VCOD E-News
Wednesday
23 July 2003
VCOD E-News
Wednesday
23 July 2003
News
from VCOD:
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RADIO CHAT ROOM NOW OPEN!
ALL
WELCOME!
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Radio are happy to announce the opening of our
chat
room on our website:
For
a limited time the chat room will be open to everyone so please tell your
friends and log on and start chatting!
**Chat room exclusive to
members from September**
Deaf Deaf World workshop will
be running on Friday 8 August for the general public at John Pierce
Centre starting at 9.30am. An
interpreter will be present and the workshop will go for a maximum of two hours.
Please contact VCOD office if you know any people or organisations that
would like to be involved in this workshop, or would like to have a Deaf Deaf
World workshop at their workplace.
Do you know people who are keen
to learn sign at your workplace but cannot afford the time to travel to Auslan
classes? VCOD has Auslan at Work where an Auslan teacher comes to your
organisation and teaches at a time convenient for all.
Fiona Goldab, a qualified Auslan teacher (LOTE) is the coordinator of the
program and fees for the program are negotiable, however fees include:
·
up to 10 lessons between
30 to 60 minutes on a weekly basis
·
Up to 15 people per class
·
1 Auslan book
·
1 CD ROM
(finger-spelling)
·
2 refresher classes after
the course has completed
Please contact Fiona Goldab at auslan@vcod.com.au
if you have any questions.
Brent Phillips from the Equal
Opportunity Commission Victoria will present a FREE forum based on:
On Friday 15 August at 5pm (it
will go for approximately 90 minutes)
In the FJ Rose Auditorium
(VSDC)
597 St Kilda Road,
Melbourne.
Please let VCOD know by 8
August if you require an interpreter or relay interpreter.
Anyone is welcome to stay for a
barbeque dinner after the forum or attend the Film night - which will follow the
barbeque dinner.
AAD will present a Film Night
on Friday 15 August that will screen movies made by Deaf people/involving
Deaf people from all over Australia.
Everyone is invited to a
barbeque dinner at 6.30pm before the film night.
$2 sausages – please advise
VCOD if any vegetarians will be attending.
The Film night starts at 7.30pm
FJ Rose Auditorium (VSDC)
597 St Kilda Road
Melbourne
$8 VCOD members
$10 non-members
**All proceeds go to AAD**
(Pay at the door)
Please contact Vicdeaf 9473
1199 (TTY) 9473 1111 (Voice) if you
need more information.
The dinner is at City Hall,
King George Square, Brisbane and consists of a 3-course meal (Beer, Red &
White Wine, Soft Drinks included).
Tickets cost $90 (over 18
years) $70 (Pension for Queensland residents only)
Purchase your ticket by15
August 2003.
If you require more
information, please contact
Sue Wilson
Queensland Deaf Society
07 38928522 (V)
07 38928501 (TTY)
John Webb
07 38486002 (TTY)
Deaf Sports & Recreation
Queensland
Employment
opportunities at the Melbourne 2005 Deaflympic Games Ltd
Information
on employment opportunities at the Melbourne 2005
Deaflympic
Games is available on the Games website www.deaflympics.com
and
then follow the links to employment opportunities.
For
information on individual positions follow the link below:
Accounts
Assistant - Applications Close 5pm Wednesday 30th July 2003.
A
position description and application details are available at
http://www.deaflympics.com/mel2005/orgserv_jobsaccountsassistant.htm
Marketing
Co-coordinator - Applications Close 5pm Wednesday 30th July 2003.
A
position description and application details are available at
http://www.deaflympics.com/mel2005/orgserv_jobsmarketingcoordinator.htm
Senior
Sports Liaison Officer - Applications Close 5pm Monday 4th August,
2003.
A
position description and application details are available at
http://www.deaflympics.com/mel2005/orgserv_jobsseniorsportsliaison.htm
ACEinfo
- Australian Communication Exchange Newsletter
FACES
– 2004 Program Now Open
ACE
is pleased to announce the opening of the Friends of ACE Support (FACES)
Program. FACES is available to assist in the funding of projects to benefit
people and communities who are Deaf or have a hearing or a speech impairment in
Australia.
