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  • Interpreted my first Shakespeare play!

    A lot has happened since I last wrote a blog post, but this post is about how I interpreted my first Shakespeare play.

    I had been preparing to interpret The Merchant of Venice for the Southwest Shakespeare Company at the Mesa Arts Center since early March, but after I presented my workshop at the Arizona RID State Conference at the end of March, I got to work on Merchant in ernest.

    My co-interpreter, Sandra Solomon, who had already interpreted four shows for SW Shakespeare Co., met with me several times to rehearse interpreting the show. We corresponded with Missy Keast, our ASL Producer, via e-mail and met with her over videoconference to show her some of our interpreting and get her feedback, which was very beneficial. (Sandra came to my house and we sat together in front of my iMac with built-in iSight camera and used iChat to connect to Missy in Hawaii, since she also has a Mac with built in iSight and iChat. I only wish we’d been able to do this more than once.)

    In addition to meeting a few times at each other’s homes to discuss the play and rehearse, (more…)

  • After my first conference workshop

    I presented my workshop "Knowing What They’re Going to Say Before They Say It: Using Genre Recognition to Improve Your Predictive Skills" at the Arizona RID (Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf) State Conference on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 1-4:30 PM. It was the first time I’d ever presented at a state conference, and they put me in the smallest meeting room (the Palo Verde room) at the Hilton Airport Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.

    Can you believe that a total of 27 attendees filled this room beyond capacity? I was astounded at the turnout. I was too busy during my workshop to even think about taking pictures, but as I was leaving the space after packing up all my things, I paused to say a prayer of thanks; then I took this photo to commemorate the moment. I am hopeful to teach workshops at other conferences throughout the rest of my life. It may sound corny, (more…)

  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-27

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-03-26

    • Just booked our hotel for our night in Copenhagen in May! Yay! We’ll be staying at the Scandic Copenhagen: http://www.scandichotels.com/copenhagen #
    • Check this video out — Pride 2009 – official video release http://tinyurl.com/cmdg8f My Rainbow Flag Above Me photo at end #
    • I caught the dogs this morning have a secret meeting under the bed. I wonder what plots they devised… http://short.to/2w86 #
    • Looking at a side-by-side comparison of Shakespeare’s text of The Merchant of Venice with a modern translation. http://bit.ly/Dzyg6 #

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  • Pride 2009 Official Video – and I helped!

    Rainbow Flag Above Me

    Rainbow Flag Above Me
    Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene

    I am thrilled to be a part of this. My Flickr friend, Jon Gilbert Leavitt (jglsongs on Flickr), asked if he could use my photo Rainbow Flag Above Me in this video to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first gay pride parade that occurred after the Stonewall Rebellion. A longtime gay activist of sorts, I wrote a paper on the Stonewall Rebellion for a history class in my senior year of high school in 1985. Now, 24 years later, I’m contributing again to the commemoration of this important historic event. Enjoy the video and the song written by Jon and sung by his partner and another artist. Watch for my photo in the montage near the end.