Photo courtesy Austin Community CollegeCelebrity sign language interpreter Amber Galloway Gallegos will host ASL Fusion on Oct. 27 at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus. Gallegos is pictured here recording a training session with an ACC student prior to the event.
Austin Community College's Eastview Campus on Oct. 27 will host ASL Fusion, an event that includes 11 performances of musical interpretation—including nine from deaf people.
Celebrity sign language interpreter Amber Galloway Gallegos emcees the event, which is now in its sixth year of production. Gallegos recently gained national attention for her musical interpretations at Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago.
"[Gallegos] does a true meaning-based translation," said Lynne Wiesman, Austin Community College professor of American Sign Language, in a news release. "She really does her homework to figure out how to make a song visually accessible. She gets deaf people involved."
ACC's ASL program draws more than 1,000 students each year, according to the community college. Student organization ASL Friends United hosts the ASL Fusion event each year to raise money for student cultural, language and interpreting immersion experiences, an ACC news release states.
The school will stream the event live online here.
6–9 p.m. $10. Austin Community College Eastview Campus, 3401 Webberville Road, Multipurpose Room 8500.
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