Deaf Explorer
Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Tag: Rachael Veazey
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Forbidden Identity explores the personal struggle of a Deaf child growing up in a hearing world; denied access to British Sign Language and a Deaf community. Using street dance, tutting, mime, and sign language, Billy Read collaborated with Deaf dancers Ariel Fung and Ben Randall to create the piece, with narrative support and mentorship from…
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Age 10 – 16 years Deaf or Hard of HearingFree dance workshops with Deaf Dancer Billy Read and his dance crew.Dates Monday 30 May, Tuesday 31 May & 1st June 2022Location: Bristnall Hall Academy, 213 Bristnall Hall Road, Oldbury, B68 9NJ.Please book your place.
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In 2020 Deaf Explorer successfully applied to Thrive. The research question, “Can the emerging acceptance of online learning bring deaf role models into the learning environment for deaf and hard of hearing children, and can online access bring a wider audience of participants to Deaf artists?” Screen Shot from Billy Reads Online Tutorials Billy Read…
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On Saturday 29th January 2022, the terrace at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, became the backdrop for Rinkoo Barpaga’s R&D sharing of his new show, Remote Control. About Remote Control: Rinkoo has spent time exploring and testing new work for a family audience, directed by Richard Hayhow (Open Theatre) and working with Deaf actors, Caroline Parker…
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Watch the 1 minute promo with Dame Evelyn Glennie, describing why this Arts Council England funded initive by Ruth Montgomery and produced by Deaf Explorer could change audiences expectation of a live performance by classically trained musicians, and make music more accessible. Arranged by Audiovisability Artistic Director, Ruth Montgomery featuring virtuoso percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie. Streamed…
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This summer, Billy Read was commissioned by Appetite Festival to take his brand-new outdoor dance performance to the streets of Stoke-on-Trent. Forbidden Identity explores the personal struggle of a Deaf child growing up in a hearing world; denied access to British Sign Language and a Deaf community. Using street dance, tutting, mime, and sign language,…
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Deaf Explorer invites deaf people from Pakistan and Britain for a discussion about photography. On Deaf explorer’s Facebook page the post has reached over 21,000 people have visited the post with 146 reactions and 169 comments. Link to Facebook post Rinkoo Barpaga @rinkoo_street_photo (UK theatre-maker & street photographer) worked with Ali Noonari @deafcommunity_signlanguage (expert in Pakistan Sign…
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SHARING BIOMORPHIC BONE CHINA JEWELLERY AND SOUND. On January 29th 2019 audiences interested in cutting edge jewellery making and Deaf artists work were invited to Join Maral in an immersive soundscape and explore feminism, sound and deaf culture through the experience of a deaf political & artistic refugee by wearing bone china…
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Visual Artist Maral and Designer Maker Chris Wight found common ground at their first meeting in March 2019. Chris Wight produces astonishingly beautiful work in a variety of ways – specialising in Bone China, he is always seeking to push this very traditional material in new directions. Deaf Artist Maral Mamaghani wants to make decorative…
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Rinkoo Barpaga is a deaf British Sign Language story teller. In 2012 he spent two weeks immersed in the American deaf story-telling and comedy scene, inspiring him to a new challenge; winning over deaf and hearing mixed audiences. In 2015 he received an Arts Council England Grant to take him back to America to seek…
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