Sign language arts seminar (with Riksteatern Crea)

Seminar

Date: Saturday 26 November 2022

Time: 13.00 – 15.30

Location: Riksteatern, Hallundavägen 30, Norsborg

Riksteatern Crea and Stockholm University invites you to a seminar on the artforms of sign language.

We will have the opportunity to listen to researchers from different parts of the world on their research on the artforms Visual Vernacular and Sign Language Poetry. The seminar is free but you must register in advance.

Register here

 

Moderator 

Pia Simper-Allen, Senior lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.

 

Program

13.00 – 13.15 

Introduction

Why do we need to recognise Sign Language Arts?

Johanna Mesch, Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Mindy Drapsa, Artistic Director, Riksteatern Crea

13.15 – 13.35

Defining Visual Vernacular in South African Sign Language (SASL):
Exploration of how the visual vernacular form is represented
in creative SASL

Atiyah Asmal, Project Manager for Gauteng Department Education

13.35 – 13.55 

The Radical Opening – Philosophical Notes on Visual Vernacular

Patrik Nordell, cultural theorist with long experience in deaf studies.

13.55 – 14.15 

Why does Visual Vernacular resemble cinematic features?

Mindy Drapsa, Artistic Director, Riksteatern Crea

14.15 – 14.35 Coffee break
14.35 – 14.55

Report of the practical experience of working in the project
Sign Language Arts

Giuseppe Giruanna, actor, director, and workshop leader 

Debbie Rennie Zacsko, poet and sign language artist

14.55 – 15.15 

A Study of Visual Vernacular (VV)

Cristiano Monteiro, Brazilian Sign Language researcher and teacher 

15.15 – 15.30 Closure

Find out more about this seminar (crea.riksteatern.se)