Conference Attendees

Biennial national conference attendees consist of deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened, deaf blind and hearing participants who are diverse and from all walks of life, of all ages and backgrounds, from across the nation. These will include federal, state and local government employees and employers, private sector and community leaders and service providers, educators, parents, professionals, college students, senior citizens as well as youth who are already exercising their leadership potential or want to expand on such.

Workshop Tracks

Traditionally, biennial national conferences have welcomed education and training workshops on a variety of topics, with tracks that are relevant and appeal to all ages – ranging from youth to those who are young at heart. This general focus will continue, with the inclusion of skills development and advancement strategies appropriate for the workplace. Workshop presentations should also be tied to the principles of self-determination, self-representation and self-expression that resulted in the establishment of the NAD in 1880 and guides its work to this day.

For more information go to: http://www.nad.org/louisville/call-workshop-proposals

The Off Off-Broadway advocacy organization the League of Independent Theater is behind the initiative that will deduct 5 cents from each ticket sold at participating theatres to put toward the fund. It will go into effect Aug. 1. The goal is to maintain the vitality and diversity of New York’s smaller, independent theatre community, which doesn’t draw as much attention as Broadway and Off-Broadway’s commercial fare.

Read more at Playbill.com

During the Harlem Renaissance, music, religion, and spirituality were connected—not only in the church, but also in the jazz club. The public radio special “The Harlem Renaissance: Music, Religion, and the Politics of Race” combines music, archival audio, and guest commentary to explore this fascinating period in African-American history.

The program will air on WNYC on Tuesday, February 14, 8pm, and on other public radio stations nationwide. The two-hour special is part of IRCPL’s radio series, Rethinking Religion, produced in connection with the Luce Group.

Hosted by Norris J. Chumley (Emmy Award winner, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer), the first hour explores the influence of the Great Migration on Harlem, what it meant to be a “New Negro” in the 1920s, the emergence of new artistic and religious forms in Harlem, and the spiritual connections between the blues and gospel music.  In hour two, guests discuss the emergence of the storefront church, the Harlem rent party, musicians’ roots in the church, and improvisation in music and the church service.

Guests include scholars Josef Sorett, Farah Griffin, Obery M. Hendricks Jr; Reverend Calvin O. Butts III of Abyssinian Baptist Church; writer Carl Hancock Rux; pianist and composer Courtney Bryan; and others. The episodes feature the voices of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, plus music by Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Mahalia Jackson, and more.

This radio special was developed in connection with IRCPL’s media project Religions of Harlem, organized by Josef Sorett and Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

Executive producer and host is Norris J. Chumley; producer is Jim Luce; writer is Sally Placksin (American Women in Jazz, What’s the Word?); consulting editor is Josef Sorett; technical director is Duke Markos (JazzSet with DeeDee Bridgewater, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz); associate producer is Genevieve Luce; and managing editor is Emily Brennan.

“The Harlem Renaissance: Music, Religion, and the Politics of Race” will air on select public radio stations the following dates:

• Tuesday, February 14, 8pm*: WNYC 93.9FM and AM820 (New York City); WNJT 88.1 (Trenton); WNJP 88.5 (Sussex); WNJY 89.3 (Netcong); WNJO 90.3 (Toms River/Seaside Park). *Airing only  first hour.
• Sunday, February 19, 9pm*: WNYC 93.9FM and AM820 (New York City). *Airing only first hour.
• Throughout February*: WPFW (Washington, DC); KCSM (San Francisco); KCEP (Las Vegas); WDUQ (Duquesne University, Pittsburg); WFSK (Fisk University, Nashville); WJAB (Huntsville, AL); WCSU (Wilberforce OH); KSUN (Parachute, CO); KGRM (Grambling, LA); KSTK (Wrangell, AK); KCSM (San Mateo, CA). *Check local listings for air times.

This season, New York Theatre Workshop inaugurates a new program called CASEBOOK.

This 10-week course offers participants the opportunity to meet and interact
with the artists who are creating a new play – while they are creating it.
Participants will meet with the playwrights, director, and actors; have the
opportunity to tour backstage with the designers while the set is being built;
observe rehearsals in process, in the rehearsal room and during tech; attend an
early preview performance with a post-show discussion, and then come back for
Opening Night to see the final piece. Even better than being a “fly on the
wall,” participants will engage with the collaborators from the beginning of
rehearsal through the Opening Night celebration.
CLICK HERE for more information
and to register. Email classes@nytw.org
or call 212-780-9037 with questions.
If link doesn’t work, cut and paste this address into your browser:

http://www.nytw.org/master_class_casebook2.asp

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The Road to Mecca
American Airlines Theater
Interpreters: Stephanie Feyne, Jack Jason and Lynnette Taylor

Tuesday, February 28 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, March 3 @ 2:00pm

Tickets: $37.00 (deaf individuals), $52.00 (hearing individuals).

Tony, Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Rosemary Harris returns to Roundabout with the remarkable Carla Gugino and Tony winner Jim Dale in this celebrated work by Tony winner Athol Fugard about an artist making her last stand for free expression in apartheid South Africa.

