Deaf Experience
27 August 2020 - Youtube Live, Worldwide
Things Not to Say to Deaf People
Jasmine Whipps
A fun video by Jasmine and her mum to make hearing people aware of things not to say to deaf people.
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Bilingual Poet's Dilemma
DL Williams
Poem in BSL and English by DL Williams. Performed by Donna Williams, Voice Over by K. Yvonne Strain. A film by Sandra Alland and Ania Urbanowska.
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Augmented
Sophie Woolley
Just flick a switch and everything will be okay.
From going deaf in her 20s to being activated/switched on as a real-life ‘cyborg’, Sophie Woolley’s brand new play is a personal story of the joy and conflict of becoming ‘hearing’ again after years of total deafness.
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Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus performs a powerful poem dedicated to Daniel Harris, an American deaf man who was fatally shot by a North Carolina law enforcement officer who didn't understand Daniel's use of sign language.
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To Know Him
Ted Evans
To lay the man she loves to rest, a deaf woman must overcome a barrier far greater than language.
Sleepless Sun Things
Ayesha Chouglay
Sleepless Sun Things is an exploration of how it feels to lipread, through poetry with a visual accompaniment.
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Bubble and Butch
Rinkoo Barpaga
Bubble lives a lonely life in West Bromwich. The bullying and discrimination stops when Bubble is asked to look after a mean-looking dog called Butch. Acting like a superhero at every encounter in the hearing world, Butch transforms Bubble’s life for the better.
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Full list of films we screened at this event
Things Not to Say to Deaf People - Jasmine Whipps
Bilingual Poet's Dilemma - DL Williams
Augmented - Sophie Woolley
Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris - Raymond Antrobus
To Know Him - Ted Evans
Sleepless Sun Things - Ayesha Chouglay
Verisimilitude - David Proud, Justin Edgar
Bubble and Butch - Rinkoo Barpaga
A Celebration of the Critical and the Creative - Lisa Kelly
The Rise After the Fall - Richard France