University of Tulsa ASL Club

We hope to see you there! These events are a great way to meet Deaf people and make new friends.

Today we celebrate Bernard Bragg!
Graduated from Gallaudet University, went on to be a co-founder of the National Theater of the Deaf.

Bragg was instrumental in working to have the NTD perform the first Deaf performance on national TV in 1967.

Bragg was a famous storyteller and performer in the Deaf world, he directed numerous performances about what it is to be Deaf. In 2014 he was named one of 15 extraordinary Gallaudet Alumni.

Hey everyone! Once again reminding everyone about the upcoming ASL Club Night with the Tulsa Drillers! The game is April 22nd at 7:05 PM! There will be fireworks after the game too! Looking forward to seeing everyone out there!

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Come out and support our ASL Club with the Tulsa Drillers Baseball club! Saturday, April 22nd at OneOk Field here in Tulsa! Game is at 7:05 PM and there will be fireworks after!!

When checking out make sure to use code: TUASLC

Had a great time tonight with some new friends! Come see us next month!

Hello everyone! We will be hosting an ASL Night community event here on campus next week! Come and see us for a fun night of food and games! Looking forward to seeing all our friends!

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and the NFL proudly announce that Super Bowl LVII in Arizona on February 12, 2023 will feature Deaf performers Troy Kotsur, Colin Denny, and Justina Miles as part of pregame festivities. Oscar winner and Arizona native Troy Kotsur will provide the American Sign Language (ASL) performance of the National Anthem. Colin Denny, a Deaf Native American from Navajo Nation in Arizona, will perform America the Beautiful through a blend of ASL and North American Indian Sign Language. For the first time ever, there will be an ASL rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing at the Super Bowl, done by Justina Miles, a Philadelphia born performer now living in Maryland. On top of that, Justina will also perform in ASL the music of Rhianna during the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show. Information on where to best watch these sign language performances will be shared when it becomes available.

Troy Kotsur
Actor Troy Kotsur is renowned for his extraordinary ability to use American Sign Language to convey a magnificent range of emotion and communication, representing stories from Deaf Communities at the highest level. For his outstanding performance in the Oscar winning film CODA, where he played the compelling and cantankerous Deaf father in a Deaf family with one hearing daughter, Kotsur became only the second Deaf person to win an Academy Award. Kotsur’s performance in this role also saw him win Best Supporting Actor awards from BAFTA, the Critics’ Choice, Gotham Awards, Independent Spirit, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and more. He has performed on Broadway in Spring Awakening and in numerous stage productions by Deaf West Theater and the National Theatre of the Deaf. Kotsur was most recently seen on television acting in the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, for which he created the Tusken sign language. The language he created was also used in the show’s spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett. He will next appear in a Disney+ series about the California Riverside School for the Deaf football team that recently won the state championship. [photo credit: Matt Stasi]

Colin Denny
Born in Shiprock, New Mexico and raised in Pinon, Arizona, within Navajo Nation, Colin Denny comes from a family that is dedicated to teaching. His parents are teachers within the Navajo community and teach the Navajo language. Colin comes from the Water Flowing Together People Clan and was born into the Coyote Pass People Clan. His maternal grandfather comes from the Red Running into Water Clan and his paternal grandfather comes from the Many Goat Clan. Colin seeks to promote sign languages, with a goal of teaching American Sign Language and mastering North American Indian Sign Language. He is working as a research assistant on the study of North American Indian Sign Language at the University of Arizona, and is pursuing a Masters of Art in Sign Language Education from Gallaudet University, has a B.A. in Art and Media Design from Gallaudet and an A.A. in Fine Art from Diné College, and is a 2009 graduate of the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind.

Justina Miles
Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love with a passion for the arts, Justina Miles lives to dance and creatively express through music and sign language. She will do double duty in signing Lift Every Voice and Sing during the Pregame, and also match Rhianna’s singing with her ASL rendition during the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show. Justina has performed dazzling ASL renditions of music at various concerts throughout the country. Justina was part of the USA team that went to the 2021/22 Deaflympics in Brazil and returned with a silver medal as part of the 4X100 women’s track relay team. She is currently a nursing student and cheerleader at Bowie State University, a prestigious HBCU, and was the valedictorian at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington DC.

Hey everyone! Once again I'm sharing our event with the Tulsa Oilers. For each ticket sold from the attached link, $3 will go to our TU ASL Club to help fund future events! Be sure to share and come out and support our new Club! See you there!

Tulsa Oilers ASL Night - Univeristy of Tulsa I'm getting a group together for Tulsa Oilers ASL Night - Univeristy of Tulsa with Fevo! Use this link to join in, buy a ticket & invite friends

See everyone soon!

We did it!! Reached the century mark! Stay tuned for a lot of fun stuff coming in the spring!!

One away from 100!!!

Come see us on January 12th!!

Had a great time at the TSHA Silent Dinner tonight!! About 10 of our ASL Club member showed up and had a blast!

Our 4 students that braved the freezing temperature and preformed the National Anthem tonight at the final home game for our Golden Hurricane this season! See us in the spring at Softball and Basketball games!!

Hey everyone! A few of the ASL Clubs in the Tulsa area have worked with the Tulsa Oilers and have created an ASL Night on February 24th. The night will be about promoting the local Deaf community and our ASL Clubs! There will be different parts of the night dedicated to the ASL Clubs and the Deaf community!
Each club received a link to promote tickets for the night. Each ticket sold from each link, $3-5 a ticket will be donated to that club!
So come out and support our brand new University of Tulsa ASL Club! Help us start building funds to host our events on campus! Donations will be accepted at the event as well!

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A great short video about the history of ASL in the US and the reasons why everyone should learn ASL!

Why Sign Language Was Banned in America | Otherwords Take the PBS Survey: http://to.pbs.org/2022SurveySign Languages are just as linguistically valid and vibrant as spoken languages, and beneficial to learn fo...

Had a great time signing the National Anthem with our students! Go TU!!

Definitely looks like some of our students!