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1996 National ASL Literature Conference presentation by Peter Cook, Play with ASL! and Performances

Summary is from the 1996 program book. Peter Cook demonstrates techniques that help students to expand their potential in creating with ASL. A videotape of student work produced during Cook’s residencies at Lexington and Fanwood schools are shown. In addition, students from Lexington and Fanwood schools give a short performance about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The video begins with a non-voiced presentation and film by Isias Eaton and Company, titled "An African-American Film Story" about slavery. Visual description by Joan Naturale. In the first performance, Isias, an African-American, is half-dressed in an African yellow, green, and brown print skirt and has shackled barefoot feet. He has shoulder-length dreadlocks. Other male African-American performers with short hair are dressed similarly, one with an African inspired designed orange and brown print skirt, and the other in the same skirt with a shoulder wrap. They also have shackled feet. Later a Caucasian man (slave auctioneer) appears on stage, heavy-set, using a cane, and wearing a black top hat, a white shirt, a gray tie with a gray vest, and black pants. There is a video playing in the background that shows the selling of slaves. The next part shows the same two African American men working in the fields; one is dressed in a white T-shirt and gray jeans; the other one is dressed in a sleeveless white T-shirt and jeans. Isias joins them and is wearing a long unbuttoned white shirt, dark pants, and shackled feet. He expressed his frustrations as a slave and talks about escaping. One of the men warns him about the dangers of escaping and pleads with him to stay. In the background, a film shows a noose. Isias decides to escape and is carrying a long spear-like stick. Later, he appears shirtless with clasped hands over his head. The other two men join him. The film in the background shows the slave master whipping a slave and the back of a slave with scars from the whippings, portraits of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, Civil War images of caskets and solders, and shackled hands free. Isias appears again wearing a tan jacket over a buttoned white shirt and dark pants. Next, are videos of students performing poems under Peter Cook's tutelage. The first poem performed by four male and female students and Peter Cook is "Transformation Poem #1: How Worlds are Formed". After this, "Transformation Poem #2: Airplane Becomes Cigarette" is performed by a male student. Next, five male and female students perform "Transformation Poem #3: Volcano". Following this, three male students perform "Transformation Poem #4: Old West". Peter Cook and five male and female students perform "Transformation Poem #5: Eagle and Fish". A female student signs "Transformation Poem #6: Running Free". Peter Cook and four female and male students perform "Transformation Poem #7: Birds Prevail Over Hunter". Following this, Peter Cook discusses his work with the students. He has long dark brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, a mustache, and a beard. He is dressed in a long-sleeved black shirt, black vest, and black jeans. Next, we see students (all dressed in black) perform, "1963" which is about JFK's assassination, "Soldier", "Hot Spanish Night", "Miss America", "War", "The Boxer" and "Slaves". For more information, please go to the Deaf Studies Archive finding aid link URL: https://archivesspace.rit.edu/reposit... Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND You can download the video and share them with others as long as you credit us, but you cannot change them in any way or use them commercially. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-nd... "This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." https://www.clir.org/2018/01/clir-ann...