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BOAT : The American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "boat"   BOAT: Show a boat with your hands.  Move it forward and down twice as if showing the movement of a boat.         To sign "cruise" instead of "boat" move the hands further forward. CRUISE / "Travel by boat." Move the sign forward about 16 centimeters.     To show a BOAT with sails you could sign:             If you wanted to convey the concept of a ferry boat you could sign:             Sample sentence: E-L-A-I-N-E DON'T WANT GO BOATING. WHY? SHE AFRAID WATER.     Notes:  See: WATER TRAVEL RIVER OCEAN SWIM SUMMER SUN *  Want to help support ASL University?  It's easy :  DONATE   ( Thanks! ) *  Another way to help is to buy something from Dr. Bill's " Bookstore ." *  Want even more ASL resources?  Visit the " ASL Training Center ! "  (Subscription Extension of ASLU)   *  Also check out Dr. Bill's channel: www.youtube.com/billvicars   You can learn American Sign Language (ASL) online at American Sign Language University ™  ASL resources by Lifeprint.com  ©  Dr. William Vicars   

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To sign "Boat" in American Sign Language (ASL), form a boat-like shape by cupping your hands together. Proceed to rhythmically move your hands up and down as you extend them forward.

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Use the Gallaudet Encyclopedia and T he Sage Encyclopedia of Deaf Studies to find more information about Laurent Clerc and his influence on American Sign Language  history. Laurent Clerc and Thomas H. Gallaudet took a boat voyage on June 18, 1816, for 52 days to help found the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in 1817. While they were on the boat, Gallaudet taught Clerc written English and Clerc taught Gallaudet French Sign Language or Langue des Signes Française (LSF). Clerc kept a diary to practice his English skills.

Clerc used LSF at ASD which influenced the development of American Sign Language ( ASL). There are other influences on ASL, such as the signing Deaf and hearing community at Martha's Vineyard who used Martha Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL). This community migrated from Weald-Kent, England in the 17th century due to economic necessity and religious freedom. The Weald-Kent area used a regional dialect of British Sign Language (BSL) called Old Kentish Sign Language ( OKSL) because there were deaf members in the community due to genetic deafness. John Lothrop sailed on the Hercules ship with a congregation of two hundred members to the New World and landed in Boston in 1634 and assume they brought their sign language with them. They settled in Scituate and then moved to Barnstable and Edgartown. Later, small groups moved to Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard.

Jonathan Lambert was the first Deaf person to settle in Chilmark in 1692. He had a hearing wife and seven children of whom two were deaf. The friendly Wampanoag Indian tribe lived in this area and sold cheap land to Jonathan. It is possible the settlers used Indian Sign Language with the tribe, which might have influenced MVSL , along with Kent Sign Language . Deaf children from Martha's Vineyard (the largest group of Deaf students from a geographical area) attended ASD and mingled with the mainland school community using MVSL which influenced ASL . Martha's Vineyard Deaf students attended ASD for approximately 100 years. 

• Chasing Ancestors: Searching for the Roots of American Sign Language in the Kentish Weald, 1620-1851 This is a dissertation by Dr. Mary Kitzel undertaken at the University of Sussex in 2014.
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This past week, the Community Sailing Center in Burlington has been hosting the only U.S. Sailing Association-certified American Sign Language course in the country.

People from all over traveled to Burlington for this experience.

Rachel Boll, from Massachusetts, said learning from a teacher who knows ASL made the trip worthwhile.

"Direct instruction is the best way to learn," Boll said.

Instructor Bill Millios has been sailing since he was a kid.

He started this course because more and more of his friends in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community were asking him for advice on how to sail.

It inspired him to get certified as an instructor and create this one-of-a-kind course.

"We share the same way of walking in the world. We understand what it's like to use vision as your main form of communication. So, the way that I frame things or explain things are specific for them," Millios said.

At the beginning of the week, students learned the basics of how a sailboat operates.

By the end, they were sailing out on Lake Champlain on their own.

For some students like Allen Winfree of Essex Junction, at times, it was information overload.

However, he still impressed himself with how much he had learned in that short period.

"How to set up the jib, all the different terminology that's used in sailing," Winfree said. "I had no idea that there was so much to learn."

For Shanna Gibbs of New York, retaining all that information wouldn't have been possible if she didn't have an instructor that knew sign language as well.

"I can ask questions immediately," Gibbs said. "I don't have to think about if it's a language barrier causing me not to understand. I can instead ask my question and feel confident that I'll get an answer."

Gibbs joked when she gets back to New York, you can expect to find her back on the water as soon as possible.

"I'm motivated to buy a boat tomorrow so I can keep doing this over and over again," Gibbs said.

The annual "Sailorbration" event is taking place the Community Sailing Center on Saturdaay from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

It's a chance to celebrate the diversity of sailors in our community.