Important
Update!
This year there has been a change to the program timelines. The dates have been
changed by one week. Application Forms and Guidelines are available for download
from Monday, July 14 2003 and the closing date will now be 4:45pm Monday, 22
September 2003.
FACES
Application Forms (including the Checklist) and Guidelines can be found on our
website at: http://www.aceinfo.net.au/resources/sponsorship/
Interface
– Issue 25
InterfACE – The
Summer/Autumn Issue is now available to download from the ACE website. This
issue includes: CEO
Notes, feature story about the “Communications Hub”, Life Member
Presentation and Speech awarded to Peter Cipollone, and much more! For more
information, see our News Section at:
http://www.aceinfo.net.au/News/
DRA
Spotlight – Receive & Record Captions – New Digital Set-Top Box Now
Available
Available from our
Technology Section, this is an exciting new product that makes use of digital
broadcasting, which was introduced in Australia in January 2001. With this
product you can: Watch TV, Receive and Record Captions. For more specific
information about this product, including features, and information about
Digital Broadcasting in Australia, visit our News Section at: http://www.aceinfo.net.au/News/
Community
Noticeboard
Have
you visited the ACE Community Notice board yet? On the Notice board you can
browse events, job vacancies, training, entertainment, special offers, and much,
much more.
You
can browse the Notice board at:
http://www.aceinfo.net.au/Events/noticeboard.html
Community
Service Announcement – New TV & Print Marketing Campaign
As part of our ongoing
commitment to generate awareness about the National Relay Service (NRS) to the
wider community, two x 30 second Community Service Announcement (CSA) television
advertisements (open and closed captioned) have just been completed. They will
be aired on TV Networks across Australia. In addition to this, if you are flying
Qantas between now and the next six weeks, keep an eye out for our CSA which
will be screened on all domestic and selected international flights. You can
read our Special Feature at: http://www.aceinfo.net.au/News/CSA/
Ruby Moon
- World Premiere
Presented
by Vicdeaf in association with Playbox Theatre
Saturday 9 August at 7pm
(drinks and nibbles)
Malthouse Theatre
113 Sturt Street
Southbank
Tickets $45
TTY:
9473 1199 or email info@vicdeaf.com.au
“HOT AUGUST NIGHT 4”
Melbourne Marching Girls will
hold their annual fundraiser on 30th August at Prahran Town Hall.
More details soon!
Thursday 30th
October
Comics Lounge
Errol Street,
North Melbourne
More details coming soon!
Performance
and Conversation
Sunday
27 July from 1:30pm-4pm (entry is free, no booking required)
Dance
house, 150 Princes Street, North Carlton
(Between
Drummond and Rathdowne Streets)
Wheelchair
accessible venue & facilities
Enquiries:
9699 8299 (Arts Access) or 9347 2860 (Dance house)
The
Conversation Day features a short performance by Weave Movement Theatre,
followed by conversation with writer Jonathon Marshall and two leading exponents
of integrated dance, Janice Florence (Director, Weave Movement Theatre and Kat
Worth (Director, Restless Dance Theatre). Currently there is little critical
attention paid to this fledgling art form. How can it be viewed and interpreted?
How does it affect our notions of dance?
Integrated
dance refers to dance performed by people with and without disabilities. This
conversation is presented by Ausdance, Dance house and Arts Access.
More
information: http://www.artsaccess.com.au/news/index.cfm?id=246
For
ten years Arts Access has run Art Day West for adults with intellectual
disabilities in the Western region. On Friday 18 July Artistic Program
Coordinator, Jo Cohen, will hand over its management to the ArtLife program at
Footscray Community Arts Centre. The program will continue with visual and
performing artists and be supported by the Department of Human Services.
Arts
Victoria has released its latest funding guidelines. Submissions for Artists in
Community, Artists in Schools and other professional development submissions are
due soon.
Arts
Victoria
Telephone
03 9954 5000
Fax:
03 9686 6186
TTY:
03 9682 4864
Email:
artsvic@dpc.vic.gov.au
www.artsvic.gov.au
Proposals
are sought from all artists working in all artforms - deadlines 1 August and 1
November 2003. The theme is Unpopular Culture. Visit www.nextwave.org.au or call
03 9662 1099.
