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News — 2009 / 09

  • Visual record of Deaf people’s working life - 1920-40

    Published 24th September 2009

    An event was to be held celebrating the successful completion of the Deaf Heritage Project at the Deaf Cultural Centre on Wednesday 30th September from 10.00am to 2.00pm.  The main aim of the Deaf Heritage Project, which was funded by the Lottery Heritage fund, was to conduct a range of interviews with deaf people from the West Midlands who were at work during the period 1920 to 1940.

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  • Tinnitus Awareness Day

    Published 16th September 2009

    There will be a Tinnitus Awareness day on Saturday 10th October at 10am to 4pm at Carrs Lane Church Centre in the Birmingham City Centre near Moor Street station. This is an opportunity for sufferers of tinnitus or those who know someone who has this condition, to learn more about it and be introduced to a support network.

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  • Dance to raise money for bid services

    Published 3rd September 2009

    John and Bridget Kane have been members of our lip speaking support group for a number of years. They were very keen to support the group and organised a fund raising event to enable the group to keep going.

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  • City Centre ‘Sign Up’

    Published 2nd September 2009

    Three deaf people from bid services went onto Edgbaston Street in the City centre on Monday 3rd August, aided by their interpreters to promote the ‘Sign Up’ campaign. They were making themselves available to passers-by who were interested in learning basic British Sign Language (BSL). Most of the passers-by learnt how to fingerspell their names and how to introduce themselves in BSL.

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  • Deaf people became 10 Years Younger

    Published 2nd September 2009

    There was a ‘10 Years Younger’ event at the Deaf Cultural Centre on Saturday 18th July from 10am to 4pm. Thirty three women attended the event. and listened to a Professional Fashion Adviser giving tips on fashion.

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  • Deaf pupils have a ‘hand’ in making masks

    Published 2nd September 2009

    Bid services' Multimedia Productions Officer, Lisa Davies, joined bid services with an arts background, and was appointed as co-ordinator of DANUK (formerly known as Deaf Arts Network UK) at the Deaf Cultural Centre. Her first job was to find artists to form the UK's first Deaf Arts Network. This would be developed all over the Midlands and now includes more than 30 deaf and hard of hearing artists from all over the UK, some hailing from as far as London and Wales with the furthest from Brighton. 

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