• Film & Video

    Hear and Now

    SLC Film Center

    May 7, 2008

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    Both age 65 and deaf since birth, husband and wife Paul and Sally Taylor led rich lives filled with jobs, hobbies, passions and the support of a devoted four-generation family, including their own three hearing children. Pioneers in the deaf community, Sally worked as a teacher and a college secretary and lent her expert lip-reading skills to law enforcement investigations, while Paul, an engineer and retired professor, helped develop the TTY, a widely-used telecommunication device for the hearing-impaired. When the Taylor's announced just before retirement that they planned to get cochlear implants, a breakthrough technology that could restore their ability to hear; their decision was met with mixed feelings by their daughter. 'After this surgery, who will they be?' she asks. 'Will they still be deaf people, or hearing people, or will they be something in between? What if the implant doesn't work? What if one of them can hear and the other one can't?' At its core, Hear and Now is a love story about two people who found one other and grew together in a world of silence, their bond strengthened by the challenges they faced and overcame as a couple. Undertaking the journey together, they cannot foresee the ultimate impact of this change on their relationship, or the emotional and neurological challenges of adapting to a world of sound, especially when one appears to have more success with the procedure and it looks like their paths, so long the same, might diverge.

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      Tickets: Free Admission

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      May 7, 2008

      Times:
      Wednesday 7:00pm

    • Venue Info

      Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

      138 West 300 South Salt Lake City, UT 84101

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      Greater Salt Lake

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