Today is the second day of the UK’s deaf film and TV festival Deaffest 2012! Click here to read last night’s live blog, including reaction to ‘The Third Brigade’, ‘Still Here’ and ‘Sex or Chocolate.’ Read on below for today’s film-by-film blog by editor Charlie Swinbourne. For today’s programme, just click here, and don’t forget… [Read more…]
May 25, 2012
Tonight marks the launch of the UK’s deaf film and TV festival Deaffest 2012, where The Limping Chicken’s editor Charlie Swinbourne will be writing a live film-by-film blog, published below! Don’t forget to follow his tweets via Limping_Chicken and also the Twitter hashtag #Deaffest2012! 10.42pm: Overall, a great first night. Highlights for me were: The… [Read more…]
May 25, 2012
Click on the titles to go to Remark’s website, then click ‘BSL’ to watch the news in beautiful sign language! New Irish TV subtitling rules ‘will worsen’ the access to TV for Deaf viewers The Irish television regulatory body has published new guidelines to encourage Irish TV broadcasters to increase the number of subtitled programmes… [Read more…]
May 25, 2012
During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’ve been showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. We’ve had The End, Chasing Cotton Clouds, Coming Out and Stiletto. Today, we give you… [Read more…]
May 24, 2012
A heart-warming story covered on Concord Monitor has revealed how Marvel Comics responded to the mother of a deaf boy when she wrote to them telling them that her son wouldn’t wear his hearing aids. Christina D’Allesandro thought her message would end up in the spam folder, but was amazed to get a series of… [Read more…]
May 24, 2012
During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’re showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. Don’t forget that during the festival, which kicks off on Friday night, The Limping Chicken will… [Read more…]
May 23, 2012
’37 Plays. 37 Languages.’ This is the tag line for the Globe Theatre’s Globe to Globe season, hosting theatre companies from every corner of the world. The season may be international in outlook, yet the language used to perform this version of Love’s Labour’s Lost is at once home-grown, yet very different from the language… [Read more…]
May 23, 2012
During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’re showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. Don’t forget that during the festival, which kicks off on Friday night, The Limping Chicken will… [Read more…]
May 22, 2012
In last Sunday’s edition of The Mail on Sunday, Liz Jones, who first ‘came out’ as being deaf in 2008, wrote a surprisingly informative article about being fitted with hearing aids. She’d hoped they would “transform her world,” but at an audiology clinic, Jones found out about some of the downsides. How hearing aids will… [Read more…]
May 22, 2012
During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’re showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years, which can be seen online. Don’t forget that during the festival, which kicks off on Friday night, The Limping Chicken will… [Read more…]
May 21, 2012
During the week running up to Deaffest 2012, the UK’s Deaf film and TV festival which takes place this weekend in Wolverhampton, we’re showing you some of the festival’s greatest hits from previous years – the award-winning films that blew the audience away and went on to be shown across the world. Before we get… [Read more…]
May 21, 2012
It is a truth universally acknowledged, particularly within the Deaf community and the interpreting profession, that Deaf people’s access to legal advice services in the UK in rather dire. As early as 2009, this was a fact recognised even by the institution with a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect,… [Read more…]
May 21, 2012
The Secret Deafie is a series of anonymous columns written by different writers. Today Today I realised people aren’t always ignorant of deaf people in a negative or offensive way, but in a way that simply shows their lack of knowledge and understanding. I was sitting at a bus stop this morning. It was quite… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
Three years ago, when our first daughter was born, we were living in a two bedroom ground floor flat. Despite the fact that newborn babies are barely more than a foot long, the flat, which we thought would be perfect, quickly seemed far too small. Perhaps the fact that she came along in the middle… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
TV presenter Ben Fogle will front a BBC Lifeline Appeal calling on viewers to raise funds for the national charity his father set up – Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. The charity trains dogs to alert deaf people to household sounds and danger signals such as the doorbell, telephone and smoke alarm – providing life-changing… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
I’ve just been sent this video by A German record company who represent Norwegian songwriter Einar Stray, who has just released a video featuring sign language (a trend that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, after recent videos by Paul McCartney and others!). Happily, the signing in this one does look like it’s… [Read more…]
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