Part time Instructor ASL- Prep, Basic, and Advanced Levels (Evening Courses)
Vancouver Community College Portal | Instructor ASL – Prep, Basic and Advanced Levels (vcc.ca)
Auxiliary / On-Call Instructor ASL- Prep, Basic, and Advanced Levels (Evening Courses)
Vancouver Community College Portal | Instructor ASL – Prep, Basic and Advanced Levels (vcc.ca)
Auxiliary / On-Call Instructor American Sign Language (ASL) & Deaf Studies (Day time)
Closing Date: July 29, 2021
Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, MCFD, is recruiting ASL instructors to provide ASL instruction to children, youth and families in BC.
If interested, please go to BC Bid website and pick Ministry of Children and Family Development under “BROWSE OPPORTUNITIES by ORGANIZATION” and click on XCN2021018RFQ for details. The closing date is August 27 2021, 2:00pm
The KODA club is hosting Meet and Greet event for deaf parents with children. For further information on KODA Club, please go to their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BC-Koda-Club-105046415198493
For further information on the Meet and Greet information, please go to this event link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/320463606475337/?ref=newsfeed
For any inquiries or questions reach out to Koda Club on their page.
Join us for the online release of cuzlhkán kal?xsa nqwal?úttena (I am going to remember my language) by Lil’wat playwright and performer Yvonne Wallace – our second presentation in the Seismic Shift digital short series.
This event is ASL Interpreted. It’s free. The screening will be followed by an Artist Talk Back with Yvonne Wallace and hosted by Touchstone’s newly appointed Associate AD, Daniela Atiencia.
The event will also serve as the official 2021 kickoff of Flying Start’s Call for Proposals – a two-year program aimed at developing the creative work of a local emerging, underrepresented playwright and culminating in a world premiere in Touchstone’s mainstage season.
ABOUT THE FILM
Filmed in the stunning territories of the Lil’wat Nation, the story follows an indigenous woman (Yvonne Wallace) who suddenly becomes fluent in the language of Ucwalmicwts after a startling encounter at the edge of Lillooet Lake. As she climbs the valley in search of phone reception to contact her mother – the only one who will understand her – she finds herself transformed by her ancestry.
Running time: 8 minutes
English and Ucwalmicwts are both spoken in the piece.
English subtitles provided Link to the film will be provided via Zoom
CREATIVE TEAM
Written and Performed by Yvonne Wallace
Directed, Filmed and Edited by Ryan Regehr
Translation by Yvonne Wallace and Virginia Gloria Wallace
The Cougar, Script Supervision, Locations, & Catering by Vania Stager
Production Managed by Marisa E. Smith
ABOUT SEISMIC SHIFT
Seismic Shift was an invitation for artists to imagine, express, and articulate the seismic shifts experienced when creating in isolation. It was also an opportunity for playwrights to re-imagine their creative process in a digital space by creating solo performances in a pandemic reality.
ABOUT TOUCHSTONE THEATRE
Touchstone has been a mainstay of theatrical innovation and excellence on the West Coast for close to 45 years. The company’s all-Canadian mandate has helped to launch and develop some of the country’s most important theatre artists, and its substantial body of work has garnered over 75 local and national awards. The company explores the contemporary Canadian play through content and form, and stimulates public interest in Canadian cultural perspectives. www.touchstonetheatre.com
The time has come for us to be able to do something for Brian!
Brian: 33 year old, Deaf and surviving a stroke that wiped out his ability to communicate in ASL. He is on the path to a new communication system and mobility adaptations. He needs our help! The following link is for a GO FUND ME that has been set up for Brian. If you click on the link, there is also a long update on Brian’s progress (in written English and in ASL).
Brian is cognitively aware – it would be awesome if we could overwhelm him with community support! Alayna will be showing him the updates on GO FUND ME. So even small donation with comments would be wonderful and will brighten his future.
If you feel comfortable, sharing this link on Facebook or by email with family and friends would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Cecelia
Today, the Government of Canada introduced legislation to establish the framework for a new Canada Disability Benefit. The benefit would help reduce poverty among low-income, working-age Canadians with disabilities by providing direct financial support.
Bill C-35, the Canada Disability Benefit Act, has been published here: LEGISinfo – House Government Bill C-35 (43-2) (parl.ca)
The Government of Canada committed in the 2020 Speech from the Throne to develop the first-ever Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). This plan will include:
• a new Canada Disability Benefit;
• a robust employment strategy for Canadians with disabilities;
• and a better process to determine eligibility for federal disability programs and benefits.
