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Sharon Neumann Solow on Interpreter's Workshop podcast -

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January 2025 - Issue #50
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1. Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD) creates a new venue: Deaf Arts Retreat Centre / Deaf Arts Academy. (ASL and English)

2. Interpreter's Workshop Podcast with Tim Curry: Tim interviews Sharon Neumann Solow. Part 1 of 3: CIT - Cracking Open the Interpreter's Head.  (English with transcript)

3. From Our Catalogue: Powerful Interpreting: Build Your Skills in 5 Steps by Sharon Neumann Solow and Reflections: A Model of Interpreter Readiness by Nicole D. Thorn.  (English) 

4. Book Club: Thank You, Everything. Written and illustrated by Icinori. Translated from French by Emilie Robert Wong.  (English)

5. Out There: Hi5 from Gallaudet University: Top Stories of 2025.  (ASL with English captions)

6. Sign in Action, in India:  Deaf Metal Worker with Joel Barish. (ASL and English)
 
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Deaf Arts Canada Retreat Centre
In 2024, Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD) acquired a 4-acre retreat venue in Grande-Digue, New Brunswick to serve as the national headquarters for CCSD and the home of the Deaf cultural and creative Retreat Centre. Grande-Digue is in southeastern New Brunswick, approximately 35 km from the city of Moncton.

The Deaf Arts Canada Retreat Centre will provide an accessible space that is also a cultural space for the Deaf community. It will be able to provide Deaf-led space for:
  • Trainings, workshops & presentations for emerging artists, professional artists, sign language instructors and more
  • Retreats
  • Deaf Arts Academy
  • Art Gallery
  • Events
  • And more!
CCSD is currently in the process of transforming it into a natural creative space for Deaf visual and performing artists and arts professionals to build
capacity, evolving together and solidifying their unique and vital place in the arts ecosystem.

CCSD is grateful for the community support, donors, and volunteers, and the local New Brunswick and Maritimes community. As always, we appreciate any donations: www.deafculturecentre.ca/donate/

Questions? You can contact the Property Manager, Sonny Gallant, at sgallant@deafculturecentre.ca.

Information for this article is from the CCSD 2024 Newsletter.
Photo of Deaf Culture Retreat on the Atlantic coast at Grande-Digue, New Brunswick. It is a rural setting with large white buildings on grassy treed grounds, and the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean behind. The words A project of the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf run along the bottom of the photo.
The Deaf Arts Canada Retreat Centre will host the third session for Deaf Arts Academy's 2024-25 cohort in June 2025. The Deaf Arts Academy's three areas of study are De'VIA (Deaf View Image Art), Signed Music and Theatre. To find out more about the DAA, go to the CCSD 2024 Newsletter or go to www.deafartssourds.ca.
All about the CCSD's Deaf Arts Academy, from the CCSD's YouTube Channel.
Interpreter's Workshop

with Tim Curry and SNS

Part 1 of 3
Image of Interpreter's Workshop with Tim Curry - IW134 Interview Sharon Neumann Solow Part 1: CIT - Cracking Open the Interpreter's Head - December 16, 2024 - Episode 134.
Photo of Sharon Neumann Solow with a big smile. Her chin-length red hair is parted on the left and she has rectangular gold wire-framed glasses and a purple top. A neatly trimmed hedge is behind her.
From Interpreter's Workshop with Tim Curry: 
 

"This unique (sometimes funny, sometimes serious) podcast focuses on supporting signed language interpreters in the European countries by creating a place with advice, tips, ideas, feelings and people to come together.

Interpreter's Workshop with Tim Curry deals with the fact that many countries do not have education for sign language interpreters. Here we talk to sign language interpreters, teachers, and researchers, to look at the real issues and share ideas for improvement from many countries.

Signed language interpreters usually work alone or in small teams. This can create a feeling of uncertainty about our work, our skills and our roles. Here is the place to connect and find certainty."
Three different views of Tim Curry, pondering, smiling and looking off to the side.
Tim Curry has been podcasting since 2022.

