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.

Sarah Browne is an artist based in Cork concerned with spoken and unspoken, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. Her practice involves sculpture, film, performance and public projects, and frequent interdisciplinary collaboration. Browne’s solo projects include Echo’s Bones (2022: a collaborative filmmaking project with autistic young people, responding to works by Samuel Beckett, commissioned by Fingal County Council); and Public feeling (2019: public art commission in South Dublin leisure centres). Her solo exhibitions include Tógaimid ár dteanga le carraigeacha [we build our language with rocks], Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow; Buttercup, SIRIUS, Cobh (both 2024), and Report to an Academy, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017). In 2020 she curated TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, with a project titled The Law is a White Dog. Significant group exhibitions Browne has participated in include Bergen Assembly: Actually, the Dead are Not Dead (2019) and the Liverpool Biennial, with Jesse Jones (2016). In 2009 she co-represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and their collaborative practice, Kennedy Browne.

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.