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Clients and described locations include: ACTRA Toronto Aki Studio Aluna Theatre Amazing Ain’t It Entertainment Inc. American Society For Theatre Research Art Gallery of Guelph Art Gallery of Ontario Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Calatrava Atrium (Brookfield Place) Factory Theatre Fort York National Historical Site Full Radius Dance (Atlanta, GA) Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Jenelle Rouse & Shelly Nafshi Productions Les Ballets C de la B Lester B. Pearson Airport Luminato Festival Mark Brose & Wanda Fitzgerald Films National Arts Centre Native Earth Performing Arts Para-Pan Am Games Power Productions (St. John’s, NL) Project Re-vision Propeller Dance Red Dress Productions Sound Cinema Stratford Festival of Canada Summit on Indigeneity and Disability Tangled Art + Disability (Gallery and Kids Fest) Tarragon Theatre The Republic of Inclusion University of Guelph University of Toronto York University Young People’s Theatre Zombie Tree Productions Formed in 2016, Live Describe is a coalition of Audio Description Service Providers in and around Toronto, Canada who specialize in live on-location Audio Description service delivery of live performances, visual art exhibitions, parades, sports, dance workshops, and other cultural opportunities. What is Audio Description? Audio Description is the Art of Talking Pictorially. Audio Description makes theatre performances, museum exhibitions, parades and other cultural opportunities more available to persons who are blind or partially sighted. The listeners are issued a single earphone and tiny (3 by 4-inch) receivers through which they can hear a trained describer depict the sets, costumes and non-verbal onstage action via a portable transmitter. Describers do not keep a running commentary but rather, talk about the essential, visual aspects of the production in order to help listeners share the total experience of the performance. Describers are not performers; they are reporters. They do not base their comments on their own biases or impressions. Instead, they pass on visual information and allow the listeners to develop their own opinions and conclusions. (With thanks to Picasso Pro for the description)