Pam Eden (she/her) lives in Vienna and Lower Austria and works with people of various abilities and impairments in various social areas. Her focus is on the field of deafness since she has a hearing impairment herself and is fluent in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Her passions are the theatre, acting, and music. Pam Eden offers ÖGS interpretation (with or without a performance) to build bridges between areas of hearing and hearing impairments. She appeared as an interpreter for two productions at the Schäxpir theatre festival – Monster and Zack Prack – and also works as an  interpreter for Nora Jacobs’s performance HOW DO YOU. 

Barbara Schuster (she/her) grew up in South Tyrol and has lived in Vienna for 24 years. In 2004, she led the first bilingual-bimodal playgroups to promote Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) in children and in 2006, as deaf president, founded the kinderhände association with this concept as a unique offer for families in Austria. Today, she is primarily dedicated to the further training of adults as a lecturer in ÖGS and AAC with sign language and loves her work with the "flying hands". She also works as a sign language teacher at the University of Vienna and is also active as a graphic designer and illustrator.

Angelika Bolnberger (she/her) is from Vienna and has been working in the social sector for many years with great passion and commitment. With her enthusiasm for Austrian sign language and her training as an elementary teacher, she found her way to the kinderhände association, which she now runs together with Barbara Schuster. Equal opportunities education and a communicative upbringing for children are particularly close to her heart. Today, she leads the bilingual-bimodal playgroups at kinderhände, passes on her knowledge to teachers and works as an interpreter for Austrian sign language and German. In her free time, she enjoys going to the theater and improvising plays.

Notes

New shows of HOW DO YOU will be on daily from 21–24/02 at 8:00 pm at METRO Kinokulturhaus Wien. Combining a visit with the workshop is highly recommended, but not a prerequisite. Info & tickets are available here 
Participants are welcome to leave the room or to take a break at any time. The greyspace will be reorganized as a space for relaxation and retreat, where curtains, pillows and mattresses invite the audiences to linger and lay down. Covid-19 tests will be available.

*Early Boarding means that brut will provide sufficient time for everybody before the event to arrive, find a place, and get comfortable in the space with no rush. The brut entrance area will be the gathering point. brut staff is happy to assist you. Beanbag chairs and different seating possibilities will be available.

If you have any further questions regarding accessibility while arriving or during the event, please let us know at any time at: info@brut-wien.at