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CULTURAL ENRICHMENT
SATURDAY NIGHT,
October 25, 2008
PETER S. COOK
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 abroad 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.
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For more information on Peter Cook, please visit his website http://web.mac.com/peterscook1/Site/Welcome.html
SATURNDAY NIGHT
OCTOBER 25, 2008
PINKY AIELLO
Pinky
was born in the Bronx, NY and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. Born
Deaf, Pinky graduated from the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in
1985.
Pinky has worked in New York City with a Deaf Dance group called
Dancers, Theatre etc., in Cleveland at the Sign Stage Theatre, NTD's
Little Theatre of the Deaf, at Universal Studio in Los Angeles, Six
Flags and on TV.
Pinky has traveled throughout the World studying Deaf Culture and
American Sign Language and is an enthusiastic supporter of Deaf -
Hearing Team interpreting. Pinky recently starred in the DVD, "Pinky
Tells The Real Story: Videophone & Video Relay Service" which explores
the world of video relay interpreting from both the Deaf and
interpreter perspectives with her own special brand of humor. Check it
out on her website: www.PinkyVRS.com
Right now, she is touring full time as a Deaf
entertainer/storytelling/presenter about VRS perspectives which she
enjoys sharing with everyone.
More Cultural Enrichment Activities coming soon!