Deaf Poets Society | Douglas Ridloff | TEDxVienna

Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller creating original works in American Sign Language. And in support of signing, his goal is to make ASL a part of the whole community, not just a part of a marginalized community. Douglas wants to make signing hip and significant.
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Douglas Ridloff is the owner, executive director and host of ASL SLAM (www.aslslam.com) a monthly open mic event in NYC that functions as a space for the Deaf community to creatively play with ASL through poetry performances, improv, games and storytelling, often bringing special guests from around the world to perform. As a widely popular platform, ASL SLAM has now been established as a monthly event in Washington DC, Chicago and Orlando with Douglas's oversight and guidance.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller creating original works in American Sign Language. He is the owner, executive director and host of ASL SLAM (www.aslslam.com) a monthly open mic event in NYC that functions as a space for the Deaf community to creatively play with ASL through poetry performances, improv, games and storytelling, often bringing special guests from around the world to perform. As a widely popular platform, ASL SLAM has now been established as a monthly event in Washington DC, Chicago and Orlando with Douglas's oversight and guidance. Recently, Douglas has organized performances at the Whitney Museum, the Jewish Museum, SITE Santa Fe and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and has traveled to perform his own poetry and to bring ASL SLAM to Deaf communities around the world, including Jamaica, Cuba, Finland, England, Sweden and Australia. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @japonesrene
    @japonesrene3 жыл бұрын

    Next time you invite a D/deaf speaker try to focus on the speaker only. Make speaker bigger and audience screen on the corner that way we can see speaker sign clear.

  • @allergynation
    @allergynation5 жыл бұрын

    For future TED Talks led by Deaf presenters, I would suggest making the entirety of the video from the perspective of one camera man. It was very distracting to the Deaf eye to have different angles and pans, especially considering half of the poem was shown from the presenters back-side, leaving the virtual audience out from the poem! :)

  • @duffmartin6069

    @duffmartin6069

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree had vary had time fooling on my small 12 inch computer screen. Thanks for comment Jacob!

  • @MicheleoTuTo

    @MicheleoTuTo

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand why I see this mistake over and over again: I'm hearing, but it took me 3 seconds the first time I saw a talk with a deaf person to realize that wasn't ok for anyone who wanted to follow the signing. Imagine a hearing speaker, and having the sound of their voice constantly moved from left to right, pushed far away with echoes, then super close and loud, then barely audible and muffled: how is it possible that whoever produced this video didn't realize it? And this falls precisely in a definition of accessibility that I heard from Christine Sun Kim: feeling comfortable, not needing to ask for special things or treatments, because whoever created the communication already thought about it and took care of these aspects. Incredibly frustrating.

  • @alexisbiles1295

    @alexisbiles1295

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @TheConstantSeeker
    @TheConstantSeeker5 жыл бұрын

    That interpreter was on point!

  • @KHobbies_cina

    @KHobbies_cina

    4 жыл бұрын

    Usually the Deaf will have a script for the interpreter, and they will prepare beforehand.

  • @aslasl3205

    @aslasl3205

    2 жыл бұрын

    Regardless of having a script, the Interpreter was Excellent! Yes, the interpreter understood where the discourse was going however, interpreters do not memorize the script- He was fantastic! Kuddos to the interpreter!!

  • @bronwynschlaefer2958
    @bronwynschlaefer29585 жыл бұрын

    Real captions please!!! Auto captions have no punctuation and some errors, so its hard for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users who don't sign and second language learners.

  • @RhondaJ1234

    @RhondaJ1234

    5 жыл бұрын

    It is now captioned.

  • @susayoun
    @susayoun2 жыл бұрын

    This is incredible. The musical collaboration was so beautiful.

  • @elenablue1529
    @elenablue15295 жыл бұрын

    LOVELY presentation, and thank you.

  • @alexisbiles1295

    @alexisbiles1295

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey

  • @michaelsandell4688
    @michaelsandell46885 жыл бұрын

    So if he's from Italy, but the event was in Vienna, was he signing in Italian or in Austrian?

  • @Zilla766

    @Zilla766

    5 жыл бұрын

    Douglas was signing in American because he's from America (New York City), but I have no idea why he had his talk in another country.

  • @isabellacaccia151

    @isabellacaccia151

    4 ай бұрын

    This is ASL

  • @leonw.9298
    @leonw.92985 жыл бұрын

    How do you have 15mil. Subs but so low views?

  • @jackxiao1054

    @jackxiao1054

    5 жыл бұрын

    People might think this ted is for deaf people only

  • @RobertDMoore
    @RobertDMoore4 жыл бұрын

    Champ!

  • @dommcgill6647
    @dommcgill66473 жыл бұрын

    ♥️

  • @leangin1678
    @leangin16785 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @gonderage
    @gonderage3 жыл бұрын

    what if someone clipped his uninterpreted poem and people just saw it out of context? it'd look like TEDx turned into a dance competition except that it has legitimate linguistic value in it for ASL speakers.

  • @isabellavanderdys8226
    @isabellavanderdys82262 жыл бұрын

    This is Makkari's husband

  • @willlexie
    @willlexie2 жыл бұрын

    POV: You found this video because you ship Drukkari.

  • @leangin1678
    @leangin16785 жыл бұрын

    First comment