GVAD is hosting a C-81 Victory Celebration this Wednesday (June 5) at 6:30 pm at Multi Purpose Room BCSD (Burnaby South). Multiple short presentations. We will have Deaf interpreters and voice interpreters. Light snacks and drinks provided.
Vancouver Comic Arts Festival
Hi GVAD team,
I am the festival director for the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival.
I was wondering if we could post our poster or some links on your website. We celebrate comics, graphic novels, and those who make them.
All 20 of our panels have ASL interpreters, including our Friday night opening panel.
Here are some links on our Facebook to the events:
-Radical forms in Comic Creation Panel: https://www.facebook.
– Our Facebook home page: https://www.facebook.
– All of our panels listed on our website: http://www.vancaf.
I have also attached our general festival poster and our Friday night event poster for more information.
Come and Learn: About WBP and WIDHH Services for Older Adults – May 15
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Come and Learn: About WBP and WIDHH Services for Older Adults
When: Wednesday, May 15
Time: 4 to 6 pm
Where:
WBP office
#300-4211 Kingsway, Burnaby
Please join Kristen Pranzl from WBP and Tammy Gray from BH-WIDHH in learning about what each program offers to senior citizens over 55 in BC.
You will also learn how both programs will collaborate to support the community.
Need More Information or Register?
Email: WellBeing.Staff@vch.ca
Voice: 604-456-0900
Text: 778-987-4174
TTY: 604-456-0901
FAX: 604-456-0904
Website: deafwellbeing.vch.ca
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Al Etmanski & Allyship
Hello community partner,
I hope you are having a great week.
We wish to inform you about our next Disabled Community Connection Network (DCCN) session. DCCN is a monthly communication and information group for people of all ages (16+) with any disability. This group is supported by the North Shore Disability Resource Centre.
The next group is May 16th from 4:00PM – 6:00PM. The session will now be held at The North Shore Disability Resource Centre 3158 Mountain Highway. North Shore Disability Resource Centre is an accessible space, please let us know of any other accessibility requirements you might have in advance of the meeting.
The topic for the session will be on “Allyship and how to be a good ally to the disabled community”
Al Etmanski will be our speaker. His Bio is below:
Al is a writer, community organizer and social entrepreneur. He was welcomed into the world of disability in 1978 when his daughter Liz was born. He led the closure of institutions, segregated schools, and sheltered workshops in BC. Founded Canada’s first Family Support Institute. Initiated the precedent setting right-to-treatment court case for Stephen Dawson. In 1989 he co-founded Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network with his wife Vickie Cammack. PLAN lobbied into existence the Registered Disability Savings Plan. Sparked a national conversation about ‘belonging.’ And was instrumental in establishing a grass roots alternative to legal guardianship by expanding the legal definition of capacity. Al’s last book, Impact: 6 Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation is a national bestseller. His forthcoming book is The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving and Changing the World. He blogs at aletmanski.com.
ASL Interpretation and light refreshments provided! Please let us know of any accommodations and dietary needs you require.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The DCCN will now have a registration limit of 15. Email laur.stinson@gmail.com or call 604-904-4088 to register.
Our flyer should be attached.
P.S. Let me know if you want to be removed from our mailing list.
Stacey Francis
ASL Deaf Programming at the 2019 Queer Arts Festival – Community Listings
Hello my name is Barb Snelgrove and I am handling the promotion of the 2019 Queer Arts Festival running June 17th – June 28th 2019 at the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver).
I am writing to submit for your consideration, events the Arts Festival has coming up for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Should you have any events calendar available to your members, I am hoping you could include these events in them?
We have a robust selection of events that are text based, that will have full ASL services available.The link to the ASL interpreted events calendar is here at the link https://queerartsfestival.com/category/asl-interpreted-events/ and I have also provided here below.
There is one event in particular, JESSE – An ASL Opera, which should be of great interest:
Mon Jun 24 | 7pm | with Landon Krentz and re:Naissance Opera | Pay What You Can
JESSE – AN ASL OPERA is a workshop reading by Landon Krentz, Heather Molloy & Paula Weber resulting from a two-week experimental process that gathered Deaf and Hearing artists to explore how poetry, music, English and ASL intersect. Bi-cultural and bilingual, this experience reflects a creative process that was both riveting and uncomfortable.
“You have failed the hearing test”.
