Hearing Awareness Week 2014

Hearing Awareness Week 2014
24 - 30 August 2014

http://www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au

Come along to Coffee at Concord on 26 Aug, guest speaker Val Stewart

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another event
Australian Hearing Hub Open House – Hearing Awareness Week. On Saturday 23rd August 12pm – 3pm, to celebrate Hearing Awareness Week, The Hearing Hub is opening its doors to raise awareness on healthy hearing and services available at the Australian Hearing Hub.

Captioned Cinema Club in Sydney

After its successful establishment in Melbourne the Deaf Cinema Club has come to Sydney.

The Sydney Deaf Cinema Club is a non-for-profit organisation run by volunteers with the purpose of organising Open Captions sessions at Cinemas in Sydney.
Contact the DCC on their Facebook page

The first screening in Sydney is at Events Parramatta on Friday March 7 at 6:15 pm. A screening of Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
All tickets must be purchased through Deaf Cinema Club, deafcinemaclub+sydney@gmail.com
Please make sure to state in the email how many types of tickets you want.

EARLY BIRD OFFER: If you book before the 1st of March you will get a discount!
$15 Adult, $12 Concession/Senior/Under 18.

Bookings between 1st March and 7th March will be
$18 Adults and $15 Concession/Senior/Under 18.

Spread the word! Invite friends and families! Everyone is welcome!

A big "hear, hear" for new theatre app!

Sue Daw from Canberra branch has been featured in the Canberra Times in an article about theatre captioning via an iDevice (iPhone, iPad or Android) app* "Go Theatrical"
Here's a link to the article

This new technology provides another way to get captions where previously there were none.

The app has been produced by the Captioning Studio, winner of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2011 Human Rights Award for Business - more info here

* an app, short for application, is a program, which runs on devices (idevices) like iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone.

Stay Safe online

The Federal Government has put together a set of guidelines to help you protect yourself from nasty things on the ineternet.

here's a link to the page

Have a look!




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Two more captioned cinemas

[via Media Access - http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/cinema/two-new-sydney-cinemas-commence-captioned-movies]

Hoyts has announced that Warringah and Mount Druitt cinemas will be equipped with CaptiView captioning system. This in addition to the five cinemas that became CaptiView enabled on 1 December 2011.

Brazil Film Festival 2011

The film festival is on from 14 to 21 November 2011 this year.
Locations are Palace Norton Street and Chauvel cinema Paddington.

http://www.brazilfilmfestival.com.au/

15th Japanese Film Festival

Don't know about you but I don't understand Japanese. So, all Japanese movies in Australia are subtitled, don't need to rely on captions so much because they're already there!! Soundtrack music is another kettle of fish...

Anyway
The 15th Japanese Film Festival is on from 17 - 27 November in Sydney [and Melbourne 29 November to 6 December 2011]
website - http://15th.japanesefilmfestival.net/
location: Event Cinemas George St, in Sydney [map]