Creative Captioning Workshop

This three-day workshop introduces creative captioning as an access-led practice within visual art, performance, and moving image. Led by experienced practitioners alongside Deaf artists, the workshop places accessibility at the centre of creative decision-making.

Participants will move through the full creative captioning process; planning, designing, and operating, combining case studies, discussion, and hands-on practical work. Topics include captioning standards and ethics, differences between live and screen-based creative captioning, and the use of tools such as After Effects and QLab.

Across the workshop, participants will develop and operate creative captions for a song that will be presented as part of the festival event Sign the Night Away, a Deaf disco led by ISL performer Sarah-Jane O’Regan.

Suitable for artists, designers, filmmakers, and performers with a good understanding of video, captioning or animation who want to embed access meaningfully into their practice. A good understanding of After Effects is suggested.

In partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios

Ben Glover is a Deaf video designer and creative captioner. Combining interdisciplinary skills, access expertise, and lived experience, he creates innovative, integrated video design and creative captioning. His work has featured in the West End, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal Opera House, The Royal Albert Hall, and international venues.

Daniel Hughes is a filmmaker, video designer and caption designer working in a variety of contexts across visual art, theatre and film. He is passionate about working with deaf creatives in integrating captioning within the creative process and thinking about it in a way that goes beyond a descriptive access experience, finding ways that it can become sensory, intuitive and dynamic, offering a more directly accessible experience.

For more info and how to apply for a space on this workshop, email [email protected]

Disrupt Disability Arts Festival’s Embedded Access Training Programme is funded by Rethink Ireland’s Disability Participation and Awareness Fund 3.0 and supported by Safe To Create, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Dance Ireland.