Yay Open-Captioned Movie Thursday!

Saturday, February 2

Movie: Stan & Ollie
Theater: The Avalon Theatre, Washington, DC
Time: 12:30 PM
Purchase Tickets: https://www.theavalon.org/films/stan-ollie/

Movie: The Kid Who Would Be King
Theater: AMC Hoffman Center 22, Alexandria, VA
Time: 1:10 PM
Purchase Tickets: https://amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/washington-d-c/amc-hoffman-center-22/showtimes/all/2019-02-02/amc-hoffman-center-22/all/76570287

Movie: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Regal Gallery Place 14, Washington, DC
2:45 PM
https://www.fandango.com/regal-gallery-place-stadium-14-AATAR/theater-page?date=2019-02-02


Sunday, February 3

Movie: Serenity
AMC Hoffman Center 22, Alexandria, VA
1:50 PM
https://amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/washington-d-c/amc-hoffman-center-22/showtimes/all/2019-02-03/amc-hoffman-center-22/all/76570472

Movie: Miss Bala
Regal Gallery Place 14, Washington, DC
2:15 PM
https://www.fandango.com/regal-gallery-place-stadium-14-AATAR/theater-page?date=2019-02-03

Movie: If Beale Street Could Talk
Old Greenbelt Theatre, Greenbelt, MD
3:00 PM
https://greenbelttheatre.org/

Movie: If Beale Street Could Talk
AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
4:20 PM
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100002280

Movie: Vice
Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, Washington, DC
5:00 PM
https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dc/showtimes-and-tickets/now-playing/2019-02-03

Movie: Stan & Ollie
AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
6:45 PM
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100002263

Movie: Green Book
Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, Washington, DC
7:00 PM
https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/dc/showtimes-and-tickets/now-playing/2019-02-03


Monday, February 4

Movie: The Favourite
AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD
7:05 PM
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100002220


Thursday, February 7

Movie: Green Book
The Avalon Theatre, Washington, DC
1:30 PM
https://www.theavalon.org/films/green-book/

Thanks to DC Deaf Moviegoers for the times

DeafBlind Interpreting Institute 2019 is Now Taking Applications!

The DeafBlind Interpreting National Training & Resource Center (DBI) is charged with preparing interpreters working with DeafBlind individuals in the language and culture of the DeafBlind community. DBI is offering the training to new cohorts in the 2019 DeafBlind Interpreting Institute (DBII). These are small cohorts with a limited number of participants to maintain small mentor-to-student ratios and cohort experiences. Each cohort is a community of practice, sharing their newly-applied learnings, skills, knowledge and resources with each other and their instructors and mentors.

Applications are now open for the 2019 DeafBlind Interpreting Institute (DBII) cohort. Now is the time to apply! The call for applications will close on Sunday, February 17th at 9pm.

Under the direction of DeafBlind leaders and DBI staff, cohort participants will learn more about DeafBlind culture and protactile ASL through an 80-hour intensive experience, including a 6-week online learning community, 1-week onsite for protactile ASL immersion, and 10+-hours of service and applied learning (induction) in the participant's home community with DeafBlind individuals.

There is no other intensive, immersion opportunity preparing interpreters to work with DeafBlind folks and their language. We are grateful to the amazing DeafBlind leaders, teachers, trainers, and mentors who are partnering with DBI to make this program and its content a reality!

DBI has already received a high volume of interest in this training and we can only admit a total of 48 participants for the 2019 cohorts (24 in each cohort), so be sure to spread the word and encourage folks to apply!



Check out the 2019 DBII webpage for full details!  https://www.dbinterpreting.org/dbii-2019.html

TAG anyone you know would be interested!

Interpreted 'Wicked' is Out of this World!

For everyone who doesn’t know, Mikayla Hammrich, became HIS Sign’s social media consultant last year and took over the postings.

Hello:) Now I can type in first person;)

The Broadway show ‘Wicked’ had an interpreted performance last night and I had the pleasure of attending. I should say that I had already seen the show seven – you read right – times, so last night was my eighth time. Knowing the show so well did not stop the interpreters from blowing my mind and showing me new things. ‘Wicked’ is the story of Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West before the movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’ happens. Their tag line is “A lot happened before Dorothy dropped in.” 

All three interpreters embodied one or two main roles, sharing the smaller parts and ensemble lines. Candace Broecker-Penn portrayed a charming and thoughtful Glinda. Christina Trunzo Mosleh was a phenomenally witty and heartfelt Elphaba. And Jon Wolfe Nelson took on the not-so-shallow Fiyero and The Wizard himself.

Those three became each character so flawlessly, other people had a hard time not focusing on them. 

During intermission, people told the terps, “I catch myself looking over,” “My kids keep looking at you,” “It’s amazing how you’re really able to capture the sounds and feelings,” and Candace said to Christina “I saw you in that last long – perfect.”

The perfection she was referring to was the final song of the first act, Defying Gravity. If you’ve never heard it before, please go listen to it, whether you’ve seen the show or not, listen to the song. As I said, I’ve seen ‘Wicked’ eight times and I have never seen it done with such passion and heart as when I watched Christina perform. She had tears in her eyes. You could see that she knew and believed what she was signing. “That song applies to every person in this room in their own ways,” she said, her love of the song evident in her still.

During the opening song of the second act, Glinda has a beautiful emotional journey. The way Candace interpreted that song, made me see it in a different light. She went on the journey with the actress on stage.

Later in the second act, The Wizard has his second song. Last night The Wizard’s understudy was preforming. I know the words to all the songs, and when the actor repeated the second line twice, then paused a couple beats, then said the next line too early, then again when he was actually supposed to (If that didn’t make sense, basically he messed up). Jon kept his cool and kept on signing, he didn’t let it trip him up.

Moral of the story, the interpreters were phenomenal!