SASL Newsletter - Spring 2017 Issue Issue 5 - Spring 2017 | Page 6

The main reason this festival was such a success was the involvement of our local Deaf
community, notably Carol Bryant Derrick, Pat Gust, and Jesse Smith in spreading the word via
social media and videos on Deaf news sources. The Deaf handled contacting Deaf artists and
crafts people for the craft fair in the park and the hearing, myself, negotiated the disco