Check out his other podcasts here.
From Our Catalogue

Powerful Interpreting: Build Your Skills in 5 Steps

and

Reflections: A Model of Interpreter Readiness


shipping end of January
Book cover - Title of book across the top: Powerful Interpreting. Build Your Skills in 5 Steps. A picture of a hand, blue in color on the palm. Fingertips lighten to purple then pink. A small dotted white circle on each finger, with a dotted line connecting each finger. New in bright red! Sharon Neumann Solow. Author of Sign Language Interpreting.
Cover of Reflections: A Model of Interpreter Readiness by Nicole D. Thorn, in white font on a pale green background, overlaying a photo of the back of a woman with short brown hair in a denim jacket seeing herself reflected as an interpreter dressed professionally in dark pants and long sleeved jacket signing in American Sign Language.
Black rectangle at the top, with the words: Internationally renowned interpreter educator, Sharon Neumann Solow has a new book forthcoming. In a blue circle under that title, it says Pre-order now. Next to circle it says Delivery within one month. On the right of the black rectangle is a photo of Sharon, smiling with glasses and light brown hair; green bushes in the background and a blue/purple ish shirt. Title of book across the top: Powerful Interpreting. Build Your Skills in 5 Steps. A picture of a hand, blue in color on the palm. Fingertips lighten to purple then pink. A small dotted white circle on each finger, with a dotted line connecting each finger. New in bright red! Sharon Neumann Solow. Author of Sign Language Interpreting: A Basic Resource. It says the price: $34.95. Under the hand there is a QR code to purchase the book. And the description of the book: The best time to improve our interpreting work is today! Whether you are just starting your journey as a student preparing to become an interpreter or whether you are a seasoned interpreter, apply these 5 Steps to your work and you will see immediate and long-lasting positive results. Powerful Interpreting: Build Your Skills in 5 Steps is for signed as well as spoken language interpreters. Interpreters literally hold the lives of others in their hands. That responsibility makes us want to be the very best we can be, and yet it can be a challenge figuring out what to do to become stellar in our work – more efficient and accurate, more reliable and more deeply satisfied. You can up your game today and every day by applying the principles in this book, which are based on the author’s six decades of experience as an ASL-English interpreter, educator, author and diagnostician of interpretation. On the bottom, is the IC logo, an single eye and a nose outlined in green. With our website, www.ASLinterpreting.com, to order. Phone number and fax: 780.488.8698.
Flier in shades of blue and mint green for the book Reflections: A Model of Interpreter Readiness by Nicole D. Thorn, $29.95 ISBN 9780994027061. Picture of the book cover and of Dr Thorn. Dr. Nicole D. Thorn has brought together a component that has been missing from interpreter education - until now. What does it take to be ready to start studies in the field of American Sign Language-English interpreting? Dr Thorn has over 35 years of experience in the field of interpreting, teacher of the Deaf and as a professional interpreter. Bottom of the flier has the Interpreting Consolidated logo - to order www.ASLinterpreting.com/phone 780.488.8698
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IC Book Club
Cover of the book Thank You, Everything by Icinori in white. The title is in black capitals at the bottom of the cover, the author ICINORI in smaller black capital letters at the top of the cover. The image portrays a blue silhouette of a child, wearing a cap and an orange scarf running through golden yellow raindrops using a giant orange and blue banana leaf as an umbrella. In the background are jagged orange mountains, a blue tree with no leaves and an orange palm tree. It looks like the child is going on an adventure.

Excerpt from the publisher, Enchanted Lion Books:

What starts as a series of “thank yous” addressed to common objects that inhabit our daily lives gradually builds into a fantastic journey across landscapes, seasons, and inner discoveries. Deceptively simple, each page acknowledges the contributions of a different object (spoon, rock, beasts) or concept (summer, slumber, surprise), with each image building on the next to create a dazzling narrative that invites readers to puzzle and play, explore and discover, appreciate and marvel.
This 176-page picture book was created for children 4-8 years, but its unique format and breathtaking illustrations will appeal to readers of all ages.

Icinori is the pen name of couple Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller, experimental design and illustration duo from Orleans, France. Translated from French by Emilie Robert Wong.

Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World, review by Maria Popova, The Marginalian, December 12, 2024. The illustrations featured in her review give you an idea of why it is one of The Marginalian's Favorite Books of 2024.

Thank You, Everything: A whimsical, enriching, and deeply rewarding adventure in gratitude. Kirkus Reviews starred review, August 3, 2024.
 
Out There:

Hi5 from Gallaudet University 
Philip Bravin, 1966 Gallaudet graduate, signs Top Five news stories from the beginning of 2025. Published January 10. 

Next Hi5 episode available January 24. 

Published on YouTube by GallaudetU. 

Transcript available here.
Sign in Action

Joel Barish in India
A photo of a streetscape with an ornately decorated metal works in Chennai, India. A large shade tree is located to its right, next to a shop across the street with many mopeds parked in front of it. Joel Barish is shaking hands with the owner of the shop in front of the metal works.
Meet Sathish and his father as they melt metal to cast beautiful art work.  Joel Barish visited the two in India. 
Sathish, the son of the owner of the metal works, explains in Indian Sign Language about what they create at the shop. He has brown skin, black hair and beard, and is wearing a sport t-shirt in black/blue and grey sweatpants.
Hmm...India? Find out more next month!
Statue of seated Gandhi in loin cloth, a statue created at Chennai Metal Works.
Dr Brenda Nicodemus and Dr Marty Taylor below a blue sign reading in white lettering Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre. Brenda is wearing black jacket and pants with a purple scarf, and Marty is wearing black top and pants with a fuschia shirt and purple windbreaker over top. Brenda has light brown hair and Marty has white hair and round brown glasses.
View all Hand Twisters/Fun Facts signed by Mary Harman, and English Oddities signed by Angela Petrone Stratiy at The View From IC Blog.
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