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Presentation: Human Rights & Deaf People

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COLIN ALLEN AM

PRESIDENT of the WORLD FEDERATION of the DEAF

The presentation focuses on the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)’s role and its impact on International Deaf Communities.  It includes the work on Sign Languages and numerous of issues related to Deaf Human Rights

DONATION at DOOR/THEATRE will be greatly appreciated as the entire amount will go towards both, WORLD FEDERATION of the DEAF and WORLD ASSOCIATION of SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS to support delegates from developing nations to attend the congress/conference in Paris this July 2019.

 

23 SATURDAY MARCH

6:00 RECEPTION & REFRESHMENT

7:00 THEATRE OPENS

DOUGLAS COLLEGE, NEW WESTMINSTER CAMPUS

LAURA C. MUIR, PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE, N4100

COST: FREE

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

CONTACT: NIGEL HOWARD howardn@douglascollege.ca

INTERPRETERS will be provided at the event.

Colin’s video and details in ASL and English:

https://vimeo.com/316655930

This event is generously sponsored by SORENSON COMMUNICATIONS of CANADA and DOUGLAS COLLEGE – PROGRAM of SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION. 

Deaf Poker Night – May 25

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BCSD Alumni Reunion 2020 Fundraising

Saturday, May 25 at 6:30pm

Richmond Curling Lounge

 

Canada VRS in Vancouver – March 15

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Meet Community Outreach and Customer Service Representatives

Provide information and technical support

Share your feedback on Canada VRS

Friday, March 15

7pm to 10pm

Room: N2203 Lecture Hall at Douglas College 

https://srvcanadavrs.ca/en/events/march-12th-16th-2019-vancouver-and-kelowna-british-columbia/

What’s Up This Month [March 2019]

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March 6-8

March 7

WIDHH Tri-Cities Open House

March 8

Presentation: Deaf Immigrants and Their Integration Into Canadian Society

March 13

Beautiful By Design – JDAIM Showcase 2019
  • The JCC is proud to celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month. We invite the community to come together for a Special Event
  • ASL provided.
  • When: Wednesday, March 13
  • TIme: 7:30PM (Lobby opens at 7PM)
  • Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre

March 13

Belonging in the Body: Transgender Journeys of Faith

  • Stories and reflections of 11 trans Christians
  • 7pm to 8:15pm
  • Pacific Spirit United Church 
  • 3525 W. 24th Ave, Vancouver

March 15

Canada VRS in Vancouver

March 16

The Rosa Lee Show

  • Fund-raising event by Deaf Children’s Society of BC
  • Buy tickets from DCS staff or board
  • Rosaleetimm.com

March 16 & 23

Disability Tax Credit Workshop

March 23

WIDHH Information Session

  • New name, logo and branding
  • Updates on the new building
  • 9:30am to 12:00pm
  • Metrotown Hilton, Burnaby
  • Vlog

March 23

Human Rights & Deaf People

  • Colin Allen, President of the World Federation of the Deaf
  • The presentation focuses on the WFD’s role and its impact on International Deaf Communities. It includes the work on Sign Language and numerous of issues related to Deaf Human Rights.
  • Free admission
  • 7:15pm to 8:45pm
  • Theatre at Douglas College
  • Contact: Nigel Howard

March 23

Deaf Night Out (DNO)

  • After 9pm
  • Location: TBA

2021 WDIHC Press Release

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All Information is in the flyer:

2021 COMMUNITY PRESS RELEASE

Innovation Week in New Westminister

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They have free tickets for the GVAD members, if you are interested, please contact gvadoffice@gmail.com

Flyer in Word Doc:

Innovate New Westminster (Mar 2-8, 2019) – event details

 

Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival-ASL interpreters needed

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We need few ASL interpreters for our festival this year. This year, the festival date, are March 8 to 17, with a full day of events on weekends, plus some events on weekday evenings and afternoons during the week. We’re offering ASL requests by request. 

We will pay interpreters $45/hr (plus GST if you charge GST), and plan to have two interpreters assigned to a panel/reading. We will try to offer prep materials whenever possible, and for events where there is no prep material available (because the authors can’t get it to us or it’s a panel), we will definitely have two interpreters present. Events are generally scheduled in two-hour slots, with the last half-hour reserved for book signings and buying books, and we’ll hire interpreters for the full two-hour slot if ASL is requested.  Please contact volunteer@roommagazine.com

Currently, I’m looking to hire interpreters for these slots where requests have come in:

1- Sat, 9 March 2019, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Growing Room 2019: The Power of Narrative Poetry

Native Education College

2- Sun, 10 March 2019, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Faith, Spirituality, and Religion

Native Education College

3- Monday, 11 March 2019 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Invisible Womxn

Revue Stage

4- Monday, 11 March 2019 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Cut to the Feeling: a Night of Queerotica

Revue Stage

 

WIDHH Information Session

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WIDHH is hosting an Information Session to give our Community updates on WIDHH’s image and building.