The new Canada Disability Benefit is the cornerstone of this plan.
For more information, please see the news release and backgrounder: Government of Canada introduces legislation to create the new Canada Disability Benefit – Canada.ca
Secretary General
Source: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2021/2021-102-2.htm
Hey everybody!
Our Summer (Aug-Sept) 2021 cycle is PAH* open for registration. For this cycle, we are offering all levels!
*fun fact: PAH means “finally!” “at last!” “i did it!” in ASL – we write PAH to represent this sign as we use this mouthshape while signing this sign.
Our online courses use a hybrid approach – a mixture of self-paced learning and live practice via zoom. Our courses include:
Queer ASL 101: This course covers learning the alphabet, finger-spelling, introductions, likes & dislikes, languages, locations, and much more. At the end, students take turns telling an autobiography about themselves.
Queer ASL 102: This course covers learning about activities, living arrangements, people, transportation, and much more. At the end, students share & discuss photos of their chosen families with each other.
Queer ASL 103: This course digs into the world of time grammar, topic + comment structure, directional verbs, space use, and much more. At the end, students do an overall ASL 101 – 103 review through activities.
Queer ASL 104 – Conversational: This class focuses on developing our conversational skills. Each week have different themes and conversation prompts. We offer two convo classes that have different topic themes so folks who completed one convo class could register for the other one.
Queer ASL 104 – Storytelling: This course focuses on learning ASL classifiers, mouth morphemes, role shifting, and developing their storytelling skills. Through-out the course, students work on a children story of their own.
Register here at this link:
| Open Technical Session |
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | EST
This webinar offers you an open information session titled “Technical Session.” We are here to support you with any technical-related support you need, and we also have some tips to share with you. If you have any questions, this is your opportunity!
| Benefits of Customer Service |
Thursday, July 8, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM | EST
This webinar offers you an open information session title “Benefits of Customer Service” where we will explain the different options on how to contact Customer Service, what kind of complaints/feedback you can provide, type of technical support, FAQs and more. This session will be integrated with the PowerPoint and Q&A. Bring your questions and devices!
| Open Technical Session |
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | EST
This webinar offers you an open information session titled “Technical Session.” We are here to support you with any technical-related support you need, and we also have some tips to share with you. If you have any questions, this is your opportunity!
Please remember to register!
Deadline: One day before the event date
How to register and use Zoom? You can find the instruction here.
Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture is thrilled to present the solo exhibition “Constructed Identities” by Persimmon Blackbridge, one of Canada’s most recognized Artists that identifies as living with a disability.
Constructed Identities, a major show of work by Persimmon Blackbridge, uses mixed media wood carving with found objects to question how disability is framed as a fracturing of ordinary life rather than a normal, expected part of it. Her exploration of the figure begins in disability, but necessarily complicates itself as our embodied identities intersect and overlap.
Monday July 26 – Friday August 10, 2021
Pendulum Gallery
HSBC Building, 885 West Georgia, Vancouver BC
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Wednesday: 9am – 6pm
Thursday & Friday: 9am – 9pm
Saturday: 9am – 5pm
Admission to Pendulum Gallery is free to the public and wheelchair accessible
The exhibition will be available for in-person viewing, following COVID guidelines set out by the province of British Columbia.
Virtual Opening & Artist Talk
Monday July 26, 2021
7pm – 9pm PST
Join us virtually (via Zoom) for an opening reception of Constructed Identities, which will include an Artist Talk by Persimmon Blackbridge and curator Yuri Arajs
ASL & CART Captioning provided
Register To Attend: https://kickstartdisability-constructedidentitiesopening.eventbrite.hk
Hi GVAD Members and friends,
Please join and watch the GVAD President’s final speech and introduce the new GVAD co-presidents and directors this Monday, July 12 at 7 PM via Zoom.
Before the speech, we will have a special guest from California, Julie Rems-Smario, who will give a presentation on The Art of Volunteering. She was one of Deaf Hope and LEAD-K founders in California. She will explain how important volunteering in the Deaf community is.
Interpreters (voice and DI) included. Everyone is welcome. You can invite anyone to watch Julie’s presentation for one hour then the final speech & the introduction.
