[Transcription Start] White wall background with caucasian male wearing black glasses and red shirt holding a white paper sign that says “Interested in running for the office of mayor, city or school trustee?” in black bold letters.
He points at word ‘mayor’ and says “Tough” then pointed at word ‘city councillor’and says “You can.” Then pointed at word ‘School Trustee’ and said “you can”.
I will provide a workshop on Aug 15, Monday, 7:00PM PST, evening. We will be on Zoom, hosted by GVAD I am very thrilled to give details how to do the process of applying and running for the office. Any one can apply. Aged 18 or 19 and above, canadian citizen. That it is. Saying “I can’t, I have no no experience”, no don’t worry I will explain and give a lecture.
Four provinces will have elections in this fall – BC, Manitoba,Ontario and P.E.I. All in 2022 Fall. Early or later, it depends on your city. You can research it yourself for example, your home at ottawa, you can type in google “Ottawa elections 2022” it will load up results on how to apply and everything else, research on it. Then watch my workshop, I’m glad to provide help.
I’ve experienced 8 year ago, School Trustee Board, 4 year ago, I’ve experienced trying run for city councillor I really enjoyed the experience. Fun. You can. Deaf can. Why not? It’s time for deaf to show up and in public office, for government. It doesn’t matter if it’s city-level or provincal level, or federal level.
But this year, 4 provinces in this fall, the cities in BC, Manitoba, Ottawa and PEI. Take the opporunity.
See you on Monday on Aug 15th, at 7:00PM PST on Zoom. [Points at screen then wave]
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Zoom information:
Gvad Vancouver is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Running for Mayor/City Councillor/School Trustee Workshop by Forrest Smith
With ASL Interpretation by Vanessa Coley-Donohue, and TBD
Our Tended Harvest attests to our collective work for each other, the garden of our community together, time spent in the earth together, working towards a shared table filled with the labour of our love. Our continued commitment to making sure our space is shared, we close our 8th festival with a proclamation of tomorrow.
Featuring: Kung Jaadee, Janelle Reid & Mad Riddim
Artists: Eva F. Ojeda and Siobhan BarkerPhoto credit: Luciana Freire D’Anunciação
With ASL Interpretation by Season Hunt and Monica McCrea
The Vancouver Prison Justice Day Memorial takes place on Wednesday, August 10th from 6 to 8pm beside the Claire Culhane Memorial Bench, SE Corner, Trout Lake Park. This event is being organized on the occupied, unceded and ancestral territories of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), s?l?ílw?ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) and S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish) Coast Salish Nations. PJD is organized in the spirit of solidarity with all communities impacted by incarceration. For more information or to speak, contact pjd@prisonjustice.ca.
GVAD Board Announcement on August 3rd, 2022. Transcription below:
With blue wood panel in the background and two glass window. Caucasian male with blonde hair and blue&white shirt.
Commenting and small talk with a person outside camera
“4 people now – will start soon”
“Hello everyone, my name is Cameron I’m Director at Large at here at GVAD Board. We recently went through shuffling. Now I will give the stage to our president to explain about new changes and another announcements.
Male Caucasian with grey shirt appear into camera
“Thank you Cameron, now we agreed about shuffling, I am interim president starting today. Imran and Raakhee were co-president but now they just became Vice Presidents. We also have third vice president. So we have 3 Vice President. First one, Joel Kvarnberg, Vice President of Organization Development, we will explain this more later. Second one, Imran, Vice President of External Community Relations. No deaf people, only hearing people out there. Our third vice president, Raakhee will be VP of Community Engagement and Inclusion.
Fourth person on board, recently promoted, (point at person off camera), Cameron will become Secretary, his role remains same with media, deafbc and another things.
Our fifth person, Jessie will remain as our Treasurer. We are happy to announce what’s will be happening for next several months.
we will advertise these events next week but we will mention them now. I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Forrest Smith.
