{"id":714,"date":"2019-07-30T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/?p=714"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:59:59","slug":"spanish-majors-in-audiodescription-course-receive-performing-arts-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/2019\/07\/30\/spanish-majors-in-audiodescription-course-receive-performing-arts-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Majors in Audiodescription Course Receive Performing Arts Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The groundbreaking live audiodescription project produced by nine SLTS Translation Program students \u2014 Valentina Becerra, Karen Cruz, Joseph D\u00edaz, Vanessa Dutan, Beatriz Gamarra, Jennifer Guti\u00e9rrez, Colleen O\u2019Rourke-Heredia and Ivonne Reyes, along with graduate student Vanessa Carrillo \u2014 was recently recognized at the American Council of the Blind\u2019s annual conference and convention.<\/p>\n

Under the guidance of Dr. Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno, Associate Professor, the students produced a specially adapted script of the play El coronel no tiene quien le escriba <\/em>(No One Writes to the Colonel) by Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Vanessa Carrillo served as the voiceover. In May it was performed to a sold-out audience which included visually impaired members of the Hispanic community in New Jersey and New York at the Repertorio Espa\u00f1ol, in New York City.<\/p>\n

Through audiodescription, the audience members are able to listen through an earphone and special receiver to a narration that describes the performance\u2019s relevant visual elements without intruding on the performers\u2019 dialogue.<\/p>\n

One of the unique moments of the 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

Dr. Maria Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno, Associate Professor, Spanish and Latino Studies, accepted the award on behalf of her students, noting \u201cIt was a very exciting project. . . . My students and my class were amazing. They did everything. They did the script and the voiceover. They did the community outreach. . . . The reviews and feedback were very, very positive from the audience. We would like to hopefully repeat the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organization\u2019s Achievement Awards salute \u201coutstanding contributions to the establishment and\/or continued development of significant audiodescription programs in each of three areas: media, performing arts and museums,\u201d according to their guidelines.<\/p>\n

Dr. Joel Snyder, Director, Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind, noted that the award\u2019s guidelines \u201cdescribe your [Dr. Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno\u2019s] work with the students of Montclair State University quite well. . . . congratulations on this richly deserved honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story by Caroline Howell<\/em><\/p>\n

Below on left and above- Dr. Maria Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno receives award from Chris Gray, Audiodescription Project Chair, American Council of the Blind; on right, Dr. Garc\u00eda Vizca\u00edno pictured with the other recipients.<\/p>\n

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The groundbreaking live audiodescription project produced by nine SLTS Translation Program students \u2014 Valentina Becerra, Karen Cruz, Joseph D\u00edaz, Vanessa Dutan, Beatriz Gamarra, Jennifer Guti\u00e9rrez, Colleen O\u2019Rourke-Heredia and Ivonne Reyes, along with graduate student Vanessa Carrillo \u2014 was recently recognized at the American Council of the Blind\u2019s annual conference and convention. Under the guidance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/spanish-and-latino-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}