Set in the region of South Africa known as the Karoo, The Road to Mecca tells the story of an elderly woman who has spent the years since her husband’s death transforming her home into an intricate and dazzling work of art. The reclusive Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris) has become depressed and appears increasingly unable to care for herself. Pastor Marius Byleveld, who embodies the village’s conservative values, is determined to get Miss Helen into an old-age home. Her friend Elsa (Carla Gugino), a young teacher from Cape Town who is deeply suspicious of the patriarchal traditions Byleveld represents, is just as determined that Miss Helen remain free.

Don’t Dress for Dinner
American Airlines Theater
Interpreters: TBA

June 9 @ 2:00pm
June 12 @ 8:00pm

Don’t Dress for Dinner, the wildly funny comedy by Marc Camoletti (Boeing-Boeing), is coming to Roundabout Theatre Company and it’s going to be an affair—or three!—to remember.

Bernard’s plans for a romantic rendezvous with his mistress are complete with a gourmet caterer and an alibi courtesy of his friend, Robert. But when Bernard’s wife learns that Robert will be visiting for the weekend, she decides to stay in town for a surprise tryst of her own… setting the stage for a collision course of hidden identities and outrageous infidelities.  The cook is Suzette, the lover is Suzanne, the friend is bewildered, the wife is suspicious, the husband is losing his mind and everyone is guaranteed a good time at this hilarious romp through the French countryside. Tony Award® nominee John Tillinger directs.

Harvey
Studio 54
Interpreters: TBA

July 31 @ 8:00pm
August 4 @ 2:00pm

Golden Globe and Emmy Award® winner Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”, The Normal Heart), Tony® and Emmy Award nominee Charles Kimbrough (The Merchant of Venice) and Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge) return to Broadway in Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize–winning comedy, Harvey.  Parsons stars as one of modern theatre’s most lovable characters, Elwood P. Dowd. Charming and kind, Elwood has only one character flaw:  an unwavering friendship with a six-foot-tall, invisible white rabbit named Harvey. In order to save the family’s social reputation, Elwood’s sister Veta (Jessica Hecht) takes Elwood to the local sanatorium. But when Dr. William Chumley (Charles Kimbrough) mistakenly commits the anxiety-ridden Veta, Elwood—and Harvey—slip out of the hospital unbothered, setting off a hilarious whirlwind of confusion and chaos as everyone in town tries to catch a man and his invisible rabbit.

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Winners will be announced live on Friday, February 17 (8:00-10:00pm ET Live/PT tape-delayed) on NBC.

For the complete list of nominees go to: NAACP Image Awards

Among the nominees: Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer, Showtime’s hit shows Shameless and The Big C, Glee, Modern Family, CBS ratings leader NCIS, Becoming Chaz, the AIDS documentary We Were Here, Dancing with the Stars with Carson Kressley and Chaz Bono, the wedding of a gay staffer on Conan, David Letterman’s interview with Chaz Bono, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, TheRoot.com’s “Black and Transgender: A Double Burden,” and Lady Gaga for her Born This Way album.

Spanish-language nominees include Ricky Martin for his album Música + Alma + Sexo, telenovelas Las Aparicio, Los Exitosos Gome$, and El Último Matrimonio Feliz, news programs Noticiero con Paola Rojas and Despierta América, and ESPN Deportes’ SportsCenter.

A complete list of GLAAD Media Awards nominees may be found here: www.glaad.org/mediaawards/nominees.  Additional facts and figures about this year’s 151 nominees may be found here: www.glaad.org/mediawards/23/factsandfigures.

“As media continue to tell new stories about LGBT people and families, a majority of Americans now support full equality of LGBT Americans,” said Mike Thompson, GLAAD’s Acting President.  ”This year’s nominees enlighten and entertain, while spotlighting the diversity of our community. Audiences expect to see their own worlds reflected in media, and today more than ever, those include the lives of LGBT people. Viewers know that LGBT characters and stories are simply natural extensions of, and glimpses into, their own experiences from across America.”

The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 24, 2012 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square; in Los Angeles on April 21 at the Westin Bonaventure; and in San Francisco on June 2 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis.  Special Honorees for each city will be announced in the coming weeks.

GLAAD announced 116 nominees in 25 English-language categories, and 35 Spanish-language nominees in 10 categories.  In the English-language categories, cable networks earned 23 nominations, while broadcast networks garnered 19 nominations.

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

The 23^rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees were published, released or broadcast between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011.  Nearly 1,000 media projects were considered by over 85 volunteers serving on seven nominating juries.  Each year, the GLAAD Media Awards in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco bring together more than 5,000 supporters to raise nearly $3.5 million for the organization’s work.

More than 100 corporate partners are showing their support, including National Presenting corporate partners Rokk Vodka and Wells Fargo, New York Presenting corporate partners Delta Air Lines and Prudential, Los Angeles Presenting corporate partner Delta Air Lines, and San Francisco Presenting corporate partner Southwest Airlines.  GLAAD is also grateful to the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards Platinum Underwriter corporate partners: Anheuser-Busch, Inc., Comcast, IBM and Time Warner, as well as Underwriter corporate partners: Allstate Insurance Company, AT&T, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, David Yurman, New York City Marriott & Renaissance Hotels, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and VPI Pet Insurance.  For a full list of corporate partners and information on how to become a corporate partner, or to become a table host, purchase tickets or place a tribute in the tribute book, please visit www.glaad.org/mediaawards or call 212-219-0111.