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NEWSDESK 23.04.05

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Welcome to the VEE-TV newsdesk, your weekly guide
to all things Deaf

Deaf Cup Final
The England Deaf Cup Final will be on Saturday 7 May. Doncaster v Newcastle United are playing for the Cup (kick off 11am), and Leeds and Charlton Athletic are playing for the Plate (kick off 3pm). The ground is Aldershot Military Stadium (Queens Avenue, Aldershot, GU11 2JL).

Cinemas mark Deaf Awareness Week
Cinemas throughout the UK have pledged to mark Deaf Awareness Week (May 2–8) by screening extra subtitled films. UCI, for example, has said that 14 of its cinemas will screen a subtitled film each day. To find out how you can help improve deaf access to local cinemas, visit:
www.yourlocalcinema.com.

Meanwhile, the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) has launched the Cinema Access Programme, which aims to enable deaf, hard-of-hearing,
blind and partially sighted people to access the latest films through specialist subtitling and audio-description equipment. Participating cinemas are obliged to screen one film a week under the initiative. Eight cinemas have already received funding. Details can be found at:
www.yourlocalcinema.com
www.niftc.co.uk

Deaf and desperate
Desperate Housewives will be featuring a deaf character, played by none other than Marlee Matlin, Wednesday 20th April on E4, and will be on Channel 4 this Wednesday (27 April). Tune in!
www.channel4.com/
desperatehousewives

Deaf Rave plus …
Deaf Rave's Summer of Love party is scheduled for 6 August. And you can win tickets on this site!

Meanwhile, you can join Thames3 in association with Deaf Rave on April 29 from midnight for a free exhibition/rave under Festival Pier on the South Bank. Free drinks, music, exploratory artworks and spaces.

Disability Film Festival
The Seventh Disability Film Festival will be at the National Film Theatre, London from 30 November – 4 December 2005. Have you written, directed or produced a film? Deadline for the submission of films is 29 April.
www.disabilityfilm.co.uk

Nasty Girls
A free event to mark the launch of the Disability Arts Cymru's new website will take place on May 10 in the Ocean Lounge, North Wales Conference Centre in Llandudno. Renowned Nasty Girls and up-and-coming singer/songwriter Susan Hedges will be performing. The event will incorporate sign-language interpretation and speech-to-text. Book in advance.
www.artsdisabilitywales
.com/contact.htm


Nasty Girls are also performing their show 'Time Troupers' at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, 11-19 August. They are looking for a disabled female actress who has some experience of talent for performing comedy to join them. You need to be based in the North West and available for rehearsals in late June / early July. The work will be paid. If you want to know more, e-mail Anne at:
acunningham@supanet.com

Fiona Tan tour
There's a free BSL interpreted tour of Fiona Tan's new exhibition on 30 April at Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP. For more information, e-mail
dawn.scarfe@modernartoxford.org.uk.
www.modernartoxford.org.uk

Deaf Connections
Deaf Connections is holding a fundraising Race Night and
Quiz at its centre, 100 Norfolk St, Glasgow G5 9EJ on 29
April at 7pm. Tickets are £3 each and all proceeds go towards the refurbishment of the centre lounge. For tickets contact Nicola on 0141 420 2186 (voice/text) or e-mail
nicola@deafconnections.co.uk.
www.deafconnections.co.uk

Deaf Athletics Championships
The Deaf Athletics Championships will be held on 3 and 4 June at Halle/Saale, Germany.
www.deafukathletics.org.uk/comps.html

2007 Winter Deaflympics
The 2007 Winter Deaflympics is to be held in Salt Lake City in Utah, USA. The official website in now online.
www.2007deaflympics.com/

Get fit in London
Deaf, hard of hearing or interested in sign language? Do you want to get fit and healthy? Active Signs is a free course run by a qualified deaf gym instructor who can sign. For more information, contact j.martin@disabilityserve.com
www.jactive.net/projects
_activesigns.html

Fashion Gallery
Join a talk and guided tour in BSL given by fashion journalist and former VEE-TV researcher Melissa Mostyn on 27 April from 6.30pm to 7.15pm at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7. Advance booking is essential. E-mail
bookings.office@vam.ac.uk.
www.vam.ac.uk

Asian Deaf Women's Association forum
The Asian Deaf Women's Association forum is held on 26 April, 11-2pm at Stratford Advice Arcade Room D, 107–109 The Grove, Stratford, London E15 1HP. For more information, text 0781 506949 or e-mail
asiancaseworker@yahoo.co.uk.