| Accidents, deficiency or sometimes out of no reason | | | | of options left before them. This gives an opportunity |
| like by birth some of us are put in a situation where | | | | to break out and explore their talents in the open. In |
| unfortunately one of our senses are weakened or | | | | addition to Deaf Performing artist Network, there are |
| damaged. This article focuses mainly on those who | | | | several deaf bands. Films, another form of art, are |
| are hard of hearing. It may seem as if the whole world | | | | becoming a wide spread mode of expression in the |
| has come tumbling down or that the life has come to | | | | deaf community. All over the world, the deaf |
| a standstill especially if one has become deaf through | | | | community celebrates Deaf Film Festivals. With |
| some accidents or tragedies that life forces to | | | | advance in technology anything is possible and the |
| encounter with. Even with strong determination it is not | | | | deaf community certainly has proved it so. |
| easy to cope with this situation especially amongst | | | | Loaded with meaning, deaf artist's work speaks |
| those that are not the same as you. | | | | volumes about the barriers and struggles concerning |
| American Sign Language has been adopted to | | | | communication and what it means to be "Deaf" which |
| become the most common mode of communication | | | | has been recurring theme throughout centuries. |
| for the deaf people among themselves and even to | | | | However their work is not limited to their struggles. |
| the others. This has its dialects like the British Sign | | | | Often, deaf artists seek to show that they are not |
| Language which is a little different as it is impacted | | | | drawing from their deaf identity and create works of |
| based on geography. However these people are | | | | art that represent other facets of their selves. |
| coming out of their cocoon with the numerous arrays | | | | |