No apologies required, it is fact. You look around seeking validation and a sense of belonging but you know that this result will never change. You will always fail. With both hands tucked beneath your buttocks, you feel the world closing in. You can’t remember the last time you felt warm and safe. It hits you, how strained and lonely it is inside this black box in the audiology department.
Jesse – An ASL Opera is about one man’s journey of self-discovery as he navigates Deaf culture, queerness and the rhythms of being human. The opera explores how language is seen, heard and understood by combining the movement, rhythmic structure and meter present in all ASL poetry and music.
In the midst of another all-too-frequent trip to the audiologist’s office, Jesse can’t help but wonder: when does it end? Jesse is a young man who has no choice but to navigate the hearing world as he explores the inner world inside his mind. This tension between his inner and outer worlds begin to manifest into an signed opera. The story inside him becomes more and more real as his mind wanders and fuels his desire for communication. Jesse is made possible by generous support from the City of Vancouver and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Other ALS supported events we have at the Festival this year include:
Queer Songbook OrchestraFri Jun 28 | 7pm | Concert | $40 – $30
Celebrated national chamber ensemble Queer Songbook Orchestra unearth the queer backstories and personal narratives inspired by musicof the past several generations. Weaving together stories told by local narrators with arrangements by Canada’s foremost composers.
ARTIST TOUR – Visual Art Exhibition | Curator Roundtable | Thu Jun 20 | 7pm | Led by Elwood Jimmy | QAF visual artists and curator Elwood Jimmy convene for a panel discussing the visual art exhibition.
YOUTH TOUR – Visual Art Exhibition | Wed Jun 19 | 4pm | led by Elwood Jimmy | Curator Elwood Jimmy leads tour for LGBT2S youth to see their identities reflected in art, organized in partnership with Broadway Youth Resource Centre and Directions Youth Services.
A NIGHT OF STORYTELLING | Wed Jun 19 | 7pm | Literary Readings | Pay What you Can
Danny Ramadan brings his much-loved nights of readings to the Queer Arts Festival. Featuring Kai Cheng Thom, Andrea Jenkins, Tash McAdam, Monica Meneghetti and Michael V. Smith.
Art Party! Opening Night Gala | Tue Jun 18 | 7pm | Free Gala Opening Reception
Join us for the Queer Arts Festival’s opening Art Party!, where art and conviviality converge at the grand opening. Art Party! marks the opening night of QAF’s curated exhibition, Relational rEvolutions, curated by Elwood Jimmy; the Pride in Art Community Exhibition; and is the kick off for the incredible exhibitions, performances, and Satellite Academy outreach initiatives that make up the Queer Arts Festival. Our opening night galas are one of Vancouver’s best attended visual arts events, making this a party you don’t want to miss!
I thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide in getting this information out to our deaf/hard of hearing audience. Should you require any further information, or interviews for media, please reach out
Best regards,
Barb
Barb Snelgrove | CEO
megamouthmedia consultingSocial: @megamouthmedia | Cell: 604.838.2272
Honoured to work and live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam First Nations peoples.
Upcoming Vancouver Screening + Workshop with Interpreter
The Regent Park Film Festival has events coming up next week that we would like to share with the deaf community in Vancouver. The screening of ASL-English interpreter and captions for our upcoming FREE shorts film screening at the Vancouver Public Library on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm. Could you please share this with your network?
Home Made Visible – Screening
In partnership with DOXA Documentary Film Festival
SCREENING + TALKBACK
Time: Tuesday, May 7th, 7 – 8:30pm
Location: Montalbano Family Theatre, Level 8 – Vancouver Public Library, Central Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1
Capacity: 80 (Please register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/home-made-visible-vancouver-screening-tickets-60208108072)
A theatrical screening of six commissioned short films that brings a personal lens to Indigenous and visible minority archives. Followed by a discussion with filmmakers Aeyliya Husain and Maya Bastian and Project organizers Ananya Ohri and Elizabeth Mudenyo.
ACCESSIBILITY
ASL-English interpretation will be provided at this event.
All films have english captions.
All Library locations are wheelchair accessible.
If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact us at homemade@regentparkfilmfestival.com, or 416 599 7733, for further information about support.
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‘Home Made Visible: Storytelling, Relationships, and Archives’ – Workshop
Date: May 9, 6 – 8:30 pm
Location: Montalbano Family Theatre, Level 8 – Vancouver Public Library, Central Library
Facilitators: Derek Kwan and Joella Cabalu
Capacity: 10 (Please register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/home-made-visible-vancouver-workshop-tickets-60210538341)
Interested in exploring documentary film creation? Not sure where to begin? Local documentary filmmakers, Derek Kwan and Joella Cabalu, present a hands-on workshop on the foundations of storytelling and relationship-building skills needed to tell and create personal stories through the documentary format. Kwan and Cabalu will present their own work which touches on family histories, culture, and immigration, as well as share their experiences in developing stories, incorporating archival videos and photographs, and building trust within different communities.
