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Deaf poetry and visual language
In a previous post, Look into ASL mentioned poetry slams happening all over the U.S, and a recent BBC story covered the UK’s first BSL slam. The video follows one competitor, 20-year-old Honesty Willoughby from Bristol, through the process of composing a poem and performing it on the night at the BSL Slam. While ASL […]
Read More...August 30th, 2017
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American Sign Language students get ready for Oct 23 Interpreters Conference
In 1994, when American Sign Language Program Director and professor Dr. Barbara Garrett saw a need for an interpreters conference in the state of Missouri, she worked with a few other professionals and grant money from William Woods University to get it started. “We expected maybe 100 people, and over 350 came the first year. […]
Read More...October 23rd, 2015
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ASL poetry slams popping up across the country
Poetry slams are poetry competitions with elimination rounds. A highly verbal and rhythmic form of expression, poetry slams grew out of ties to hip-hop culture and open-mike jazz clubs. Poetry Slam, Inc. writes that you will “find a diverse range of work within [a poetry] slam, including heartfelt love poetry, searing social commentary, uproarious comic […]
Read More...February 12th, 2015
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Deaf cultural celebrations frequent Fulton
In 1913, George W. Veditz, president of the National Association for the Deaf at the time reflected, “As long as we have deaf people on Earth, we will have signs, and as long as we have our films, we can preserve our beautiful sign language in its original purity.” 102 years later, not only the […]
Read More...February 5th, 2015
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