Schedule7:55-9:25 | Project Block 9:30-10:10 | GWT 10:15-11:00 | Workshop 11:05-11:35 | Lunch 11:40-12:00 | Walk to JMKAC 12:00-1:30 | Independent Lens Film and Talk Back 1:30-2:00 | Dismissal from the Art Center GWT | 9:30-10:10
Workshop | 10:15-11:00Advisory Pairings:
Essential Question: What is the role of sound? What does it mean to listen? Gathering | Telephone Circle up in small groups and play a round of telephone. Remember, you have to whisper and it needs to be school appropriate. Did your group make it around? What were some miscommunications that happened? What made the game challenging? **If it goes well, feel free to transition into a full group to play one more round** Deaf Terminology
Deaf Culture | Watch and Reflect What It's Like to Be Deaf How Deaf People Experience Music
Letter from the Filmmaker | Read and discuss if time The Tuba Thieves is a listening project that has been constructed through a process I equate to the children’s game Telephone. In this game, a phrase or sentence is passed down a line of whispering participants, morphing through mishearing. In the spirit of this joy surrounding misunderstanding, I have likewise created The Tuba Thieves as a celebration of how I hear, how information and stories transform in my ears, and the imaginative and generative possibilities in this. Everything in the film is rooted in deeply researched sound anecdotes, histories, experiences, and events. I require captions for films and often feel they attempt to “raise” a Deaf or hard of hearing person’s experience to a hearing experience. I am putting forth the idea of a more effective method: allowing hard of hearing and Deaf people to determine the value system from which captions are developed to best match their own experiences and desires of sound description. The Tuba Thieves is radically shifting the use of subtitles and captions by considering them as a third narrative space equal to visuals and sound. Ultimately, this film is a meditation on access and loss and an investigation into what it means to steal, make, lose, own, protest against, and legislate sound and, therefore, inversely, quiet and peace. The history of sound segregation is deeply embedded in Los Angeles, through the design and mediation of sound. These choices declare an ownership over space and air, how sound travels through these substrates, and who is allowed or obligated to hear it. During one scene, a group of Deaf friends discuss the loud BOOM and cloud of vapor that appears when a plane breaks the sound barrier, which is a phenomenon that occurs when something travels faster than the speed of sound. Deaf people, too, are traveling outside of the confines of sound, and I love this. The sound barrier in my life means a lack of access and ableism, so with The Tuba Thieves I hope to break sound barriers. —Alison O’Daniel, director, The Tuba Thieves More Information
Film Synopsis What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself. Preview Deaf Culture 101 Deafinitely Dope (Musician) Deaf and Loud (Musician) Dip Hop Wawa (Musican) Get Ready for TodayCircle up! Everyone should have the PoL section of their portfolios open on their screens, but their screens shut or tilted. PoL PresentationsYoungers + Juniors
Go around the circle. Each person will share out their learning statement and identify 1 artifact they will be sharing at their PoL. After each person has shared out, if there is time, go around again and have students share out 1 of their experiences or cocurriculars. Advisors and advisees, feel free to provide feedback for each person after they share out. Seniors When it is your turn in the circle, please share out 1 piece of advise you would share with your 8th grade self and 1 thing you are excited for about after graduation. Expectations: Technology is off and away unless you are presenting. You should be actively listening and providing feedback to your peers. AnnouncementsMay 8th: Indie Lens (last one of the year) May 9th: Half-Day of School | PoLs in the afternoon May 10th: No School | Full day of PoLs May 15th: UW-Madison Trip (Juniors and interested Seniors) May 21-23: EoLs @ JMKAC May 24 and 27: No School May 30: Fellowship Night @ JMKAC Gathering | Image CardsChoose an image that represents your PoL prep thus far. PoL PrepWhat do you need?
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May 2024
Étude Letter Writing CampaignDescription
As a Community, we seek to reach out and help those that may not have a Community as strong as ours. We do this by activating our strong communication skills. Once a month, we will write letters and send them through the various organizations listed below. Our goal is to brighten someone's day by receiving a letter full of visual art, thoughtful communication, and celebration of monthly themes. Organizations |