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How about creating a home video viewing event together?

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metote-lab is a laboratory project revolving around deaf people, the hard-of-hearing and CODA (children of deaf adults) who converse via visual language (Japanese sign language). It is aimed at creating a forum (a “home”) for emergence from the starting point of the physical sensibilities and “language” of the individual. Organizers carry out a variety of projects on the theme of cultivating the natural culture that visual language entails.

One of metote-lab’s initiatives, the Archive Project, is themed around the preservation of the natural way of life and culture engendered by sign language. The project has involved a series of research and discussion on new archiving methods for sign language and the way of life and culture of deaf people, and the use of these archiving methods. As part of this initiative, metote-lab runs “home video viewing” events open to anyone.

Home video viewings entail participants watching a home video filmed in the home of a deaf person. Watching together will be the person in the home video, who attends the event as a guest.

This year, we would like to make this project more widely known and collaborate with a variety of people. As our initial activity, we are holding the event “How about creating a home video viewing event together?”

Opportunities are on the rise to see sign language in lectures, courses, theater and TV dramas. However, natural signed conversations with family members and friends who deaf people interact with on a daily basis disappear and are forgotten once over.
We believe that a natural conversation with someone is where many pointers for a “natural way of life and culture engendered by sign language” are hidden.
Why not discover the fun of “home video viewings” and create a session together?

Program

Process on the day

1.Find out about the aims of home video viewings
2.Listen to a review of past viewing events
3.Watch an actual home movie
4.Discuss what you noticed and felt
5.Think about what we can do

Capacity

20(First-come-first-served basis)

Eligibility

Participation open to all (sign language interpreting available)

Participation fee

Free

How to apply

Please use the application form here.

Application deadline:Saturday, August 17 2024, 23:59

*Please note the program is subject to change.
*Your personal information will be handled as strictly confidential and used only for the operation of this event and to send you information from the organizer.

Contact

General Incorporated Association ooo
E-mail:ooo.institute@gmail.com

Venues

5005 1-A Noguchi Building, Yanaka 3-24-1, Taito-ku,〒110-0001 Tokyo Five minutes’ walk from Nishi-Nippori Station.

Credit

Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), General Incorporated Association ooo