DEAF Media
By The Numbers:
For 33 years, DEAF Media has worked to secure recognition of
the arts, culture and language of Deaf America--and, to provide
meaningful access and participation for the Deaf community to Bay Area
cultural institutions.
Here are just some of our accomplishments
- 3 Emmy Awards for pioneering television work serving the Deaf community
- 6 DEAF Media Salons with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- 8 Annual Deaf Showcases at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- 8 Productions of Celebration: Deaf Artists and Performers, the first
continuing festival of Deaf artists and performers
- 8 Episodes of Rainbow's End (KQED-PBS) the first and only national
TV series for Deaf children
- 8 Additional television productions
- 21 DEAF Media productions featuring Deaf Artists and storytellers as
part of Oakland Museum festivals
- 12 Professional gallery exhibitions for Deaf artists
- 18 Feasts for the Eyes celebrating ASL storytelling
- 22 Professional development workshops for Deaf artists
- 25 Additional live productions of Deaf presentations
- 60 DEAF Media family programs with Deaf Artists at the Oakland Museum
of California
- 77 Deaf Docents Tours of the Bay Area arts museums
- 78 Percent Deaf majority Board
- 133 Episodes of Silent Perspectives (KCSM-PBS), the first TV talk show
of, by, and for the Deaf
- 328 Deaf-centered co productions with Bay Area arts and education partners
- 611 Weeks of Dial a News, the nations first TTY Community Bulletin Board
- 60,700 plus, Deaf and hearing students, teachers and parents enlightened
by the Deaf storytellers of the DEAN project and Project Story
- 62,048 reasons to support DEAF Media's continuing work
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