• OPEN COURT: WEEKLY REP
• Date added: Tue 11th June 2013

In her first summer at the helm of the Royal Court Theatre, new Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone is handing over the building to the playwrights in Open Court – a six week festival of plays, ideas and events chosen and suggested by a group of over 140 writers.

• VOCALEYES ON CULTURE HIVE
• Date added: Mon 10th June 2013

VocalEyes Research Paper on Access to Museums Galleries and Heritage Sites has gone live on Culture Hive http://culturehive.co.uk.

• London Beyond Sight is now 40!
• Date added: Mon 20th May 2013

“Mission accomplished” as our 40th London Beyond Sight recording is completed and now on the website.

Well-known names from the arts, politics, architecture, theatre, science, sport, religion have worked with our describers to create audio descriptions of their favourite bit of London.

• SLEEPING BEAUTY IN RNIB’S VISION MAGAZINE
• Date added: Wed 1st May 2013

In the April/May 2013 issue of RNIB’s Vision Magazine.  Kim Normanton joined a group of blind and partially sighted people as they were about to go on stage for the touch tour prior to the audio -described performance of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty at Sadler’s Wells in London.  After the performance Kim caught up again with the blind and partially sighted people to find out what they thought of the audio-description of Sleeping Beauty and Kim also spoke to VocalEyes Describers Bridget Crowley and Eleanor Margolies about how they approach describing ballet and dance.