Zoom link:Time: Jul 12, 2021 07:00 PM Vancouver
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85252690763?pwd=RXZKUy9NQndBakNvMXg0Y2U1cFpJUT09
Meeting ID: 852 5269 0763
Passcode: 654477
See you there.The GVAD Board
Welcome to the hot summer days. I don’t know about you, but we are so happy to be outside. Now that things are opening up again, make sure to follow all safety protocols and continue to wear a mask to protect our vulnerable communities. We will get through this.
Please note that there will be no regularly scheduled Newsletter in August because the final day of the AGM is on August 1st. We will be back to our regularly Newsletter in September. In the meantime, any news or updates will be shared on our Social Media accounts. Please monitor that until we are back.
Check out this video made by some of our board members regarding Canada’s day.
Transcript:
Shawna:
Hello everyone
Today is a tough day for everyone. Minds wandering, should I celebrate ‘Canada Day’? No intentions to upset Indigenous People if I celebrate – Don’t. Show your support – Wear ORANGE shirts.
Proud Canadians are encouraged to read these…
All of us are encouraged to read to understand more. We have the CAD-ASC board and Deaf Indigenous of Canada Committed to showing their feelings and supports…
Enjoy watching…
Thank You/Miigwech
Frank:
Hello everyone.
Indigenous children’s deaths, very heartbreaking. We are to pray, show support to Indigenous Peoples. Deaf Communities, please join to show your support to Indigenous Peoples. My heart is deeply touched.
Paula:
The land is full of grass, digging holes… children are finally found. Now, children can feel free, back home, and reconnect with communities and families. Now they are allowed to be included in cultural ceremonies and share emotions.
We acknowledge that history is horrible – we must acknowledge it constantly.
Will we repeat this history? NEVER again. We are the future. We are the present. It is time to change. To give our support, our love, our emotional feelings, give to the children and protect them and the next generation. Past, present and future. It is time to ACT and LISTEN to the Peoples.
To be aware that this land, Canada, is the only country? No, we are not alone; include the entire world too. Remember that.
Again, please remember – never, never, never to forget the children who did not make it back home. And now, they found a home.
Thank You/Miigwech
Wissam:
I acknowledge life on this land. I thank Indigenous Peoples for allowing us to live, work, and enjoy life on this land. I don’t accept that I can live while Indigenous Peoples’ blood, death, missing, loss, pain, and suffering refuse. It’s my responsibility to protect all people, especially Indigenous Peoples, and I’m responsible to protect all children, especially Indigenous children. You all start now to show you appreciate the generations on this land. I’m accountable to sit, honour, work together, listen, learn from Indigenous Peoples and Elders — my deep condolences for your pain. I think and pray for all children, parents, families and tribes. Pray.
Destiny:
“Happy Canada Day!”
NO. Pride is to be set aside. Time to let them heal from being heartbroken. We all are in shock. Important to take the time to learn about the history, Indigenous Peoples and their relationship with Canada. That will help us to work together.
Healing…
Leanor:
I moved to Canada. I feel conflicted as I love it here. But I don’t love what happened in history. Children went missing, children being taken away, children have died. People are overpowering, bullying… it’s not right.
I am so and very sorry.
Kamil:
Today is Canada Day, but we are not celebrating Canada Day. To celebrate Canada Day is to celebrate:
And so many more real examples of oppression towards Indigenous communities to add to this list…
Instead of celebrating Canada Day, here are some of many things we can do:
(Repost by DYC-JSC)
If you need help or want to talk, here are some numbers you can contact to:
Wissam’s Message
Transcript:
Hello everyone. First I want to recognize the land we are on. CAD-ASC office is in Ottawa, Ontario. This land is still colonized, it has not been unceded yet. This land belongs to the Indigenous community of Algonquins Anishinaabe. I also want to recognize that in the East is the Mi’kmaq. To the West is Salish. In the North it is Inuit. This land belongs to the Indigenous.
CAD-ASC is heartbroken along with the Indigenous communities. The number of Indigenous children being found is increasing. These children were killed, throw away, and hidden for a long time. Now they’re being found. This is a gut wrenching tragedy. This is not a chapter of history, it is still ongoing. We cannot predict the future. CAD-ASC ask that the settlers support the Indigenous communities. How can you support them? Wear orange. Reflect. Pray. Support. How can you support? Asking many questions to the Indigenous community? What’s the number at? How many more? What happened? What do I Do? Avoid this. This causes them more pain.
