| VCOD Email News for 20th November 2002 ·
Xmas Appeal ·
Shame File ·
A letter from anonymous ·
Arts & Theatre ·
John Farnham ·
The Wiggles in concert in December
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Other Events
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H2H Wine Crawl this weekend
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Harry Potter & the Chamber Subtitles ·
Werribee Deaf Club ·
Gippsland Deaf Club Xmas ·
DSRV Xmas Rally / Registration Night ·
VCD Xmas Shopping tour ·
Web Sites to visit Editor’s
Note Congratulations
to the Melbourne 2005 Deaflympic Games Organising Committee for securing
funding from Federal and State Governments.
This funds will ensure Melbourne will host the “best ever”
Games. Victorian
State Election People
in Victoria will go to the polls on November 30th and VCOD
would like to know from you what from Labor or Liberal Government.
Just sent an email outlining what things you would like VCOD to ask
and Grant will email them to the Labor and Liberal Party and forward the
reply to you. There
is an open forum on Thursday 28th November 2002 where
a policy discussion will be held between Hon Bronwyn Pike (Labor) and
Lorraine Elliott (Liberal) at Collingwood Town Hall 140 Punt Rd
Collingwood from 4pm to 5 30pm. At the moment there is no interpreters
but VCOD is following this up so keep an eye on the Web for the latest. VCOD
NEWS VCOD Xmas Appeal Would
you like to donate to the Deaf Xmas Appeal where presents will be going to
Parents of Deaf children or Deaf parents of Deaf/ hearing children?
VCOD, Monnington, VSDC Services for Deaf Children and John Pierce
Centre are working together to make sure families who need assistance at
Xmas time are supported. You
can make a donation by buying a Xmas present and dropping it off at either
the VCOD office at 597 St Kilda Rd Melbourne or at Monnington at By
donating a present, you are ensuring that a present is given to a
“Deaf” family. If you
have any queries, please contact Melanie Wells at VCOD on 9521 2466 TTY or
email to admin@vcod.com.au Closing
date for donating present is December 10th 2002. (This will
ensure present can be send all over Victoria.) Shame File A
new awareness program is been established on the VCOD website called the
Shame File which is let Deaf people know about programs or services that
are not providing a service for Deaf people.
For example if a Government has a TV ad about health and it was not
captioned, then that ad would go on the shame file until it was subtitles. The
first VCOD shame file belongs JOHN FARNHAM.
Many Deaf People (about ten people) have contacted VCOD asking for
John Farnham concert to be available in Auslan (via an interpreter).
A request was made to Art Access to follow this up and the reply
from the John Farnham Management was Simply
put the response is not good enough.
John Farnham management had no idea where the interpreter would be
located because they never asked. They
did not try and attempted to accommodate the needs of Deaf People.
It was a simple no and VCOD is furious and disappointed at such
attitude and hence why John Farnham (a great Australian he is) is our
first shame file person. Check
the website for more shame file list including a political group in
Victoria who did not have captioning on their ads. A letter from Anonymous
VCOD
recently received an anonymous letter from a person in regards to VCOD
lack of lobbying on hotels/ motel captioning TV.
The letter stated that VCOD has done nothing and the person is
disappointed with VCOD and that more should be done to have hotel/ motel
with captioning TV.
This person also said that when they have asked hotel/ motel in
Melbourne the person usually get those devices. VCOD
has taken note of this issue and because the person who wrote the letter
didn’t not leave a name, VCOD has decided to include a response in this
email plus the web. As
captioning of TV in Motels/ Hotels involves a number of “Chain” hotel
i.e. Flag inn, Hyatt, Sheraton throughout Australia, the VCOD board feels
that this is a national issue and will be sending a letter to Australian
Association for the Deaf seeking them to undertake the issue on a National
basis. VCOD
thank you for raising the issue with us and hope that you can contact AAD
to ensure more work is done on this area, as it appears you are doing a
very good job now. Employment Forum for the Deaf An Expo & information day is being organised for
Wednesday 27th November at The Church Hall 10a Hyde St
Footscray from 9 30am to 12 30pm. For more information about this event go to the website at www.vcod.com.au/whatsnews/events
and scroll to November Insurance for
Clubs
Wednesday
11th December 2pm-4pm at Knox is the place to be for the information
workshop about club liability. If
you would like to attend, please ring 9298 8351 (voice) to book your name
in. If you like more information about insurance then go to the
following website http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/insurance/insurance_main.jsp Newspaper articles about
Deafness Arts/ Theatre
News
John Farnham Management Group say No As
reported in the Shame File John Farnham management group has rejected VCOD
and Art Access request for interpreters at one of his shows at Melbourne
Park. To read more please
read www.vcod.com.au and click on shame file The
WIGGLES are back Details
coming soon but in the first week of December. Events
around Victoria Werribee Deaf Club Werribee
Deaf Club Social night on 29th November at Central Park
Community Centre 80 Lonsdale Circuit Hoppers Crossing from 7pm to 11pm.
Cost Adult $5 and couple $8 kids under 16 free Here
to Hear (H2H) Wine Country Crawl Saturday
23rd November 2002 starting at 10am. Meet at Young and Jackson
where Mini Buss will take you to different winery.
For more information contact 9789 3689 or email anthonylil@yahoo.com.au W
i n E C o u n T r y C r a w L ! When:
Saturday 23rd November 2002 Where:10am
at Young & Jacksons Hotel 1
Swanston St, opposite Flinders St Station (Breakfast
is available inside from 8am onwards for early morning risers/people with
early trains. Our
2 mystery mini-bus drivers are leaving at 10.15amsharp and will return us
to Young & Jackson’s approx 6.30pm) Where2:
Crawling down the Calder via Woodend to The Macedon Winery Region We
shall admire the breathtaking Country Scenery Sip wine in the Sun’n
Picnic at Hanging Rock! Cost
involved: $10-$15* per person per seat (depending on numbers) to cover
transport This
works out to be cheaper than driving your own car Plus
$ for: Breakfast if early morning riser! Wine tasting (some wineries
charge $2.50) Bottles
of wine! – prices can range from $10-50 Lunch…or perhaps we will BYO
picnic PEOPLES!
PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR SEAT/S BY ASAP we
have 20 seats available, 1st in 1st served! Friends’n fondles welcome. RSVP
to ‘Pwenny’ email: pwennylane@hotmail.com sms: 0415 993 700 Harry
Potter and the Chambers Gippsland Xmas
party to be held on Saturday 7th December 2002.
For more information please contact Grant at VCOD at info@vcod.com.au
DSRV Xmas
Rally VCD
Xmas Shopping tour Website
to visit Search engine for Deaf Services, programs clubs etc http://www.disability.vic.gov.au/dsonline/dssite.nsf?Open
An excellent website. Type in
the word Deaf in key search and you get information on services link pages
events and so much more. Want a reunion, then why not look up this website to
start your own reunion or look for your old school contacts www.schoolfriends.com.au http://www.geocities.com/gc_deafclub/welcome.html
Grant
Roberts and Melanie Wells
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