Live Audio Description

Our Story

Clients and described locations include:

ACTRA Toronto
Aki Studio
Aluna Theatre
Amazing Ain’t It Entertainment Inc.
American Society For Theatre Research
Art Gallery of Guelph
Art Gallery of Ontario
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Calatrava Atrium (Brookfield Place)
Factory Theatre
Fort York National Historical Site
Full Radius Dance (Atlanta, GA)
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Jenelle Rouse & Shelly Nafshi Productions
Les Ballets C de la B
Lester B. Pearson Airport
Luminato Festival
Mark Brose & Wanda Fitzgerald Films
National Arts Centre
Native Earth Performing Arts
Para-Pan Am Games
Power Productions (St. John’s, NL)
Project Re-vision
Propeller Dance
Red Dress Productions
Sound Cinema
Stratford Festival of Canada
Summit on Indigeneity and Disability
Tangled Art + Disability (Gallery and Kids Fest)
Tarragon Theatre
The Republic of Inclusion
University of Guelph
University of Toronto
York University
Young People’s Theatre
Zombie Tree Productions


Formed in 2016, Live Describe is a coalition of Audio Description Service Providers in and around Toronto, Canada who specialize in live on-location Audio Description service delivery of live performances, visual art exhibitions, parades, sports, dance workshops, and other cultural opportunities.

What is Audio Description?
Audio Description is the Art of Talking Pictorially. Audio Description makes theatre performances, museum exhibitions, parades and other cultural opportunities more available to persons who are blind or partially sighted. The listeners are issued a single earphone and tiny (3 by 4-inch) receivers through which they can hear a trained describer depict the sets, costumes and non-verbal onstage action via a portable transmitter.

Describers do not keep a running commentary but rather, talk about the essential, visual aspects of the production in order to help listeners share the total experience of the performance. Describers are not performers; they are reporters. They do not base their comments on their own biases or impressions. Instead, they pass on visual information and allow the listeners to develop their own opinions and conclusions.
(With thanks to Picasso Pro for the description)