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It builds demand for disability arts provision and helps break barriers to participation.<\/p>\n<p>The newly established Sightless Cinema Network is a collaboration between South Dublin, Meath and Laois County Council Arts Offices, and theatre artist Ciar\u00e1n Taylor, in partnership with Solstice Arts Centre, Dunamaise Arts Centre and The Civic Theatre, with the National Council of the Blind of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>It is funded by The Arts Council and local partners to extend the 25 week programme, to County Laois; and in collaboration with existing South Dublin and Meath groups train two skilled artists and a sound technician in Sightless Cinema methods and facilitation with blind groups; and to pilot opportunities for exchange and collaboration among participants across counties.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between counties includes participant exchange meetings, and touring a combined programme of the the three groups to partner venues Solstice, Dunamaise, and Civic Theatre Tallaght in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>16 November 2023, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise<br \/>\n23 November 2023, Solstice Arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26148,"template":"","class_list":["post-26147","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sightless Cinema Network - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sightless Cinema by theatre-maker Ciar\u00e1n Taylor, adapts theatre devising techniques for the collaborative creation of audio theatre with people with sight loss.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/sightless-cinema-network\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sightless Cinema Network - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sightless Cinema by theatre-maker Ciar\u00e1n Taylor, adapts theatre devising techniques for the collaborative creation of audio theatre with people with sight loss. 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