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Transcription: [00:10:14]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I'd like to welcome all of you to our next workshop, and wake up our interpreter [[laughter]]. Sorry.
[00:10:20]
You are here in the deaf folklore area of the 15th annual Folklife festival. And our next workshop is going to be a storytelling panel on a very special topic that is deafness in the family.
[00:10:36]
Our panelists come from very, very different families. Families with different numbers of deaf and hearing in different generations. And they have a lot of stories to tell.
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I'm going to ask them to share their stories with each other and with you about what it was like growing up deaf in a deaf family. What it was like growing up hearing in a hearing family -- in a deaf family, excuse me.
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What it was like growing up in a mixture of situations in general. As you may know if you've been at the Folklife festival in past years, we have had, for many years, a section of the festival that dealt with family folklore.
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Y'know, the family is the first real group in which we develop our personal traditions. And there are favorite family stories about practical jokes, about the history of the kids in the family, about ancestors, and so on. Everyone in the family has his favorite experience to tell about, and so on.
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And the festival for a long time has been interested in that, but we've never before had the chance to discuss deaf family folklore, and the traditions in families where we've found deafness.
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So our panelists are going to share that a little bit with you today.
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I'm going to start it off by asking each of them to tell you, very briefly, his or her name, and then, who in the family is deaf, who in the family is hearing, just so that you get an idea of the range we have here, the range of experience. And then we'll start talking about some--