[accessibleimage] Sense and Sensuality in Leicester, UK

The BlindArt Sense and Sensuality Exhibition is at the Richard Attenborough 
Centre, Leicester, at tghe moment, but you will have to be quick to catch it - 
it ends at 3pm tomorrow, Friday, 26th January, 2007.

Contact details:-
Richard Attenborough Centre,
Lancaster Rd,
Leicester, LE1 7HA, UK.
Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2455
Free admission.
Times tomorrow 10am-3pm

This is art for and by visually impaired people, with audio description 
available. And, yes, you can touch - with care.

More details of the exhibition are at

http://www.blindart.org/

For a totally inaccessible PDF leaflet of the exhibition, select the following.

http://www.blindart.net/site/media/documents/1274_Sense&Sensuality2006.pdf

The University of Leicester press release about the exhibition is at

http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2006/11/nparticle.2006-11-21.9107658329/

I visited today, and found some truly intriguing items, many having interesting 
textures, some of them moving, and even one that smelled faintly of Germolene! 
Certainly caused the odd smile! I only wish I had been quicker to cotton on to 
this, as I suspect repeated visits to some of these pieces would reveal a lot 
more than the quick tour I was able to take.

The audio description was provided by a gadget a bit like a remote control with 
- bizarrely - black buttons on a black background. However, the descriptions 
were very informative once I managed to trigger them.

Vince.

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