October 8th 2022
1pm-6pm
at
Newark Senior Citizen Center
200 White Chapel Drive
Newark, Delaware 19713
Admission/Social @ 1pm
Dinner @ 2pm
Catering by Joey Berenato
$75.00 per person
No Refunds
Deadline:9/17/2022
Last minute at door not acceptable Limit 100 people (age+18)
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EXCLUSIVE: Shoshannah Stern, star of Sundance Now’s This Close, the first major U.S. series to be created and written by deaf people, is back at AMC Networks.
Stern is developing Disquiet, a drama thriller series about a Certified Deaf Interpreter, for AMC.
Deadline understands that the project, which Stern is attached to star in, write and exec produce, is in the early stages of development at the network.
The series follows Cassie Edwards, a Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI), who is called back home to assist in a case involving the mysterious death of the former head of the school for the Deaf she herself attended. A former student of the school is the only witness and Cassie may be the only one who is able to understand him, leading her deeper into the case and forcing her to confront her own past.
The one-hour drama project will be exec produced by Alexandra Cunningham (Dirty John) and Jessica Rhoades (Station Eleven) through her Pacesetter Productions banner. It is produced by AMC Studios and UCP. Pacesetter executive Rachel Polan will serve as co-executive producer.
Producers have a shared commitment to representation of the deaf community in front of and behind the camera.
Stern, who recently became the first deaf doctor on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, created, wrote, executive produced and starred in the Sundance Now series, This Close, with Josh Feldman, which came out in 2018.
Read on at https://deadline.com/2022/06/shoshannah-stern-deaf-thriller-series-disquiet-amc-1235050945.
Join us for a conversation with Miriam Zadek, author of Miriam Hearing Sister: A Memoir, which documents her experiences growing up in a New York Jewish family with both deaf and hearing members from the 1930s through World War II and beyond. Zadek presents a narrative of historical and cultural importance centered on her personal account of the lives of deaf and hearing Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century. Her memoir is an elegant literary work that offers an understanding of how biases and stigmas resonate and evolve, and it showcases her loving family of strong women who pushed against stereotypes and have thrived across generations.
Miriam Zadek is a recipient of the Maryland Governor’s Service Lifetime Achievement Award, given in recognition of her more than forty years of service to deaf and hard of hearing individuals, their families, and others seeking communication access resources. She is the founder of Maryland’s only nonprofit American Sign Language interpreting referral agency, as well as the Zadek Family Education Program. She served on the board of the Hearing and Speech Agency (HASA) of Metropolitan Baltimore and most recently was appointed to the HASA President’s Advisory Board. Zadek’s philanthropic impact includes an endowment at Columbia University’s School of Social Work that supports the graduate work of deaf students, or students who are preparing to work with deaf and disabled people.
This program is co-sponsored by Seaside Jewish Community. American Sign Language interpretation and closed captioning will be available during this event.
Registration and more info at https://delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/9319228.
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