ID: a banner of a red crumbly background with green sepia photograph cutout of youths with cameras facing the viewer. A white crumbly foreground with a tear at top with black text: “Giving Day, Dec.14, 2024.”
Mission: Deaf Spotlight inspires and showcases Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts.
Vision: Deaf Spotlight illuminates the artist within every Deaf person.
ID: Flyer with ripped maroon paper strip on top half against a white background. White text on top: “BLACK FRIDAY? Nah! CYBER MONDAY? Nah! SUPPORT DEAF ARTS? Yes! But, how? DS GIVING DAY! YAY!” On bottom, black text: “Save The Date: Giving Day. Dec. 14, 2024.” Deaf Spotlight logo on left.
DEAF SPOTLIGHT GIVING DAY: SATURDAY, DEC 14
Just say no to Black Friday and Cyber Monday and you can support the community instead. We will host an online Giving Day on Saturday, December 14 just for Deaf Spotlight!
What is Giving Day? It is a day where people like you come together in support of our mission and programming. You can invest in Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing Artists and their works on our day of giving.
Our financial goal for the day is to raise $20,000 in support of all that we do. Will you help us reach our goal before the end of the year?
We are grateful for your consideration to donate to Deaf Spotlight. Together, we can create lasting change and empower individuals through the arts. Thank you for being a vital part of this important mission.
What can YOU do?
Sign up if you want to have a personal conversation with one of our board members and staff on Dec 14th.
Why wait? You can donate now if you want.
ID: 4 movie posters with SDFF Winner Laurels, from top left: Diagnonsense, Imaginings, Shhh!, and To My Father.
CONGRATS TO SDFF 2024 WINNERS!
Congratulations to the award winners for Seattle Deaf Film Festival 2024! SDFF viewers selected these films as four of their favorites.
Best Comedy: Shhh! by Shamir Raiapov, Kyrgyzstan
Best Drama: Diagnonsense by Samuel Dore, United Kingdom
Best Documentary: To My Father by Sean Schiavolin, United States
Best Other: Imaginings by Anja Hiddinga, Netherlands
Thank you to all of the Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing filmmakers who joined SDFF 2024. We look forward to seeing your talent continue to grow.
And thank you to everybody who supported our 7th festival! We’ll see you again in 2026.
ID: Deaf Spotlight Annual report: 9 pages with a mixture of text and graphic illustrations in multiple colors in vertical view. The title page has a dark blue background with text in middle with pink lines on right and bottom, creating an impression of box with Deaf Spotlight logo in lower right corner. Text in middle: “Annual 2023 Report.” “Annual” is in white, “2023 is blue with pink shadows, and “Report” is white outlined letters.
Read our Annual Report 2023!
[ID: A white banner with a confetti background of multicolored circles and half circles. The BIPOC Deaf Arts Grant logo is on the top right corner with “2023 Grant Recipients” next to it. Across the bottom are three black and white headshots with yellow blocks containing black text below each BIPOC person. From left to right: Iris Aranda, Radha Mehta, and Quinn West.]
BIPOC Deaf Arts Grant Recipients Selected for 2023
Deaf Spotlight is excited to announce the three 2023 recipients of the BIPOC Deaf Arts Grant!
If you don’t know, BIPOC means Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The grant is for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and hard of hearing artists who are members of oppressed racial groups.
Our mission is to inspire and showcase Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts. We're thrilled to continue this grant to support the new cycle of BIPOC Deaf artists.
The three recipients are:
Congratulations! We can’t wait to see what they create with this grant.
ID: Square ad with several different sized squares in different colors – blue, green, gray, and orange with yellow in middle. The green square has white text - “2022.” The yellow square has black text – “Professional Development Survey Infographics.” Deaf Spotlight logo is above the black text.
Check out our Professional Development Survey Infographics 2022
This is our 2nd time to track Professional Development of the Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing artists and creatives.
We are grateful to all who filled out the 2022 survey. This data has helped us start compiling a picture of the Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing art community. We are looking forward to the next year’s data (2024) which will be our third year in doing this survey. Thank you for your support!
