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** Meet your hosts **
On Sunday the 26th of April, Varia is welcoming artist and educator amy pickles ([http://amypickles.co.uk](http://amypickles.co.uk)), who is working with cristina cochior and julie boschat thorez on a never ending (ever expending) project with Hybrid Publishing, a group of people from willem de kooning academy (wdka) Rotterdam, NL, to publish things hybrid-ly.
On Sunday the 26th of April, Varia is welcoming artist and educator [amy pickles](http://amypickles.co.uk), who is working with cristina cochior and julie boschat thorez on a never ending (ever expending) project with Hybrid Publishing, a group of people from willem de kooning academy (wdka) Rotterdam, NL, to publish things hybrid-ly.
amy was asked to develop her graduation project (from master education in art, the piet zwart institute) that was called [sic] scripture, How to use scripts to imagine counterdiscourses? Here the script was a device to go ‘off script’ of dominant narratives.
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We will be using a photocopied excerpt from "Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky, that amy uploaded into the library and indexed under debris.bought.references.ilya_kaminsky_deaf_republic_excerpt.pdf
Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best-known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards.([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kaminsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kaminsky))
Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best-known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards. [Extract source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kaminsky)
In this book Ilya writes about deafness as a form of dissent against tyranny and violence.
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear — all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language.
The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls; day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls; day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them. [Extract source](https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic)
*Our country woke up the next morning and refused to hear soldiers. <br/>
