About this Event
Image Description: Life ring in water with icons representing images of accessibility. Icons clockwise around the life ring: an ear, an eye, a brain, the web accessibility symbol, a hand interacting with a digital tool, and a wheelchair. Text above reads Jump Into Accessibility and below reads Deep Dive Day 2024. Logo created by Fiona Martin.
This mini-conference on November 19 from 8:30-12:30 at the Woodland Park Zoo will cover important accessibility topics including: removing barriers for venue accessibility, neurodiversity in the arts, ASL and captioning, and universal design for learning. Thirty-minute "lightning" sessions, led by experts in the field, will cover priority considerations for each topic and provide practical tools that cultural professionals can apply to their accessibility strategies in programs and spaces. There will also be several moderated Q & A sessions. Coffee and snacks provided.
F or more information, including speaker bios and session descriptions, please visit our website.
Tickets cost $30 and REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED by November 11th. We want all folks interested in making accessibility a priority in your organization to attend. If cost is a barrier to your participation, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Tickets include access to the opening keynote, all sessions, and refreshments.
Captioning and ASL interpreters provided.
For further accessibility information or to request additional accommodations, please contact us by email at [email protected] by November 4th.
Jump into Accessibility: Deep Dive Day 2024 is sponsored by Woodland Park Zoo, ArtsFund, ArtsWA, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
Image Description: The words Thank you to our sponsors! A green rectangle with white zebra stripes over the words Woodland Park Zoo in black and green lettering; The word ArtsFund in black lettering, below in orange lettering a sprouting plant and diagonal line create an A; Multicolored geometric shapes with the word "ArtsWA"; Seattle Foundation logo: A circle surrounding two hearts intertwined to make a knot, top half in blue and the bottom half in green; A royal blue broken circle with the letters A and an & symbol inside, below the words Office of Arts and Culture Seattle.
Image Description: The words Powered By in red, in a half circle over the word Shunpike.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Woodland Park Zoo, 5500 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle, United States
USD 33.85