F: In September, in International Sign Language week, we will provide free asl classes for hearing people to go to. Then on Saturday Sept 24, we will have Corn Party! It’s baaaack now! We haven’t had Corn Party for 3 years, maybe 4 years Now we’re ready for it.
Oct 1st, Saturday, afternoon we will have GVAD AGM.
You all have been waiting for this long time, we will be having Bingo Night again! It will be on October 15th.
Diwali will be on Nov 5th.
We have decided we will have workshop presentation by Assadali Bachoo about Islamic Community on September 30, Thursday. Do we understand Islam or Muslims, no we don’t. So this workshop will help us understand more.
Ukraine get together in first week of January, I have to let you know we found out that few deaf people moved to here from Ukraine, where we were to welcome to them? This will help them to be welcomed into our community.
Indigenous ISL Workshop “What is ISL” will help us to understand what ISL is after Accessible Canada Act and Accessible BC Act added ISL into the law. Shame on me for not understanding about ISL, we can understand what ISL is. When? We will find out soon.
IBPOC, Indigenous, Black, People of Color Deaf Interpreter Training, we will happy to offer for any who are interested, there is white privilege, so we are happy to invest in IBPOC community. This training will be by Anita Harding around 30 hours, how many hours? In total 100 hours, no 20 hours for 3 courses, then 100 hours for volunteering.
3 grants today I focus on BC gaming grant, every year we get them, I have good case against them, and the board agree to work on it. Two grants for hiring, our goal if we get grant, we will have contract or staff, position for policy analysis over government policies or any other policies. Second position will be event coordinator.
now about my new position, from Aug 3rd to AGM, we plan to advertise all those events, locations and all of those will be TBA. TO help you to remember.
Me as interim president, remember every two years, we have formal election year for the board. It means this Oct 2022, will have formal election. Interim means anyone can be president, if the members want different president over me.
I want to say thank you to Imran and Raakhee, I feel like I have forced Imran and Raakhee to become co-presidents. get taste of it and oh, I’ve been supporting for 1 year and now I feel re-energized. Remember few month ago, June 27, we had Deaf Accessibility Appreciation event, it helped me to look into myself and figure out and made me realize and my family support and the board said yes, and welcomed me back.
I want to thank to Imran, Raakhee, Jessie and Cameron for last 13 months, saving GVAD and not closing it down and keep it going.
Guess what, for 100th Anniversary planning committee has been set up. We have selected 4 people. They are: Renu, Kristen, Melissa, Alayna they know each other and have a vision to make plans for our 100th anniversary. There is many opportunities and let’s not ignore it and take them. We have many deaf communities, one of them being OVAD, Island, North BC collaborate.
Joel specialize in this. Who will explain now about his role. Forrest gesture at Joel to come and explain his role.
Joel come into the camera and sit down on the chair, wearing a grey shirt that says seaside, glasses with black rim.
He says hello everyone, I hope you all enjoy your summer. My role is for local BC and connect with deaf communities in BC and go to Canada Association of the Deaf and following with members’ agreement. I make sure we are connected with deaf organizations in BC, such as OVAD and many others. My responsibility to make sure we are involved and that we are all on same page before we go to CADASC we can be the voice for the BC. Thank you. He then leave the camera.
Imran comes into the camera and adjust the position. He is wearing black shirt with logo of deer on his shirt.
He says hello everyone, nice to see you all, I am thrilled to become VP of External Communications Relations I will be connecting with different organizations such as BC accessible committee and other various hearing associations in BC. becoming their allies whether it succeeds or not. Thank you very much for watching me.
Forrest comes back into the camera wearing grey shirt.
He says “VP of Community Engagement and Inclusion. She is not here at the moment, I will explain it for her. It means that she will be making events and be listen out to the members and communicate with them. Now here’s Jessie.
Jessie comes into the camera and sits down, after adjusting the camera, wearing white shirt.
She says Hello everyone, my name is Jessie and you know my role is Treasurer and I will be helping another people in their roles. I have an assistant, let me show you.
