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Sign Festival 2024 in photos

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A crowd of people in a darkened room wave their hands in appreciation

On Saturday 19 October Bristol Beacon played host to the inaugural Sign Festival Bristol: a unique, accessible, multi-venue festival that took place across an action-packed weekend at Watershed and Bristol Beacon.

During the day, audiences enjoyed interactive children’s storytelling, two exhibitions with curator talks that celebrate deaf history, culture and community and film screenings. In the evening events moved to Lantern Hall with a host of British Sign Language (BSL) performances of music and comedy from local and national deaf performers. The day’s activities were rounded off in energetic style with a Deaf Rave.

Take a look at our highlights of Sign Festival 2024.

Photos courtesy of Sign Festival Bristol.

Lynn Stewart-Taylor – Festival Director
Charlie Swinborne – photographer

 

Sign Festival 2024

A group of adults and children are sat gathered around a storyteller reading a children's story
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
A person is giving a talk in front of a seated audience
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
Two smiling people are looking and pointing at the walls of an exhibition
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
A group of five people are gathered looking excitedly at a photo hung in an exhibition
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
A group of people in a darkened room raise lights above their heads
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
Two people on stage, one is raising their drumsticks in the air
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
A close up of a person signing to an audience
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography
A person wearing a cap and a tshirt that reads 'deaf rave' points towards the camera, in a darkened hall with bright lights
Photo by Charlie Swinbourne Photography

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Sign Festival 2024

Photos by Charlie Swinbourne Photography

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