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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Here’s what to write/ tell them:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Flying Words Project (<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Peter
Cook</st1:PersonName> and Kenny Lerner)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>American Sign Language Poetry Performance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This Saturday (April 15<sup>th</sup>) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Main Lecture Hall in FPH<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FREE and open to the public<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*you don’t need to know ASL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In case you’re interested……<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Information about the performers:<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Peter Cook</st1:PersonName> and Kenny Lerner: Flying
Words Project <br>
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"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."<br>
Dirksen Bauman, Associate Professor<br>
Department of ASL and Deaf Studies, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Gallaudet</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
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Flying Words Project is an American Sign Language (ASL) poetry performance
troupe. <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Peter Cook</st1:PersonName> 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 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gettysburg</st1:place></st1:City>,
a moving sunset, or a march with Martin Luther King. That is what Flying Words
offers: ASL Poetry!<br>
<br>
Flying Words was recently featured at the "36th International Poetry
Festival" presented in <st1:City w:st="on">Rotterdam</st1:City>, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
They have performed at the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Walker</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Art</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName>
in <st1:City w:st="on">Minneapolis</st1:City>, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, The People's Poetry
Gathering in NYC, Theatre de Lucernaire in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:City>, 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 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> through workshops and by organizing
the First National ASL Literature Conference (1991). <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Peter lives in <st1:City w:st="on">Chicago</st1:City> and teaches at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Columbia</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. He loves to tell stories to
his son. <br>
<br>
Kenny Lerner has performed as co-creator and voice of <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Peter
Cook</st1:PersonName> in Flying Words Project since 1984. He received a BA in
History at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Beloit</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:State w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:State>
and a MA in Deaf Education at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Virginia</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Charlottesville</st1:place></st1:City>. Kenny teaches History at the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Rochester</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>.
He lives in the country with his wife, two children, and two dumb dogs. <br>
<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Peter Cook</st1:PersonName> and Kenny Lerner may be
contacted at <a href="mailto:flyingwordsproject@yahoo.com">flyingwordsproject@yahoo.com</a>.<br>
<br>
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For more information, contact Kaitlyn Millen at 413-559-4944 or
kmillen[at]hampshire.edu.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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