[ASL] Flying Words Project- tell you classes about it!

[Kaitlyn Millen]

Help us spread the word about the performance this Saturday! Announce it in
all of your classes! You can just write it on the board or make an
announcement. Tell your friends! Word of mouth is the most powerful way of
advertising.

Here's what to write/ tell them:

 

The Flying Words Project (Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner)

American Sign Language Poetry Performance

This Saturday (April 15th) 

7:00pm

Main Lecture Hall in FPH

FREE and open to the public

*you don't need to know ASL

 

In case you're interested..

 

Information about the performers:
Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner: Flying Words Project 

"Flying Words Project has accomplished what poets have been trying to do for
several centuries now; to make their poems more visual, more embodied, more
alive. To witness the work of FWP is to witness a milestone in literary
history."
Dirksen Bauman, Associate Professor
Department of ASL and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University


Flying Words Project is an American Sign Language (ASL) poetry performance
troupe. Peter Cook is amongst the greatest American Sign Language (ASL)
poets alive today. And bring along your hearing friends because all
audiences can literally see Peter's imagery when combined with Kenny
Lerner's powerful array of words and sound effects. Together they weave the
battle of Gettysburg, a moving sunset, or a march with Martin Luther King.
That is what Flying Words offers: ASL Poetry!

Flying Words was recently featured at the "36th International Poetry
Festival" presented in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They have performed at
the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Harvard University, The People's
Poetry Gathering in NYC, Theatre de Lucernaire in Paris, and many places in
between. They have received grants from the New York State Council of the
Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Puffin Foundation and are
the authors of two videotape anthologies, The Year of the Walking Dogs
(1984-90) and the Can't Touch Tours (1990-2003). Flying Words has also been
active in promoting ASL poetry around the United States through workshops
and by organizing the First National ASL Literature Conference (1991). 

Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose
works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting,
and movement. He has appeared in Live from Off Center's "Words on Mouth"
(PBS) and "United States of Poetry" (PBS) produced by Emmy winner poet Bob
Holman. 

Peter was featured at the National Storytelling festival in Jonesboro,
Tenn., The Winter tales in Oklahoma City, Illinois Storytelling Festival,
Hoosier Storytelling Festival, the Multi-Cultural Festival in Eugene, Ore,
and the Tales of Graz in Graz, Austria, The Deaf Way II and the Millennium
Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Peter has worked with Deaf
storytellers/poets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan. Peter was invited
to the White House to join the National Book Festival in 2003.

Peter lives in Chicago and teaches at Columbia University. He loves to tell
stories to his son. 

Kenny Lerner has performed as co-creator and voice of Peter Cook in Flying
Words Project since 1984. He received a BA in History at Beloit College in
Wisconsin and a MA in Deaf Education at the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville. Kenny teaches History at the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf in Rochester, New York. He lives in the country with his wife,
two children, and two dumb dogs. 

Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner may be contacted at
flyingwordsproject at yahoo.com.


For more information, contact Kaitlyn Millen at 413-559-4944 or
kmillen[at]hampshire.edu.

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