Accessibility 2024

Short Theatre 2024 continues to shape gestures oriented towards an accessible festival, exploring solutions that make the world of the arts an environment that can be traversed by everyone. The festival continues to focus on showcasing artists with disabilities, implementing initiatives for disabled audiences, and partnering with local institutions.

Pivotal is the ongoing support from the Fondazione AltaMane Italia, now renewed for a third year, as well as the Insieme Siamo Arte 2024 project, developed by the Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale and ATCL – Associazione Teatrale fra i Comuni del Lazio.

Thanks to the «Creative Europe» project Radio That Matters, the notion of “acoustic justice” has in recent years been explored with relation to entangling accessibility, sound research and performing arts, experimenting with new methodologies of creation.

These contributions have enabled Short Theatre to organize workshops for people with disabilities, and training seminars for the public as well as for cultural operators and curators, activists and artists, with the goal of dispelling beliefs and prejudices dictated by the ableist agenda.

Since 2022, the Short Theatre staff has been following a training course on accessibility with meetings on more general themes and issues as well as other encounters aimed at specific aspects of the festival’s organization and communication. These events were organized under the guidance of Al. Di. Qua. Artists, the first Italian association of those working in the entertainment world with disabled bodies, alongside ASP S. Alessio Margherita Di Savoia.

Spectator with a disability can purchase a reduced ticket and request free entry for their carers by writing to info@shorttheatre.org.

WORKSHOPS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY:

Una memoria di suoni | Alessandro Bosetti
June 4>6 + 24>26
ASP S. Alessio Margherita Di Savoia
acoustic practices and storytelling workshop open to blind and visually impaired people
within Radio That Matters

CONTRO-ACUSTICA: per il diritto alla Lingua dei Segni | Diana Anselmo / Al.Di.Qua Artists in conversation with Piersandra Di Matteo
September 9 | 6:00 pm
Teatro India
seminar on deaf perspectives and repositioning listening through performativity that articulates sound as movement, vibration, animation

cicalecicale | Chiara Cecconello
September 9>10 | 3:00 pm
Teatro India
acoustic practice workshop open to blind and visually impaired people

SHOWS ACCESSIBLE TO BLIND PEOPLE:

La memoria risiede del lobo dell’orecchio | Alessandro Bosetti
September 5 | 8:15 pm
September 6 | 7:30 pm
La Pelanda – Studio 1
sound performance, 55′
within Radio That Matters

Xong collection – dischi d’artista | Xing
September 7–8–11–12 | 6:00 pm
September 10 | 7:00 pm
La Pelanda – Studio 1
collective listenings, varied durations

AGANIS | Chiara Cecconello
September 11 | 9:00 pm
Angelo Mai
sound performance, 45′
within SPORE

Speaking cables, dispositivo coreografico per voci, cavi e altoparlanti | Agnese Banti
September 12 | 9:00 pm
Angelo Mai
sound performance, 50′

SHOWS ACCESSIBLE TO DEAF PEOPLE:

Monumentum DA | Cristina Kristal Rizzo + Diana Anselmo
September 8 | 7:30 pm
La Pelanda – Mattatoio
performance, 45′
in LIS

WEBSITE:

The event pages of Short Theatre 2024 contain a link to soundcloud with audio descriptions of synopses and info read and lovingly recorded by the staff.

ACCESSIBILITY OF SPACES:

Short Theatre’s main spaces and venues are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. In any case, we recommend writing to info@shorttheatre.org for guidance.

a special thanks to Laura Danieli, Paola Raguzzi, Isabella Di Cola
thanks to Francesco Gasparri, Susanna Di Pietra, Gloria Antognozzi / CODA Italia for LIS accompaniment and translation