<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 2/19/11, Amy Wilson <i><aewilson06@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Amy Wilson <aewilson06@gmail.com><br>Subject: [wmass-asl] See What I'm Saying screening -- Smith College WEDNESDAY NIGHT<br>To: "Western MA ASL" <wmass-asl@googlegroups.com><br>Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 7:45 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Come see this unique, touching, powerful, and beautiful film for FREE!<br><br>Hosted by the ASL Club at Smith, the screening is open to the public.<br><br><br>Wednesday, February 23 · 7:00pm - 9:30pm<br><br>Weinstein Auditorium - Wright Hall - Smith College<br><br>*******************************<br>...<br>Deaf people can do anything but hear. But an all deaf rock band? A<br>deaf comic famous around the
world but unknown to hearing people? A<br>modern day Buster Keaton who teaches at Juilliard but is currently<br>homeless? A hard of hearing singer who is considered "not deaf<br>enough"?<br><br>SEE WHAT I'M SAYING follows the journeys of four extraordinary deaf<br>entertainers over the course of a single year as their stories<br>intertwine and culminate in some of the most important events of their<br>lives.<br><br>*******************************<br><br>ROBERT DeMAYO - actor<br>The extraordinarily talented and optimistic Robert DeMayo is a<br>brilliant actor and one of the leading experts on translating English<br>into American Sign Language. He is also homeless. While teaching sign<br>language translation to Broadway interpreters at Juilliard, a<br>miscommunication with Robert's landlord leads him down a slippery<br>slope of couch surfing, and ultimately onto the streets, as he fights<br>to survive.<br><br>BOB HILTERMANN - drummer<br>Beethoven's
Nightmare, the world's only deaf rock band, gears up for<br>the most important gig of their lives: their first mainstream show.<br>Bob Hiltermann, the band's drummer/producer decides to go for broke<br>and produce the largest concert in the band's 30-year history.<br><br>CJ JONES - comic<br>CJ Jones is a deaf comic who is highly celebrated by the deaf<br>community. He strives to cross over to mainstream media, plagued by<br>what others view as a double whammy - being black and deaf. CJ's<br>journey takes a unique turn when he decides to produce the first<br>International Sign Language Theatre Festival in Los Angeles and<br>invites Robert DeMayo to perform.<br><br>TL FORSBERG - singer<br>Hard of hearing singer TL Forsberg straddles two worlds - that of the<br>deaf and that of the hearing. She struggles to be accepted by the deaf<br>community since because she is not a native sign language user, and<br>"passes" in the hearing world. Her passion leads her
to a recording<br>deal to produce her first CD, entitled "Not Deaf Enough," but things<br>take a surprising twist when she opens for Bob's deaf rock band,<br>Beethoven's Nightmare.<br><br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google<br>Groups "Western MA ASL" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a ymailto="mailto:wmass-asl@googlegroups.com" href="/mc/compose?to=wmass-asl@googlegroups.com">wmass-asl@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to<br>wmass-asl+<a ymailto="mailto:unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" href="/mc/compose?to=unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at<br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wmass-asl" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/wmass-asl</a><br>View the wmass-asl group policies here:<br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wmassasl/"
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