News by Topic: Deaf Community

WHEC-TV features Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences), who will be performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

RIT/NTID alumnus Daniel Durant ’11 (applied computer technology) is undoubtedly celebrating the latest accolades for the 2021 film CODA. Durant plays a major supporting role in the newly Oscar-nominated comedy-drama, a coming-of-age film.

WHAM-TV features Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences), who will be performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

A variety of RIT performing artists will showcase their talents at IGNITE, organized by NTID's Department of Performing Arts and Dance at RIT. IGNITE will have four shows Feb. 11-13 at Robert F. Panara Theatre in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall.

Yahoo News features a story by the Democrat and Chronicle on Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences) performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The NFL and the National Association of the Deaf announce that Deaf musician Sean Forbes ’08 (applied arts and sciences) will sign the Halftime Show with Deaf musician Warren “Wawa” Snipe.

RIT students are already benefitting from a new partnership with Garth Fagan Dance. RIT Performing Arts Scholars Program students are taking master classes and students are working on a semester-long arts management capstone project to deliver suggestions for the internationally known dance company to potentially implement.

RIT is well on its way to developing the leading performing arts program in the nation for non-majors, attracting talented and creative students who can continue their passions for music, dance, theater, and other performing arts.  

When we drafted a new vision statement for RIT’s Strategic Plan in 2018, the realities of a global pandemic were only a hypothetical part of our crisis training and preparation. While the university continues to carefully navigate the challenge of COVID-19, we have simultaneously never taken our eye off the plan’s goals and objectives as we envision our future.

A non-credit Certificate in Deaf Interpreting (CIDI) will be offered by NTID in the 2022-2023 academic year. The 20-week program runs from September 2022 to April 2023 and trains Deaf professionals to interpret in a variety of discourses.

Engadget discusses the history of closed captioning and the book Turn on the Words! Deaf Audiences, Captions, and the Long Struggle for Access, by NTID Professor Emeritus Harry G. Lang.

WROC-TV talks to Thomas Warfield, senior lecturer and director of dance in NTID's Department for Performing Arts.