Special View Forum Festival of Socially-Oriented Theatre: A Personal Note
Irina Povolotskaya, a deaf blind actress, shares her impressions of participating in the Special View forum festival
Articles
Being a farmer: how a sightless entrepreneur established his own dairy farming business
Alexander Smolyaninov owns a big farm, promotes legislative initiatives, raises children and helps other farmers.
Travel across Russia: accessible Ekaterinburg
Vladimir Vaskevich talks about places of interest and cultural event, that are accessible for people with visual impairments.
Teaching Stylists to Work With Sightless Persons While Teaching the Sightless to Be Stylish
Yulia Vasilyeva tells about the BlindFashion project which helps stylists and sightless persons to find each other.
A Tutor For A Sightless Pupil: Parents' Experience
Parents of visually challenged children told us about finding tutors, lessons with them and the difficulties one may face.
The cold pole: how audio description develops in Yakutia
“Special View” interviewed Evdokia Gerasimova, an audio descriptor from Yakutia.
Walking Around Tsaritsyno Memorial Estate: How to Create Accessible Routes for Sightless Visitors
Vladimir Vaskevich, Special View's correspondent, interviewed the activists of the Walking around the Park project
Braille for adults: why study the relief-and-dot print and where this can be done
Those, who lost their sight in childhood, studied Braille at school. Where can adults get this skill? And is it really needed?
An alien in aquarium: aromas of life
Deaf-and-blind actress, painter and writer, Irina Povolotskaya talks about aromas, that New York and Moscow, autumn, winter and theatre have.
Life with retinitis pigmentosa: how my sight changed
Tsyndyma Boyko, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, talks about how the disease affected her sight when she was a kid and how she sees today.
“The road chose me”. Sergey Alekseev – a visually impaired traveler – talks about his walking trip from Armavir to Baikal.
Sergey Alekseev, a traveler with Group 1 vision-impairment disability, covered more than 5200 kilometers on foot.
Where To Enroll: The Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts (RSSAA)
Where people study to become musicians, artists and theatre actors
Teaching children to put their signature
What age is optimum for teaching children to put their signature? Where to start the learning process?
Turn the sound on: sound descriptions for silent films
The first audio description for a silent movie was created in Russia
How Voices for RHVoice Speech Synthesizer Are Created
Artemy Lebedev (Russian designer, inventor and businessman), Evgeny Chebatkov (Russian and Kazakhstan comedian) and others took part in the project initiated by sightless program developers.