Come out and learn how WIDHH is changing our name and visual identity to better represent our services and our community. Join us as we share our ideas for our new name, logo and branding.  There will also be updates on the new building.

Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019
Time: 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Metrotown Hilton, 6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby

CART, ASL Interpreters & Assistive Listening Devices available.  Light refreshments provided.

To help us better plan our event, please RSVP BEFORE MARCH 13, 2019

Phone: 604-736-7391 or TTY: 604-736-2527
Email: info@widhh.com

https://youtu.be/gyL2Q1pCa4Q

 

MEDIA CREW OPENINGS – DEAFLYMPICS, Dec 2019

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Deaflympics Winter Games
Valtellina & Valchiavenna, Italy
12-21 December 2019
H3 World TV is seeking people to serve on its upcoming daily SportsDeaf TV news coverage of Deaflympics Winter Games. We are seeking writers, signers, and TV media/production people with passion and experience in media, writing, social media, and knowledge of deaf sports for pre/during/post production of international daily TV bulletins:
     ? Producer – Coordinate, manage and support all members of production team, direct all SportsDeaf special coverage of Deaflympics, manage equipment, and ownership of captioning process.
     ? Signer/Writer – Research, compile, interview, write, report and present news stories in front of video camera and captioning transcripts. Must be experienced in International Sign.
     ? Signer/Publicist – Research, compile, interview, write, report and presents news stories in front of video camera, and coordinate all advance, on-site and post-event social media activities. Must be experienced in International Sign.
     ? Videographer/Video Editor – filming, editing, captioning, art director and file uploading.
     ? Videographer/Video Editor – filming, editing, animation and technical support
     ? Writer/Production Assistant – research, compile, write stories and merge caption transcripts and photography.
We consider candidates from anywhere in the world. English knowledge for email communication is preferred.
Timetable
Project is done in two phases: 1) Intensive pre-production work begins immediately and continues until end of event, and 2) travel to work in Italy in December 2019. All crew members report to Producer and must meet deadlines. Completion of all pre-production work assigned by Producer during Phase 1 is requirement to Phase 2.
All positions pay stipends in CAD currency, internships or meet specific academic or community service requirements. For all crew members in Phase 2, we cover costs of travel to Italy, on-site transportation between venues, shared accommodations and per diems.
Positions on the team will be filled on ongoing basis. Submit application online at http://h3world.tv/opportunities

Workshop Series for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists

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We are dreaming up a workshop series for Deaf and hearing Artists, in an effort to foster community and collaboration, and to offer significant and formal training opportunities for all involved. The proposed areas of study are Mask, Shadow Puppetry, and Physical Theatre. Please help us understand your needs and wants in order for us to determine the appropriate workshops and artistic training available.
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2c6A9WUiJ4&feature=youtu.be

Potential Mask Instructors – Wonderheads: http://www.wonderheads.com/
Potential Shadow Puppetry Instructors – Mind of a Snail: http://mindofasnail.org/
Potential Physical Theatre Instructors – New (to) Town Collective: http://www.newtotowncollective.com/about.html

Transformative-Justice-An-Introduction-with-Mia-Mingus-Tickets-Wed-27-Feb-2019-at-7_00-PM-

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ASL interpreters are provided.

Facebook link to the event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/406986283177538/

Flyer in PDF:

Transformative Justice An Introduction with Mia Mingus Tickets, Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 7_00 PM _ Eventbrite

Artifacts: Exploration of Memory

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This was postponed last week due to the snowstorm and this event will be held tomorrow evening at 7 pm at Britannia Art Gallery (1661 Napier St.)  Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture have graciously offered to supply ASL for folks and I am hoping that a number of your members will be able to attend.  This is a multi-sensory exhibition of the process of memory.

Our memories are an integral part of our self-identity.  They exist in many forms.  They come at the oddest times and through a variety of sources.  Memory is malleable, fluid, and can change.  It can also be solid and intractable. It can be loud and abrasive or subtle and obtuse: ever-fleeting while we attempt to grab at something we believe we should recall. 

Memories are triggered by the people around us, the feel of an object, the sight of a place or person, the sound of chimes, the smell of a countryside, how a person walks, the outreach of a hand, the air on our skin, and on and on.

