 So nice to get a warm welcome to Michelle Day. She's the director of IED. She lives in Atlanta. She's not part of the neighborhood city. That's how she can be talking about the African-American side in visual theater. And I wanted her to go on any longer in the same direction. That's not her chance to start, but let the city of Philly want to form after Philly. She's good. She doesn't want you to necessarily hold your questions yet. You can answer that. You can answer that today. I'm wondering now, what is this thing called after the African-American side in visual art? Well, I've come to a new couple called IED about African-American. So I'm going to be talking to you about a thing about African-American and how they feel about the thing. And I want you to know how they feel about the thing. And I want you to know how they feel to express the world in their own emotions. The reason I want you to know is the introduction you're going to be entitled for colored girls to have to say a suicide when they grow up in Atlanta. Right inside, is Sake Sake. She's a black-haired woman who wrote this play about all black, black-haired women. And about their struggles and their use by men and through their thousands of relations of all kinds. Now, I'd like to talk now a little bit about African-American sign language. Sign language is brought to America and that people use the method efficiently to each other. Has black sign language is the same kind of idea that people want to call after sign language and black sign language really is something that is changeable for them. I would say that it's very similar to ASL. Like, it's that there are some differences that some adaptations that last 20 days. And it's developed by a group of people sign language from the streets. From some say who's black, maybe you're influenced by the rhythms and the movements and the way that people use the people's lives. And to stand out is the quote that says black people and black black people. I feel that really black people in general understand that black people often are somebody who's better than other black people who kind of share their black people. Because it's black, because black people are so instead of strong, minority black people they don't know about the issues. And I ask them, do you think there is something in this black sign language that's not going to add to you that? I want you to do it about 5 when you talk again, but of course it's not going to add to right now. I found my group is also black in that. It's a bomb. I was going to college and had to do just the black sign language and stuff. I like to think the person came out that isn't a black sign language, that sign language is a no, no. When they because they've been educated by the white some side that they abuse and hurt for supporting each other for their own socially. Well, men and girls is one thing not together. Not just when they're after the education by their white majority in the community. They get together, they talk and they die. It's interesting that this language demonstrates that by the white society. But when I think of the black but this is a way of teaching their own way of thinking that is a joy sign language. It's just like something like this. Now, and I might talk to this one here. It's all about communication. It's very interesting. And I want you to look into it more. And I want you to more recognize by the way this is done. It's a better life style. It's a better life style. Seeing a language is something I want to bring up. So tell your ideas on what is communication like. To say communication for discussion. Then see what's in yourself. Through hand, through sign, through mind movement, through sound, through words, through vocabulary, through the written words, through expressing yourself. That's why this is the same as regular. Or you, for everyone's interpretation all of you are right. We all have our own ideas of dictionary. I found several that I want to share them to you now. And I want to talk to you, of course, that is a bad gesture. I don't know what language it is. But it's another, another, another word that I want to talk to you about. What's the definition of languages? If I need the word in say, or write, or figure out sounds. Find the conversation that has other people. There may not. I find it just by that. It's the idea. That there isn't that bad sign language and there isn't no research for it. But I feel that we need to develop the research and we need to develop the research again. I want to let you know the answers. The first question I'm getting on this issue is the first thing. The first thing I'm getting on this issue is that I'm not off. I'm not talking about it. I want people to start talking about it. I want the research to start to be done. I want all of you to be in cultural influence. Online, you know that black people have their own culture, of course. And of course that culture is going to be done. I think they have a stronger understanding of what they say in their language and their language. So, the research, the special research that you don't have anything about the human race on this kind of thing. I agree that black people are selfish in the research. I'm going to hold on here a little bit because you have maybe had more research on black culture. So, I want to know where is the reason why black people do not have black culture? Where do I feel that that's the reason we have language is so that all these different countries, Germany, the German or African or different countries in Africa can understand each other and black people need to have their own understanding of each other too. Now I'm going to show you a very reason you're doing this morning. I want you to know the physical elements of the language for example, a person who is kind of ridden that they use their bodies or that they wish they use their bodies. So, I want you to signal these elements and notice this in a black female or a black woman in how she's in her kids. You can't tend to the older guys. You can't talk to them if you're not quite famous but it's very important. If you have thousands who do too, because the deaf people's families are relevant. Although black and Black people in general, they use the graph and all kinds of music to describe kind of the culture of that kind of part of the deaf community. So, I want to show the deaf community what the video takes now. This is about a segment of the play I talked about in Colorado that's going to do with us. I just want to talk a little bit about the name of the person. Two different names of the person. Two stars. One is Black man who was involved in the war a long time ago. And there's this other person who also makes his son, Jones. And he's a hometown boy. This is a segment of the story I'm going to be showing you. So, because a young person a young girl who has a fancy relationship with the person you saw that's going to stretch her again and she needs her imaginary friend and have a really strong relationship and she's proud of this but only just in her fantasy world. And so she needs the real to come a real person that she needs her team. She's got this fantasy and that's the mind of what I'm showing you now. She takes up the values