Does this mean you just leave them alone? No. Continue to support them, keep watching the news. Watch elders of the community speeches. If there’s any public events, go ahead and join them in person, reflect and pray together. Analyze tousled. Thank you for watching. Please take a few moments today to reflect on this.
Shawna’s Message
Transcript:
Hello everyone, I wanted to let you know about two events that the DIC was hosting. The first one was the Residential school event and the MMIWG, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We decided to cancel both events, there were a few reasons.
The discovery of the children bodies across Canada was hard, we were very emotional about this. We also didn’t feel right to host the events with the recent discovery and residential survivors. We will postpone the residential school event towards the end of July, more details will be shared soon.
We will postpone the MMIWG event towards the end of August. We want to include a resource support system in the events, so after the event if you need support or someone to talk to, we have one ready. We are looking forwards to these events.
Thank you, Miigwech.
News about our affiliate member
Transcript:
CAD-ASC is thrilled to announce that The Okanagan Valley Association of the Deaf (OVAD) will be a full provincial affiliate representing British Columbia. OVAD has been working tirelessly with us for the benefit of Deaf people who live in Canada.
The Board of Directors looks forward to having amazing work with OVAD represented by Gordon J. Rattray.
Please join us congratulating OVAD for their full provincial affiliation and wish them the best in their journey servicing our community in British Columbia.
Website Renovations
Transcript:
Hello, my name Anna Wren and I am the communication coordinator for CAD-ASC. I wanted to let you know that the website is not clear, hard to use, information is missing. We know this. We recently hired one person who is an expert web master. This person is now focusing on fixing and improving the website.
While he is fixing the website we will not be posting new information on the website. For news or information we will share them via newsletter to our affiliates or on our social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. Postings on the website is on hold until the website is fixed. Thank you.
Upcoming Events
Transcript:
Upcoming events this month: More information will be released soon. Keep your eye open for events this month on our Facebook page.
Improve access to programs and services for persons with disabilities in your community
We wish to inform you of a funding opportunity that may be of interest to you and/or your network and partners. Through the Government of Canada’s 2021 Call for Proposals (CFP) under the Enabling Accessibility Fund’s mid-sized projects component, not-for-profit, for profit and Indigenous organizations, municipalities and territorial governments could receive up to $1 million for the retrofit, renovation or new construction of accessible facilities or venues.
Until July 29, 2021, ESDC is accepting applications for projects that help improve and make facilities in Canadian communities and workplaces more accessible for persons with disabilities.
Information on the application requirements and process can be found within the Applicant Guide found on the EAF funding webpage. As well, information sessions will be offered to applicants in mid-June and in July. Organizations will be able to participate in the sessions online and by teleconference; details will be posted on the EAF funding page.
If you would like to apply for funding or learn more about this funding opportunity, visit the EAF funding webpage.
We encourage you to share this email with your network, partners and stakeholders so they may also benefit from this funding opportunity.
Enabling Accessibility Fund Team
Employment and Social Development Canada
Burnaby is seeking a school-based leader who has a track record of success and experience working in an urban, culturally diverse community. As a member of the district’s leadership team, the BCSD Vice-Principal has the primary responsibility for implementing, managing, and supervising a wide range of educational and support services for students enrolled in the provincial school for the deaf. The Vice-Principal will work closely with the administrative teams at Burnaby South Secondary and South Slope Elementary to share responsibilities for the overall operation of the schools.
Qualifications:
Preference will be given to an applicant who possesses the following qualifications:
Duties include:
Please provide a detailed résumé including professional credentials, statement of educational philosophy and three current letters of professional reference (2021).We ask that a full application for this position be submitted by 4:00 pm Friday, July 30, 2021 to: https://bit.ly/3wcWBks (SUBJECT: Vice Principal, BCSD).
The Burnaby School District embraces diversity as a privilege and a strength. We strive for accepting, safe, supportive, and inviting communities where the goal is for all members to feel a sense of belonging. Our (schools or worksites) are for everyone and we respect each person’s contributions.
an offering to people who are Deaf & Hard of Hearing. Taught in ASL. CHAKRA YOGA (aka: The Yoga of Lady Niguma) Lead by Certified Yoga Instructor Leonarda Ehl
When: Thursdays
Time: 4pm—5:15pm
Where: ZOOM
Only 8 spots available!
What you will learn:
Deadline to register: Thursday, July 8
Only for BC residents. Attend all 8 classes, you will get FREE YOGA PAH! DVD!!!
Need More Information or Register? Contact Bonnie at:
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