Role-Shifting is so much more than being a narrator. Take on the role of different people to tell stories! It is important for the audience to know which character is speaking!

The workshop will focus on ASL storytelling techniques for:
1) developing story characters,
2) using role shift, eye gaze, and spatial referencing,
3) identifying speakers,
4) shifting between speakers,
5) matching speakers' affect, and
6) understanding the difference between storytelling and discourse.
Participants will have hands-on practice with the material presented in the workshop.

Patricia (Trix) Bruce is known nationwide as both a workshop presenter and an ASL performer. Trix's work has been warmly received everywhere, from local community centers, to state, regional, and national RID conferences, Deaf Way II, interpreter conventions, and more. Wildly popular as a teacher of ASL storytelling and ASL interpretation, Trix impresses audiences at all levels of ASL skill, from novices to fluent experts.

Trix has been profoundly deaf since she was 6 months old. She went through oral, mainstreaming, deaf classes, and online educational programs. Trix has been involved in the performing arts since 1980. After completing her college program, she became involved with interpreter training.

Trix's main area of study has been ASL Linguistics with a focus on ASL Performance. She is an approved sponsor for the RID Certificate Maintenance Program and has developed the popular trixbruce.com website. Whether writing, creating, improvising, or starring in her many productions, Trix's passion for the dramatic arts shines through.

RID CEUs available:
trixbruce.com/questionnaire-for-rid-ceus/