and facial expression of the rhythm and these examples of BSL I want you all to notice the continuous emotions that come through with the movement the attitudes of the characters. And it's not that easy it's very soft it's very easy to come out with these lighting techniques to emphasize the anti-glasses. It's a little later we'll be able to see and you'll be able to see the movement of the feet and you'll be able to see the true special effects. I'm going to show you that later perhaps there's no special effect on that one and maybe actually after your culture was involved with those things but the signs yourself were ordinary was just written by a hearing service. It should be done that way. She kind of wrote it in black English she said, thank God, she said, she wrote it in the way that black people speak and told it was very difficult to translate and I tried my best and tried to equate the black attitude and the black way of being and of course I'm really not myself to see this in that length maybe I should have had to insult it of course but the sign after sign the life of a deaf, black, African-American that does exist and we're hoping to have a discussion next fall and it's in the process of writing it right now and we're going out to speak to interview black deaf people and to get their input and the video takes time and the way that they sign and then we'll bring that to our feet we really like that we expect to be accurate about it and we know that hearing people have the same kind of movement so like if they have all right they just say they can move all right and then sign all right so what's this? to be dead or closer right and the way that we're moving sign is black English hearing people are black and you can sign deaf people are black and hearing people are black and hearing people are black when they're going out to speak to the current sign you can speak to these guys from the younger black people if you want to hear their out there talk and if you don't know the black side if you don't know the black side and try to read this from the Old Men my men left their desk books they left their desks and there are a few signs that are different so it seems there were like two words like that It seems like they're like similarities. They're more like physical language with each other, you know? They get together and communicate with each other and they become more and more educated in their lives. I see them using less and less physical expression when they talk to each other, you know? When they get into more issues, they get a little more wild, more willing to do that. When I got into the town and I found out that the community was very different. They sat in hospitals around their hands rather than outside their shoulders. So they were doing, I think, their research in Canada as a regional fund where, and then their research was just with very pen hand what each of you were on and how the people become more educated and then on the other hand they grew up to be. So right now, we're going to see more and more that that kind of people. That kind of children too, you know? Yeah, you don't really care about education. And we need to educate them. We need to let them know that being a close side and staying among each other they can, you know, they don't want literacy. They don't want anyone to have that. And how can we do about that? They have an attitude. They don't want anyone involved in messing with their stuff. So if they say, hey, nobody cares about me, what am I supposed to do? Like people like you and I need to become role models. How are the role models for the others down the back seat? They really need that. But like brown people are looking out and seeing as something lower. And how much time it's got to be. I mean, I live in a dorm. And I hang around a lot with the black deaf kids in the dorm and in an international house. So we're neighbors too, to other black people. And we have a lot of, there's a lot of black deaf people that listen to me. So, but like here people talk. Like here. Now we live off the white environment. The emphasis, of course, is ironing. You weren't going to go back home. The emphasis begins and so I think it was a brain wash all the time. People may think it was a brain wash all the time, but that's not true. It's because it's going to be associated with people with one culture. You can't do that culture to that community. And I identify if you drive for example to a white job that you're going to actually buy them there. Now in Rochester, if I live in a city and you kind of, what kind of financial racket you're in in order to determine where you live and that influence their influence by that. And this is the last thing that I'm going to argue that I think is that you get lost and you're not in there and you're in the case. Right. The more involved work the white community has a lot to do with myself. I live off the education but of course I signed it and we have to meet there and hang around so that people can have fun. But it's really an interesting group that I want to work with and I want to work with part of it. I have to live behind it my life. I don't even know where they are. I don't know where they are. They're about to hit you. But the black community is being prepared for this. So you still need to incentivize the white community to be involved in the black community all the time. And then how do you think that would affect you more than before? And then we were saying before, we need a lot as little as possible. But over time a lot of people have to step to find out more or they completely have a life that you have to get lost. So you have to decide which is the place to use more English or to use more life time or to use more English. So we need a minority interpreter. A black interpreter there. It's very important to find that. But you need to enter that. You need to try to hire minority interpreters in order to match their audience. So that the black deaf audience can understand the interpreter. If you play for just a regular standard interpreter while for a black deaf audience there will be a very big difference between the communications of the interpreter and the transporters black culture in their interpretation. So it really helps a black deaf audience if we can get black interpreters. Because white interpreters don't know the culture they have this advantage. They can interpret that but a lot of the black deaf audience will be lost in the message because they do not understand minorities they are. So often we have one orange interpreter and she she'll be confused as a lot of people don't understand but so we really have to play into that to be better at that question. They don't try to do that well. They don't try to be awesome. I guess it might be and I I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I've seen it I don't black được I I mean She associates with a lot of black people a lot of black black people that one key not the workshop but now the nation she says not that tim plan she says not that tim plan she says ain't that time taken whether people hang around social life So we don't know if it's a borrowing problem or a debt problem. There's a big instance of this kind of issue because