The sail sign is quite similar to ship and boat , as you can well imagine. To sign sail or sailing , cup your hands together in a boat shape, then move them forward a few inches. The sign should look like a boat smoothly sailing in gentle waters.

This is quite difficult to sign precisely for babies, so you will often see your little one simplify that by pushing their hands or fists together and moving them forward.

Teach your baby or toddler the sail sign when you are about to go sailing at the beach or lake, or when you see their cartoon or storybook characters sailing.

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How to sign "boat" in American Sign Language (ASL)?

Meaning: a small vessel propelled on water by oars, sails, or an engine for traveling.

Related signs: RAFT , DINGHY, LIFEBOAT , SHIP , SAILBOAT , TOWBOAT , TUGBOAT , RIVERBOAT , ROWBOAT , CANOE , FERRY , YACHT , CRUISE , KAYAK , GONDOLA , JETSKI , SPEEDBOAT (powerboat), SCHOONER , SUBMARINE .

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There’s a scene in “American Idiot” when Will, a young man about to start a new life in the city with his friends, receives the unexpected news that he’s about to become a father. He gets left behind in their suburban hometown and, as outlined by the lyrics of “Give Me Novacaine,” he’s all at once feeling stuck, restless and desperate for a release — a specific sentiment that’s difficult to illustrate onstage.

Or is it? Audiences of an upcoming Los Angeles revival of the Green Day musical — performed simultaneously in spoken English and American Sign Language — will see Otis Jones IV planted on a sofa, his hands signing with a palpable frustration, and James Olivas running in circles, belting out the ballad with an audible angst. Both actors — one Deaf, one hearing — are playing Will in the show, and together, their performances arguably explore the nuances of this scene more fully than ever before.

“We all know the feeling of having multiple voices in your head and feeling like they’re really pulling you in different directions,” said choreographer Jennifer Webster.

“That is exactly the subtext we’re interested in exploring here: How can we use all the languages at our disposal to get at the heart of these characters and where they are at each moment of this story?”

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This staging of “American Idiot” is a landmark production for L.A. Running Oct. 2 through Nov. 10, the Center Theatre Group and Deaf West Theatre collaboration marks the reopening of the Mark Taper Forum after a yearlong hiatus , the first full season programmed by newly appointed CTG Artistic Director Snehal Desai , and Desai’s CTG directorial debut. That its run aligns with the politically charged punk rock album’s 20th anniversary and a significant presidential election is no accident.

“It’s a unique piece of theater to begin with, and even if they’ve seen it before, this is a very, very different take,” Desai told The Times after the production’s two-week workshop in late July.

“It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m going to ask folks to give it a chance because, as things are more extreme than ever and we’re facing another very pivotal election in our country’s history, what we’re all going to need this fall is a place to escape, be in community and scream.”

Together, Otis Jones IV and James Olivas play Will in “American Idiot.” (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

That this staging of “American Idiot” is a bold and timely endeavor is appropriate, given the show’s origins. The musical, based on the Bay Area trio’s 2004 album of the same name, was its own big swing: a concept album about an exasperated, lower-middle-class adolescent coming of age in a period shaped by George W. Bush’s presidency, the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq War.

“I think everybody’s confused about the climate nowadays,” said singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong — who makes up Green Day with drummer Tré Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt — to The Times in 2004 . “[The album]’s about the confusion of what it’s like to be an American.”

“American Idiot” was a critical and commercial hit, winning Grammy Awards for rock album and record of the year (“Boulevard of Broken Dreams”). And with more than 23 million copies sold to date, the album remains a millennial touchstone for its tuneful expressions of anger and alienation.

“Growing up queer and brown in small-town America after 9/11, this album played a big role in my life,” recalled Desai, who is of Indian descent and was raised in Quakertown, Penn.

“I kept listening to it over and over again because I felt so on the periphery; people who look like me are no less American, but we were perceived so differently. This album was hitting at the restlessness and rage and powerlessness I was feeling, while also being so unafraid to question what it means to be American during that fraught and scary time in our country’s history.”

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The musical adaptation premiered in 2009 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre ahead of a yearlong Tony-winning run on Broadway. It expanded the album’s solo journey to that of three disenfranchised young men without adding a line of scripted dialogue between 20 Green Day songs.

“It’s a complicated story, and it’s ambiguous,” director Michael Mayer told The Times at the time . “The closest example is opera, because the songs have to do everything.”

The themes of “American Idiot” resonate deeply with the Deaf community, as “we grew up used to being in a place where the world probably doesn’t listen to us and doesn’t understand what we’re about,” said Deaf West Theatre Artistic Director DJ Kurs .

“And the role of media in people’s lives that ‘American Idiot’ predicted 20 years ago is more relevant than ever for the Deaf community, because social media is a way for us to connect with each other and the larger world.”

