#CommonTouch Welcomes Philly Touch Tours

On January 28, 2016 #CommonTouch was thrilled to welcome @PHLTouchTours to @librarycompany to provide disability etiquette training.  Sighted Guide and Touch Art were just a few of the exercises to help us prepare for our multi-sensory exhibition exploring the nature of perception.

Beginning of Disability Etiquette Training January 28, 2016.

Picture above shows shows a foyer in which several people are gathered. In the far background, one door of a double-glass door is open to a room in which a large bookcase with glass windows lines the back wall. A chair is placed before the far end of the bookcase in the right. The legs of a seated person are visible to the right of the chair. Above the doorway is a painting resembling a coat of arms. It is shaped like a square on a tilt, with side corners pointed up and down. In the far left foreground, a person in a checked shirt stands with their back to the viewer. In the center, a woman, wearing a red wrap and dark pants, begins to guide a tall man who wears a black blind fold. Across from them, in the right, three woman stand, two in blindfolds and one nearly out of view.

Touch exercise at Disability Etiquette Training January 28, 2016.

Picture shows four people - three women and a man - at the side of a table. A tactile globe, a bottle of Purell, and a pile of shredded money rest on the table.  Two women wearing blindfolds stand to the rear of the table away from the viewer.  The woman farthest from the viewer touches her blindfold with both hands. The woman to her left, closer to the viewer, touches the globe with her left hand and her blindfold with her right hand. A man with a beard holding a white cane at his chest stands to the left of the woman touching the globe. To his left, stands a woman. She is turned to her left to a person who is out of view. She holds a handful of the shredded paper displayed at the edge of the table closest to the viewer. The hands of the person out of view also gently touch the shredded money.

Touch exercise at Disability Etiquette Training January 28, 2016.

Picture shows people touching a bronze-colored, rough-cast, three-dimensional, square-shaped work of art resting flat on a table. The piece contains several compartments of different sizes. The compartments contain flat, raised, smooth, and ridged items. Items include a sea shell, clothespins, a bronze skeleton key, a bronzed leaf, a red colored piece resembling a miniature hub cap, and  a yellow-green piece of rings of different sizes resting inside one another from largest to smallest. Farthest from the viewer, the hands of two women who faces are out of frame touch the work. Another woman, in between them, whose face is also out of frame points at the work.