Name: Barbican Cinema
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Relaxed Screenings at Barbican Cinema
13 Sep - 18:25
Summary:
Adapted, welcoming, and accessible environment for people with additional needs.
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Details:
The Barbican Centre offers Relaxed Cinema events every month, a wide variety of accessible screenings. A relaxed screening takes place in an environment that is specially tailored for a neurodiverse audience, as well as those who find a more informal setting beneficial.
For our Relaxed Screenings, we offer:
- The lights are dimmed, though not off.
- The volume levels are a little lower than usual.
- You are free to move around the screen and enter and exit the cinema at any time, with easy access for wheelchair users.
- You're free to make noise in these screenings.
- Staff are trained and ready to assist with any help you or other audience members may need while you're at the cinema at Barbican.
- Quiet Space outside the Cinema
Address
Barbican Relaxed Cinema Screenings
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Notes
We are putting on a series of ‘Relaxed Screenings’, with an adapted, welcoming, and accessible environment for people with additional needs. This includes altered lighting, volume and the flexibility to get up and move around, or speak or make noise if they want to.
Queen of Glory (15) (AD) Relaxed Screening
Ghanaian-American Sarah is set to abandon her Ivy League program to follow her married lover across the country when her mother dies suddenly and makes her the owner of their bookshop in the Bronx.
'Queen of Glory' is the story of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio.
When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised. A follow-up on the classic immigrant's tale, Queen of Glory provokes laughter and empathy, as its heroine is reborn through her inheritance.