{"id":206786,"date":"2019-07-02T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=206786"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:04:54","slug":"montclair-state-spanish-majors-produce-first-ever-live-spanish-audio-description-theater-script-for-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2019\/07\/02\/montclair-state-spanish-majors-produce-first-ever-live-spanish-audio-description-theater-script-for-visually-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Highlights Spanish Majors&#8217; First-Ever Live Spanish Audio Description Theater Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truly sensational experience was had by those from the visually impaired Hispanic community in New York City and New Jersey who recently attended a sold-out, special performance of the play <em>El coronel no tiene quien le escriba <\/em>(No One Writes to the Colonel) by Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Under the direction of Dr. Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno, Montclair State University Associate Professor, a group of nine students in the university\u2019s Spanish Translation Program produced a live audio description script of this play on May 4 at Repertorio Espa\u00f1ol, in NYC. Through audio description, the audience members are able to listen through an earphone and special receiver to a narration that describes the relevant visual elements of the performance without intruding on the dialogue of the performers. One of the students did a voice over for the script as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the unique moments of this event was the pre-show experience or tactile experience that took place before the play. In this pre-show experience, those with visual impairments were able to touch a miniature stage and key objects of the performance to give them a holistic experience of the artistic and literary component of the play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a truly rewarding experience for the students and audience alike on so many different levels: academic, professional and personal. We are looking forward to organizing more events like this,\u201d Dr. Garcia Vizcaino noted.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno and her audio description class were recently featured in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2019-06-17\/visually-impaired-non-english-speakers-face-accessibility-language-barrier-movies\">NPR segment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elcamerinonyc.com\/audiodescription-repertorio-espanol\/\">See more photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly sensational experience was had by those from the visually impaired Hispanic community in New York City and New Jersey who recently attended a sold-out, special performance of the play El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) by Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Under the direction of Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":206787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23,8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-304_spanish-and-latino-studies-news","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206791,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206786\/revisions\/206791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}