Sept. 24 is the International Day of Sign Language Rights!
Save the date and make sure to check back to Deafbc for more updates on the days activities!
If you don’t know what about this event take a look at the videos from last year.
Upcoming BCRAD Events
BCRAD (BC Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf) pub night at the Pumpjack!
Where: Pumpjack Pub- 1167 Davie St
When: Sept. 18th, 2010
Time: 10:30pm-11:30pm
BCRAD Lazy Sunday!
Where: The Fountain Head Pub- 1025 Davie Street
When: Sept. 19th, 2010
Time: 2:00pm- 5:30pm
The Fountainhead is a neighbourhood pub that features a diverse clientele,
pool table, darts, good selection of food and drinks and friendly service.
BCRAD Dinner Night
Where: Cafe Luxy- 1235 Davie Street
When: Sept. 24th, 2010
Time: 7:30pm- 9:30pm
For more information about BCRAD and their upcoming events visit their Facebook page!
Funding Restored for Deaf Students
“In response to these challenges and – input received from the Deaf Community, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development is implementing a pilot program to examine the re-distribution of resources to facilitate attendance of local deaf and hard of hearing students at specialized ASL post-secondary institutions outside of Canada.”
Pomegranate Midwives
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Are you pregnant? Looking for a care provider?
Midwives are free with a BC Care Card and can provide comprehensive care throughout your pregnancy, labour and birth, and postpartum (until your baby is 6 weeks old).
Midwives are primary care providers (like doctors) and can order tests, ultrasounds, and write some prescriptions. We offer you longer appointment times (45 minutes) and home visits after your baby is born.
You can decide if you want to have your baby at home or in the hospital! We work with women who live in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster.
Beth Duncan is a Registered Midwife who works at Pomegranate Community Midwives. She is familiar with the D/deaf community and signs.
Please fill out our online booking form at:
http://www.pomegranate-midwives.com/Contact.html
or email us any questions at office@pomegranate-midwives.com
Curling Clinic
Are you interested in learning how to curl?
Curling clinic for beginners – open to anyone and it’s FREE.
WHEN: Saturday September 18th, 2010
WHERE: Royal City Curling Club
75 East 6th Avenue
New Westminster, BC
TIME: 10:00am to 3:00pm
Lunch will be provided.
Sponsored by the Greater Vancouver Deaf Curling Club.
Please contact Doug Lambert if you have any questions or concerns at
dglambert@shaw.ca or 604-437-6624 TTY
OVAD Picnic and Tubing *Update*
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO COOL WEATHER and COLD WATER.
OVAD
(Okanagan Valley Association of the Deaf)
Tubing and Picnic in Penticton, BC
August 28th ,2010
1pm to dusk
Tubing/Floating at 1pm sharp for group of 12+ to get a discount $8.00 if late pay $10.00 (floating lasts for 1 ¼ to 1 ½ hours from Okanagan Lake to Skaha Lake thru Penticton River Channel (Riverside Dr and Burnaby Ave across from Day Inn)
If you bring your own tube will pay only $3.00 or $5.00
For your information check at http://www.okanaganattractions.ca/Penticton%20River%20Float.html
Picnic at Skaha Park on South Main St., Penticton
If anyone don’t want to go for tubing and can go to Skaha Park for picnic. Bring your own meal and lawn chairs.
Social 50/50 Fun
If it’s raining, cancel
Any question to contact Jerome Yager at yagerj@telus.blackberry.net
Two Art Events In September
Artful Sundays
Artful Sundays is an outdoor, multi media, visual arts market. Each Sunday features a new group of local artists, live music, artist demonstrations, and workshops, special events, community groups and more!
A.J. Brown will participate on
September 5, 12 to 5 pm
Britannia Community Centre
1661 Napier Street
Outdoors in Napier Square, Napier and Commercial
Vancouver, BC, Canada
For more information, please contact,
the Coordinator Katherine Polgrain: courage@vcn.bc.ca
Garbage Can Art Contest
Granville Island in the courtyard next to the Public Market
Vancouver, BC
Sunday, September, 26, 11 to 3 pm
After 3, the garbage cans are auctioned off
Twenty-five artists will take part in the four hours of creative madness, turning plain metal garbage cans, provided by the event sponsor, Granville Island Ferries (www.granvilleislandferries.bc.ca), into works of art.
