This article is featured in the 2026 Winter Carnival Issue. On Wednesday, “The World is Not Silent” — a three-person, trilingual play incorporating English, Vietnamese and both American and Vietnamese ...

What moves across the stage is not sound but dynamic gestures, expressions, and unique breathing. The space left by silence is filled by another sense crafted by sign language, a "visual language" to ...

BLOUNTVILLE, TN – What would it be like to live without language? In/Visible Theatre, Western North Carolina’s newest professional theatre, asks that question in its upcoming world premiere play, ...

Every Friday, Davana Jackson, a teacher at Berkeley’s Center for Early Intervention on Deafness (CEID), which helps deaf or hard-of-hearing kids from ages 0 to 5 overcome the barriers that deafness ...