As part of the “Portraits parlés” exhibition at Les Bains, this café-philo will look at the daily lives of deaf people in an attempt to better understand this too-often ostracized community, opening up dialogue and exchange between hearing and deaf people. In particular, we’ll be looking at the many developments in sign language in Geneva as necessary adaptations and social, cultural and linguistic responses to hearing loss.

Guests:

Frédérik is a deaf artist, painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Born in 1974, he lives in Geneva. He began drawing at the age of 5 and has never let go of his pencil. In 1995, he obtained his diploma in theater design. RTS and the press entrusted him with several mandates as a storyteller and cartoonist. Since 2008, her project on the History of the Deaf has occupied her full time; created in the form of large-scale gouache paintings using a unique pictorial technique, they represent emblematic figures, an era, a theme, linked to deafness. These paintings, which have already attracted a great deal of public attention at exhibitions, are full of powerful symbolism and colorful imagery, and tell us the story of the Deaf, their history and their future.
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Jaime Barria is a Geneva-based hip-hop artist and blogger of Chilean and Colombian origin. Passionate about events, he excels as an entrepreneur and also organizes philosophical cafés. At the University of Geneva, her research focused on Geneva’s deaf population, with the aim of creating a guided tour highlighting their history, culture and arts. In particular, he has explored the RTS program “Signes” and the translation of the Bible into LSF. The visit ended at the VROOM restaurant, and provided an opportunity to discover the richness of Geneva’s deaf culture.

The café-philo will take place under the yurt. Free admission