October is NDEAM in Canada and the USA!

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October is NDEAM in Canada and the USA

and

The Tribe, a Deaf film with a difference

October 2023 - Issue #36

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1. October is NDEAM: Benefits of hiring deaf people, DeafBlind, hard of hearing, late deafened, people with disabilities. (ASL and English)

2. Excerpt from our publication: Gentle into the Darkness: A Deaf Mother's Journey into Alzheimer's by Canadian Coda author Patricia Conrad. (English)

3. Celebrating Three Years of The View from IC:  Win a prize! (English)

4. The Tribe: Ukrainian Deaf movie with a difference and no subtitles. (Ukrainian Sign Language) Rated R. Viewer discretion advised.

5. Save the Date: National Deaf Arts and Culture Festival July 31 to Aug 4, 2024. (English)

6. Winners of draws at the H&V Annual Leadership Conference and DeafNation Expo, Portland. (English)

7. The IC Book Club: The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell. (English)

8. Out There:  The Daily Moth; delivering the news in ASL. (ASL with English subtitles)

9. Happy Halloween: ASL Nook. (ASL and English subtitles)

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NDEAM

National Disability Employment

Awareness Month

What are the benefits of hiring deaf people, DeafBlind, hard of hearing, late deafened, people with disabilites? Check it out here!

Posted on YouTube by The National Association for the Deaf.

For some great stories, check out #DeafatWork on the NAD website.

Poster for Advancing Access & Equity, the theme for National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The lettering for the theme and the month is in grey and dark blue. Underneath this are the words "Celebrating 50 Years of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973" in red. The logos of the Office of Disability Employment Policy - United States Department of Labor and Rehabilitation Act 50 are in small print at the bottom right corner. A large graphic of arrows in red, dark blue, tan, and teal surround photos of people with disabilities at work.

Being disability inclusive makes your business six times more likely to be innovative, agile and capable of responding quickly to opportunities and change.

From Understanding Disability Inclusion Connections: Breaking Down Barriers and Building Bridges. Posted by Dean Askin, October 5, 2023 on ODEN, the Ontario Disability Employment Network.

From Our Catalogue:

Gentle into the Darkness:

A Deaf Mother's Journey into Alzheimer's

A poster with the cover of the memoir Gentle into the Darkness: A Deaf Mother's Journey into Alzheimer's. Written by Coda Patricia Conrad, tells the story of her deaf mother's remarkable life. Underneath the books cover, the description reads: Whether you're involved in the Deaf community, caring for an elderly parent, or simply a daughter who loves her mon, this touching memoir will warm your heart and stir your emotions.

An excerpt from Gentle into the Darkness, in honor of
National Disability Employment Awareness Month:

After leaving school at the age of 18, Sis [Hendrika] moved home to the farm to help her family. After several years helping out, she was able to set out on her own in 1947. From pp. 49-52:

Freed at last, Sis set off for the big city [Edmonton] to find a job. She was in her early twenties by then, and anxious to secure a job...Following in the footsteps of many young deaf women of her day, my mother found work sewing denim work clothes for Great Western Garments (GWG). Finally, Hendrika was independent and self-supporting, a significant stepping-stone for her. The job was piece work - she was paid by the piece, not by the hour - but she didn't mind because she was both fast and efficient, the piece arrangement actually worked to her advantage...Mom spoke with such pride of her job at GWG. She was a seamstress with a flair for both speed and precision, and she knew it. And she enjoyed working, liked earning her own money...In today's computer age, there's little demand for garment workers. There'd be entirely different choices for a young deaf woman fresh out of school. What might Sis be, in today's world?

Read another excerpt here: https://www.aslinterpreting.com/gentle-into-the-darkness-a-deaf-mothers-journey-into-alzheimers/.

Purchase book here: Gentle into the Darkness

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Celebrating three years of The View from IC!

Win a prize!

Girl and Creativity is a small business run by deaf people.

They make fun products with creative designs.

Check our their Halloween creations:
https://www.girlandcreativity.com/collections/halloween

A Ukrainian Deaf movie with a difference:

The Tribe

The Tribe, by Ukrainian writer-director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, is set at a boarding school in Kiev for teenagers.

A review from The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw:

"Well, if signing is a language like any other, then why not have subtitles? Is our experience of this movie any different from watching any foreign-language movie without subtitles? The point, I think, is that the characters’ silence underscores their alienation from us. They are a different tribe: outside the law, below the salt. And their silence has something to do with the criminal code of omertà: you don’t talk. Like any group that is isolated and treated as inferior, the students have been left to incubate their own microbes of violence and pain. Moreover, the silence gives the characters the air of people who are under surveillance, like figures on CCTV footage. It reminded me also of the experimental film Bullet in the Head (2008), by Jaime Rosales, where the characters are seen as if through a powerful pair of binoculars."

Read the review in full here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/14/the-tribe-review.
Rated R. Viewer discretion advised.

A still photo from the movie The Tribe - a gang of teenagers gathered in front of a ruined concrete building. It is fall as there are a lot of leaves on the ground.

Save the Date!

July 31 to Aug 4, 2024 -

National Deaf Arts and Culture Festival

CCSD, Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, is proud to bring back the National Deaf Arts and Culture Festival!

St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is hosting this event: July 31 to August 4, 2024.

Save the date!

More info here about CCSD: https://deafculturecentre.ca/ccsd/

Winners of draws from

H&V Annual Leadership Conference

and

DeafNation Expo, Portland.

Congratulations to prize draw winners J. Ross and T. Heinemann!

IC Book Club

Book cover for The Golden Spoon, a novel by Jessa Maxwell. The cover has a black background and The Golden Spoon is written in large white block letters over top of a golden spoon. The large golden spoon has a mansion on its decorative handle, and the bowl of the spoon is dripping with blood as befits a murder mystery. There is a quote from Janet Evanovich in small print on the cover - "The delicious combination of Clue and The Great British Bake-off kept me turning the pages all night."

A mystery read for October! The Golden Spoon is published by Atria Books, 2023.

From the publisher's website:

Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin.

The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry. At first, it’s merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned to high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect.

Sweet and savory turns deadly sour in this fast-paced, entertaining romp...
Publisher's Weekly Review

Out There:

The Daily Moth

Alex Abenchuchan explains in ASL how he founded The Daily Moth.

Posted on Youtube by NAD.

https://www.dailymoth.com/

Do you know a Canadian or American business or organization owned/created/operated by Deaf or hard of hearing persons?

We want to support them!

Please fill out our short form here. Kat will be in touch!

ASL Nook

Deaf family teaching ASL

Halloween Signs

Mom, Sheena, and four-year-old daughter Shaylee, show different signs related to Halloween.

Posted on YouTube Oct 2013. @SheenaMcFeely.

More entertaining videos here: https://aslnook.com/

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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