September
Newsletter
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| News from the President
of the Club |
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 Hello
my name is June Smith and am the President of B&S
Club in London. I am proud to say that the club's
website is now launched and that we are the first
established Club for the Deaf Lesbians and Gays
in the UK and also in the United Europe.. The establishment
of the club was in 1978 and this year we are having
a grand celebration to mark the 25th year Anniversary
of the unique London Club. It would be great if
you wanted to know more about the history of our
club, click on 'History'
on the page.
It would be fantastic if you all could share the 5-day celebrations with
us and we will be delighted to see you all with our open arms.
We are pleased to provide a new service to inform you of any changes via
e-mail, just click on 'Membership Sign up'
to sign yourself up so that you will be updated automatically of any changes.
It is the importance for us all to keep in touch with each other from all
over the world and to keep our club from strength to strength.
Thank you from me and all of the Brothers and Sisters club's hard working
staff. Have a great viewing!
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BROTHERS
AND SISTERS CLUB WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT £140
IS THE FIXED PRICE FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY
UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
HURRY AND GET TICKETS BOOKED!
 Brothers
and Sisters Club Social Evening will be held
at the Sols Arms on Friday the 5th of September
from 19.30pm until 23.00pm
The address is as follows - Sols Arms, 64-68 Hampstead Road, Warren Street,
Central London, NW1 and the nearest tube station is WARREN ST (Victoria
line) or Euston Square (Pink or Yellow lines) For further details click
on this www.thetube.com
We look forward to welcoming you to our club on Friday evening
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| E.G.M |
| We will host
an E.G.M held on Saturday the 4th of October to
discuss a change made to the club constitution,
however, a venue will be announced via e-mail sent
to you all. |
| Mobile Service |
25th Anniversary |
 In
our August's newsletter, we advised that we, the
committee, decided to terminate the mobile service
due to the service not being used popularity. However,
on this occasion, we have decided to provide a
new mobile number which is 07779-339150,
however, any messages received will be responded
via our 02 account online automatically but messages
responded may not be received immediately, depending
on 02 server. Your patience on this would be very
much appreciated. |
25th Anniversary
looks set to be the biggest Party in the history
of Brothers and Sisters Club! As ticket sales to
the Big Weekend and hotel bookings for the festival
period have surpassed our's expectations for the
past of few months.
We will close our registration pages by the end of November BUT if we will
e-mail to our subscribed customers advising them as soon as our tickets
has been sold out. |
| Concorde
American Deaf Man! |
In
our August's newsletter, we explained about one
of our American Deaf customer visitng us at the
A.G.M in July and he flew down to London on Concorde.
As you may know that BA decided to terminte Concorde
service at the end of October so this is your
last chance to view the pictures attached! Here
are the pictures for your viewing of Concorde!
Am sure that the Foods in the picture attached were made by Gay Staff
for BA Concorde's customers!
Very tempting! Go to www.ba.com if
interested!!!!!!!
GOODBYE DARLING CONCORDE AND WE WILL SEE YOUR LAST FLIGHT OVER LONDON
HEATHROW BRIDGE IN OCTOBER WITH A BOTTLE OF CHAMPANGE!
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| Party Events |
Brighton's Gay Pride |
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John
Bown (Club's travel Rep!) and Marcus Turley (Honorary
Secretary) made a trip to attend the Brighton's
gay pride on the 9th of August.
John and Marcus reported to us saying that they both had a ball in Brighton
where there were more than 50 Deaf gay people coming from all of the
United Kingdom attending the pride. Marcus was the one travelling back
to London on the first train the following day!
Don't look at Fitness First bag as we are not promoting it !
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| Deaf Broadcasting
Council |
Deaf
Broadcasting Council's OPEN FORUM
Sat 6 September 2003, 2 - 5pm.
London TV Centre, Waterloo, London SE1 9LT
Topics: Live subtitling/signing
in TV and Consumer Service Quality for Deaf/HoH
TV viewers.
More details?
Contact: DBC, 50 Clevedon
Road, LONDON, SE20 7QQ.
Email: pennybes@aol.com
Fax: 07970150006
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Independent Living
London
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Deaf gay and lesbian
chat rooms on MSN |
| 24th
- 25th September 2003, Wembley
We have been asked to publish their news as
follows:
Independent Living London is the leading event in the South East for
those with a disability, the elderly and healthcare professionals. Its
aim is to aid daily living and promote independence amongst visitors.
This year Independent Living London provides
an invaluable opportunity to:
See over 180 exhibitors of home healthcare
products under one roof New Product Launches
- touch, test and compare the latest healthcare
products first hand 100s of products for all
ages! Ranging from the latest mobility products,
walking aids, stairlifts and hoists, to beds,
adapted vehicles, ramps, sensory products and
many more.
Dedicated Association Village with many different national and local
associations and charities providing essential advice and guidance Special
Features - interactive product demonstrations, workshops on well being
and much, much more...
Entry is FREE and all activities are FREE.
For further information and free tickets visit www.independentlivingevents.co.uk
or call the hotline on 0870 429 4372.
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As requested
to be published in this newsletter, Deaf gay people
from all of the United Kingdom contact each other
through the MSN Gay rooms called Deaf Gay U.K.
More details can be found at the following address: www.deafgayuk.com |
| Brazil's First Deaf
culture and Arts Festival to take place in SO PAULO |
We are most pleased
to invite you to participate in or attend Brazil's
First Deaf Arts and Culture Festival, scheduled
for December 12, 13 and 14,
2003. The will include an arts exhibition, sale of art works, and performances
by Deaf dancers, actors and storytellers. It will be held in So Paulo,
Brazil's largest city, which has a population of 16 million and a vibrant
Deaf community.
