ID: Banner for “Deaf Lit Fest” on a light blue background and a drawing of a pair of hand holding an orange book with the DS logo on the cover. A pair of blue hands extends from inside the pages. Text under title: “Oct 11-12, 2024.” Scraps of book pages decorate the border.
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 gray background. White text on top: "Artist Meetup:" with two white paper airplanes on either side and small black square with white text: "Art & Design" on left. Middle text with letters in various colors and fonts as magazine cutouts: "Vision Board." "2025" is on slant below "rd." White text on bottom: "Deaf Spotlight. Seattle, Washington." Underneath are white underlined text except for "RVSP": "Saturday, Nov. 9th, 2024. 1 PM - 3 PM. RSVP: TINYURL.COM/DSVISIONBOARD." QR code in lower left corner.
VISION BOARD 2025
The Art & Design program will host a meet-up for artists: Vision Board 2025. This event aims to offer a supportive environment where artists can connect, network, and exchange ideas.
Bring your preferred mediums, whether it’s collage, drawing, digital art, or more, to create your vision board.
Date: Saturday, November 9th, 2024
Time: 1 PM - 3 PM
Location: In person / Deaf Spotlight Space
RSVP by Friday, Nov 1: tinyurl.com/dsvisionboard
All novice and experienced artists are welcome!
What to bring: Your preferred medium to work with.
We will provide scissors, paper, glue, pencils, color pencils, and markers.
This space is for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing artists. Thank you for your understanding.
SPACE LIMITED TO 15 people
For access requests, please email art-design@deafspotlight.org with your specific needs by Nov 1st.
HALLOWEEN PARTY: Oct 27
Deaf Spotlight will host another Halloween Party this Fall!
The costume theme is “TIME TRAVEL.” Dress up in your favorite era! You could be a disco diva from 1970s, or be a supernova astronaut from the future! Surprise us!
Rad prizes! Fun activities! Runway Competition! Bring your friends, family and creativity!
When: Sunday, Oct 27
Family-Friendly: 10 AM - 12 PM
Adult: 1 PM - 4 PM
Where:
Deaf Spotlight Art Space
1517 12th Ave, Unit 202, Seattle, WA 98122
FREE EVENT! DONATIONS ARE ENCOURAGED.
Please RSVP by Friday, Oct 18th!
Come volunteer with us at our Halloween Party!
We are looking for awesome event volunteers like you! Help out with setting up, cleaning, and supporting the Halloween Party as a repeated success! Please fill out below.
ID: Deaf Spotlight’s Halloween Party flyer, with a black space in the middle of a black and white photo collage showing people wearing different costumes. Text inside the black space: “Deaf Spotlight’s Halloween Party, Join our bash rocking your favorite era! Channel your inner disco diva or strut in a futuristic jacket. Dress to impress! Join our costume competition! Sunday, October 27th, Family-Friendly: 10 AM- 12 PM, Adult: 1 PM - 4 PM, Deaf Spotlight Art Space, 1517 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, Please RVSP by Friday, Oct 18th!“
ID: Flyer with ripped light blue paper strips over a background resembling a page of a book. Text: “Deaf Lit Fest. Oct 11-12, 2024. Hugo House. Seattle, WA.” Below is an illustration of a person’s arms holding a book open with blue hands popping out of its page, signing. Text on bottom: DeafSpotlight.org/DeafLit “. Posters of different authors, performers and workshop instructor: Sara Nović, Awet Moges, Ross Showalter, Elsa Sjunneson, Jonaz McMillan, Kalen Feeney and Anastasia Di’Nitta.
DEAF LIT FEST: Oct 11-12, 2024
Deaf Lit Fest is a brand-new event being hosted by Deaf Spotlight on October 11-12, 2024 at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington.
This is a festival that aims to spotlight Deaf authors of various backgrounds, provide some workshops related to writing and the literary world, and give opportunities for people to meet other like-minded people.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, Oct 11
6:30 PM | At Door Tickets Open
7 PM | Doors Open
7: 30 - 9 PM | Interview and Book Signing with Sara Nović
10 PM | Doors Close
SATURDAY 10 AM to 6 PM
ALL DAY | Vendor Booths
10 AM - 12 PM | Character Development Workshop with Kalen Feeney
10 - 11 AM & 2 - 3 PM | Drag Storytime with Anastasia Di’Nitta
1 - 2 PM | Panel featuring Awet Moges, Elsa Sjunneson, and Ross Showalter
2 - 3 PM | Zine Making Session
4 - 5 PM | Interview and Book Signing with Jonaz McMillan, Co-Author of Monster Hands
6 PM | Doors Close
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.
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BIPOC Deaf Arts Grant OPEN NOW!
Here's your chance to apply for one of four BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Deaf Arts Grants. The grants will provide financial support for emerging and established artists to further advance their careers.
Deadline: Monday, September 30, 2024 by 11:59 PM PST
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Number of Awards: 4
Eligible Disciplines: Literary, Media, Performing, Tactile & Visual
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!
