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LU.CA introduces new resources for blind and visually impaired audiences

Tactile flooring, audio description of all visitable spaces and a library with dozens of books in Braille.
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LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões is now equipped with tactile flooring in the public access areas. This flooring, along with other new features aimed at blind and visually impaired audiences, continues the work that the theatre, managed by EGEAC, has been developing in the field of Accessibility.

 

The new flooring runs through the theatre foyer, providing access to the ticket office and auditorium, as well as the stairs and pathways to the boxes and middle floor. In addition to guiding individuals who are blind or visually impaired along a safe path, the tactile flooring also helps alert them to any potential obstacles along the way, such as stairs or level changes.

 

Another new feature designed to make the theatre more accessible is the audio description of all visitable spaces. Through audio tracks available on the theatre’s website, blind or visually impaired audience members can now plan their visit to LU.CA more comprehensively and easily.

 

In the middle floor, where all the Audience Public Library titles are located, there is now also an area with dozens of books in Braille and regular print. This section of the library includes dozens of works by authors such as Mário Castrim, Luísa Ducla Soares or Dick Bruna, and will feature more titles soon.

 

In addition to these three new features, LU.CA continues to provide a Braille brochure with the theatre’s regular programme, always available at the ticket office and middle floor, as well as regular sessions with audio description. In March, LU.CA will even host audio-described sessions for the shows The Great Race (March 9), A big mess, a little mess (March 16), and What happens twice, happens thrice (March 23), by Catarina Requeijo.

 

Since opening in 2018, Accessibility has been one of the guiding principles of LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões’s mission. Planning and enactment in this capacity, which begins with programming, naturally extends to various sectors of the theatre. In 2023, this work was publicly recognized with the Acesso Cultura Award. The jury highlighted the “integrated vision” created by the theatre, “ensuring the safeguarding of physical, intellectual, and social accessibility instruments.”

 

Inclusion is one of the strategic axes of EGEAC, which has been implementing additional measures in more and more company spaces to promote equitable, physical, social, and intellectual access for all individuals.