ASL Consultant
Silent Voice is the only non-profit, charitable organization in the GTA that provides community- and family-based support to Deaf adults, youth, children, and their families in American Sign Language (ASL). The agency provides recreational, sport and leadership programs in ASL for Deaf children and youth and their hearing brothers and sisters, and teaches hearing family members ASL. Also, in partnership with other organizations, the agency offers Deaf Adult Services Programs that include general assistance, Deaf parenting program, financial literacy, Housing Resource Centre, free tax clinic, and settlement services to Deaf newcomers to Canada.
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REVERB
New year, new REVERB! It’s time for our Winter 2015 event, on Wednesday, February 25th at Gallery Gachet (88 E. Cordova St.) on unceded Musqueam, S?wxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh land.
WE NEED YOUR HELP to make this event happen! If you haven’t already seen or shared our Kickstarter, check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644643371/reverb-a-queer-reading-series
***FEATURING***
JEN SUNGSHINE
Jen Sungshine speaks for a living but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer artist-activist she facilitates with creativity and social justice media to evolutionize and revolutionize youth education in the classrooms and beyond through Out in Schools. Her artistic practice involves unlearning while learning and learning while unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in – to make artful social change with her through the language of love and nerdy codes. She is very wordy.
KARA SIEVEWRIGHT
Kara Sievewright is a writer, artist and designer who creates comics, websites, prints, and posters. She has published comics and illustrations in many magazines and anthologies including Plenitude, Descant, filling Station, carte blanche, Briarpatch, and Certain Days: Political Prisoners Calendar. She lives on Haida Gwaii and is working on a graphic novel. You can see more of her work on www.makerofnets.ca
PRAGYA SHARMA
ZAIN MEGHJI
LADAN SAHRAEI
ALEX LESLIE
Alex Leslie has published a collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, which was shortlisted for a 2013 Lambda Award, a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects for the New World, and a collection of prose poems The things I heard about you, published last fall by Nightwood. Alex’s poetry is included in Best Canadian Poetry In English 2014 published by Tightrope Books. Alex edited the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead magazine and is currently working on a collection of stories entitled We All Need To Eat. Alex was born and has lived their life on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
Alex Leslie has published a collection of short stories, People Who Disappear, which was shortlisted for a 2013 Lambda Award, a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects for the New World, and a collection of prose poems The things I heard about you, published last fall by Nightwood. Alex’s poetry is included in Best Canadian Poetry In English 2014 published by Tightrope Books. Alex edited the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead magazine and is currently working on a collection of stories entitled We All Need To Eat. Alex was born and has lived their life on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
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Doors at 7 PM; show at 7:30 PM sharp. We’re asking for a dollar at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There will be some seriously great stuff to buy at our merch table, so bring your bucks if you can!
We’re going to have some great stuff to give away as well, so don’t forget to enter our draw in the hat on your way in the door!
Event poster by our amazing new artist-in-residence, April Alayon! Check out more of April’s work here: http://www.aprilalayon.com/
***ACCESSIBILITY INFO***
ASL Interpretation Provided.
There will two active listeners available if people need to check in with someone throughout the event.
For Gallery Gachet:
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
There is an all genders washroom.
Gallery Gachet is an art gallery and as such may have some chemicals present that some maybe be sensitive to including paints, pottery glazes, or other art supplies. In order to create a space where folks with multiple chemical sensitivities can participate, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space. We do clear out the space with an air purifier prior to the event. For info on how to support folks with multiple chemical sensitivities, visit: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html
For a full accessibility audit of Gallery Gachet, visit: http://radicalaccessiblecommunities.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/this-audit-of-gallery-gachet-was-performed-on/
We provide snacks! Including gluten-free and vegan options, and do not sell alcohol at the event.
If you’re attending and will need particularly comfortable seating, please let us know! We have a few comfy and large office chairs that we’re stoked to save for folks who need that kind of seating, so if that’s you, please message or email us with your name so that we can be sure you’ll be comfortable throughout the event (and please also show up early to make sure you get in the door!). If you would be made more comfortable by the addition of a cushion, please bring one with you — and if you don’t have one you can bring, let us know and we’ll do our best to rustle up something for you.
