BCSDAA Reunion 2020 Registration in ASL:
Eventbrite registration:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bc-school-for-the-deaf-alumni-association-for-reunion-2020-tickets-61914103751
BCSDAA Reunion 2020 Registration – Early Bird Sept 1
Summer Soccer Camp – Aug19-23
More info on www.bcdeafsports.bc.ca
Summer Job Opportunity at WIDHH
The hunt for qualified candidate to fill the Communication Assistant position continues! A great summer job opportunity that you or your skilled friend wouldn’t want to miss! Please watch the video and feel free to pass it around to help us find the right person! ?
Thank you!
WIDHH
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BC Basketball Youth Camp – Aug 26-29
If you are interested in registering please contact us at summer@bcdeafsports.bc.ca and we will send you all of the required registration forms, thank you.
Decolonize & Anti-Oppression Workshop – July 14
Decolonize & Anti-Oppression Workshop
Organized and taking place on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, which include the x?m??kw?y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish), and s?l?ilw?ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations (colonially known as Vancouver, Canada).
The Anti-Oppression Network & Friends For Life Society are proud to present a community awareness and capacity-building workshop for HIV+ people and the wider community. All are welcome.
Join us for a lightly facilitated discussion about:
– colonization from an Indigenous perspective within Canada
– anti-oppression terminology
– grassroots community organizing, meaningful solidarity building, & horizontal group/community structures
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Sunday, July 14th, 2019
2:00pm – 5:00pm
@ Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, 800 East Broadway, Vancouver
by donation; no one turned away for lack of funds
for more information: https://www.facebook.com/
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Safer Space Information:
This event is a safer space event. We insist attendees conduct themselves within decolonial and intersectional frameworks. Forms of fascists and supremacists are not welcome.
Accessibility Info:
– The building entrance, workshop space, and washrooms are wheelchair accessible.
– There are two single-stall, all gender washrooms right outside the workshop space, and multi-stalled gender washrooms around the corner on the main floor.
– This event will be a scent-reduced environment; refrain from wearing scented products the day before and during the event. This includes perfumes, lotions, hair products, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc.
– ASL interpretation has been secured for this event.
– If you require an EMF-reduced space, please contact us as soon as possible; if needed, an EMF-reduced space will be created as well as a space for people who require using their cell phone for access purposes.
If you have any questions or further accessibility requests please contact us at theantioppressionnetwork [at] tutanota [.] com.
hiy hiy/thank you/merci
The Anti-Oppression Network
“Until all of us are free, the few who think they are, remain tainted with enslavement.”
Provincial Language Service (PLS) is Seeking Applications for the Community Advisory Group (CAG) for MIS
UPDATE:
Provincial Language Service would like to thank everyone who has already submitted an application to join the Community Advisory Group (CAG). We are extending the deadline for applications until August 31, 2019 in hopes of receiving applications from all regions of the province. Thus far 13 applications have been received, with the majority of applicants being from the Greater Vancouver area.
We strongly encourage community representatives from the North and the Island to apply to join the CAG.
To access the online application, please click here: https://surveys.vch.ca/Survey.aspx?s=315152fca85f4edfa842370c68adb8c7
For more information about the process, please click here: http://www.phsa.ca/our-services/programs-services/provincial-language-service#In–the–community
PLS is seeking applications for the Community Advisory Group (CAG)!
CAG will advise PLS in a number of areas: the provincial model of medical Sign language interpreting services, service coordinator job description competencies, service components to be included in the Request for Proposal for provincial medical Sign language interpreting services, and other components that will help ensure appropriate access for the community.
The ASL announcement and recruitment process for the CAG can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ww_1mIVmY&feature=youtu.be and the English version of the same can be found on the PLS website:http://www.phsa.ca/our-services/programs-services/provincial-language-service#In–the–community
We would like to ensure that all eligible persons have an opportunity to apply for the CAG, so we would greatly appreciate it if you could post it on your website and share it widely.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Kiran
Kiran Malli
Director, PLS
Telephone: 604.297.8416 Mobile: 604.788.1166
Provincial Language Service
Provincial Health Services Authority
1795 Willingdon Avenue
Burnaby, BC V5C 6E3
General Inquiries: 604.297.8400 or Toll-free: 1.877.BC TALKS (228-2557)
Fax: 604.297.9304 http://pls.phsa.ca
I acknowledge that my place of work is within the unceded territory of the Coast Salish People.
BCSD Reunion 2020 Registration
BCSDAA Reunion 2020 Registration in ASL:
Eventbrite registration:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bc-school-for-the-deaf-alumni-association-for-reunion-2020-tickets-61914103751
WIDHH Summer Student Position
Attached is a job posting for a Communication Assistant summer student position here at WIDHH. Please feel free to share the posting with anyone you think would be interested.
Interpreting Communication Assistant – 17Jun2019
Queer Arts Festival 2019
QAF 2019 listings are explored in this ASL video by Ladan Sahraei. For more information on our ASL interpreted events visit our website: https://
The Queer arts festival from June 17th through June 28th
the theme this year is rEvolution
the evolution of the revolution
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Visual Art Dance Performance Literature Theatre Music Media Art Literature Workshops
69 Positions: Circa Omnibus: | May 14 – Aug 17 | @ SUM Gallery
The west coast stop of Queer Media Database Canada-Québec Project’s touring archive series, marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Omnibus which legalized sodomy.
Technical Knockouts: Emerging Artists Lab | Jun 12th – Jun 22nd
A female-centred music production, tech, songwriting and DJ drop-in lab for queer Indigenous and allied youth.
Art Party! Gala Opening Reception | Jun 18 | 7pm ASL
Art and conviviality converge at the grand opening of the Queer Arts Festival.
Relational rEvolutions | Jun 17-26
QAF’s signature curated visual art exhibition.
A Night of Storytelling | Jun 19 | 7pm ASL
Literary readings presented by Danny Ramadan.
Curator Roundtable | Jun 20 | 7pm ASL
Visual artists and curator Elwood Jimmy convene to discuss the exhibition.
Cultivate – Artist Support Circles for Indigi- and other Queers | Jun 21 | 4 and 5pm | @ SUM Gallery
Shane Sable’s space for sharing and creative community building amongst queer and 2Spirit artists.
The Queen In Me | Jun 21-22 | 7pm ASL june 22
Exploding operatic expectations with soprano Teiya Kasahara.
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Technical Knockouts | Jun 23 | 7pm ASL s
Multidisciplinary music featuring mentors Kinnie Starr, DJ O Show and Tiffany Moses.
Jesse – An ASL Opera | Jun 24 | 7pm
A workshop reading about one man’s journey of self-discovery.
Diaspora | Jun 25 | 7pm ASL symbol
An interactive project addressing queer refugees and immigrants in Canada.
The Wide Open | Jun 26 | 7pm
Curator Lacie Burning puts LGBTQ2S+ narratives fearlessly out in the open.
Queer Songbook Orchestra: Emerging Artist Workshop | Jun 27 | 6pm
Workshop for emerging artists using their own personal narratives as an entry point for creating music.
69 Positions: Circa Omnimbus Tour | Jun 27 | 6pm | @ SUM Gallery
Co-curator Kaschelle Thiessen provides a guided tour of the exhibition, offering priceless insight into the significance of the archive.
Queer Songbook Orchestra | Jun 28 | 7pm ASL
Weaving together stories by local narrators with arrangements by Canada’s foremost composers.
Stonewall 50: Glitter is Forever | Jun 28 | 9pm Till midnight
Our final blowout gathers our communities together to revel in half-century of revolution.
All events at Roundhouse unless otherwise noted.
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