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BSL Conference 2025 Leeds

As the BDA’s BSL Poet Laureate, our very own Ishtiaq Hussain, Director of Deafscope, performed at the BSL Conference 2025!  By chance, Tanisha, an RSLI, was also working at the event. Throughout the conference, they had the chance to watch inspiring speakers from around the world, each sharing unique perspectives and experiences. They also met and chatted with so many interesting people from across the Deaf and interpreting communities. Check out their vlog for a […]

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Basic Deaf Awareness Day

Basic Deaf Awareness Day. Kerry and Omar delivered a basic Deaf awareness session and gave members of Creative Black Country, Multistory, Bearwood Community Hub, and Black Country Touring, an insight into their lives as Deaf people. The session consisted of statistics and facts, basic Deaf Awareness and basic British Sign Language. At the end of the session, participants took part in various activities such as the lip-reading brain teaser. It was a successful session that

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INSPIRE – Omar Haq & Ishtiaq Hussain

In this podcast, called ‘Inspire’, Artist Ishtiaq Hussain & Producer Omar Haq talk to Bobby Tiwana about their Offsite 9 project and the Wolverhampton Six. Click the link to read the transcript or listen to the podcast: https://www.creativeblackcountry.co.uk/blog/2022/9/12/9-words-podcasts-inspire Inspire credits: Artists Omar Haq & Ishtiaq Hussain Presented and produced by Bobby Tiwana Sound design, engineering and editing by Duncan Grimley Commissioned by Creative Black Country Funded by Arts Council England Supported by Wolverhampton Arts &

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