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We need to cast 21 women and men together. Deaf ? ASL choir performers for “Love will tear us apart”

Are you interested in ASL choir performing? please, see the flyer attachment for more informations. We re looking forward to meeting you over there.

“Deaf / ASL choir performers needed” one rehearsal day + two shooting days $150 per performer per day 3 days x $150 = $450!!!! Grab it for your enriched experience and good reference for your future. Please, contact us at tdmdeux@hotmail.com, rickydii@hotmail.com (Ricky Dagan) and slik@shaw.ca (Sharon Kadanoff)

Project party on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm
– meet each other over drinks and appis
– go over the detailed upcoming shoot
– sign contracts and release the forms
– ask any questions you may have

Please, bring your index card with your name, contact information and clothing size

Where: Luke Theater, Western Front Society, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.

We re looking forward to meeting you all in the project party!!! Come one and all !!!

have a great day and thank you
Theatre des Mains
Denise Read
Artist Director

Granger is on the last part of his Canada World Youth Canada program part in Fredericton (been there 3 months) and then he goes to Ghana Africa on Dec.9 (for another 3 months) .He was on the CBC news in New Brunswick tonight and we watched him on the internet (I will give the link below; but maybe only on tonight). When you play it back, do you know how to save it…I can’t seem to save (I was going to send the video to our family). If you can save it, people on your Deaf may be interested in seeing it but the captioning does not work on my computer (lots of signing in the back ground and has Carl Brown who is Grangers home stay parent signing and Granger signing). The link is http://www.cbc.ca/newsatsixnb/crew.html then click on ‘0n demand” under media and ‘latest newscast’ move time curser to 15:33 to the start of the segment (the newscast probably only works tonight).
Submitted by: Gord Campbell (Granger’s father) last Thursday.

Editor: Unsuccessfully, I could not save streaming segment that night. I watched it and I am so proud of Granger (he is from Hornby Island).

Hello everybody!.. A special announcement from BCCSD about a gigantic event on May 30th, 2009. John Warren is coordinating this event
Please view the video msg…
Vincent Chauvet

The West Vancouver Community Arts Council presents “Rediscover Photography”

Group Photography Exhibit
Featuring photograher:
Sheryl R Smith

Silk Purse Gallery
1570 Argyle Avenue
West Vancouver
Opening: TUESDAY December 2nd from 6pm -8 pm

Opening Reception is FREE and EVERYONE is invited to browse, purchase and meet the exhibiting artists, who will be in attendance!!

The exhibit runs from December 2 – 18, 2008
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm
Info: Tel: (604) 925-7292
www.silkpurse.ca

Deaf Actor and Artists at Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver downtown
Wednesday, December 3
1 PM – 6 PM
More info: art-display
Submitted by Peggy Fee

Hello,

On behalf of 2010 Legacies Now, Ipsos-Reid would like to gather the opinions from travellers who are deaf / hearing impaired. To do so, we are conducting a mini-Focus Group with people at 6pm, Monday December 8th at a downtown location. This is part of a greater project where we have also interviewed respondents who are in wheelchairs, as well as those who have a sight-impairment. The key purpose for this aspect of the research is to understand the different needs of people who are deaf/hearing impaired when it comes to travelling, from researching a leisure trip, to travelling to the destination, to enjoying the attractions and activities once you have arrived there.

If your primary method of communication is American Sign Language (ASL) and you have travelled at least one time in the past year away from home and stayed in paid accomodation, we would be interested in hearing from you. The session will last for approximately 2 hours, and you will be paid $100 for your participation. Please contact Marcel at marcel.perro@ipsos.com with your name, and daytime phone number. We will then make contact with you to arrange participation.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards

Ipsos-Reid

Flyer: silk-purse-photo-exhibit
The West Vancouver Community Arts Council presents “Rediscover Photography”
Group Photography Exhibit
Featuring photograher: Sheryl R Smith
Silk Purse Gallery
1570 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver
Opening: TUESDAY December 2nd from 6pm -8 pm
The exhibit runs from December 2 – 18, 2008
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm
Info: Tel: (604) 925-7292
www.silkpurse.ca

Flyer: connectionsnrt
Interpreters Provided
Tickets are for sale at the Jewish Community Centre and you can order tickets on the phone and pay by visa or MasterCard. Their phone number is 604-257-5111.

Debbie Havusha
Special Needs Coordinator
Jewish Family Service Agency
dhavusha@jfsa.ca
Fax: 604-257-4148

4X4 Norwest Deaf Outdoors Club News of Novermber 2008:
norwest-deaf-outdoors-club-news-november-2008

PowerPoint Presentation: VRS Consultative Committee of BC

Today (Wednesday, November 19) the VRS Consultative Committee presentation team provided a presentation to the Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) on issues of accessibility specifically VRS, consultation (or lack by Telus). The presentation team included: Wayne Sinclair, Susan Masters and Monte Hardy. Attached is the Powerpoint presentation we followed (hopefully you all have powerpoint…if not then we will be scheduling a townhall soon).

The presentation went quite well and we understand that there are four themes that seem to be similar across several presentation including ours.

1. consultative process (telephone companies say they do a good job. Consumers say they do a bad job)
2. national (most say yes)
3. funding model (consumers want national competitive model where deaf have choice of different VRS and IPRS-internet protocol relay service–similar with MRC but with computers)
4. how much (consumers want 24/7/365) and when (now).

These themes were exactly the points we wanted to make with the CRTC. I believe that they heard loud and clear these points. We (the presentation team) felt a little disappointed that the CRTC panel did not ask many questions but it became clear that we were echoing the same message as other presentations.

Thanks to the hard working members of the VRS Consultative Committee of BC including:
Lisa Anderson, Sarah Hrycenko, Cecelia Klassen, Danny Lecours, Margo Pelkey, Robie Schoelfield, Ava Hawkins, Nigel Howard, Susan Masters, Wayne Sinclair and Monte Hardy.

We are hoping to schedule a Community Caucus (townhall meeting) soon so that we can provide you with a summary of the presentation and if there are any further actions resulting from the CRTC hearings.

Thank you Deaf Community of British Columbia.
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crtc-transcript
The attached document is a transcript of the VRS Consultative Committee’s presentation at today’s CRTC panel hearing. This is an alternative format (in WORD document) for those of you who don’t have powerpoint on your computers. If you have any questions please bring them to the townhall meeting that we hope to schedule in the next few weeks.
vrsbc@telus.net