Accessible, Welcoming, Open

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A Festival for everyone!

Since 2025, Bergamo Film Meeting has been part of the ‘Spazi Aperti per una Cultura accessibile’ project, promoted by Fondazione Comunità Bergamasca as part of Fondazione Cariplo’s Crowd4Culture call for proposals. The project was created with the aim of guaranteeing the right of access, participation and involvement in the cultural life of the area, with particular attention to people in fragile conditions.

The initiative began with a collaboration that started during Bergamo Brescia Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2023 and involves a network of entities active in cultural production and promotion in Bergamo: 23/C ART Cooperativa sociale, ABC Allegra Brigata Cinematica, Laboratorio 80 Associazione Culturale, Associazione culturale Immaginare Orlando APS, Cooperativa Sociale Patronato San Vincenzo, HG80 Cooperativa Sociale Impresa sociale, TTB – Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo Accademia delle Forme Sceniche Soc. Coop. Sociale.

Thanks to this project, BFM has embarked on a journey to ensure accessibility to the Festival: staff training, overcoming architectural barriers, introducing icons and appropriate signage in the spaces involved and on information materials, events with multilingual translations and Italian Sign Language (LIS), screenings and streaming with audio description and subtitles for people with sensory disabilities, updating the website in accordance with WCAG 2.2 (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines.

Spazi aperti per una cultura accessibile
a project promoted by Fondazione Comunità Bergamasca
as part of Fondazione Cariplo’s Crowd4Culture call for proposals

The festival, its venue, and individual events will be marked with icons designed for specific audience groups but helpful for everyone:

GENERALI
GENERAL

Sottotitoli
presenti

Subtitles
available

Vietato ai minori di 18 anni (ad eccezione della sezione Kino Club)

Restricted to persons under 18 (except for Kino Club section)

Puoi liberamente assistere e allontanarti dall’evento

You may freely attend and leave the event at any time

EVENTI
EVENTS

L’evento si svolge
in uno spazio al buio

The event takes place in a darkened space

Evento con variazione di intensità luminosa

Event with changes in lighting intensity

Evento
in più lingue

Multilingual
event

Evento con traduzione consecutiva

Event with consecutive interpretation

Evento
con audio descrizione

Event
with audio description

Interpretariato
LIS

Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpretation

Evento
con musica

Event
with music

Sottotitoli per persone sorde presenti (SDH)

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) available

LOCATION

Spazio ingresso al luogo con scalini, presenza di montascale a cingoli o rampa di accesso di decompressione

Entrance area with steps; presence of a stair climber or decompression access ramp

Luogo accessibile
in carrozzina

Wheelchair-accessible
venue

Luogo accessibile
con cani guida

Venue accessible
to guide dogs

Bagni
accessibili

Accessible
restrooms

Posti a sedere
a libera scelta

Open (unassigned)
seating

Sedie non fisse
al suolo

Chairs not fixed
to the floor

Spazio e kit (cuffie o tappi)
di decompressione

Decompression space and kit
(headphones or earplugs) available

Parcheggi per persone con disabilità motoria

Parking spaces for people with motor disabilities

Il materiale di queste schede è presente nel progetto open source del Teatro Tascabile. Il TTB ringrazia Elia Z. Covolan per aver codificato un linguaggio di comunicazione tramite l“Iconic Accessibility Toolkit” (licenza creative common BY-NC-SA), Associazione Feodra, Immaginare Orlando, Cooperativa TimeAut, tutte le persone e comunità per il contributo dato alla composizione dei contenuti.

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