Access is a practice.

Indian Summer Festival includes a mix of indoor, outdoor, and hybrid events. While masks are not mandatory, we encourage attendees to wear them. Reserved masked seating sections are available at all seated events at Performance Works. These areas are physically distanced and reserved for masked guests only.

We ask all attendees to help us maintain scent-reduced environments by avoiding scented products at our events. However, we cannot guarantee a scent-free space, and our venues do not have permanent scent-free policies in place.

A complimentary companion ticket is available for anyone who requires one to attend. You can request this during ticket checkout or by contacting us directly. Availability may be limited, so we recommend booking early.

Except for events at the Chan Centre (which have assigned seating), most festival seating is first-come, first-served.

We offer:

✓ Early entry and/or priority seating for guests with invisible disabilities, low vision, or chronic pain
✓ The option to request seating accommodations during the ticket checkout process
✓ Onsite assistance if you did not pre-register your access needs

Our primary venue, Performance Works on Granville Island, as well as other festival locations—including the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts—are accessible to people using mobility aids.

Accessibility features include:

✓ Step-free and wide entrances
✓ Ramps and elevators
✓ Wheelchair- and scooter-accessible washrooms
✓ Accessible seating

Please refer to venue-specific links on our website for more detailed access information.

Some festival events are low-vision friendly, meaning they are accessible without the need for visual interpretation.

These include:

✓ Audio-focused events such as panel conversations, artist talks, and some music performances

Guests who are blind or partially sighted are eligible for priority seating and companion ticketing. We are proud to partner with VocalEye to expand access for blind and partially sighted community members.

To reduce financial barriers, all Indian Summer Festival events offer sliding scale ticketing, including a subsidized ticket option (subject to availability). We encourage attendees to self-select based on their current financial situation.

Suggested guidelines:

✓ If you have access to homeownership, advanced education, healthcare, or citizenship benefits, consider the Pay It Forward ticket.

✓ If your answers are mixed, the General Admission option may be the best fit.

✓ If you are experiencing financial barriers, select the Subsidized ticket option.

This sliding scale model is inspired by the work of Meenakshi Das at Data is for Everyone.

While we recognize that surface-level English-to-ASL translations do not fully convey the poetics of Sign Language, we are happy to arrange ASL or Deaf interpretation by request.

To request ASL support, please contact info@indiansummerfest.ca at least two weeks before the event

We offer live captioning at all spoken word events. Captions can be accessed via your smartphone with an internet connection. Look for the closed captioning (CC) symbol on individual event listings to find out which events offer this feature.