it may be a borrowing problem for the debt culture. If a person comes up with a debt person, they're going to sign a lot more English. You know, if there was another debt person, they're going to sign a lot more English. What's that? The same way you don't... The same way a debt person wouldn't necessarily sign a lot of English, because I sign a lot more English just because you want to talk with them. Do you want to demonstrate any of that? No, I would be different. I would be different in what the debt culture is. As to me, the... I think it's really bad people. I think that white people have to make the rules. I really do like people who can make the rules. I think that white people have to make the rules themselves again. I think white people make the rules. I think that black debt culture is very important. We have a lot of values that we need to preserve. A lot of them we can make, but we want to preserve. We cherish this. We don't want to lose it. We feel it when I see this money and crave my daughter's ear. Now, perhaps because of the results of early childhood sexual or childhood use and drug addiction or alcohol addiction, but it's a result in a really wild and strong way of signing. Do you want to make a question? Yes, sir. Okay, okay, one more time. Here's how they change it. We like to have a lot of rules and a lot of rhythm. That's part of their culture, whereas other white people who are very much more reserved to do that kind of thing. Okay, now last question. Black people of last century, white people of last century can't. Now, black people are wondering how they feel about black people who try to become one of the black people, whether it's by the joy and by the rhythm of their culture. But I wonder how they feel about that. The same kind of thing with how deaf people can feel about hearing people who try to become members of their community. I mean, we're willing to work with them, but those kinds of what people really want to become deaf is to put them online and say, this is not your place. So, I wonder if it's one of the incentives we have to educate hearing people you have to educate other black people. That's exactly right. So, you're starting now to educate us in this workshop. Okay, good. How I'm going to ask you, what is black deaf culture? What do you think that is? Black deaf culture. I'm talking about black deaf culture. What is it? What do you have? It's culture. They have their culture. They have their culture like that. Okay. To their social lives. What do they think? They think differently from the white culture. They're very insular group. They hang out in deaf clubs. They have a different way of socializing from the white people. What do you mean by, you know, that has to be talked about, talked about better? Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. Better. I need to be on the job. He needs to go. Maybe he can act. Human effects with the oppression that has been put up over the years until now has got ready to explode, it's not now. Maybe this was a young man who said it was more rage now that the pilot's about to boil over. Because Black people have been stuck in some of the sessions because of all these years and now they're like, hey, I'm that person. I'm that person who's stuck with you. I did that because of this oppression that we've been experiencing for so many years has got to end. It's time, it's but not. And we need to prevent that. Black people in the past didn't know how to start to rebel, but now they've started to think we've got ways to prevent this oppression from continuing. OK, one more. OK, here's the Black and Deaf community culture. But I think that you can be inclined to another example. Again, to what your perspective is going to end up. It doesn't matter that you're white or hearing. Or, yeah, if you want to be Black and Deaf culture, if you live in the world, you want to see these different people. Maybe you've noticed different cultures around you. No, maybe you have an opinion about it. I was just asking what that opinion was about. It doesn't matter really who you are. Deaf, Black, hearing, white, whatever matters. I just ask them a question. What's your question? Tell me before they're, you know, there are enough problems. If the Black kids went out to school, they were one or two, people all got into the community. They weren't going to school. They weren't educated. That's your question? But right now, people are still calling BSL as bad ASL. One of them is going to start sending BSL as its own language and stop having this bad attitude towards it. I think BSL is on A for hundreds of cameras. People are beginning to accept ASL as its own language. Now, I think that has to be inclined also to BSL. We need to pull that up out of the question of health. Hearing culture is a Black culture also. Because Black and Deaf, which culture would you feel most affiliation to? What would it feel like you were in need to belong to either the Deaf culture or the Black culture? Maybe one of those folks would accept Black culture. As a Black Deaf person, I feel more affiliation, stronger affiliation with the Black culture. Because you can see, I have an obvious same color. I didn't grow up as a Black Deaf person. I grew up in the Black part of the country. I grew up, I had left hearing parents. So I grew up as part of that family institution. So I'd say that my Deaf is secondary to me. Because my family is all hearing. They sign, but I feel very... They don't sign that they'll look too long to be next to them. And I know I know what the focus is very importantly at. So Deaf... You wouldn't want a culture you're going to belong to. You know, if you grow up, you're going to see your deaf parents. They're going to socialize with people and... Do they socialize with you? Do you socialize with an African country or the culture? And it'll often you don't have it, so I'll tell you later. Right. My parents live in Washington, D.C. and they chose to meet. And we didn't want to get our Deaf. And I would start going there around between a half years old. So my parents made me choose that culture in a sense. So I started socializing with Deaf culture and I realized that I had to go to the city for it and became a part of it immediately because of the tension I felt with them. It's different, you know, if you grow up with a hearing family and they make a hearing for you. What was I going to say just because this was the last question that we were running out of time. From that research we found that we could say that Black gets to the other side of the Black. This is how they identified this kind of growth on the Black person. I grew up in a Black family. The culture and everything. And I do think that some Black people are Black people because they're close to their family. They're just by their school. And there are these women that come from the Black. And that's fine. It's been about 11 years ago. It's been 5 years. I'm touching now, but this workshop has just opened up for me and I hope that the dialogue continues. And I want to get feedback. I've got feedback from you and I know that it will help me to use my research now because I've got an energy for you so I feel like my soul at my service will be there for you.