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Volume 11, Issue 3 Spring 2010 Spring Semester Is James Castle: A Retro- Underway spective Exhibit at the Time is flying! It feels like just a short time ago that Berkeley Art Museum we were getting ready to start the semester and now it SL department staff, faculty, and students at is already March! Currently enrolled students, if you Berkeley City College are eligible for 2-for-1 are in last semester of study, it is time to for you to fill admission to a career-spanning retrospective out your petition for an AA degree or certificate of A of the celebrated self-taught deaf artist James Castle at achievement. Pick up the petition in the admissions the Berkeley Art Museum through April 25.* office and return it (completed) to Jennifer Lenahan in room 261 before March 19. Born profoundly deaf, James Castle (1899–1977) was a prodigious artist who, without formal training, created This semester the ASL Department welcomes Rory a remarkable and vast body of work over the course Osbrink, a new instructor who is teaching the Deaf of his life in rural Idaho. His drawings, cardboard Culture II course. Osbrink is also a Deaf Studies constructions, paintings, and, even textbooks became teacher at the California School for the Deaf in Fre- his chief means of communicating with the world. mont. He has previously worked at UC San Diego, Despite the barrenness of Castle’s surroundings and Ohlone College, and Gallaudet University. the solitary quality of his life, his works lack any sense The Follett bookstore on campus has plans to begin a of loneliness, pain, or worry. On the contrary, making textbook rental program beginning in the Fall semester. art for Castle was clearly an act of confident Keep your eyes open for more details about this poten- pleasure and curiosity, an act in which tially money saving change. Of course, books will still he immersed his full awareness. This be available for purchase, too. retrospective is the first compre- Reminder: There will be no classes on Thursday, hensive museum exhibition of March 25, an in-service training day for faculty and his drawings, books, and paper staff. constructions. Check your calendars! The Peralta Community College Public Programs with Exhibit District observes Malcolm X day as a holiday. Some Sign Language–Interpreted Tour, Saturday, March district publications show the holiday on May 14 and 6, 1:30 p.m. A student from UC Berkeley’s graduate others on May 19. The correct date is May 14. program in art practice will present a uniquely informa- tive gallery tour of the work of this singular American Inside This Issue artist. The tour will be interpreted by Patricia Lessard, an expert American Sign Language interpreter who is a Events & Announcements 2 Help for Deaf Haitians 3 specialist in interpreting visual art. ASL Tales Wins Award 4 Gallery Talk: Jacqueline Crist and Ann Percy, IRS Videos in ASL 6 Inuit Sign Language in Canada 7 Thursday, March 18, noon. Two of the foremost ex- WFD Statement on Unified Arab Sign Language 9 continued on page 2 ASL News 1 Castle exhibit continued from page 1 Events & Announcements perts on the art and life of James Castle join forces to offer their insights on selected works in the exhi- Three Free Places to Park Your Bicycle in Downtown bition, and the stories behind them. Interpreted by Berkeley. Patricia Lessard. 1. BCC Bike Room. Enter the building through the main doors and take the elevator on your left down to the ground Gallery Talk: Constructing Castle with Brenda floor. Do not bring bikes up or down on the stairs. 2. Across Brueggemann and Katherine Sherwood, Sunday, the street from BCC at the City Garage. Also FREE vehicle April 18, 3 p.m. Bringing together two educator- parking for people with disabilities available here. 3. In- practitioners who have long focused on James Castle, side the Downtown Berkeley BART station. The Bike Station this program will highlight visual and linguistic ele- is at the south end. (510) 548-7433 or www.bikestation.org. ments in his work that contribute to a deeper under- standing of his artistic output as a whole. Interpret- Information about local Deaf events is available at DCARA’s ed by Patricia Lessard. web site, www.dcara.org and click on “events”. One-time and on-going events are listed as well as a captioned movie finder. *Staff, faculty, and students in the Berkeley City Col- lege ASL Program should iden- 1st Thursday of every month at Pizza Monthly Pizza Night. tify themselves as associated with Patio in Fremont. Starts at 6 pm. For more info contact Berkeley City College at the BAM/ Mitchel at either whazzzzup17@aol.com or whazzzzup17@ PFA admissions desk to obtain tmail.com. Open to Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and ASL students. 