Community Co-learning: Captioning and Transcription/ Non-auditory Access
Facilitated by Kay Slater (grunt gallery)
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Presented by the Writing Centre and the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University, in collaboration with grunt gallery.

This workshop is designed to help arts organizations, artists and community creators take a tangible first step towards building accessibility into their practices. By outlining best practices (and identifying the pros and cons of available auto-generated captioning services), and inviting participants to learn the basics of captioning and transcription for live and pre-recorded material, we invest in a baseline standard for access as well as a shared and shareable knowledge base.

About the facilitator:

Kay works in art spaces across occupied Coast Salish territory to examine value, inclusion, and expectations within gallery and fine art environments. They are queer, hard of hearing, and mad, they are not seeking medical validation or diagnosis, and they work with an attitude that welcomes conflict, change, and fire, specifically challenging the professional world to explore discomfort and radical change. They want institutions to be both interested and scared to work with them. They are especially ready to be wrong and to be in discussion about how they can do better. Visit them at grunt on Thursdays for voice-off and low sensory visiting hours, see them moving public art and designing art spaces for youth at ArtStarts in Schools, join them as they host weekly inclusive practice spaces at Queer ASL, and see them fumbling into art shows with an awkward hope that we can support each other in multimodal ways based in care.

Transcript available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkJJUIjW1yNWuJsQl_sLLNj0C1sYhhlPEBi6KhSylRY/edit

Captions and Transcript by Dustyn Krasowski-Olmstead.