Beautiful sight and sound in the cultural darkness
Three arts institutions hold an event to highlight creative opportunities for an overlooked and underserved segment of the population, Zhang Lei reports.
They hope to accompany and support the hearing impaired to express themselves through writing, drama, performance and other art forms, combined with bilingual (sign language and spoken Chinese) communication, and to communicate and perform dialogue among themselves, others, nature and society.
The third film was presented by Easy Space, a disability friendly space in Beijing. Jie Xiaofeng, an architect, completed the transformation in a low-cost, integrated and co-creative way. Last month BEST Beijing Enable Sister Center, an organization that links and supports women with disabilities, initiated the art empowerment project. They invited Tu Bin, a drama instructor, for a tailored play that tells the organization's story for females who are concerned about disability issues. The project recruited 20 disabled and non-disabled actors, after eight rehearsals, hoping to present an inclusive work of art on stage.