2-for-1 admission through April ASL COFFEE SOCIALS 25. Admission is $8 for adults Alameda. 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month, 10 am. (18-64); $5 for seniors, disabled Crosstown Coffee House, 1303 High Street. For more persons, young adults, & non-UC information: MaureenMcFall@mac.com Berkeley students; and free for Berkeley. 2nd Friday of the month, 7-10 pm. Royal children (12 and under), BAM/ Grounds Coffee & Tea, 2409 Shattuck Avenue. For more PFA members, and UC Berkeley info contact Daniel at pah_daniel@aol.com or Pam at students, staff, and faculty. pmbrawl@aol.com. The UC Berkeley Art Museum entrance is at 3rd Friday night of the month. 3 of their baristas Dublin. 2626 Bancroft Way, between College Avenue and sign. Starbucks, 7197 Village Pkwy, corner of Village Bowditch Street. For more information go to Pkwy & Amador Valley Blvd. www.deafcoffee.com/html/ http://bampfa.berkeley.edu. california/dublin.html San Francisco #1. 1st & 3rd Fridays of the month, 6:05-9:05 —From Peter Cavagnaro, Media Relations Manager for the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. pm. Starbucks at 2727 Mariposa Street, near KQED. For more information: sanfranaslclub@gmail.com. San Francisco #2. Every Thursday 6-8:30 pm. ASL Cafe by Project Insight. Moscone Recreation Center, 1800 Chestnut Street. For more information, including changes, Interesting Cable Car Facts: cancellations, moves, etc.: contactpi@sfgov.org or www. •In 1964, the Secretary of the Interior named the San Francisco Cable Cars a moving National Historic projectinsight.org. Landmark. •In 1998 Fannie Mae Barnes became the San Francisco #3. Deaf LGBT. 1st Friday of the month, first, and so far only, gripwoman working on the cable 6-8 pm. Cafe Flore, 2298 Market Street, San Francisco cars. •The current cable system pulls all cars at an (across from LookOut). For more information go to http:// average of 9.5 miles per hour. •In the 1880s and ‘90s, rlsdbayarea.googlepages.com/calendar. All hearing and cable cars left from the Ferry Building as often as every 15 minutes. •The cable cars first went into service in deaf LGBTIQ and straight folks are welcome. 1873. •Cable cars today carry nearly 8 million riders Santa Clara. 3rd Friday of the month, 8:30-11:30 pm. every year. Starbucks at 3605 El Camino Real. For more information: —AAA’s magazine Via, July/August 2006 continued on page 3 ASL News 2 Events continued from page 2 Help for Haiti michelyn85@aol.com. n Tuesday, January 12, the focus of the Santa Rosa. Meets every Sunday at 10 am at Aroma Roasters at Railroad Square on 4th Street. world landed on Haiti and the Haitian people. The world has come together to Vallejo. 1st Wednesday of the month, 7-11 pm. Starbucks at O provide support and strength for those who lost 400 Lincoln Road East. Contact: tatobud@sbcglobal.net family members and loved ones as well as their ASL MEETUP GROUPS homes and neighborhoods. Berkeley. www.meetup.com/Berkeley-ASL-Meetup/ People around the world are seeking ways to assist San Francisco. 2nd Friday of the month, sometimes more by donating food, water, clothing, money and time. often. Various locations (usually close to BART). http:// asl.meetup.com/294/ We are still in the informa- tion gathering process, but Tri-Valley. 1st Friday of the month. Meeting locations thanks to colleagues around will be changing each month. http://asl.meetup.com/tri- the country, we can provide valley-asl-group/ you the following informa- Oakland Deaf Church. Sunday services at 3 pm and Bible tion at this time. If you study every Wednesday at 6 pm. Location is Harvest would like to make a dona- Fellowship Church, 620 42nd Street, Oakland. For more tion, consider one of these information: http://parked4christ.org. organizations. Vallejo Bible Church of the Deaf. Sunday services at The Friends of Montfort, nd th 10:45 am and Bible study 2 & 4 Fridays of the month at Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, is a support group 7:30 pm. 448 Carolina Street, Vallejo. For more informa- for the school, Institut Montfort in Haiti, which is run tion: vallejodeafchurch@yahoo.com. by the Daughters of Wisdom. Institut Montfort has Deaf Youth Camp of Color Volunteers Needed. Volunteer over six hundred deaf and deaf-blind children in positions are camp staff, volunteers & interns. The first- three locations in Haiti, the majority are in Port Au ever Deaf Youth Camp of Color will be held at Camp Taloali Prince. They have begun work to provide relief for in Stayton, Oregon on June 13-27. DYCC will take place the deaf and deaf-blind children of Institut Montfort immediately prior to the National Deaf People of Color Con- who are in need because of the earthquake.