Venue Description

The North Wall is an Arts Centre in Oxford that has been created for the benefit of emerging artists across a range of disciplines. Based on the campus of St Edward's School, this award winning facility was completed in 2006, and offers a fully flexible 200-seat theatre, a public art gallery and studios for dance and drama. The programme of events at The North Wall places emphasis on new and innovative work. The North Wall exists to provide opportunities for artists, young people and the general public to make and experience art of the highest quality. We aim to promote the notion of art as a tool for living; timely, relevant and socially engaged.

Accessibility

Level entrance from street to front door - push to enter from the street. Drop counter at box office (bar no drop counter but refurb est. Jan 2016 will include this) 2 reserved spaces for wheelchair users on ground floor - level access from lobby through 2 fire doors - pull for entry rather than push. Most exhibitions in gallery are on the ground floor only - but there is lift access (elevator, automatic doors) to upper gallery when the exhibition continues upstairs. Hearing Loop available

Accessibility Guide

Accessibility Guide Link: http://thenorthwall.com/access.php

Accessible Performances

As we are a receiving house where shows are here for one or two nights, our accessible performances offer varies from show to show. We always have a relaxed performance of the Christmas show, and flag up any shows that would be of particular interest to visitors with a particular disability (for example, Light, which used BSL & physical theatre to tell the story) with local and regional organisations that work closely with these particular user groups.

Toilets

Step-free access. Grab rails. Easy turn on taps. Access for manual & automatic wheelchairs.

Staff

The North Wall FOH team is headed by a duty manager with accessibility training and a team of FOH volunteers, who do not have any specialist training. .