Amazing work Nate, this will be incredibly useful for those that need a resource like this.

If it’s at all helpful, MTC over here are renowned for their visual stories if you need any inspiration https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/mtc-publications/visual-stories/.

I know we don’t really have a huge amount of control/detail on the pitching sessions, but it may be helpful to add any performance- specific sensory warnings if we have them? Deep work maybe not for APAM but could be embedded into APAX applications?

Rosie Dwyer

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Manager, Industry Development and Training | PAC Australia | paca.org.au

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From: Nate Newell via All staff - PAC Australia <allstaff@ask.paca.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2026 7:44 PM
To: allstaff@ask.paca.org.au
Subject: [PAC Team] APAM Visual Story

Hi all 

As requested in the team meeting here FYI is the Visual Story I put together for APAM. Please ignore the design, Claire’s in the process of prettifying it in another doc, I’m just sending this draft PDF so you can see the content and I can cross it off my list.

Visual stories are documents (often videos, even better) that tell the ’story’ of attending an event or performance, from arrival to navigating the venue, what you’re likely to experience from a sights/sounds/mood point of view, during the event and after. It’s intentionally written in plain, relatively informal language. These are immensely useful to delegates for all kinds of reasons, eg sensory, anxiety, mobility. One APAM delegate uses forearm crutches to get around and has some other health considerations, and we discussed things like walking distances, stairs/steps, heavy doors, navigating buffet service, networking setup and venues, distance between catering stations and places to sit, where places to sit were, coach or taxi pick up and drop off points, and more. So you can see how images and video can be invaluable in providing a good sense of how to prepare for each day/venue. We do also have the Accessibility Guide, but the feedback we’ve gotten (that I got again yesterday) is that something like a Visual Story can be much more useful in a practical sense. 

Granted the attached isn’t hugely detailed, this one is a bit of a pilot / tester I’ve put together with what we had on hand. Next time I’ll join in on site visits to see the venues for myself and get images and walkthrough videos, and it will level up. Big thanks Eddie for helping me figure out how to word some things and Cecile who took some of the images we ended up using.

Cheers

Nate

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