04/08/2024
When Nadia Nadarajah takes the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from tonight as Cleopatra, she will fulfil a longheld dream: to show others how far you can go as ‘a deaf brown woman who uses sign language and doesn’t speak’
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When Nadia Nadarajah takes the stage at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from tonight as Cleopatra, she will fulfil a longheld dream: to show others how far you can go as ‘a deaf brown woman who uses sign language and doesn’t speak’
https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/47850-The-best-phone-captioning-apps-for-the-hearing-impaired
Smartphone apps provide people with hearing loss on-the-go captioning services with in-call and movie options. Here are some of the top picks for best captioning apps.
From a writer in the U.K.
https://www.theunwritten.co.uk/2021/01/05/i-dont-want-to-be-grateful-and-patient-about-disability-rights/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEc8gJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYBtepkU2aYsUD-8OETyz9Az2musZ6WYtt8nANhBnEAK8vv3HrIe3fTx3g_aem_fRKqeGM1HdymKrhYBwCY-Q
As we start a new year there is always buzz of energy around new possibilities, goals to be met and changes to make, but as a disabled person I am acutely aware that I’m going into 2021 fighting the same issues I have been all my life. And I am tired. Tired of fighting for […]
How a new staging of ‘Cinderella’ is bringing Deaf/hearing theatre out of the ‘shadows.’
The ‘Re/Sign’ campaign, led by sign language qualifications body Signature, comes as almost 9 in 10 Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) signers have reported coming across “fake sign…
https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/closed-captioning-tv-movies-ai-1235028494/
AI can be helpful with closed captioning, but the production step still requires a human's overview.
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fcc-adopts-rando-to-make-closed-captioning-settings-easy-to-access
The new requirement will make it simpler to get to the settings controlling how captions appear
NBC has given a script commitment with penalty to a single-camera workplace comedy, starring and executive produced by Marlee Matlin.
How good are AI transcription services today?
d/Deaf filmmaker Alison O'Daniel talks about how her experimental documentary The Tuba Thieves shows how listening can become a form of storytelling, and new ways of playing with film and captioning for Hearing and Hard of Hearing audiences alike.
The NHL is creating a broadcast in American Sign Language that will be available on ESPN+ and Sportsnet+ for every game of the Stanley Cup Final between the Panthers and Oilers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maritime-sign-language-preservation-nscc-1.7213823
Bev Buchanan says she's one of few people left in Nova Scotia who are native signers of MSL. After writing her dissertation on the preservation of the language, she's looking to change that.
This will be the first time both national teams play a doubleheader
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bbc-deaf-led-cast-reunion-series-1235899858/
Matthew Gurney ('Name Me Lawand,' 'Theatre Ad Infinitum'), Lara Peake ('How to Have S*x') and Eddie Marsan ('Back to Black') have been cast in the BBC four-part thriller, now filming in England.
The long-running animated series is set to make history Sunday night.
"Not a token thing, not a one-off special."
Deaf people watching TV and films are being left feeling excluded as a result of poor captions, a new study has found, with viewers prevented from experiencing immersive phenomena such as suspense.…
“Hiding my disability has been one of the most draining things I’ve ever done,” Georgia Meacham, 30, said.
A Noise Within will be first regional theater in Southern California to offer access to closed captioning at select performances using GalaPro.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/deaf-children-tv/
A lab at Gallaudet University is creating television shows with signing characters to increase literacy in both English and ASL.
BYU advertising students recently won the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films competition with a 20-second branded spot titled “Signs of Friendship.”
Chicago's favorite Oscar nominee Paul Raci is back in his hometown with a new movie for opening night of the Chicago Critics Film Festival Friday at the Music Box Theatre.
https://chaddsfordlive.com/2024/05/05/art-camp-for-the-deaf/
Delaware’s Center for the Creative Arts will be holding a summer arts camp specifically for the deaf. Camp Arts for All in Sign will be taught in American Sign Language. https://chaddsfordlive.com/wp-admin/edit.phpThis will be the first camp of its kind in Delaware and CCArts, in Yorklyn, has team...
Mark your calendars! Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes comes out May 10th!
Guess who was the DASL for this project…🤔
If Deaf representation in cinema has shifted from Oscar winner CODA and Riz Ahmed helmed Sound of Metal framing music as the antithesis to our lived experience, to a string of stories starring veng…
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