Date: July 7th 2011

                       AUSTIN DEAF EVENTS
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7 July 2011               Issue No. 146          Circulation 1014
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Announcements

1)
Would you be interested in help train Austin Police Department Cadets on interacting with the Deaf community? We are looking for 15 eligible candidates to volunteer for a role playing exercise that will be held in September, that will be in cooperation with the Austin Police Department. All volunteers must be over 18, fluent in sign language, have no criminal history, be physically fit, and be available from 5pm to 2am between the dates of Sept 6-16 (exact dates/times are yet to be determined.) If you want more information, or would like to volunteer, please contact Stacy.Landry@co.travis.tx.us for more information. The deadline to sign up is July 11, 2011.

Stacy Landry, LPC program manager
512-854-7893
Travis County Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

2)
Jesus Lutheran Church of The Deaf is looking for volunteers for their Vacation Bible School from August 15 to 19. Contact Jennifer Knaack Ceyanes at JesusDeafVBS@gmail.com.

3)
facebook.com/DisasterReadyAustin
"Like" this Facebook page and you can stay on top of emergency conditions and notifications, road closures, traffic, special event street closures, power outages, fire incidents.

4)
change.org/petitions/netflix-make-films-accessible-for-the-deaf-hoh

5)
Deaf sales consultant at Champion Toyota. Robert "RG" Giuntoli. giuntolir@autonation.com or VP/Voice 512-623-7083. By appointment week evening hours and any time Saturdays.

6)
Results of 46th biennial TAD conference in Big Spring, June 16-18, 2011.

Award winners:
TAD Presidential Awards: Anita Dallas, Amanda Tuite, Billy Collins, Jr., Kathy Weldon, Steve Meyer, SWCID Special Awards: Barrientos Award to Jose Ovi Velasquez, Arnold Award to Cathy Ware TAD Volunteer Award: Chris Kearney, Marilyn Swanson, Peggy Ann Wenger TAD Education Award: Claire Bugen, Susie Grona TAD Distinguished Service Award: Dr. Steve Baldwin TAD/NAD Golden Hand Award: Susan Tiller

Election of officers for 2011 to 2013:
President: Larry D. Evans (Austin)
Vice President: Marcus Myers (Corpus Christi) Secretary: Marianne Sasseen (Rowlett)
Treasurer: Steven Meyer (Big Spring)
Director for six years: Paul Rutowski (Austin) 2nd Director: Cindi Nagy -2 years left (Plano) 3rd Director: Susie Grona - 4 years left (Hideaway)

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In this issue...
(OC) Open Captions; (SI) Sign Interpreted, (VI) Voice Interpreted

Sections
AAD - Austin Association of the Deaf
AA, NA Meetings
Churches -- http://austindeafevents.com/church.html Monthly Recurring Events (Deaf Coffee Chat, Deaf Seniors, etc.) Movies
Event listings by title and by date
2011 - 2012 Texas Performing Arts Season (SI performance info)

Title index:
Austin Deaf Club Charity Poker 07/16
Deaf Seniors of Austin 07/07
Deaf Unity Election Meeting 08/05
Fundraiser at Red's Porch restaurant for park wheelchair swing 07/07 LSGTO 6th Annual Chili Cook Off - Austin 11/05 MATA-Sign Language Media Expo 2011 at Austin, TX 10/29 Miss Deaf Texas Pageant in Houston TX 07/23 Snakes, Slime, and Science 07/10
Texas Summer Storytelling Conference in San Antonio (SI) 07/08-10

Date index:
07/07 Deaf Seniors of Austin
07/07 Fundraiser at Red's Porch restaurant for park wheelchair swing 07/08-10 Texas Summer Storytelling Conference in San Antonio (SI) 07/10 Snakes, Slime, and Science
07/16 Austin Deaf Club Charity Poker
07/23 Miss Deaf Texas Pageant in Houston TX 08/05 Deaf Unity Election Meeting
10/29 MATA-Sign Language Media Expo 2011 at Austin, TX 11/05 LSGTO 6th Annual Chili Cook Off - Austin

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AAD - Austin Association of the Deaf (Austin Deaf Club) Calendar http://www.austindeafclub.org/events/

Sat Jul 16 7:00 pm Charity Poker

$1 for social games.
Happy Hour 7 - 10pm Fridays and Saturdays. Open social: Fridays and Saturdays 7 pm - closing. Admission: Friday $5, Saturday $7

Where: Austin Deaf Club, 8818 Cullen Ln, Austin TX 78748

Social Affairs: Connie Dannels secretary@austindeafclub.org Newsletter: Melissa Montoya-Calogar (austindeafclubeditor yahoo.com)

ADCPL - Austin Deaf Club Poker League
http://adcpl.austindeafclub.org/Calendar.html

