[Sca-cooks] OT: deaf and events

[Olwen the Odd]

> >i wish more events were interpreted, even for those of us who dont need
>it,
> >sign language can be so lovely to watch...
>
>       Lovely indeed - I remember a Fred Small concert where the signing of
>the song about the 1000 paper cranes was simply gorgeous.  And they can be
>silly too.  There was a Waterson's gig at the Hudson River Folk Festival
>where one of the singers had to translate for the signer (they're from the
>north of England), who then had to try to figure out how to tell the story
>of the song at the same time, and being English folk songs, some
>interesting things happened.  How do you sign fol-do-diddle?  Or keep up
>with the various animals in a sort of house-that-Jack-built repetitive type
>of song?
>
>Sandra

Have any of you gone to see the Theater for the Deaf?  It is wonderful.
Such a completely reversed situation than what the hearing are used to.  In
that case, the whole thing is done in sign and the interpreter has to say
the words.
Olwen, single, looking, guess what I want for christmas??

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