True to keeping its mandate of transforming lives through the arts, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), through its Venue Operations Division, conducted its Front-of-House (FOH) Apprenticeship Program with 10 participants belonging to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community.
Together with the Philippine School for the Deaf (PSD) and the Philippine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (PRID), the CCP takes proactive steps in fortifying the vision that art matters to the life of every Filipino. In a span of two weeks, the participants went through a series of lectures and workshops with topics related to both the front-of-house and technical aspects of theater operations.
The PSD, which has been CCP’s partner in the past iteration of the program, endorsed most of the participants, with their teacher-members interpreting the sessions. This year, the PRID, through its executive director Pinky Earnhart and Dean Dimaguila, also deployed their interpreters to assist in the workshops.
“Communication in the frontline service is an important engagement with our public. We endeavour to harness our mother tongue, English and a third language or dialect, with sign language not being any different. As we grow our pool of multi-linguals, we may be more effective in addressing our audience members,” said Ariel Yonzon, CCP Production and Exhibition Department Manager.
