ESWO Workshop in London

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 28, 2006

Hello Shane, Ingvild, Lucyna, Bencie and all those who attended the  
workshop in London!

Congratulations on a successful workshop!

And thank you, Shane, for this excellent report. It gave us a feeling  
of how it went, including the interview with the BBC and talking to  
Deaf academics in the DCAL library...what fun!

And a special THANK YOU to Bencie Woll, for providing the space at  
DCAL for the SignWriting workshop...that was a wonderful gift.

And to all those who taught the workshop too...thank you for  
scheduling your trip to London in the middle of your busy lives...I  
know it was at your own expense to travel to London to teach and we  
are so fortunate you could do that...

I bet in time there will be more SignWriting users in the UK because  
of this workshop...

Enjoy Kenya Shane! Kenyan Sign Language deserves to be written too...

Val ;-)




On Oct 28, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> just a quick email here.
>
> The workshop - it went very well - its a small group - informal and
> easy to work with - there were a few interesting discussions - as
> always, Ingvild is good to work with - and Lucyna was instrumental in
> teaching basic signwriting and International Signs.
>
> See Hear!, a BBC TV programme for deaf people in the UK, came over and
> filmed us - I was busy catching up gossip with the See Hear! team as I
> know them from my London years and I spoke to half of the DCAL people
> as theyre academics just like me - but they were very interested in SW
> but like most deafies, they wont give it a go at first - but at least
> they didnt rubbish it - they just looked interested - but they failed
> to see how important it can be - that is something we need to look
> into.
>
> They filmed the workshop - and they have interviewed Bencie Woll the
> DCAL director (as she used to use SW in Univ of Bristol's Centre for
> Deaf Studies years ago - to record International Signs) - and they
> interviewed me (I was pathetic) and I had to drag Ingvild in as I knew
> she ll give better answers as she was involved with SW for 20 years!
>
> Positive weekend - good publicity  and all that.
>
> DCAL was wonderful in accomodating our needs!
>
> I ll be off to Kenya this Thursday - I will speak to two universites
> there about introducing SignWriting
>
> Shane
>