Got Deaf Culture @ your library?
ASK A LIBRARIAN
“Theatre in the Sky,” a performance by Bernard Bragg on September 28, 2007 was a smash success. Thanks to Gallaudet University and three other local sponsors for arranging it. It was part of a road tour to raise funds for the National Association of the Deaf and the World Federation of the Deaf. Many old timers remember the day when Bragg gave his first show on the same stage of the newly opened Elstad Auditorium years ago. His life story in acting has brought tears to some former deaf actors, especially when he acknowledged his hero, the late Boyce R. Williams who was responsible for what the deaf theatre is today. Who is Boyce? Who was behind him? ASK A LIBRARIAN.
There are four directories @ your library. One of them is “Speakers and Storytellers Sign @ your library.” http://www.folda.net/contacts/directories.html
If you wish to help promote deaf culture, books and literary in your home area through services of public libraries, please fill out the application form. Some speakers may share with the public what they know from own experience or from reading about our deaf authors, actors, heroes and/or leaders, especially Boyce.
If you have questions about directories, please email them to [email protected] – Please sign your name and your hometown. Thank you.
Alice L. Hagemeyer, Director
National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD)
www.folda.net/nlsd
THE NLSD mission is to promote deaf culture, books and literacy through programs and exhibits, particularly at public libraries.
Note: There is a chapter on Boyce R. Williams in GREAT DEAF AMERICANS: THE SECOND EDITION, by Matthew Scott Moore and Robert E. Panara. 1996. Published by Deaf Life Press. Deaf Life is a NLSD partner.