Deaf Day 2022 at City Lit
Deaf Day is a free annual event hosted by City Lit’s Centre for Deaf Education where the Deaf community come together, socialise and walk around the different stalls. And yes, we were there on Saturday 23rd April and we did ourselves proud! “I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to […]
IOCN’s reach into Europe – Going Dutch for ‘real’ – a conversation with Anna Mbayo
What I (Jacqui Beckford) learnt while chatting via Zoom with the charming Anna Mbayo, was that it is priceless to be understood by another person’s experience of being othered. Anna firstly apologised to me for any errors in her spoken English, stating that it was not her first language. I reassured her that we would […]
From fire-breather to Girl on Fire: In conversation with Hyacinth Powell
On leaving secondary school, Hyacinth went to Drama school. On completing her diploma at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, she went off to college. Whilst at college, she stumbled into what would be her career for the next few years. Some time after that, she studied on the three-year Interpreting programme […]