind and sighted people to
 participate in a half-day visit to the museum Museum to be part of a group discussion focusing on a room in the historic mansion.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The aim will be to work together to create a description of that room, which might help other blind, partially blind and sighted audiences better enjoy and engage with their museum experience. <span style="color:black">We
 were wondering if this is an opportunity the DC chapter of the National Federation of the Blind would be interested in sharing or participating in?</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are looking to fill the following slots on April 9: </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blind Participant: 10:30am - 1:00pm<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blind Participant: 2:00pm - 4:30pm<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">These workshops are part of a funded research project that hopes to address this by looking at descriptions of artworks and museum spaces that are created collaboratively by groups of blind, partially-blind
 and sighted people. We will also be filming parts of the workshop for a training course, but you do not need to be filmed if you do not want to be.  We will offer a thank you payment of $45 for time and contribution and reasonable travel expenses. There will
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please let me know if this is something you are interested in or willing to share, I'm also including some additional information about us below.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks for considering,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stephany</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About us</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://heurichhouse.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Heurich House Museum</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> is a historic house museum located in Dupont Circle. We aim to explore the American Experience
 through the legacy of German immigrant Christian Heurich and his Washington, DC brewery, and create an equitable path to success for local small-scale businesses. We are working with academics from the University of Westminster who have been working together
 on inclusive design projects in the museum and heritage sector for some years.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/eardley-alison" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Alison Eardley
</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is Reader in Psychology, Cultural Heritage and Inclusion at the University of Westminster. Her work looks at visitor experience and audience engagement in museums and the cultural sector from
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