Don't say that the disabled people can’t watch the music festival anymore

Imagine that when you can't enjoy music live performances, or contact the musician you like closely, just because:

It is difficult to get information about live music;

Unable to smoothly book on -site music activity tickets;

There are obstacles to the use of supporting facilities on live music venues;

Unable to immerse the on -site music;

It is difficult to afford on -site music tickets and tolls;

There is no toilet that can be used normally ...

In fact, the disabled group often encountered the above -mentioned dilemma and was "rejected" by the music scene. Data show that the current disabled people account for 15%of the total population of the world, while the total number of disabled people in my country is more than 85 million, of which more than 17 million visually impaired people.

Under the influence of many factors, they cannot enter the music scene smoothly like ordinary people, and fully enjoy the on -site music experience.

In order to allow the disabled group to experience the unique charm of the music scene, more and more public welfare institutions, music companies, and practitioners have become promoters at the scene of barrier -free music. By building a barrier -free environment and providing a series of live support, the disabled people are Entering the music scene became a reality.

How do people disabled enter the music scene?

Music is the art that everyone can participate in it, and everyone who wants to experience should get this opportunity. However, in the performance scenes such as music festivals, livehouses, theater, concerts, etc., we rarely see the disabled group.

On August 1, 2020, visually disabled bloggers@Blind Detective-Xiaolong Egg once shared their inconvenient experience when they did not have a voice broadcast and a blind text to identify the elevator, but they were loved by netizens such as "the disabled people do not go out without going out. "," There is no need to change everything for others ", to a certain extent, it reflects the living conditions of some disabled groups.

It's still difficult to go out, let alone enter the music scene?

Austin Whitney, the founder of the US Charity Organization Accessible Festivals, is a disabled person. Austin Whitney said that the experience of the festival made him paralyzed for the first time to feel the beauty of life, but he also encountered a lot of inconvenience because of the disability. Such experience also made him realize that there are still many disabled people like him have a warm demand for live music, but it is difficult for them to enter the music scene.

Like ordinary people, the disabled people can participate in music festivals and enjoy the performance at the scene. It has also become his original intention of establishing Accessible Festivals.

Since 2014, Austin Whitney and the team have proposed a large number of solutions to improve the music scene experience of the disabled group, such as founding the first sensory friendly music festival (Inclusion Festival), setting alert time for the blind group, and providing personal orientation services. Recently, in order to commemorate Dan Grover, a barrier -free consultant in the live music industry, they launched a ticket funding plan to provide disabled people and their relatives with Electric Daisy Carnival, Lollapalooza, Rolling Loud and other well -known music festivals to encourage the disabled group to get out of Home.

There are many public welfare organizations and related attempts like Accessible Festivals.

For example, the NH7 WEEKEND Music Festival held in India provides a "personal assistant" ticket for disabled people with dysfunction. Land solve the obstacles facing disabled people. Similarly, the Two-For-ONE TICKET SCHEME created the "Two-For-One Ticket Scheme" of the Ritin Music Festival in the United Kingdom, allowing people with disabilities to have partners without paying additional tickets.

In fact, in addition to economic help, to identify and help the disabled group to eliminate obstacles to entering the music scene, it also requires practical popular science knowledge to ensure that the music scene experience is enough to be humanized, friendly and tolerant.

For example, the British public welfare institution "Attitude is Everything" pays great attention to cooperation with industry to provide comprehensive and clear barrier -free information for people with disabled people. The public welfare institution has established a ticket -free alliance, consisting of more than 40 industry organizations, ticket companies, venues, and activity companies to solve the problems and discrimination encountered by the disabled music enthusiasts when booking on -site music activities.

At the same time, ATTITUDE is Everything also designed a practical booklet for the Band and Event Organizer, providing them with specific solutions such as setting up barrier -free venues and making barrier -free leaflets. At the same time, the agency cooperated with the British Cultural Association to translate these guidelines into other 11 languages, which has a significant and lasting impact on the music scene experience of disabled music fans in various places.

In addition, many well -known music festivals in the United States have implemented barrier -free music site requirements. Music festivals such as Bonnaroo, Firefly, Lollapalooza, etc., all provide rich resources for the disabled group to help fans get the best experience. Among them, barrier -free viewing areas, barrier -free parking lots, wheelchair charging stations, barrier -free bus services, auxiliary hearing equipment, etc. are basically standard. It is worth mentioning that public welfare organizations such as Accessible Festivals mentioned in the previous article have a large number of hand -translator resources. By reaching cooperation with major music festivals organizers, hearing impaired fans can also understand music.

