Visual Arts & Film

Design Fringe: Tactile Tour

Get up close and personal with some of the most extraordinary objects on display at Design Fringe.

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A close-up view of a pair of hands guiding another person's right hand to touch the surface of a stool. The stool is made of multiple rolled-up pairs of old socks in various tones of grey.
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Image Credit: Shelley Xue

  • Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and Linden New Art

Designed for people who are blind or vision impaired, an experienced accessibility guide will take participants on a tactile tour - piece-by-piece - into every nook, cranny, curve and corner that these playful works boast.

  • Duration: 2 hours

  • Event Accessibility: Blind or Low Vision Rating: Partially Accessible

  • Age suitability: PG

  • Event warnings: High Level Of Audience Participation.

  • Linden New Art
    26 Acland St, St Kilda, VIC, 3182

    Partial Wheelchair Access

    Linden New Art is partially wheelchair accessible.

    There is step-free access to the venue, though the pavement is uneven and narrow in places. Wheelchair users enter at the main entrance. Many of the venue's internal doors are 90cm wide. While the Main Galleries and the Workshop Space are fully accessible, the Linden Projects Space (upstairs) is not.

    There is on-street parking nearby but no reserved accessible parking.

    There are two fully accessible toilets on site. One in the main gallery and one in the workshop space.
    There are two ambulant toilets in the main gallery.

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  • Free Event

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Date Time Venue

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

10:00am

Linden New Art

 Past Event

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