Some memories are not accessible no matter how hard you try.  Brain injuries and medical illness like Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s can impact on what we can know and when we can know it as, ultimately, time steals away one’s life.  Being a new mom or Chronic Fatigue can cause a level of exhaustion that the a brain, at times, has no energy to encode memory.  Schizophrenia or Parkinson’s can cause auditory and visual hallucinations that encode as memory but are not.  Executive functioning creates problems with short-term or working memory.  Chronic Post Traumatic Stress and PTSD cause some memories to be intrusive and all-encompassing or so walled-off it can’t be accessed.  A flashback, whether one has experienced sexual child abuse or war, can throw you into a life-threatening situation that actually happened years back.  Nonetheless, the physiological response is current (fast heart rate, sweating, the quickening of one’s breathing or no breathing at all).  The body remembers.

Whether long or short, intrusive or fleeting, ever-present or long-gone, memory informs us of who we are. 

This exhibition is an incomplete self-portrait.

For more information contact: Bernadine Fox at berni@bernadinefox.ca or 778 869-0733

Perrier & Martell v. Attorney General of Nova Scotia and APSEA – Hfx No. 447198 Certification of Class Action for Former Students of Nova Scotia Deaf Schools

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We are class counsel for a certified class action filed on behalf of former students who attended two schools for the deaf and hearing impaired which operated in Nova Scotia between 1913 and 1995: (i) the School for the Deaf, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and (ii) the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf, in Amherst, Nova Scotia (subsequently named the Atlantic Provinces Resource Centre for the Hearing Handicapped, and in 1989 renamed the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority – Resource Centre for the Hearing Impaired).

The class action is brought against the Province of Nova Scotia and Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority, alleging systemic physical, sexual and psychological abuse for which the Defendants are liable.

On January 31, 2019, the lawsuit was certified to proceed as a class action by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. For your reference, I enclose a copy of the Certification Order.

The Court has ordered that court-approved notice of certification of the class action must be sent (by electronic means or otherwise) to the Society of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians, the Deafness Advocacy Association of Nova Scotia, and similar organizations serving the deaf and hard of hearing populations throughout each province and territory in Canada, to be posted on the organizations’ websites, bulletin boards, and/or distributed to individuals as determined by the organizations or as requested by Class Members. In addition, a video blog conveying the contents of the written notice, with a sign language interpreter, shall be distributed to said organizations.

With respect to the video blog, it may be viewed on Wagners’ YouTube channel at the following link:

https://youtu.be/fXIEFieWKL4

Accordingly, please find enclosed copies of the Notice of Certification and the Opt-Out Form that we kindly ask you to, pursuant to the Court order, immediately post on your website, bulletin boards or any other areas that you determine to be appropriate so that former students of the two schools are aware of the legal proceeding.
You will see that the notice directs questions to our law firm, Wagners.
If you have any questions or concerns arising from this letter, please be in touch with us immediately and we will be happy to speak with you further concerning this matter.

All info are in PDF:

Letter to Deaf Advocacy Groups re Notice of Certification

Notice of Consent Certification

Opt Out Form

Order re Certification 2019 01 31

Documentary Film showing with ASL interpretation:

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“Belonging in the Body: Transgender Journeys of Faith”
A Generous Space Ministries film  
Stories and reflections of 11 trans Christians
(Following Wednesday worship service 
and community dinner)
Pacific Spirit United Church 
3525 West 24th Ave (& Collingwood)
Vancouver

speaker series, dinner and networking event coming up in Surrey With ASL interpreters

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On Friday February 22, 2019, our Surrey-Newton Rotaract club is inviting you and your friends to RotarX- Be The Inspiration: The World Through My Lens. 
 
To embody this year’s Rotary motto, ‘Be the Inspiration’ we present to you a night featuring young, local leaders sharing their stories and inspiring minds.

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Get ready to immerse yourself in these mind opening topics:
Falling in Love with Love
Why Decisions Don’t Matter
The Courage to Face Yourself
Resilience
The Power of Self-Compassion
Empathy: How To Connect
The Masks We Wear

This event will also provide a time and space for leaders of all walks of life to connect and network. Your ticket also includes dinner and appetizers. There will be a vegan, vegetarian and a meat option for dinner.

 
For accessibility, sign language interpretation (ASL) will be available on-site. Please let us know if you will need this service by emailing rotaractsurreynewton@gmail.com.

Have you purchased your tickets yet? – get them now before they’re gone!
 
PRICES:
Under 18 yrs(Interactors): $20
18-30 yrs (Rotaractors): $35
Over 30(Rotarians): $45  
Location: Taj Park Convention Centre (8580 132 St, Surrey, BC V3W 4N7)
 
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We can’t wait to see you there!  
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