Hearing Awareness Expo:
A free Hearing Awareness Expo
will be held in Ballarat, 26-27 August 2003. The theme for this year is “Hearing aids help you” and
the expo will have plenty of information/displays and advice covering a whole
range of issues relating to hearing loss.
Please contact Louise on 0419
551 125 for more details of other events during the week.
Meniere’s in Ballarat:
Meniere’s Support Group in
Ballarat was established to provide informal information, friendship and support
for Meniere’s suffers, their families and carers.
The next gathering will be on Wednesday 6 August, 1-4pm for a
round-the-table discussion, support and social chat at the Ballarat Community
Centre (corner Errard and Sebastopol Streets).
Gold coin donation and please bring a plate to share.
Signee
tots Group are hoping to organise a Positive Parent Workshop seminars (for
children aged 2 to 4 years old) run by Parentzone sometime in October/November.
Interpreters will be provided at the seminars.
If you are interested, please contact JPC with your contact name and
phone number to receive further information.
CADM (Catholic Association for
Deaf People Melbourne Inc) are having an EPHPHETA luncheon - spit roast, on
Sunday 17 August in the JPC Hall at 12.30pm (after the 11am mass).
$15 per person, see Malcolm or Monica for tickets.
BYO Drinks.
VUDbC are having their 5th
Annual General Meeting on Saturday 2 August at the Deaf Blind Association (616,
Riversdale Rd, Camberwell). Lunch
will be provided at 12noon before the AGM, which will commence at 1pm –
interpreters will be provided at the AGM.
Survey
for volunteers / guides / interpreters:
PLEASE
CIRCLE THE ANSWER..
1.
ROLE OF GUIDE:
2.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Satisfactory
Not satisfactory
3.
How was your feel when you guide with DB person?
Satisfactory
Not satisfactory
Any
comment?
3.
WERE THE ACTIVITIES:
Satisfactory
Not satisfactory
Any
comment?
6.
WHAT DID YOU LIKE THE BEST?
7.
WHAT DID YOU LIKE THE LESS?
8.
DID YOU ENJOY BEING WITH USHERS GROUP? IF YES or NO, PLEASE WRITE DOWN.
9.
ANY COMMENTS
Please let Wayne Kean or Cheryl
Rankine know if you are interested in being on the committee by email dglavic@yahoo.com
or fax 9799 6407 (Cheryl) 9521 4062 (Wayne).
Victorian Deaf Netball Association (VDNA) is having a Games Night on Saturday 26 July at 8pm at 23 Drewett Street, Surrey Hills.
Members $8
Non-members $10
Supper provided. BYO Drinks.
Please let Heather Mills, Fiona Goldab, Elizabeth Peters, Merrilyn Kennewell, or Ashleigh Hately know of your attendance by 20th July.
Deaf
community protests erosion of interpreter services
TANYA NOLAN: In South
Australia, the hearing impaired have taken to the streets to protest at what
they see as the erosion of services that guarantee them their quality of life.
Today around 200 deaf people marched on the office of Community Services
Minister, Senator Amanda Vanstone, because of the Federal Government's decision
to cut funding to interpreter services.
Nance Haxton reports from Adelaide.
See
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s901953.htm
for the full transcript.
The Melbourne 2005 Deaflympics
website is up and running now! Check
it out at:
Check out www.australiandigitaltv.com
Australian Digital TV is run by
a deaf guy who provides digital set-up boxes for people in Australia who are
deaf and hearing-impaired and wish to receive digital television with closed
captions.
Aussie Deaf Kids – a website
set up to encourage information exchange between parents of deaf and
hearing-impaired children and hearing service professionals in Australia.
Check it out at: www.aussiedeafkids.com
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Have a good fortnight.
From the team at VCOD
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St Kilda Road
Melbourne
Postal address:
PO Box 6186
St Kilda Road Central,
Melbourne 8008
TTY:
03 9521 2466 Fax:
03 9525 2595