The collaboration between the city, the Vodafone Spain Foundation, the New Life Center Vocational Rehabilitation, the Foundation Els Tres Turons and Aptent Solutions, will allow the Teatro Circo host again for the second consecutive year, the program accessible Theatre.
Councilman Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco and the councilman of Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, accompanied by Santigo Moreno, director of the Vodafone Foundation;
Javier Jimenez, director of Aptent, and José Luis Aedo, president of FIAPAS, presented this morning the new edition of this initiative in Murcia
Thus, the living Enrique Villar street this season will offer four productions adapted for people with sensory disabilities and older persons: the November 5 'next door';
January 20 'Escuadra hacia la muerte' and in the next quarter other two shows still to be determined.
Accessible theater is a program that guarantees sensory accessibility service subtitling, audio description, magnetic loop and FOH in more than fifty theater productions in Spain.
What looks for this project Vodafone Foundation Spain, Aptent Solutions and Psychiatry and Life / CRL New Life Association is to bring theater collective with visual and hearing disabilities, creating suitable to shared leisure spaces, to promote the integration of people with disability and to open a door to culture for all.
These services include subtitles, sign language, audio description and Braille, among others.
The project started in December 2011, and has since made the adaptation of more than one hundred productions and 300 accessible functions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia