Through a bit of research, MacDonald found Marsha Ireland, a deaf elder from Oneida Nation of the Thames near London, Ont., who developed her own sign language to better connect with Oneida culture.

Soon after Ariya Ahona began learning American Sign Language (ASL) at the University of Toronto, she realized that language would be only one of the many things she’d be learning. That’s because in ...

It's not just about accessibility. One Toronto company wants the theatre to become a site for deaf culture, and they've created a free toolkit to help make it happen.

In 2019, she founded her own company, 1S1 Theatre. Her journey to success, however, was not an easy one. As a deaf individual, she was met with discouragement at every step.

This integration of hearing and d/Deaf performers is what Artistic Sign Language (ASL) interpreter Landon Krentz and his team hope to achieve with Theatre Interpreting Services (TIS), a ...