She shows a white dog.
My assistant’s name is Yasu. He helps me out a lot. Thank you have wonderful night.
Cameron comes into the camera, wearing white and blue shirt.
Hello everyone again, for those who just joined the livestream, my name is Cameron, I just got promoted to position of Secretary. What does my role does? For the board meetings or AGM, I will be recording down the minutes. I also take responsibility for media, emails and forward the emails to right people. I also run websites, that’s everything into my role.
Now livestream will be wrapped up, if you have any questions, concerns, you can comment, we will respond or email to gvadoffice@gmail.com I will respond it or forward it to right person to respond to you.
Keep eye out for news from us in next few weeks for our events and more information from us. Have a wonderful night and take care everyone. Bye! Waving hands.
Come out and have some fun at GVDBC 10 Pin Deaf Bowling League 2022-2023!
Anyone who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing is welcome. We accept teams of 3 or more bowlers and need at least 15 bowlers to run the league.
We will play 3 games each day on the following Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM – September 24th, October 15th & 29th, November 12th & 26th, December 10th, January 7th & 21st and February 4th. We only bowl for 6 months. This is shorter than most leagues in Metro Vancouver. The team will have more than one chance to make it into the final playoffs in February 18th.
Join us for a short meeting on September 24th at 9:30 AM before our first set of games at Rev’s Bowling Centre in Burnaby, BC (next to Holdom Skytrain Station).
Please be sure to call and reserve your spot now – even if you cannot attend the September 24th session. If you will not be able to come, you have to roll off beforehand on your own time and pay for it even if you miss the games.
Bowlers are required to pay 10 dollars directly to Rev’s by debit or credit payments. Each bowler shall pay 10 dollars for GVDBC membership due by October 29th and 40 dollars before December 10th to GVDBC Treasurer for playoffs cash prizes.
We will have many exciting events!
· Provincial 10 Pin Deaf Bowling Playdown
· National Deaf Championships
· Travelling to USA for North West Bowling Association of the Deaf (NWBAD) tournament in March. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact:
Good afternoon to our members, Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf’s board have an announcement tonight at 9PM, live on Facebook page. We hope to see you tonight on our Facebook page!
-Board of Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf
Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (PDHHS) is seeking ASL instructors to provide ASL instruction to children, youth and families in BC.
If interested, please go to BC Bid website Opportunities: BC Bid (gov.bc.ca) and put XCN2022068RFQ on the search box for details. The closing date and time is August 16, 2022 before 2pm Pacific Time.
We had some class spots open up due to things shuffling around behind the scenes so we wanted to reach out one last time before our Aug-Sept cycle starts (Aug 7th onwards).
If you have already registered & paid, don’t panic. You’re totally good. We are emailing everyone on our mailing list, hence you getting this email. If you registered but haven’t gotten ANY emails from us, our emails might be going straight into your spam box. Reach out and we can get this sorted!
We offer various 101-104 class options – please click below to hop over to our website for more details!
Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (PDHHS) is seeking ASL instructors to provide ASL instruction to children, youth and families in BC.
If interested, please go to BC Bid website Opportunities: BC Bid (gov.bc.ca) and put XCN2022068RFQ on the search box for details. The closing date and time is August 16, 2022 before 2pm Pacific Time.
Now in its fifth year, Burnaby’s Pride event celebrates the diversity of our local 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, Plus) community and all those who support them! Burnaby Pride will be back with in-person programming for 2022. Returning to Civic Square (home of Burnaby Pride’s 2019 Garden Party), the event on July 23, 2022, will feature a variety of live music, drag, comedy and more, along with educational booths and activities for the whole family! More details are to be released over the coming weeks. visit www.burnabypride.com
School District 69 (Qualicum) is currently recruiting for a Registered Visual Language Interpreter. If you are passionate about helping support students to succeed and pride yourself in promoting an inclusive environment, we want to hear from you!
