Visibility, accessibility, and accurate d/Deaf and disabled representation: on stage, screen, and behind the scenes with Libby Welsh

How do you make your work as d/Deaf and disability friendly as possible? Why does accurate representation matters for d/Deaf and disabled people? This workshop covers how to make both performance and the creation process as accessible as possible, as well as how to approach casting when you're looking for d/Deaf and disabled performers.

Libby Welsh is an actor, dancer, choreographer and access consultant. She also has profound bilateral senso-neural hearing loss, and was implanted at the age of 14. She's 90% regular human, 10% terminator, and a little bit weird- but absolutely determinedly unpretentious.

Guildhall School presents Change Makers

A series of free online workshops for creative practitioners

The creative and cultural industries are facing a time of unprecedented crisis and professionals in this area have found themselves needing to acquire new skills, approaches, and strengths in order to thrive in these challenging times.

This Spring 2021, Guildhall School will host a range of exciting, insightful, and dynamic creative people who will lead a series of free online participatory workshops for creative practitioners. The six-week series, hosted on Zoom, will respond to the live challenges and changes facing everyone who works in the creative sector today.

Each week, a different facilitator, all recruited via an open call, will lead discussions on various topics.