Access Performance Information

Check here for details of access performances across the Factory International programme

Access performances

BSL

Crippled with Laughter

Friday 23 January, 6.30pm

Trackie McLeod's UTOPIA: Roundtable: A Public House or the Public’s Home?

Friday 20 February, 7pm

Angel's Bone

Saturday 16 May, 2pm

Ai Weiwei: Button Up! Artist Talk

Thursday 2 July, 7pm

Audio description

Return to the Forest

Sunday 10 May, 2pm. The audio describer is Adae Bajomo.

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor

Saturday 27 June, 2.30pm

Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

Audio described tours of the exhibition will be delivered by Anne Hornsby of Mind’s Eye on the following dates:

Wednesday 15 July at 10am

Sunday 2 August at 10am

Tuesday 11 August at 10am

Saturday 22 August at 10am

Relaxed performances

Return to the Forest

Sunday 10 May, 11am

Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

Relaxed slots of Button Up! will take place on the following dates:

Saturday 11 July at 10am

Wednesday 22 July at 10am

Sunday 9 August at 10am

Tuesday 18 August at 10am

Captioning

The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor

Saturday 27 June, 2.30pm

Ai Weiwei: Button Up! Artist Talk

Thursday 2 July, 7pm

Reduced capacity

Ai Weiwei: Button Up!

We have reduced capacity sessions available to book onto on the following dates:

Sunday 19 July at 10am

Friday 31 July at 10am

Thursday 13 August at 10am

Saturday 29 August at 10am

Stay in the loop

If you’re interested in hearing updates about our accessible performances or booking access tickets, you can join our Access Mailing List by registering or logging in to ‘My Account’ and selecting your access requirements under ‘other preferences’.

At the bottom of this page you can see a key for different types of Access performance and what they mean.

Contact us

If you have a question about any of these performances, please get in touch on access@factoryinternational.org or call us on 0161 817 4531 and we’ll do our best to help. Phone lines are open 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday.

Access performance types

AD: Audio-described

Audio description offers an introduction/commentary of the visual action to assist blind and visually impaired patrons. This is usually delivered via an earpiece and will be available from event pages.

BSL: British Sign Language interpreted performance

A British Sign Language interpreter will translate the spoken words for BSL users.

CAP: Captioned performance

Captioning displays dialogue and some sound effects as visible text on a screen or mobile device for anyone who would find this useful.

REL: Relaxed performance

Relaxed performances welcome all who may benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, including people with an Autism Spectrum Condition, sensory and communication disorders or a learning disability, or those with babes in arms.

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