Vizual Voices

This Thursday, May 9th, at 7:30pm Club Fugazi is proud to present a special performance with ASL interpretation

This is Cool!

Today is the kick off day where you can stream all 44 films from 11 countries online via Eventive! You can catch different themes, stories, and perspectives on and by Deaf filmmakers, collaborators and more!

BUY TICKETS/PASSES:
https://sdff2024.eventive.org/welcome

After you purchase tickets/passes, you will get an email from Eventive with your account and purchase confirmation. To view the films, you need to LOG IN first.

Seattle Deaf Film Festival
Streaming: April 8-22, 2024
DeafSpotlight.org/sdff

* The Tuba Thieves is geocached to United States only at this time. *



ID: Square post for streaming festival films, with a blue gum splotch on a patterned red background, with a silhouette of a rabbit wearing a beanie hat. A white mask beneath. Text inside the gum splotch: “SDFF 2024 streaming NOW to April 22!” On the splotch, there is a black crow with a yellow beanie hat.

I love these 2 so much & I love being able to help out wherever they need me! If you are free tonight or tomorrow afternoon come to the Bay Area & support this amazing group of artists!

With tomorrow being Rare Disease Awareness Day, Tues is the day Sydney Elizabeth was 1st taken to the hospital, Wed she was sent to Valley Children's & Wed also starts Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week & Month, it warms my heart that Club Fugazi would allow us to add AA•MDS to their list of Charities to give back to during the month of March. The link shared in David Lemon post will allow every ticket purchased through it, will allocate $10 to the AA•MDS! Not 10% but $10 from EVERY ticket purchased through this special link for the whole Month of March!! I will be interpreting on Thurs. March 16th and the matinee on Sun. March 19th. I would love to see you!!! If you have friends that don’t need my services then please encourage them that any performance in Mar. will help raise money. As long as they go through the link to purchase!
We need to help raise funds for research! No family should have to lose their child due to not enough funds to get the proper research done!! Thank you and thank you Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation for providing a virtual support group to Bay Area Families through Palo Alto!

Dear San Francisco Select Your Tickets - Club Fugazi

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.

I’m so excited to share that Club Fugazi is now offering Interpreted performances monthly(except January due to the whole show going on a break)
The next show is Dec 27th @ 7:30pm
There are seats in each of the price ranges available!
Please spread the news to help ensure that these opportunities continue!
I have seen the show 3 times and it’s Amazing!!