Rate of Pay: $33.00 per hour
Hours: 30 hours per week
Benefits: Extended Health and Dental paid by the Employer, enrollment in the Municipal Pension Plan and Vacation (per the Collective Agreement)
Other: Professional Development opportunities
JOB FUNCTION:
Under the general supervision of the Principal, with a functional reporting role to the District Principal, Learning, the Registered Visual Language Interpreter will provide interpreting for deaf and hard of hearing students, classmates and educational staff in order to support students in their school activities and their Individual Education Plans. The RVLI will also act, as an interpreter for School or District staff and other allied professionals providing and receiving relevant student information. The RVLIs may be deployed to other district sites when services are not required at the assigned location.
REPORTING TO:
The Principal, with a functional reporting role to the District Principal, Learning.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK:
1. Accurately interpret information from spoken English to American Sign Language/Signed English/Sign Assisted Speech as well as, from American Sign Language/Signed English to spoken English delivering the intent, meaning and register of the speaker at a level commensurate with the grade level of the student as required.
2. Facilitate communication between deaf, hard of hearing and hearing students and staff by providing interpreting services in and out of the classroom, adjusting to the signing, educational and communication required. This may include scribing ASL to written English.
3. Interpret in educational situations such as classroom instruction, student-to-student dialogue, counselling sessions, tutorials, assemblies, parent/student meetings, field trips and any other situations requiring communication.
4. Under the direction of the classroom teacher and teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, provides language extensions and vocabulary reinforcement to support academic concepts. 5. Prepare, as necessary, for interpreting in an educational setting by reviewing educational material, vocabulary, concepts, sentence structure and plan for a variety of situations (e.g. non close captioned videos, field trips, school assembly presentations).
6. Participate in educational team meetings, including the development and review of progress on the Individual Education Plan, providing insight on the success of communication strategies. 7. Maintain confidentiality of all information relating to students, parents and staff. 8. Address differences in auditory, perceptual, visual and memory abilities through augmentative communication.
9. Operate a personal computer and applications, FM equipment, and other augmentative communication devices for educational purposes as required.
10. May, on occasion, be required to perform other job-related duties as assigned, including supervision, assisting individual student(s) or groups of students when help is solicited.
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REQUIRED ABILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Completion of a recognized 2-year Interpreter Training Program (ITP), or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
2. Fluency and ability to:
? Interpret American Sign Language/Signed English/Sign Assisted Speech, including the ability to adjust to the signing, educational, and communication levels that are consistent with the grade level of the student as required;
? As evidenced through a screening committee comprised of representatives of school district professional(s), interpreting organizations and members of the deaf community; and,
? An excellent command of the English language and ability to interpret same.
3. More than 6 months’ experience at providing interpreting services.
4. Be a member in good standing of and abide by the Code of Ethics:
? The Canadian Association of Visual Language Interpreters (CASLI); and,
? The Westcoast Association of Visual Language Interpreters (WAVLI).
5. Have acquired or willingness to acquire an understanding of the learning and social needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing learners in a mainstream education setting.
6. Physical ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the job.
7. Ability to work at the level of independence and with the degree of initiative appropriate to the position.
8. Ability to work flexible hours as needed in order to accommodate after school meetings or events and extra-curricular activities.
9. Ability to work well with students and other adults.
Applications must include proof of qualifications and references.
Successful applicants must successfully complete an Authorization for Criminal Records Search pursuant to the Criminal records Review Act.
To apply to this opportunity, submit your application by email, including your cover letter, resume, supporting qualification and references to:
ATTN: HR HIRING COMMITTEE, jobpostings@sd69.bc.ca
OR
Submit your application to Make a Future via: https://bit.ly/3rREyRw
For further information please email HRSecretary@sd69.bc.ca.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
This cultural show is for 5th Western Canada 55+ Games.
Master of Ceremony is John Warren, we have a talented deaf dancer RJ Espinoza and ASL Performer, Christian Vasquez. We have an art exhibition at Room D128 (Green Room).