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AA and NA MEETINGS (SI)
TCSDHH provides sign language interpreters for the following AA and NA meetings in Austin:

Mondays evenings 5:45-7pm AA Meeting
United Methodist Church, 205 E Monroe

Mondays evenings 7:00-8:30pm NA Meeting 212 E Monroe

Wednesday evenings 5:30-7:00pm NA Meeting First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity, 3rd floor, Adult room #4

Friday evenings 6:00-7:30pm ALANON Meeting St. Catherine Catholic Church, 4800 Convict Hill

Saturday afternoons 1:00-2:00pm AA Open Meeting 601 Bouldin Ave

You can contact the Austin AA Hill County Intergroup at: 24-hour hotline 512-444-0071(v) or http://www.austinaa.org/.

Call Travis County Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at 512-854-9221 to request an interpreter for other meeting times.

Also, AA meetings via WebCam led by Deaf and HoH sobriety facilitators: http://doda.nefsis.com/doda

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CHURCH SERVICES for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Please see http://austindeafevents.com/church.html

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MONTHLY RECURRING EVENTS

DEAF SENIORS OF AUSTIN (South Central)--Every 1st Thursday, 1-4pm 07/05 Senior Activity Center, 3911 Manchaca, Austin TX 512-448-0787, TDD: 512-462-2853

Deaf Chat Coffee schedule for Austin area: http://www.deafcoffee.com/html/tx_austin.html Open to everyone (deaf, hearing) with an interest in ASL.

AUSTIN ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF--3rd Saturday each 3rd month, 9a-Noon 6/18 8818 Cullen Ln, Austin TX 78748 Committee: Sally Porter, Brenda Mills, Brenda Oates, Beth Strain

DEAF BLIND COFFEE CHAT
STARBUCKS COFFEE (Central)--Every 3rd Saturday, 6-8pm 6/18 3706 Guadalupe St, Austin TX 78705 (corner of Guadalupe and 38th Street)

Please join our growing Deaf Blind Chat for drinks, snacks and fun chatting. Every month we see both new and familiar faces, and we welcome signers of all skill level, so tell your friends, family and classmates about us, too!

Host: DeafBlind Apt Program staff (DeafblindApartmentProgram@dars.state.tx.us); Doug Rollins (sspdbterps gmail.com)

DEAFNESS RESOURCE SPECIALIST available by appointment. TCSDHH, 2201 Post Rd #100, Austin TX 78704. Contact: Brian Determan DeafnessRS7a@dars.state.tx.us or 512-410-1786.

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MOVIES

Find captioned movies by zipcode or city at http://captionfish.com/

Captioned movie trailers and search for captioned web videos at http://ccmovies.org/

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Fundraiser at Red's Porch restaurant for park wheelchair swing Thu Jul 7 6pm – 8pm Central Time Red's Porch, 3508 S Lamar Blvd, Austin TX (map)

Red's Porch: "Half Cajun, Half TexMex, Half Southern"

Our goal is to raise funds to establish a wheelchair swing in Austin! Red's Porch will donate 15% sales from our event! Come support our cause, order delicious food/drinks. and socialize!!

For more information about this event, please contact: Nida Din (deaf) - NDin@SafePlace.org
or Nicole Fisher (hearing) 512-615-6846

For more information about the wheelchair swing or to donate: easterseals.com/goto/swing

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Texas Summer Storytelling Conference in San Antonio (SI) July 8-10, 2011
Buena Vista Theater, UTSA Downtown Campus, 501 Durango Blvd, San Antonio TX

Friday, July 8
9:30 - 10:30 am. Free admission. ASL interpreted Keynote address on the topic of "burnout prevention." Bill Harley: "The Warrior Visits the Wasteland: Thoughts on the Creative Process When the Well Runs Dry"

7:30 - 9:45 pm. $10 admission. ASL interpreted STORYTELLING LIVE concert with tellers Bill Harley and Elizabeth Ellis

Saturday, July 9
8:45 - 9:45 am. $15 admission. ASL interpreted Keynote address on the topic of "burnout prevention." Elizabeth Ellis: "How Can I Strike a Spark when I'm Burned to a Crisp?"

7:30 - 9:45 pm. $10 admission. ASL interpreted STORYTELLING LIVE concert with tellers Bill Harley and Elizabeth Ellis

All sessions take place in the Buena Vista Theater on the Downtown Campus of UTSA, San Antonio, I-35 South at Durango Blvd.

Info: http://www.tejasstorytelling.com/conference/index.html

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Snakes, Slime, and Science
Sun, July 10, 3pm – 5pm Austin Children’s Museum, 201 Colorado St, Austin TX 78701

A Special Invitation for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and ALL Families!

