Transforming technology into goodness and benefit, Türk Telekom continues to implement its corporate social responsibility projects during the holiday. Türk Telekom, which supports accessible life at AKM with events and practices such as the Paintings are Talking Digital Painting Exhibition and Loud Steps, this time offered a different art experience for visually and hearing impaired children with "Accessible Theatre".
Transforming technology into goodness and benefit, Türk Telekom continues to implement its corporate social responsibility projects during the holiday. Türk Telekom, which supports accessible life at AKM with events and practices such as the Paintings are Talking Digital Painting Exhibition and Loud Steps, this time offered a different art experience for visually and hearing impaired children with "Accessible Theatre". The "Accessible Theatre" project, implemented in cooperation with the General Directorate of State Theatres, Istanbul State Theatre, continued in April with the children's play "The Snowman Who Wants to Meet the Sun". Within the scope of the project, visually and hearing-impaired children and their families experienced an art experience that eliminated obstacles with live descriptions, stage tours and cover lettering applications.
Türk Telekom Corporate Communications Director Arif Sancaktaroğlu; Within the scope of the "Accessible Theatre" project, we offer visually and hearing impaired art lovers an art experience that overcomes visual, auditory and physical barriers. We eliminate obstacles in art by turning technology into benefit. "With the new game "The Snowman Who Wants to Meet the Sun" within the scope of the project, this time we offered a unique art experience to children with visual and hearing impairments," he said.
Continuing its corporate social responsibility activities with the understanding of "Value to Turkey", Türk Telekom continues to implement projects that will strengthen accessibility at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM), where it blends technology with culture and art. Türk Telekom offers a theater experience that overcomes obstacles within the scope of the "Accessible Theatre" project implemented for visually and hearing impaired art lovers in cooperation with the Istanbul State Theater, General Directorate of State Theatres.
Stating that they continue to work to bring art to all segments of society, Türk Telekom Corporate Communications Director Arif Sancaktaroğlu said; “As Türk Telekom, we continue our corporate social responsibility projects with the principle of 'Accessible communication for everyone' and our 'people-oriented' approach. By blending technology with culture and art at AKM, of which we are the main supporter, we are increasing the inclusiveness of this cultural complex, a valuable symbol of Istanbul, with accessible living projects day by day.
With the Loud Steps project we implemented, visually and hearing-impaired art lovers can move around AKM's open and closed areas without needing help, while we offer an accessible culture and art experience for everyone with our projects such as the Paintings Are Talking Digital Painting Exhibition. Within the scope of the "Accessible Theatre" project that we started this year, we offer visually and hearing impaired art lovers the pleasure of theater with an experience that overcomes visual, auditory and physical barriers. As an important step in providing a barrier-free experience in the arts for everyone, we held our first Accessible Theater experience for visually and hearing-impaired children during the Eid al-Fitr holiday. "As Türk Telekom, we will continue to carry out works that eliminate obstacles in art by turning technology into benefit," he said.
A theater experience that transcends barriers for children
The project, which started with the play "Rumuz Goncagül" written by Oktay Arayıcı, one of the important writers of Turkish theatre, continued in March with the play "Seneye Gündem" written by Bernard Slade. In April, Türk Telekom introduced the game "The Snowman Who Wants to Meet the Sun", written by Matei Visniec, to children.
Children experienced all the details with the stage tour
Disabled children in the play "The Snowman Who Wants to Meet the Sun", which came together with the audience within the scope of the Accessible Theater project; With the application of live description, he experienced the theater without missing the details by instantly explaining non-audio visual elements such as place, time, characters and silent events between dialogues. In addition, before the play, visually impaired children got to know the stage by touching the appropriate objects, costumes and decorations through a stage tour. With the surtitle system used in the game, hearing-impaired children were able to easily follow the dialogues in the game.