Sign Language Inc presents CruisEUs 2009
One of the Great Workshop Presenters Mark Morales |
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Mark Angel Morales
grew up near East Los Angeles, California. He grew up as a Deaf
Mexican/Aztec in a hearing family. Mark attended a mainstream program
and graduated from South Hills High School. He then enrolled at
Gallaudet University in 1979. Mark has worked as a professional
free-lance interpreter for 15 years. A La Puente native, he is
nationally respected as a Deaf Interpreter and International Sign
Interpreter. As A Deaf Interpreter, also referred to as an Intermediary
Interpreter and Relay Interpreter, Mark has specialized training and/or
experience in use of gesture, mime, props, drawings and other tools to
enhance communication while interpreting. Mark has an extensive
knowledge and understanding of deafness, the Deaf Community, and/or
Deaf culture and bringsbring added expertise into booth routine and
uniquely difficult interpreting situations especially for the
deaf-blind. |
Another One of the Great Presenters Byron Bridges |
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Born deaf to deaf parents, and with a deaf sister, Dr. Byron W. Bridges
has used ASL for his first language throughout his life. He attended
two different deaf schools as well as attended public schools. Byron
obtained his Bachelors of Arts (BA) degree in Deaf Studies, his Masters
of Arts (MA) degree in Linguistics and earned his doctoral degree (Ed.
D) in Deaf Studies and Deaf Education degree at Lamar University. Because of his love in language and culture, Byron has been involved himself in deaf sports, deaf clubs, deaf fishing organizations, and state/national organizations of the deaf most of his life. Byron has also co-authored and published the book, Deaf Tend Yours. In addition, he has written scripts and produced many deaf-related videotapes/DVD. Byron is a nationally-known teacher and lecturer in ASL and sign language interpretation. He has been in the field of ASL linguistics, interpreting and university/college teaching of ASL as a second language for thirty years. Byron is currently a certified deaf interpreter (CDI) through the national organization, Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Byron currently teaches for Austin Community College in the Interpreting Preparation Program and has been a visiting professor of ASL/Deaf Studies at Lamar University. |
The List goes on... Peter Cook |
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Peter
S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose
works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling,
acting, and movement.
Peter has traveled extensively around the country and aboard with
Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since
1986. Peter has appeared in Live from Off Center's "Words on Mouth"
(PBS) and " United States of Poetry" (PBS) produced by Emmy winner Bob
Holman. Peter teaches at Columbia College where he received the 1997
Excellence in Teaching award. In 1998, Peter set up a video production
called PC Production and now based in Chicago.
Peter was featured nationally in festivals such as the Jonesboro
National Storytelling festival , Oklahoma City Winter Tales, Illinois
Storytelling Festival, Indiana Hoosier Storytelling Festival, Eugene
Oregon Multi-Cultural Festival, and The Deaf Way II and the Millennium
Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Peter was invited to the White House to join the National Book Festival
in 2003. Internationally,Peter has worked with Deaf storytellers/poets
in Sweden, Norway, Denmark ,Netherlands, Austria and Japan. Peter lives in Chicago and teaches in ASL-English Interpretation Department at Columbia College. He loves to tell stories to his son. |
Rocking the Boat with Signs of Development! Lynne Weisman |
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Lynne is the founder of Signs of Development. She is an internationally-recognized professional development provider having presented in South Africa, Canada, and scheduled to present at Critical Link in Australia. The focus of her work and passions of late are providing mentoring and mentoring training to states wanting to establish quality and sustainable mentoring programs. She conducts and facilitates a series of study groups to support interpreters to prepare for all aspects of the certification process. Lynne teaches for
NEU's Master Mentor Certificate Program and DeVry's Online School of
Business. She is published numerous times in the VIEWs, St. John's
Press, CIT Proceedings and has written a business practices manual with
accompanying CD WWWorkshop, "It's a Matter of $'s & $ense", aimed
at assisting students and interpreters with the development and/or
enhancement of their business practices. She is currently working on
her Ph.D. in Training & Performance Improvement. |
How we got here? Emilia Lorenti-Wann |
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Attending an interpreting workshop, and then dashing off to hike a few tours, going for a dip in the Jacuzzi, perhaps even with a margarita in hand all within one location... Seems a bit off the wall? Not really, says Emilia Lorenti, a New York City interpreter. "It's really difficult for interpreters to take time off to go on a vacation because they depend on their interpreting incomes, and because they usually have used up all of their vacation time for interpreting-related conferences and workshop. So this cruise is a perfect solution." Lorenti is the brainchild behind CruisEUs, a cruise that will provide a workshop series onboard along with social and entertainment opportunities on a cruise to Mexico on August 16 to August 23, 2009. "While at a conference, I was thinking that after the second day I had already seen everything. And since I do send a lot of interpreters to interpret on cruises, I thought --hey, why not put the two together? Interpreters could visit a different location each day and earn continuing education units (CEUs) while being with their families and friends at the same time," Lorenti says. And out of this idea came CruisEUs. Lorenti has been interpreting for 21 years, and has attended plenty of conferences to know what works and what doesn't. So she's brought in dynamic workshop presenters. Presenters include Peter Cook, Byron Bridges, Mark Morales, Keith Wann, and Lynne Wiesman. "We decided to bring in a mixture of deaf and hearing presenters because we know many interpreters have significant others who are also deaf, and then we of course wanted to present a bilingual approach to our workshops," Lorenti explains. "But for those who want to attend the cruise but not participate in the workshop package, they can do this as well by earning independent study credits." Younger cruise-goers haven't been forgotten, either.. "The cruise offers activities at no additional cost for children, including an ocean program for kids aged 3-17," Lorenti says. "So this is really an opportunity for all to go, exchange ideas and experiences as working interpreters, and then go on land trips with families and friends. I think it's going to be a wonderful combination of work, learning, and play for our interpreters." |
And another presenter bringing his unorthodoxed view! Keith Wann |
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Keith
Wann, a child of deaf adults, is one of America's funniest ASL
comedians. Keith tours around the ASL Nation performing both of his one
man shows. He also performs as a Storyteller for Festivals featuring family and children stories in ASL. He is also involved with Flying Fingers, a camp for Deaf and Koda children. Keith often performs as a stand-up Comedian in New York at the Comic Strip. Keith has gone Hollywood and was filmed in some PEPSI commercials to build hype for the "Bob" commercial. He has also been on a few TV shows as an extra, including Law and Order and Court TV and also appeared in Mosdeux's Resonare as the Demented Apple Farmer...and just finished filming another film playing a deranged prison convict in the film How I Killed My Girlfriend's Cat, which played at the Sundance Festival 2008. Keith recently worked with Sia, the music artist as an ASL consultant for her music video. He is currently is working on a collection of stories for a book. Keith also teaches workshops for interpreters to analyze lyrics and ASL, the journey to certification, and Improvisation for ASL students. As an artist, he has worked solo and in collaboration with other great ASL artists bringing to stage Coda stories, Deaf culture, Improv, Sketch comedy, and ASL student bashing. Keith lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as an interpreter, certified CI CT and NIC:Master. Keith completed the Juilliard program on interpreting Broadway plays and has interpreted 39 Steps, Hamlet, and Little Shop of Horrors. |
