campus happenings 6 | theLAKER Alumni return to FLCC to share Fleetwood Mac songs with the Deaf community. THE ART OF SIGN LANGUAGE Jojo Chiarilli ’15 has been a musician since childhood. She played flute in her middle school band in Romulus and now sings and plays guitar, drums, and bass. When she returned to FLCC last spring to perform, she did not make a sound. Jojo was one of three alumni who participated in the Spring Arts Festival in May as American Sign Language (ASL) performance signers for several Fleetwood Mac songs. “Performance signing, if done correctly, is still completely accurate to ASL structure and grammar but there is an added component of being more expressive,” she said. “It is a very long process of translating lyrics and trying to figure out what the artists mean by what they wrote. It sometimes requires a decent amount of research into the band and their history. Jojo Chiarilli ’15 performing “Dreams”
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