Deaf Day at the City Lit, 22 April 2006

On 22 April I went to the City Lit, which celebrated the 10 years Anniversary- Deaf Day. Here people can get different information about education, employment, communications and art… etc.

I was stupid, because I had not booked a free ticket by email, so I had to line up to get a ticket if they had space for different speeches. I wanted to book places for teacher training, sign a story, hearing dogs for the deaf, but they were all full. The staff suggested that we should wait if someone did not make it. We were lucky in that we could attend the “teacher training” speech. It was great a lecture. They offer BSL interpreter, also typer, if people don’t know how to sign but can read type. There were different places at the City Lit. For instance, I saw police officers who can use sign language. It’s easier to communicate with deaf people if they have any problem.

I met my art friend who was showing his art at the City Lit. It was great, and he showed his printed and draw, and he made his business card, silver writing on the card, very special and different. I thought it’s free, it was 1 pound for his business card, but he is my friend so he sold me it for 50 pence! Ha ha ha

I went to the book place. It included many books to talk about signing, deaf history, and to learn BSL. I was impressed with one book, it’s English-BSL(British sign language) dictionary. I think it’s the best to check English-BSL from DVD and visual language.

I saw some hearing dogs for deaf people. They are so sweet, but it really is an amazing and intelligent role played by the dog and one that is hugely appreciated by their owners.

© Sheng-Kai Chou 2006