The third organization we are highlighting for Deaf Awareness Month is D-PAN, Deaf Professional Arts Network.
The Deaf Professional Arts Network (D-PAN) a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization was originally founded to make music and music culture – the predominant shared language and experience of people worldwide – universally accessible by extending its reach to the Deaf and hard of hearing. Since 2006, D-PAN has pioneered the art form of creating high quality American Sign Language (ASL) music videos, translating the lyrics of popular songs through ASL.
DPAN displays the power of collaboration and produce high quality media.
You can find out more about their organization here.
And you can see their productions on DPAN.TV here.
See one of their early music videos below… (this one still brings tears… it resonates so deeply)….