***ABOUT REVERB***
REVERB: A Queer Reading Series aims to support and showcase emerging and established LGBT2QI writers through a quarterly reading series with an anti-oppressive framework. We believe that writing is a radical act that can transform dominant narratives about whose lives and loves are important and valued, and that sharing that writing can empower, inspire and transform ourselves and our communities. We write and read on unceded Musqueam, S?wxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh land, and are committed to radical inclusion in our series, recognizing that access to the world of writing, literacy, and even queerness continues to be limited. As organizers, we endeavour to create a reading series where white-identified readers are always in the minority to ensure a space that centres the voices of Indigenous, Black, mixed writers and all writers of colour. All our writers self-identify on a spectrum of queerness that centres trans* and femme experiences. All of our events are held in physically and financially accessible spaces, and with every event, we make at least one change to ensure that REVERB becomes more and more accessible. We promise to do all we can to create a safer space — bring your suggestions! Check your assumptions at the door; REVERB is a body-positive, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and hella queer- and trans-positive event.
reverbqueerreadingseries@gmail.com
reverbqueerreadingseries.tumblr.com
Facebook: REVERB: A Queer Reading Series
Anti-Valentines Pub Night
Come out and be all anti-valentine with us! Or pro-valentine if you
want. Let’s just get together and sign up a storm. Hope to see you
there!
Where: Fountainhead Pub
When: Saturday Feb 14th @ 8pm
Fountainhead Pub has a wheelchair accessible bathroom and a ramp that
leads up to the tables on the raised section of the pub and also to
the patio.
For more information, check our facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1386767941633205/
CAV: Appointment of Third DHH Director
History was made with the election of the first members of the permanent Board of Directors of the Canadian Administrator of VRS (CAV). The next steps involve completing the permanent Board. First, the elected ASL and LSQ Directors must choose the Third Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Director to build the Board of Directors. Following this, two Independent Directors will be chosen by the members of the Board.
On behalf of the CAV Board, it is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Mme. Suzanne Laforest as Third DHH Director, serving a one-year term.
We sincerely thank all other applicants for their time and interest in being part of this historical year for the Canadian Deaf community.
We would like to congratulate Mme. Suzanne Laforest on her appointment and welcome her to our team.
The Independent Directors will be determined soon.
Lisa Anderson-Kellett, elected to become ASL Director
Cynthia Benoit, elected to become LSQ Director
GVAD News Bulletin
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North Shore Art Crawl
I created a video version of this announcement, with just the basic
information and posted to youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2dLRsOP-PE
I’m AJ Brown and I’m participating in the North Shore Art Crawl. http://nsartcrawl.ca/participant_profiles/aj_brown
The North Shore Art Crawl is a free community arts festival that celebrates local artists. Our mission is to bring about approachable and accessible art venues that encourage the community to connect with, and celebrate the creativity of, our North Shore artists. Our goal is to engage, inspire, and transform the North Shore through inclusive alliances amongst artists and the community.This is self guided tour for the public of artists’ studios.
The Crawl started as a grass roots movement by two North Shore artists, but after three years of organizing and running the event it became too time consuming for a small team of volunteers to handle, so the North Vancouver Community Arts Council offered to takeover the event.
The philosophy behind the Crawl is that we really want to be inclusive of all art forms without any artificial boundaries between art and crafts. In the last years we welcomed registrations from textile artists, jewelers, potters, designers, sculptors, comic book artists and many others.
I participated in the Crawl since 2012. When you visit my home studio you will see a variety of artwork I’ve produced since 1999 using acrylics, charcoal, pencil, mixed media, watercolour, ink and knitting.
You may view my work on March 7 and 8, from 10 am – 6 pm, at:
300-380 Klahanie Court
West Vancouver
My place marker on the Crawl map is number 18.
http://nsartcrawl.ca/map_brochure
For more information, Megan Koch
Events Coordinator
North Vancouver Community Arts Council
604-988-6844, events@nvartscouncil.ca, nsartcrawl.ca
Safety Workshops
The DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) / Réseau d’action des femmes handicapées (RAFH) and the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) are jointly implementing a cross-Canada project that uses a local level community development approach in addressing two priority issues of concern for people with disabilities and Deaf people – health and wellness and violence and abuse. This project is called: InFocus: Bringing People with Disabilities into the Picture.
The Disability Alliance of BC (formerly BC Coalition of People with Disabilities), a partner in the InFocus project, announces two workshops coming up in February and March, on the topic of personal safety / safety in the community. For more information, contact Karen Martin, Ph: 604-875-0188 Fax: 604-875-9227
Email: karen@disabilityalliancebc.org
For Deaf-blind persons and those unable to read PDF documents, contact Karen to ask for a Word / text version of the workshop information.
Information about a Seniors workshop will be announced when it is scheduled.
RIGHT TO BE SAFE service provider Workshop
