Desciptathon 10
This next Descriptathon is a big one — Descriptathon 10 — representing a decade of our community-building efforts related to Audio Description via The UniDescription Project, www.unidescription.org. … Please mark these D10 dates on your calendar now: Feb. 6-8 … because you are invited!
If you thought previous Descriptathons were fun, I’m really eager for you to join us for D10, with many (pleasant) surprises in store as well as our usual offerings of high-quality AD training, team-building exercises, AD practice and publishing, all designed to make the world a more-accessible place, especially for our national parks and other public gathering places.
Since most of you have participated in a Descriptathon before, I’m hopeful that you might want to do it again. As you probably recall, a Descriptathon is full-on engagement for three days, plus some significant prep time, which will begin in early January. There is never a cost to participate or to the public audiences you serve for hearing your work (all costs for production and distribution are covered by grants). Even if you have been involved in many Descriptathons, as you know, we always have several new twists and turns in the process to make it interesting, plus you get a new team and new teammates.
If you are committed to participating and want to have some input about your team, teammates, type of park, region, whatever, or if just want to let me know that you are in, ready to do some describing, and awaiting team placement, please send a quick email to me now at brett.oppegaard@hawaii.edu, so we can get those preferences baked into the initial organization of the event as we go. Yes, we already are forming these D10 teams and starting to put the team members into place.
And, of course, please feel free to introduce me to your friends who also might want to participate; the more the merrier!
Thanks for your consideration! I hope you can join us for this historic tenth Descriptathon! Any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Best wishes,
– Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, brett.oppegaard@hawaii.edu, 360-521-8150