Daniel Durant and Mars Storm Rucker play Johnny and Whatsername, respectively, in “American Idiot.” (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Thanks to all the technology used to hear music — audio captions on Instagram and Tiktok, bass-boosting headphones, cochlear implants, hearing aids and more — today’s generation of Deaf people are expressing themselves by uploading videos of their ASL covers.

“I grew up with a hearing family and often felt very alone as a Deaf person,” Jones said. “I started posting covers of R&B and hip-hop songs online five years ago, and it helped me find the Deaf community I had been looking for, as well as a connection to a whole hearing audience I didn’t know I could have.”

Such ASL covers will play around the Taper at the top of this “American Idiot” production, which is intended to be fully accessible to Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences through projected subtitles, performed American Sign Language and boosted bass for feeling the music’s vibrations. (Earplugs will be available upon request.)

Some moments are solely signed for a reason, said Desai: “If you know sign, you’ll get it; if you don’t, you’ll have an entrance to what it means to be Deaf in a world that is constantly speaking at you.”

Because this “American Idiot” resets the story in the present day, the original production’s archival clips of former President Bush will be replaced by that of other former presidents, as done in various stagings of the musical .

It also recenters the musical on three Deaf friends in today’s hearing America, which immediately heightens the stakes of their stories: How does it feel to be in a relationship with a hearing person who refuses to learn sign language? What does it mean for a Deaf person to want to join the military, which still doesn’t allow Deaf people to enlist?

Previous Deaf West Theatre musicals generally doubled major roles with one Deaf actor and one hearing actor performing the exact same narrative or emotional detail of a scene. But in “American Idiot,” a show in which much of the conflict is interior, the two actors who play the same role will regularly communicate dissimilar thoughts and feelings and even appear at odds with each other, as in the “Give Me Novacaine” sequence.

“These three characters each have inner battles about what they thought their dreams would look like and how their lives can change based on one decision,” explained ASL choreographer Colin Analco.

“When they’re feeling self-destructive, or unsatisfied with where they are in life — we want to explore those dynamics through our combination of dance and sign language. The sky’s the limit of how we can use movement as storytelling here.”

Landen Gonzales plays Tunny in “American Idiot.” Lark Detweiler is in the ensemble, and is also the show’s dance captain. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Throughout the production, sign language is performed by the entire cast of 20 actors, about half of whom are Deaf or hard-of-hearing. “Watching all of the hearing actors learn sign language for this has been so exciting,” said Lark Detweiler, a Deaf actor who is also the show’s dance captain. “It’s so cool to see people who care that much to work really hard to get it right.”

Keep an eye out for the choreography during the production’s instrumental sections. “There are quite a few moments in the ‘American Idiot’ score that don’t have lyrics,” said Webster. “We want to physicalize that sound for our Deaf audiences, and make it so they can see the music and experience it along with hearing audiences.”

“It’s not about gimmickry,” added Kurs. “It’s about using actual tools to honor the spirit of a revival — taking old material and doing something new with it, and figuring out what works best for each section of the story.”

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“American Idiot” is the fourth collaboration between Center Theatre Group and Deaf West Theatre, after 2009’s “Pippin,” 2007’s “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” and 2003’s “Big River.” That first show went on to Broadway, earned two Tony nominations and completed a national tour. That “American Idiot” is the first production of Desai’s debut season at CTG is, as he called it, “very intentional.”

“A lot of people look at an artistic director’s first season as a cue for where we’re going,” Desai said. “I wanted to make sure we acknowledged our place in the L.A. theater community and the legacy and history of those relationships.

“I also wanted to put us on a new path in terms of what we are doing at CTG, artistically,” he added. “It was important to me to create space for the next generation of performers at CTG. With this production, a third of our actors hadn’t been born when 9/11 happened; this was their first professional workshop. Altogether, I hope this will kick off this next chapter of CTG in a really dynamic way.”

'American Idiot'

Where: Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. When:  8 p.m.   Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Runs Oct. 2-Nov 10. (Call for exceptions.) Tickets:  Starts at $35 Info:  (213) 628-2772 or  centertheatregroup.org

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“As a deaf woman who first saw herself reflected in Marlee as a child, I was inspired to become an actor. I am now an actor, a writer and, with this film, a director. I am experiencing everything Marlee has made possible in a beautiful metaphysical tandem,” Stern said in a statement. “In our film, the telling of her story is rendered through the easy familiarity people have with an interviewer who shares their lived experience. Hopefully, because of this, our project will exemplify why nobody, much less Marlee Matlin, should be alone anymore.”

The documentary was produced by Robyn Kopp, Bonni Cohen and Justine Nagan of Actual Films. Michael Kantor is the executive producer for “American Masters.” EPs include Ruth Ann and Bill Harnisch, Melony and Adam Lewis, Patty Quillin and Jenny Raskin; co-EP is Ann W Lovell.

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