Think Outside the Vox September 2024 Newsletter

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THINK OUTSIDE THE VOX

September 2024 Newsletter

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Think Outside the Vox had a lovely summer season in Boston and beyond. This newsletter covers some of our recent projects and collaborations with local arts organizations, awards and recognitions, and community development.

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Partnered with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company for Shakespeare on the Common: The Winter’s Tale

A photo of the ASL team at the Hatch Shell in front of the Landmarks Orchestra for the performance of Sheherazade & Borodin: Arabian Nights. There are stone steps with names of composers in gold: “Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Brahms, Gershwin..” are among

Closed out Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s summer concert series at the Hatch Shell:

 Sheherazade & Borodin: Arabian Nights

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A year in the making! We partnered with ArtsBoston to respond to a call from the Deaf, Blind, DeafBlind, Neurodiverse and greater disability communities to require Accessibility features and visual descriptions for event submissions on the ArtsBoston Calendar. Next month, we are hosting a webinar to teach arts organizations how to make the most of their listings and welcome more patrons. 

Thank you to Executive Director Catherine Peterson, Nate Shu and Claire Williamson for working diligently with our team to make this a tool which will serve the sector for years to come.

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Vox was proud to be invited by National Arts Strategies into its first cohort of The Project, an initiative designed to explore and build more equitable organizational models and sustainable leadership practices in arts and cultural work.

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ACBADP Award

Think Outside the Vox is a 2024 winner of the Audio Description Project Awards! We are thrilled and honored to have received the Special Achievement in Performing Arts Award for our work in increasing Blind-Centered Culturally Competent Audio Description. We’d like to thank the American Council for the Blind and extend our appreciation to those involved in our AD cohorts, particularly Thomas Reid, Cheryl Green, Carl Richardson and Nefertiti Matos Olivares.

A group selfie of Vox staff and Deaf community members smiling outside of the Paramount Theater in Seattle. From left to right: Ingrid O’Dell, a young white woman with long blonde hair wearing a purple Vox sweater; Christopher; Sam Gould, an Ashkenazi Jew

In July, our team traveled across the country to Seattle, WA to LEAD, The Kennedy Center’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference with 900+ colleagues to teach capacity building workshops, explore best practices in arts accessibility, collaborate and connect on arts access.

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Thank you to our sustaining grant funders: 

Barr Foundation, Wagner Foundation, National Art Strategies, Mass Cultural Council, The Lenny Zakim Fund and Haymarket People’s Fund

Purple Power – What’s Next?



Vox members Kristin Johnson and Amber Pearcy are partnering with the The Huntington Theatre this season to expand the pool of culturally competent access providers by mentoring individuals and surveying the onboarding procedures of Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Blind professionals.



Calling all Deaf, DeafBlind, Hard of Hearing artists and interpreters: Vox is hosting its first DASL workshop, a three-part series to unpack the role of DASL through discussion and mentorship. It is FREE on Zoom, meeting Mondays at 7pm on October 21, November 18, and December 16. Click here to secure your spot.

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