BCSDAA Reunion 2020
Drop in registration
August 11
1 – 3 pm
Food Court at Metrotown Mall
Free outdoor movies with CC
The DVBIA is hosting a summer movie series, and two of our outdoor movies will be closed captioned. I will include the event pages below for more details, but “Paddington” is taking place tomorrow (July 24), and “Inside Out” will be screened August 14. Both events take place at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s North Plaza, with activations happening from 5pm onwards and the movie screening beginning at sundown.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2849737141708641/
https://www.facebook.com/events/639433566557073/
Thank you!
Heather.
Heather McKenzie-Beck | Senior Manager, Marketing & Communications
Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA)
Suite 325-1130 West Pender Street | V6E 4A4
t/ 604.685.7811 x204 m/ 604.616.0933 e/ heather@dtvan.ca
BCSDAA Reunion 2020 Registration – Early Bird Sept 1
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
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
