1. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: NAD...what are YOU doing to celebrate? (ASL and English) 2. Storysigning: Korean Cinderella (ASL and English) 3. Japanese Sign Language: Greetings, Numbers and Vocabulary (JSL, Japanese and English) 4.Royal School for the Deaf Derby: Signs the national anthem for the Coronation(BSL and English) 5. Unify:An all deaf sign performance group(BSL and English) 6. Where to see IC in 2023: Conferences (English) 7.From our catalogue: Gentle into the Darkness: A Deaf Mother's Journey into Alzheimer's by Patricia Conrad, CODA. 8. Out There - Deaf Owned: HEARD 9.The IC Book Club: A Tale for the Time Beingby Ruth Ozeki (English) 10. Michael Halischak:ASL Idiom 'Mad as a Hatter' (ASL and English)
Pupils from Royal School for the Deaf Derby's choir signed the national anthem in British Sign Language while Derby Cathedral's choir sang in accompaniment.
Head teacher Paul Burrows said: "Our school is the only Royal school in the area [East Midlands in the UK] and we wanted to do something really special to mark the Coronation and Deaf Awareness Week.
"We have established very good links with Derby Cathedral and it was a genuine joy to work with the choir on this performance.
"The result is incredibly moving and I think you can see on the children's faces just how proud they were to be able to record this tribute to the new King."
Excerpted from a post by Rebecca Withey, 4 May 2023
in The Limping Chicken blog
To celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III, there will be a performance at Windsor Castle by the Coronation Choir. The Coronation Choir is a 300 strong choir made up of 17 community groups and choirs from all across the UK, all hand picked for the Coronation Concert.
Joining the Coronation Choir is all-deaf performance group Unify which I founded last year for the Queens Jubilee. We are a group of deaf BSL users who sign songs and we come from all across the UK with members from various cities such as Middlesbrough, Manchester, Kent and London.
We firmly believe that translating a song is a collaborative effort and we all work together to settle on sign translations that are accessible and true to the songs meaning. We regularly meet on Zoom to work on songs and to prepare for forthcoming performances.
Given that Unify have only been together for a year we were absolutely thrilled to be invited to perform at the Coronation Concert and so proud to be able to give British Sign Language a spotlight at such a mainstream, prestigious event.
Read the full blog post to find out more about Unify and some of its membershere.
Visit us at these conferences
in 2023!
Dr. Marty Taylor will be a presenter at both of these conferences, discussing school interpreters with other presenters.
California School for the Deaf, Riverside in Riverside, CA
https://deafeducation.us/2023-conference/
Kat Vickers and Marty Taylor will have an
Interpreting Consolidated booth
at both of these conferences. Stop by and say hello! And, if you mention you saw this "tip" in our newsletter,
you will receive a 10% discount!
https://rid.org/about/events/national-conference/
- From our catalogue -
Gentle into the Darkness: A Deaf Mother's Journey into Alzheimer's
Gentle into the Darkness: A Deaf Mother’s Journey into Alzheimer’s, by Canadian author and Coda Patricia Conrad, tells the story of a remarkable deaf woman’s life. Whether you’re involved in the Deaf community, caring for an elderly parent, or simply a daughter who loves her mom, this touching memoir will warm your heart and stir your emotions.
Written by a daughter as a tribute to her mother, the book takes us into the life of Hendrika, a strong pioneer woman of humble origins who tackled life’s challenges with unflagging zeal. She came to Canada as a six-year-old Dutch immigrant in 1929, and lost her hearing to meningitis soon after. The story chronicles the hardships of immigrant life on the prairies of western Canada, delves into Deaf education and employment for Deaf individuals in the 1930s and ’40s, and explores the bicultural experience of hearing children with Deaf parents. Indeed, Gentle into the Darkness offers a rare “insider” perspective on life between two cultures.
Published on YouTube. In ASL with English subtitles.
Mission, Vision and Values. 2021.
From BeHeardDC.org:
MISSION
HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence. HEARD supports disabled people and others who experience ableism by rejecting disability hierarchies and rigid definitions of disability, and by recognizing deaf people as part of disability communities. HEARD works to increase our collective capacity to identify, understand, and challenge oppression through grassroots advocacy, community organizing, peer support, mutual aid, education, and research.
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**The IC Book Club**
Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being is on several recommended reading lists for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
From Goodreads: In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine.
Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, A Tale for the Time Being has received more than 20 awards and has been translated and published in more than thirty countries.
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