ACCESSIBILITY
ASL-English interpretation will be provided at this event if requested by Friday, May 3rd.
All films have english captions.
All Library locations are wheelchair accessible.
If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact us at homemade@regentparkfilmfestival.com, or 416 599 7733, for further information about support.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Mudenyo Pronouns: She/Her
Special Projects Manager – Home Made Visible
Regent Park Film Festival
585 Dundas Street East, Suite 240 | Toronto, ON | M5A 2B7 | (416) 599-7733
HOME MADE VISIBLE is coming to a city near you in 2019.
Exhibitions | Screenings | Installations | Workshops
Visit HomeMadeVisible.ca/Tour to learn more.
The Regent Park Film Festival Charitable # 8459 14613 RR0001
Bellingham Deaf Night Out – May 18
We post in DeafBC because we would like to invite Deaf people from BC and have a chance to get to know each other.
This is an ASL gathering opportunity to meet and greet Deaf community members while celebrating each other’s existence.
Everyone who speaks American Sign Language (ASL) or who is learning to speak ASL is welcome to join the Deaf Night Out. This is for anyone who is 21 years and above.
Space Accessibility: Lost Giants is wheelchair accessible. May be a DeafBlind friendly space due to open space and easy space navigation.
Community Safe Space guideline will be posted soon.
Questions or concerns, inbox here.
May we hope to see you there!
BCSD Elementary Spring Concert – May 30
May 30th from 6-8pm
BCSD elementary- 4446 Watling Street, Burnaby,BC
ASL interpreted performance of AWKWARD HUG May 24
Hello,
My name is Cory Thibert, my storytelling show AWKWARD HUG will have an ASL interpreted performance during it’s run at the rEvolver Festival next month.
We aim to make the show as accessible as we can as it deals with disability, the show is a true story about me growing up and learning the extents of both of my parents disabilities, they both have cerebral palsy.
We performed the show at the Vancouver Fringe in 2018 with one ASL interpreted performance and are trying to find ways to reach out to the community. I understand that theatre spaces aren’t always accessible to the deaf community. Please let me know if you know of any other places, communities or people I could reach out to with this information.
The show runs May 22, 24-26.
Our ASL interpreted show is Friday May 24th at 7:15pm
The Cultch – Vancity Cultural Lab – 1895 Venables Street.
The show runs 60 minutes, the venue is wheelchair accessible.
For more information/tickets you can visit AWKWARD HUG at rEvolver
Or the AWKWARD HUG Facebook event page
AWKWARD HUG is an all true story that takes place in the summer of 2009 when Cory was a 19-year-old introvert in a screamo band, who is uncovering the extent of both of his parents’ disabilities. The show explores the discomfort of navigating adulthood for the first time, what constitutes “normal” in our world and how having two parents with disabilities forces his family outside of those margins.
It is equal parts hilarious and heartache and has been winning awards across the circuit this summer.
????? “This spectacular coming-of-age story will make you laugh, cry and everything in between.” – Gigcity Edmonton
????? “engaging from start to finish… Awkward Hug delivers in every way.” – Vue Weekly Edmonton
“Beautiful, gentle solo show… bring someone you love” – The Georgia Straight
Thank you so much for taking the time, please let me know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Cory
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Cory Thibert
Writer | Performer | Producer – AWKWARD HUG
Co-Artistic Director – O Albatross
Producer – Wolf Pelt Productions
(613) 724-7093
Job Postings @ Deaf Children’s Society of BC
Employer: Deaf Children’s Society of BC
Location: South Slope Elementary School, Burnaby
Type of position:
ECE position: Temporary full time starting May 15, duration is 5 weeks.
Assistant position: Temporary full time (no duration indicated)
Contact: Kristina Jokan, Office Manager kjokan@deafchildren.bc.ca
Deaf Deaf World – June 1
Come, all ye brave souls to Deaf Deaf World!
Welcome to Deafelot
Admissions:
$5.00 per person
$10.00 per family
Date: June 1st, 2019
Time: 12-4pm
VCC Broadway A Building 2. Second Floor