The artists provide their time, their art supplies and their great ideas! Granville Island Ferries supplies the garbage cans, tents, water, power and sheltered areas for spray-painting. To keep the artists and …crowds in a holiday mood, Celtic music is provided throughout the afternoon by the popular Vancouver band Blackthorn (www.blackthornband.com).
Collectibles are auctioned off by broadcast personality Dave Abbott to raise funds to purchase supplies for the art therapy programs at British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital (www.bcchildrens.ca).
For more information, please contact:
info@granvilleislandferries.bc.ca
CornFest Pictures
GVAD has posted some of the pictures from the CornFest to their website.
Flight Centre- Job Advertisement
Flight Centre is looking to hire a Business Development Manager for their Accessible Travel division in Vancouver. Flight Centre looking for a sales professional who ideally has connections or a network in the disability sector.
Fall Workshops
GVAD is setting up workshops for the fall. Please email vandeaf@telus.net if you are interested in taking:
1. Food Safe: November
2. First Aid level One: October
3. Computer Workshop-Word : October (see description below)
Microsoft Word 2007 Level 1
Microsoft Office Word is full of tools and capabilities that can help improve the quality of your academic work. With this software you can type and organize lecture or research notes, create and edit professional-looking reports and papers, effortlessly add endnotes and footnotes, and import graphs and charts from other applications.
Objectives
- Create, Save, Revise and Print Documents
- File Management, Including Manipulation of Multiple Documents
- Change the Document Format to the Desired Presentation
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Test
- Preview Document
- Switch Between Different Views
- Use Spell and Grammar Checking
4.Computer Workshop-Excel: (see description below)
Microsoft Excel 2007 Level 1
Microsoft Office Excel contains powerful tools to help you analyze, manage, and share critical business data. The latest version also lets you work more efficiently in teams, while helping to protect and control access to sensitive information.
If you are interested in any of the above workshops please email GVAD at vandeaf@telus.net to let us know.
Vancouver Police Department- Interpreters Provided
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If you have any questions related to this Vlog or new information please contact Janice Lyons:
lyonsjk@telus.net or lyoness@rogers.blackberry.net or
V.P. at 24.85.224.137 (d-link) or VP (Sorenson/Telus) at 604-001-0027
Song Translation Request
I am recording a song in English, Chinese and Spanish. I would also like to do the chorus in sign language for our video which we plan to promote worldwide. I need to connect with someone who could teach me/ show me how to do that. It is a Christian song, the chorus is relatively short so it wouldn’t be too difficult.
We are doing this for pure joy, there is no money involved.
I’m looking for someone to work with to translate the chorus.
Thanks so much!
If you interested please email:
Leah Hawirko
serious.fun@live.com
Telus VRS Update
Hello Friends in the VRS TRIAL PROJECT:
Please view videoclip about TELUS VRS JULY UPDATE…click vimeo below.
Note the change of service hours.
Tuesday September 7, 2010
VRS move to 7 days a week, 6am to 10pm PDT
Wednesday December 1, 2010
Service moves to 7 days a week, 24 hrs a day
You can watch it here:
http://vimeo.com/14185309
Forward this email to your friends and family so that they can see it, too.
FEEDBACK Collection:
Feedback collection commencing in August – after phone has been installed for at least 30 days
Feedback will be collected by a point to point VRS call initiated thorough the Sorenson Customer Information Representatives
* Questions will be asked via ASL
* Participant answers and comments will be collected and entered unedited into a TELUS tool
* 5 to 10 questions with comments about: quality of Service, quality of Interpretation, quality of technology, overall call experience, open comments
* Feedback collection every 30 days until Dec 2010 then every 60 days