UT’s Pam Cook will be in the museum rotunda with a full assortment of fun science learning activities. Her summer research students will be there to help, including students from LBJ High School’s LASA and Texas School for the Deaf (TSD), and two American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters! All visitors, hearing and deaf, will have a great time making gummy goo, handling slimy “snakes,” eating delicious polymers, and collecting activity sheets to take home for even more hands-on science fun!

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Austin Deaf Club Charity Poker
Sat, July 16, 7 pm
Austin Deaf Club, 8818 Cullen Ln, Austin TX

Help ADC with renovation expenses and have fun playing poker.

Registration 7:00-8:15pm. Play begins at 8:30 sharp. Bonus chips before 8:15.

Info: aadofficers@austindeafclub.org

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Miss Deaf Texas Pageant in Houston TX
July 23, 2011
Info: cindi@deaftexas.org

http://deaftexas.org/wp/?s=pageant

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Deaf Unity Election Meeting
Fri, August 5, 6pm – 9pm Austin Community College conference room

Anyone who wants to be candidate for the Deaf Unity Movement and sign up to see who would want to be the best and would tell them about the "events" for everyone who is interested in saving the Deaf Unity Movement for the future.

Everyone is welcome to come and hear us about the events. Free admission for the first meeting. We will be able to discuss and vote about our events, how to set our goal to raise money by selling baked goodies, key chains, car wash, etc. for the trip to Washington D.C. for our Deaf Unity Movements booths, and who is willing to participate for the cost of rental and transportation for charter bus to Washington D.C.

deafunitymovement@gmail.com

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Vacation Bible School at JLCD
Mon Aug 15 8am – 12pm - 5:30pm Jesus Lutheran Church of The Deaf, 1307 Newton St, Austin TX (across from Texas School for the Deaf)

We will be having Vacation Bible School from August 15 to 19. Our VBS will be at Jesus Lutheran Church of the Deaf. There will be around 60 children ages 3 through those entering 6th grade. Most of them are deaf. There will be Bible lessons, Games, Crafts, Mission Projects, Activity Lessons, and Bible Storytelling/Drama. VBS will be from 8:00 to 12:00 every day and we will provide childcare from 12:30 to 5:30 pm every day.

Each year, our VBS is a madhouse, but a whole lot of fun! We need volunteers to help out. Come join us and be a part of our team!

If you have children, you are welcome to send them to VBS! We are sending out registration forms and information now and want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to join us.

Let Jennifer know if you can volunteer or if you want to send your children! Please email her at JesusDeafVBS@gmail.com.

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2011-2012 University of Texas Performing Arts Season http://texasperformingarts.org/

SIGN INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES
Typically for Broadway Across America tours performing at Bass Concert Hall, the Saturday matinee performance is Sign Language Interpreted (ASL). Contact the box office at 512.475.7102 to purchase tickets in the reserved section for those in need of this service. For additional questions about this or other services for the deaf or hard of hearing, please contact Guest Services: GUEST SERVICES INFORMATION
Monday – Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM 512.471.2787
frontofhouse@texasperformingarts.org

RAIN – A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES September 24, 2011

SOUTH PACIFIC
November 12, 2011

DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST December 17, 2011

WICKED
January 28, 2012

MARY POPPINS
April 14, 2012

LES MISERABLES
June 2, 2012

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MATA-Sign Language Media Expo 2011 at Austin, TX Sat, October 29, 2011, 9am – 5pm Austin Convention Center 500 E. Cesar Chavez St. Austin, TX 78701

mataexpo.com/tx/

FREE ADMISSION! BEFORE October 27, 2011 PLEASE REGISTER FREE PASS TICKET AT http://mataexpo.com/tx

Activities

Social Gatherings. Amazing booths. ASL comedy shows and games. Raffle prizes contest. Chance to win!

Any questions or need a booth information? Early Bird Rate ends on or before September 22, 2011. Please email us - info@mataexpo.com or fax 951 346 5678.

MATA EXPO is more than just a trade show. It is an opportunity for companies, organizations, and individuals with talents to show off their sign language arts / deaf-hard of hearing products to thousands of people at once and make announcements about new products and services.

A japanese word 'MATA' means 'See you later or again'. MATA is a symbolic word "visual concept + small world" in the Deaf-related community.

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LSGTO 6th Annual Chili Cook Off - Austin Sat, November 5, 2011, all day
Austin Deaf Club, 8818 Cullen Ln, Austin TX

Lone Star Good Times Organization 6th Annual Chili Cook-off and Salsa Contest

Chili cook-off, salsa contest, children games, adult games, food/dessert sold. Bar open all day.

Info: Chairman Ricky at rickymtaylor@yahoo.com

Proceeds will go to SafePlace

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