Deaf Story Telling Festival TBA Fall 2012

Gainesville, Florida

         The recent November 2011 event had 159 ASL students and 25 Deaf people!  The 2012 event most likely will be in November 2012.  Come back later this Fall 2012 for more information.

The below was the November 2011 flyer and the 2012 should be very similar:

       This is a very unique opportunity for ASL students and their teachers (and also beginning interpreters) to both watch several Deaf people sign stories AND to interact with each one in small groups! Not all Deaf people sign like teachers of ASL students! Some are ASL purists, others are of the Sign English variety with very clear mouthing, and others are in between. Students need to experience young, middle-age, and old Deaf people, male and female, black, Hispanic and white. In this format, you will watch several Deaf people sign stories. This year during the storytelling we will have a moderator to pause during the stories and help you understand different aspects of sign language so the stories will be clearer to you.
       After a break, you will be in a group of other participants and each group will rotate from Deaf person to Deaf person, spending around 15 minutes with each for questions and answers where you can ask about the signs you saw in the previous hour, such as: storytelling, mouth morphemes you may have seen, or questions about classifiers used, etc. COST for EVENT: $10.00 EARLY REGISTRATION by October 31. At the door same day registration: $15.00
       This story telling festival is a fundraiser by and for the Hands to Heaven Deaf Ministry of The Pentecostals of Gainesville Church (the story telling festival will NOT have any religious stories, etc. and will be strictly secular) at the church's fellowship hall, 8105 NW 23rd Ave, Gainesville, Fl. Registration begins at 12:00 pm. with the event beginning promptly at 1 p.m. To register via mail, make check payable to UPC (note in check memo Deaf Ministry) and mail to: The Pentecostals of Gainesville, 8105 NW 23rd Ave, Gainesville, Fl, 32606. Or email: Sherry Jertberg iluvchalklat@yahoo.com for email registration or send check with below form and address.
       THANK FOR YOUR SUPPORT! WE LOOK FORWARD TO A FUN DAY!

For more information, contact Sherry Jertberg at: iluvchalklat@yahoo.com