CAN Webinars & Access Thursday Archives
Sensory Friendly Experiences
April 3, 2025
Sensory-friendly experiences can be designed to create welcoming and accessible environments for children and adults with cognitive disabilities. This session will explore best practices for developing sensory-friendly experiences for theatres, museums, film, and other artistic disciplines.
Topics to be discussed are program development, staff and volunteer engagement, and community engagement.
Making Museums, Galleries and Visual Arts Organizations Accessible
March 6, 2025
Every artistic discipline has some unique things to consider when planning for accessibility. This session will focus on best practices for visual arts organizations as they assess and offer access services and programs.
Learn from your peers, discuss strategies, and explore solutions to challenges.
Ensuring Trustees Know the Importance of ADA Planning
February 6, 2025
The accessibility journey needs to be an organizational priority and all individuals and departments need to be engaged in the work, including the Board of Trustees.
We will hear from organizations whose trustees are engaged in the access work of their organizations, the important role the Board plays in setting access policy and ensuring there are financial and human resources dedicated to access, and how the Board can assist in the ADA planning of their organization.
Access Is a Partnership Between the Organization and Host Venue
January 9, 2025
Whether you are touring your programs to different venues or renting a venue for one public event, your organization is still required to ensure the program is accessible.
Learn how touring organizations and their venue partners can be proactive in working together to ensure programs are accessible and marketed. The importance of ADA Tour Riders and Checklists will be discussed.
2024 Recorded Archives
Target Marketing and Websites: Keys to Building Audiences for Your Access Programs and Services
December 5, 2024
Developing a target marketing campaign and an accessible website where the public can easily find information on your access services and programs are key in building an audience. Tips on building a target marketing plan, best practices on website accessibility, and an overview on how to upload accessible events to the New Jersey Theatre Alliance calendar will be offered.
ADA Planning Webinar
October 17, 2024
Please note that the following disciplines are required to submit three-year ADA Plans: Dance, Music, Theatre, Service Organizations for Theatre and Dance, and New Grantees to the Arts Council. Plans are to be completed in the ADA Plan portal and due on Friday, January 10, 2025.
Making Film and Videos Accessible
May 2, 2024
Whether you are presenting a film or producing a video for an event or a social media post, what are the steps you can take to ensure these films and videos are accessible? In this session you will learn how to incorporate audio description, captioning, and sign language interpretation into your films and/or videos.
Conducting an Access Audit of Your Facility
April 4, 2024
Doing an assessment of your facility is essential to better understanding the features of your facility and what elements need attention with regards to ensuring accessibility for all staff, patrons and artists. Learn about the steps to take to assess your facility, who should be involved, and how to develop a plan to improve facility access.
Accessibility Awareness Training for Staff, Volunteers and Board
March 7, 2024
This roundtable will share tips on how to make your environment a more welcoming one for all your patrons. You will learn from arts patrons with disabilities on what they expect when attending an arts event. Disability etiquette, customer service practices, and customer service policies will be discussed.
Accessibility for Arts Programs at a University
February 1, 2024
This session is designed for those who run and work in arts programs within a university setting. When planning and implementing programs and policies, what steps towards accessibility can you develop and specifically for your arts programming? How can you be an accessibility advocate for the entire university campus?
What is Alt Text & How To Incorporate it on Your Website and in Your Social Media Posts
January 4, 2024
Familiarize yourself with the importance of alt text to help serve your Blind/low vision patrons. Tips on how to include alt text with your website and social media posts. Learn how those who are Blind/low vision rely on screen readers when visiting websites and using social media outlets.
2023 Recorded Archives
Best Practices on Target Marketing & Websites to Promote Your Accessible Policies & Programs
December 7, 2023
Communicating with the constituency you are looking to serve is essential as you build your audience and awareness of your organization’s access services and policies. Learn tips on how to market your programs and services, and the importance of having an accessible website and the information that needs to be highlighted on your website.
ADA Planning Session
October 11, 2023
ADA Plans are a requirement for all organizations receiving funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State. In addition, a majority of the state’s County Cultural and Heritage Commissions require a plan from their grantees. ADA Plans for FY24 are due on January 15, 2024.
Customer Service: Creating a Welcoming Environment
January 5, 2023
To ensure that all patrons/visitors with disabilities feel welcomed at your organization and cultural event, organizations need to provide educational opportunities and tools for staff and volunteers. This session will provide strategies on how organizations can provide a more inclusive experience for all its patrons/visitors with disabilities.
Invisible/Non-Apparent Disabilities
February 2, 2023
Not all disabilities are visible or apparent. People with non-apparent disabilities are a growing population. especially as the COVID pandemic continues. As access needs are being re-evaluated to accommodate disabilities, those with invisible disabilities are often unacknowledged. Learn how invisibility is both a privilege and a problem and what organizations can do to welcome this very large segment of the population.
Creating a Sensory Experience for Those Who are Blind/Low Vision
March 2, 2023
ALD Systems Training with Mark Annunziato of Sound Associates
March 27, 2023
Don’t miss this learning session with Mark Annunziato of Sound Associates where you will learn how to use the listening enhancement devices, how to connect the devices to your sound systems, and general usage knowledge.
Accessibility in Outdoor Environments
April 6, 2023
Prioritizing Accessibility in a Small Arts Organization
May 4, 2023
