Fringe Festival w/ Dangerous Signs Video Slideshow

Here is a slideshow made from the Fringe Festival. I and the cast members of Dangerous Signs are in the slideshow. You have to be patient and wait until Dangerous Signs finally shows up. Nice photos.

Enjoy!

Click on this hyperlink to it: https://people.rit.edu/aswcmp/Rochester_Fringe_Festival_2016/

Shakespeare's Immortality Poem with Dangerous Signs

I wrote this poem in English a while ago. I reopened the poem and edited it to enhance the quality of the work. I then brought it over to show Dangerous Signs the writing and then we all worked on translating this work into ASL in an interactive performance as a group. Here we were able to perform this "Shakespeare's Immortality" poem at the Little Theatre for Rochester's Fringe Festival on September 24th, 2016. I shall thank my mother for video-taping this performance.

Enjoy!




"Shakespeare's Immortality"-  Eddie Swayze

Dangerous Signs, Saturday, Sept. 24th

I and Dangerous Signs cast members are to perform on September 24th, 1 PM, at the Little Theatre downtown Rochester, NY. It'll be free to the public. We got a critical acclaim article in the City Newspaper, mentioning our last year performance and how we almost got into American Got Talent TV show. 

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This year performance, we will be doing creative tasks to honor Shakespeare. No, we will not read and or perform Shakespeare's work in traditional ways. Instead, we will do songs that refer to him like how Patti Smith, well-known Godmother of punk singer/poet, mentions Shakespeare in her "Looking For You" song. We will translate that song in ASL all together as a group in interactive activities. Another example is "I Hate Shakespeare" by Spamalot play, which we sign along that song in ASL full of humor. Also, my original work "Shakespeare's Immortality" will be performed in ASL and it focuses on the fact that his work is still alive today. Other work has just mime activities without sign language, dance movements along one Shakespeare work (Romeo and Juliet), and many other experimental ideas. 

This show will be unusual and unique.

"Honey In Our Teacups" ASL Poem for the Orlando Pulse Nightclub

This is an ASL poem along a recorded voice of my original written poem titled "Honey in Our Teacups" in honor of the Orlando Pulse Nightclub victims and their families. 

Poetry Performance at MuCCC

I will perform my spoken words poem (recorded) and translate it into ASL while doing the dance movements, mime, and acting on June 21st at MuCCC downtown Rochester . It's titled "The Universe". At the very end of the poem, Bjork's "All Is Full Of Love" lyric will begin with just "all is full of love" sentence, which will repeat a few times until it fades.

Here is one paragraph of a poem, just to give you a glimpse:

I keep going until I see a Milky Way galaxy float in front of me
Where our home sits on one area of its arm.
It spins like a giant ballerina with a huge tutu, riddled with illuminating pearls.
I glide further away until my eyes see trillions of galaxies,
All connected in gigantic glowing webs.

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More Greeting Cards in Etsy.com

Here are more images of greeting cards I originally made and they are in "My Shop" in Etsy.com. They can be ordered. Working on getting them printed and getting the right size envelopes, and yes, trying to get them to be viewed and possibly sell them.

To see more cards, go click on My Shop in Etsy.com site: 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/eddieswayze?ref=hdr_shop_menu

You can click on the images to see them bigger.

This photo above shows two cards that are already printed. The rest of the images you see below are not printed out yet.

Etsy with Original Greeting Cards

I would like, if I may, share my greeting cards that can be ordered on Etsy.com. Here is the site address that you can click on to see my work and order or share to others:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/eddieswayze?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Here are two very recent work I created that are related to science themes. Click on the photos to see them bigger. Enjoy!