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British Deaf Association reveals the UK’s 2025 British Sign Language Poet Laureate

British Deaf Association reveals the UK’s 2025 British Sign Language Poet Laureate The British Deaf Association (BDA) is proud to announce the winner of its third annual British Sign Language (BSL) Poet Laureate competition.  The BSL Poet Laureate competition was first launched by the BDA in 2022 to celebrate the UK’s  inaugural National BSL Day—marking the anniversary of BSL’s legal recognition as an indigenous  language of Great Britain through the British Sign Language (BSL) Act 2022.  The competition itself plays an integral […]

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

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

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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