By creating a forum for Deaf artists, we intend to increase pride within
the Deaf community, gain recognition for Deaf artists, and work towards
the
inclusion of Deaf people in society.
Deaf actors, film makers, storytellers, writers, dancers, and artists
are all encouraged to be involved, as are theatre and dance troupes with
at
least one Deaf member.
Please try to send your project by September 30, 2003 by e-mail to ilsb@lsbvideo.com.br,
or to ILSB, Largo So Francisco de Paula 26/1221
Centro, Rio de Janeiro RJ 20051-070, Brazil.
Projects will be selected by a team made up of education, art and culture
professionals.
The event will be open to the general public. Participants must cover
their own travel to Brazil. While the event cannot help with housing
and food
costs, hotels and restaurants are not expensive. Also, booths will be
made available to the artists, and you will have an opportunity to display
and
sell your work.
Our phone contacts are +(55 21) 2221-8953, +(55-21) 9174-6620 and +
(55 21) 2222-3482 or e-mail us at ilsb@lsbvideo.com.br
ILSB - Instituto de L ngua de Sinais Brasileira
The Brazilian Sign Language Institute
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| The Weekly Subtitled
Cinema Listings! |
Gunter Reignard's
wedding reported in our August newsletter |
Brothers
and Sisters Club is working with Subtitled Cinema
for you all! However, as usual, many available
films, but not many shows! Only 22 UK cinemas
can screen the latest cinema releases with subtitles.
They are located in these areas:
Basingstoke, Belfast, Cardiff, Clevedon, Colchester,
Glasgow, Guildford, Kingston, Leicester, London (7),
Newcastle (2), Stirling, Woking, Wolverhampton and York.
Please ask your nearest accessible cinema
to screen available, accessible films - there
are over ninety subtitled films available!
Locations and available films here: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com
It is expected that around 100 cinemas will
be equipped with subtitle equipment by the
end of this year.
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We
have received a photograph of himself and his
new husband - they both got married in July.
CONGRATULATION and best wishes from all of us at Brothers and Sisters
Club!
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Wedding
day!
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Wedding Party at the
local Deaf Club in Berlin the following
day
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| Disability Living
Allowance |
Brothers and Sisters
Club New Office! |
| We have been
informed that the Government will change the law
in January for those entitled to Disability Living
Allowance - the law state that those with HIV status
will be recognised disability automatically with
no questions asked by the DLA office. Currently,
those with HIV status are asked with a lot of questions
relating to their health but in January, it is
going to be the good news for people with HIV.
We are very pleased for our Deaf customers due
to their stress level going up and down in the
past but hopefully, they will have a comfortable
life starting from January. |
We are pleased
to announce that we are working with the City of
Westminster Council on providing us a room to allow
us to carry on working for you all. A decision
is awaiting from them. We will update you all via
e-mail as soon as we receive their response. |
| New York Walk through
Manhatten |
Health Issue |
| We are happy
to support two of our committees John Bown and
Marcus Turley to go on a trip to the United States
of America supporting New York Walk organised by
Stonewall. New York Walk is aimed at Stonewall's
fundraising New York Equality Walk. John Bown explained
that he hopes that his work company will be able
to fund his trip to New York. We are waiting for
more news from him and as for Marcus Turley, he
is still waiting for a reply from his local borough.
Good Luck to both of them! |
We are pleased
to announce that we will be adding an extra title
for our MENU bar on our website - HEALTH ISSUE
- This section will allow you to understand the
definition of HIV and all of that. It will be launched
in the coming weeks. Maybe, online video viewing
in BSL be launched in this section depending how
much time is needed. We will let you know in our
next newsletter in October. |
| Freedom Pass and
Freedom Oyster Card |
Email us? |
| We
have received a lot of enquiries in relation
to the Freedom Pass from our London's customers
through Info@brothers-and-sisters-club.com and
what we have done was to forward our concerns
to the GLA (Greater London Authority) on their
behalf. We got a speedy response from Ken Livingstone
the Mayor of London. He explained that the current
Freedom Passess expire in March 2004. When the
replacements are issued next year they will be
on Oyster cards (smartcards). Users will then
simply have to touch the cards against the readers
on buses or on the Underground gates. The cards
will not need to be taken out of their wallet.
When a valid Oyster card is presented to the
Underground gate the light on the reader turns
green and the gate opens. But when a magmetic
ticket (such as a Freedom Pass) is put through
the gate the light on the Oyster card reader
does, turn red! Oyster Card is an advanced system
to prevent the boroughs from spending millions
on replacing current stolen or lost freedom pass
because Oyster Card is like a bank card whereby
it can be blocked automatically when report stolen! |
Due to a lot
of positive feedback received from our customers
and the managers at the Sols Arms has agreed to
allow us to use the upstair room until January
2004 and we will review our customer's feedback
in January and a decision will be made by ourselves.
Thank you to you all for your support and kindness.
That is all for now for this month!
Any news, please e-mail to us at News@brothers-and-sisters-club.com
Any questions or suggestions - please e-mail to this address
Info@brothers-and-sisters-club.com
Complaints? E-mail to the following address
I_am_frowning@brothers-and-sisters-club.com
Thank you for reading this newsletter and we look forward to updating you
in our next newsletter due to be published on the 1st of October.
Goodbye with love from all of us!!!!! |
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