Signmark goes New York! As his Facebook writes:
A live Sign Language flash mob music performance led by world’s first Deaf hip-hop artist Signmark will take over New York City 23rd of September, in Washington Square Park at 5pm.As a part of the Deaf Awareness week the Silent shout group wants to start a m.ovement through a collective cultural act towards building a society where everyone has the equal opportunity to participate and dream.The idea of this flash mob event is to get the crowd to sign in sync with ASL a chorus line with Signmark LEADING. The song is called “Against The wall”.Everyone is free to join the performance, for the aim is to build bridges between different cultures and make it easy for everyone to try how much fun signing could be. The Silent Shout group would like to encourage everyone to unlock his or her potential and be a part of the signing live performance! In order to join, you only have to learn the signs in advance from the Internet and be at the Washington Square Park. Silent Shout concept has been already done successfully in Helsinki, Stockholm and Hong Kong. In addition to leading the he flash mob choir Signmark will perform admission free. Signmark has an American hip-hop artist as a partner called Brandon. He is rapping out loud the lyrics Signmark is signing. The shows are always bilingual and inclusive. Every hand counts!
More information here and here. Signmark was the runner up in Euroviisut 2009 and narrowly missed the opportunity to represant Finland in Moscow with Speakerbox.
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