Deaf comedian and storyteller Peter Cook taught a workshop and performed in the Canyon High auditorium for the second consecutive year Saturday, April 14.
During the interactive workshop in the morning, Cook taught many deaf individuals and ASL students the fundamentals of ASL storytelling, which include facial expression, body language, classifiers, gestures and sign production.
Through the planning of ASL teachers Chelsea Phemister and Traci Prather, the performance that night brought in more than twice the number of deaf individuals as last year, and $2000 dollars for the ASL Honor Society. To applaud using sign language, participants must shake raise their hands and shake them. As Cook signed and the interpreter translated to the audience, the entire auditorium was filled with laughing and shaking hands from the deaf and hearing.
The two worlds were connected through laughter.
![Captain von Trapp, played by sophomore Trace Thomas, plays the guitar as he sings Edelweiss to his family. The show for me is an experiment to see what all I can do [as an actor], Thomas said. Canyon High will perform The Sound of Music Nov. 17-20, tickets can be purchased on TicketSpicket.](https://eaglestaleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/JF_SoundofMusic-369-900x600.jpg)