This morning Dot Sign Language teacher Paul Dench taught the first of three British Sign Language sessions at Disability Initiative in Camberley. Disability Initiative is a charity that specialises in the provision of services to adults with complex physical disabilities and acquired brain injury. They specialise in providing care and rehabilitation to individuals through a variety […]
Thank you Ardingly Prep School for inviting us to teach the Year 6 students BSL as part of their series of ‘New Skills Days.’ These sessions were to promote and support the school motto “Shaping my World”. The school recognise that BSL is an important skill for fully inclusive communication, and the teachers want to […]
Tamara has been with Dot Sign Language all week on a work experience placement. Growing up with Deaf parents who are both BSL users, Tamara is a fluent signer. She has taken BSL Levels 1 and 2 with Dot, and last year challenged herself to Level 3. This required her to study BSL linguistics as […]
Hello, my name Tamara. I’m currently doing a week of work experience with DOT Sign Language. The reason I’m so interested in BSL is because both my parents are deaf. I’ve grown up in the deaf community and have many deaf or hard-of-hearing friends. As a CODA (child of deaf adults) I have many responsibilities […]
Following her five-star solo show WHITE, Koko Brown now brings the world premiere of GREY, the second instalment of her Colour Trilogy, to Ovalhouse this summer. This autobiographical new show candidly explores depression and challenges the taboos which so often obscure black women’s mental health. But, this is not a production about suffering from depression, […]
Kathleen has taught BSL as an option for the Global Graduate Award in Languages, as well as a BSL evening course at the University of Surrey for several years now. For this reason she was delighted to be asked by the People, Culture and Inclusion Manager to teach a Deaf Awareness and BSL session for […]
Kathleen and Paul, along with Jan, Lisa and partners and friends, had a fabulous evening at the CSSEF dinner and ball. As well as being an opportunity to catch up with friends and make new like-minded contacts, the event raised huge sums for local Deaf children. We cannot overstate how much Karen Jackson and her […]
Art Night is London’s largest contemporary art festival. Christine Sun Kim is a Berlin-based artist whose first language is American Sign Language (ASL.)She uses the media of drawing and sound in performance to investigate her relationship with spoken language and the aural environment. For Art Night 2019 Kim will collaborate with students at Frank Barnes […]
In order to make the BSL performance more accessible for children, the date of the BSL performance has been changed to Saturday June 8th at 7pm. It is suitable for children age 6+. In The Willows features soaring vocals and spectacular street dance, starring Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe, deaf street dance Chris Fonseca (The […]
We will be holding a Taster session from 10 – 11am at Squires Garden Centre Cafe, Littlewick Rd, Woking GU21 4XR, on Monday June 10th. This is an opportunity to learn about Deaf culture as well as some BSL basics, such as fingerspelling, meeting and greeting, numbers. You can also find out more about upcoming Level […]
