Signing Raiders

Howdy Signing Raiders!

Just a friendly reminder that our end-of-year banquet is happening this Friday from 5:00-7:30 PM at Liferun! It's gonna be a rip-roaring good time with our western-themed celebration.

Wear your best cowboy boots and hats, and get ready for a night of great food, fun, and friendship. We can't wait to see you there and celebrate all the awesome memories from this year.

Yeehaw! Don't forget to mark your calendars, and let's make it a night to remember!

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Frontier Fest - as a collaboration with TTU Theatre, our interpreting internship students are shadow interpreting 4 shorter pieces this Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Tickets are free but reservations are encouraged. Use the email or phone number on the flyer to reserve a spot. (FYI, one of the shows has a trigger warning. Attendees can leave for that one and just watch the others). After the Sunday afternoon performances there will be a short panel discussion including Lori Mallory, some of the directors, interpreters and actors.

Patriot Theatre will present their competition One-Act Play "Silent Sky" by Lauren Gunderson on Monday, March 18 at 7:30pm on the west social stairs. Door 5 will be open for audience members. Admission is free.

Patriot Theatre has partnered with the Texas Tech Department of Classical and Modern Language and Literature to provide ASL interpretation for our hearing-impaired audience members.

Black ASL, or BASL, is not new, but it wasn't until very recently that it was formally recognized. Our own SignTasTic! Deaf performer, Roxie Dummett, is one of the collaborators of the book "The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL." Here, she shares with us a little bit about BASL and its history! [Video: SignTasTic! Deaf performer, Roxie Dummett, sits on a red chaise lounge by a white brick wall while wearing a red shirt. Captions appear as she signs.] TRANSCRIPT: "So, Black ASL as a language is not new, but it is newly documented and was formally recognized in 2011. BASL emerged a long time ago, but we’ve realized that there are parallels with spoken Black English. It’s the same for Black ASL. The members of the Deaf community have noted that they noticed a difference in Black signing, but they couldn’t figure out what that difference was because it had never been documented, but it was a clear difference within the communities. It wasn’t until now that we had formal documentation, and started doing research projects and going to different schools for the Deaf who had experienced segregation that we knew that their BASL could be formalized and recognized as a language worldwide. Thanks to social media and the researchers that have honored the preservation of the segregated deaf language. We went to several different deaf schools and recorded in person, interviewed and documented the old signs that were used. It was really cool. For example, the sign for "movie" was signed very differently in Black ASL as was the sign for shoes in BASL. The sign for "color" was also different so it was very very different to notice those signs." #Deaf #BASL #ASL #DeafCommunity #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

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