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Basic Deaf Awareness Day

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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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ShareSpace: Building connections & collaboration between Deaf and hearing artists & organisations

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ShareSpace: Building connections and collaboration between Deaf and hearing artists, creatives and cultural organisations in the Black Country (and beyond) – with Deaf Explorer and Deafscope Link  This event will be BSL interpreted and several of the panel members will be Deaf.  Ishtiaq Hussain (VV artist and Director of Deafscope Link) will host this event, which aims to open up conversation on how we can build more and better collaboration and communication in the Black

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Diversity Day 2023 at the Halesowen College

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Halesowen college ‘ Diversity Day ‘ event.  Kerry and Omar delivered a basic Deaf awareness session and gave the students an insight into their lives as Deaf people. A couple of the topics they discussed were statistics of Deafness and communication tactics. At the end the students took part in a quiz on the Deaf community and culture and a lip-reading skills brain teaser. It was a successful presentation that received great feedback from the

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INSPIRE – Omar Haq & Ishtiaq Hussain

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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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