Whether you are young or old, no matter what you are born, healthy or intellectual -anyone should not be rejected because of his own differences.

Let us meet more on the scene

Maybe someone wants to ask, is it so important to let the disabled group enter the music scene?

The answer is yes.

For ordinary people, this may be a simple cultural and entertainment activity; but for most of them, this is an option to participate in the world -the options that should belong to them.

On the homepage of the official website of Accessible Festivals, it clearly answered why the disabled groups were allowed to participate in music activities and enjoy the music scene. It quoted the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) to analyze the journal of peer review and concluded that it emphasized that music can help people with disabled people reduce stress, enhance memory, improve communication, and strengthen sensory processing and sports skills.

In addition to the increasingly accepted healing effect, music is more desire and equality for the disabled group. As an empowerment of art, music can better rebuild the lives of people with disabled people, and people with disabilities can successfully enter the music scene, which means that they can participate in the society with dignity, equality, and fully do their love. In previous reports, the visually impaired person "Qiuchi" realized through Zhou Yunpeng that "the blind people can not be compiled by massage shops and rules, and they can live like this."

This is not only the victory of fans, but also the victory of the musician.

First of all, the attempts of barrier -free music technology make the music of the disabled group desire into reality. For example, musician John Kelly has developed the Kelly guitar belonging to the disabled person. Professional musicians Clarence Adoo use Hi Note electronic instruments to play for everyone. Because of these barrier -free music technology, they can break the restrictions of disability, express themselves through music, and connect with others.

Under the desire for music, we can see more and more disabled musicians standing on the stage.

For example, the Grateful Dead band guitarist Jerry Garcia was cut into the middle finger of his right hand by his brother's ax because he was unexpectedly accidentally cut. Since then, he has only one knuckle left in his right hand, but he has become the guitarist of Grateful Dead. The magazine was selected as the thirteenth place of "one hundred best guitarists today", inspired countless guitarists with excellent performance skills.

It can be seen that the entry of the disabled group not only means becoming an audience, but also encouraged to use music as an action method to speak and create.

According to music first, many European countries have set up non -profit art festivals with tolerance art as the development direction, support the display of the works of disabled artists, and promote more contact arts and audiences in global disabled artists and audiences to engage in related work. For example, the "10 Sentidos" music festival of Valencia uses disabled people as the main body of expression and reflects social problems by supporting the works of disabled artists.

Secondly, the disabled group enters the music scene in a greater sense to a "see", which means changes.

Although the music industry has made great progress in diversified and inclusive, discrimination still exists. According to the "British Music Labor Diversification Survey Report", one -fifth of the disabled people in the music industry are facing discrimination in their work. UK Music, the British Music Industry Association, also strongly called on the industry to change to ensure that those disabled people who did not enter the music scene because they were afraid of being discriminated against the music scene, or did not apply for the music industry to get equal opportunities.

How to treat a few people is the real background of this society. Making the disabled group meets more music scenes is a change in everyone's benefit.

It is particularly important that it has formed a benign cycle concept of tolerant disability to tolerate everyone. For example, the Chase music festival organized by England allows the entire community to participate and help break the cultural obstacles and stereotypes related to disability.

As the founder of the music festival said, this festival is set for the entire community. Its greater significance is to let a wider range of people truly understand barriers -free and tolerance.

Conclusion

In the crisis and difficulties, the disabled people go out, which means that it is difficult to choose. Swinging is the normal state of most people.

In cases of countries around the world, we see the positive exploration of music scene tolerance and barrier -free music scene. Through these practical exploration, the disabled group no longer swayed and really walked out. This is a physical sense out of the house, and it is even more mentally out of trouble.

In fact, China's music scene also began to attach importance to the music experience of disabled people.According to Modern Sky, ModernSky Lab generally open up green channels for disabled people, reserve the viewing and seats upstairs, and equipped with a dedicated barrier toilet.The LiveShouse manager also said to the music first that the venue is supported by barrier -free support for disabled people, and people with disabled will also help.However, as far as we know, although indoor scenes such as LiveShouse can basically meet the observation needs of people with disabilities, but in outdoor scenes such as blooming music festivals, disabled people seem to have been forgotten.Setting, from purchasing tickets, travel to diet, watching, camping, etc., is still difficult.

But we have reason to believe that with the gradual improvement of the live performance environment, "the art of all people" and "the music scene for everyone" will no longer be just a slogan.

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