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Hardball Productions in Association with Carlos Cobian

A Very Special DISCO evening to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
"The Loft Saturday Night Hosts the Deaf Community"

6801 Hollywood Blvd (Hollywood and Highland Entertainment Complex)
Los Angeles, California 90028

4th Floor of the Complex for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing party

$10 Admission; 21 years old and older 2,000 people limited at the complex.

1. Area 1- Main Room- Hiphop/R and B/TOP40s- DJ Sweet p
2. Area 2- Burgundy Room- House Music- DJ Ruff
3. Area 3- Upstairs Patio Rock and 80s- DJ Lee Dyson

For tickets: www.wanttickets.com/hardball. Search for deaf community party
For information: deafclub@hardballproductions.com or 323-571-4000

For information, VP 661-943-8879 Bruce Gross, WRAD, Inc. CEO/ President

Come party with us at Hollywood's hottest weekly Saturday night high above the Kodak Theater with a panoramic view of Los Angeles and Hollywood Blvd.

During the weekend of April 28-30 there was a National Racquetball Tournament for the Deaf at the Meridian Sports Club in Fullerton, California that was attended by over 100 deaf and hard of hearing people including about 78 players from all over the country that came to play in the tournament.

Rey Llarena, the Vice President and Webmaster of WRAD won both Men Open and Men A Events and he was truly a champion. He got trophies and cash as prizes at the tournament. Congratulations to Reynaldo Llarena of West Hills, California!!!!

It was the 21st National Racquetball Tournament and Kenneth Clark of Riverside, California was the Chairperson. Bill Milbach of Silver Spring, Maryland is the President of the National Racquetball Association of the Deaf and he came all the way from Maryland to be part of the tournament weekend.

The Sports Club was beautiful and many of us had a good time. For more details about the tournament and the NRAD organization, you can go to www.nrad.org

Written by Bruce Gross
WRAD, Inc. CEO

WRAD is happy to present a 30-mile round trip bike day along the beach from Santa Monica to Hermosa Beach round trip !!!!!! The date has been changed from April 8th to May 20th because of cold weather at the beach due to recent rains.

All day Saturday
May 20th, 2006
10:00am to 4:00pm.

The bicycle path along 15 miles from Santa Monica to Hermosa Beach takes you through some of the most colorful beach towns anywhere. We will stop for lunch at the Hermosa Beach courtyard around noon. Food there is fabulous and affordable. You may shop, eat, rest, and entertain other friends at the courtyard. Everyone is welcome. This is going to be a fun day to meet new and old friends. Also, it is a very good exercise for your body and strengthen your muscle legs to have 30 miles round trip on the bicycle. You will have a good night sleep after you are exhausted from riding all day. This is a fun ride for everyone.

Meet us at the Santa Monica Pier parking lot betweeen 9:30am and 9:45am prior to our departure at 10:00am SHARP!!!!!!     (The event will be cancelled if rain or heavy fog)

The 12th World Deaf Cycling Championships will take place in San Jose, California from June 18-24,2006. 11 Nations will participate in the one-week program. Free admission but the seating is limited at the Hellyer Park Velodrome in San Jose so make your FREE RESERVATION ONLINE now through the website below.

Monday June 19- 7pm- 1000 meter Sprint
Thursday June 22 at 7pm- 50 Kilometer Points Race.

The velodrome is expected to be at full capacity (800) for both evenings so register early to get your FREE tickets.

Some of the participating Nations: Australia, Canada, Taipei, Czech, France, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, and the USA.

Build your bridge to the 2006 Convention with a presentation proposal designed to inform education and hearing health professionals, parents and adults with hearing loss about trends and current practices in the field of deafness and spoken language.

On behalf of ChanDanse des Sourds (CDS) Association, it is with great pleasure of presenting our first International Deaf Dance and Music Festival: Festival du Silence and Exposition: International Accessibility for the Deaf which will be held on July 5-8, 2006
in Paris, France.

The high spirit of this Festival is to HAVE FUN and to benefit entierly from our immense cultural and artistic capital, to the rhythm of dance and music. We have reserved several famous landmarks (Paris City Hall, Theatre Monfort, La Loco, Palais Brongniart, etc.) for the opening ceremony, dance performances, night dance entertainment, Exposition of International Accessibility of the Deaf and dance-dinner Gala. Paris is a very beautiful and magnific place to visit and experience. For full information, please visit our Festival website at: www.festival-silence.org.

Looking forward to welcoming you to share wonderful memories with us at this Festival.

Best regards,

Fanny (Yeh) CORDEROY du TIERS, President of CDS/International Coordinator Mathias-Henri GÃ0 NARD, Festival Chairman CDS Association 13 rue de la Cossonnerie 75001 Paris France

The 20th Nordic Culture Festival will take place in Akureyri 10-16 July 2006. The Icelandic Association of the Deaf invites deaf, hard of hearing and other interested people from the Nordic countries to join us in a celebration of deaf culture. The festival’s theme is a combination of introducing Iceland’s nature and culture in conjunction with the sea, the surroundings and elves and ghosts which are a part of the Icelandic folk tale tradition. Festival guests will have many opportunities to travel from Akureyri and see as much of Iceland as they like, make new friends from other countries and experience diverse cultural activities.

The festival has something to offer everyone. People can choose to stay in Akureyri and relax in the comfortable small town, go to lectures and art exhibitions and the theatre in the evening, followed by a lively chat and a beer at the Arctic Nordic Deaf Pub. Those who like to be on the move can go on exiting day trips in the vicinity of Akureyri and experience different aspects of Iceland in good company.

Akureyri is in the north of Iceland, about 5 hours by car or 50 minutes by airplane from Reykjavík. It is the largest town in the north of Iceland inhabited by approximately 16.000 people. About 200.000 tourists come to Akureyri every year to swim, ski and enjoy the town life and its beautiful surroundings.

Come to Iceland in July 2006. You won’t regret it!!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

I am pleased to welcome you to the VI. DHI- Homepage and the conference in Berlin, the capital city of Germany. Berlin, the city which was shared by two states after the fall of the Nazi-power, was reunificated in 1990 and is now in the middle of Europe (Germany).

The 6th Deaf History International Conference in Berlin is intended to be dedicated to emphasize legal, political and sociological oppressions and forms of discriminations towards the Deaf Community in the history in order to reflect on the past, to overcome the shady history and to imagine better future. The slogan is  to overcome the past and its consequences to present solution for the present .

The Deaf History International Conference will focus on several subjects of Deaf History such as Deaf Women History; Deaf Art/Theater/Movie History; Future and Goal of Deaf History; Deaf History and the sign linguistics; Discrimination a.) of Deaf in School and Education and b.) of Deaf minorities; the status and role and contribution of Deaf History studies and also the role of Deaf History for the Deaf community and Deaf studies/Research fields and other topics.

(Please look on the topic list for the congress under: DHI-Topics)

There will be a special topic about the Deaf Community Life in the period from 1933 to 1945 relating to subjects of Deaf Holocaust, Forced Sterilization, Deaf Nazi, Deaf Refugees etc.

The first and regrettably the last until present conference took place 1998 in the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C./USA. In 2002, a special volume of the Conference reports had been published. As a result research studies of this special subject of the Deaf History have been initiated and consequently necessitated organization of the next scientific Conference in order to continue the previous researches.

Since now you are cordially invited to submit your Paper Proposals for the Congress.

On this occasion, go please to the Field "Call for papers" (see also Menu) in order to become acquainted with the conditions of registering (first step: Registration) and submitting Proposals.

Your Application must be received here no later than February 28, 2006.

The conference is supported by Aktion Mensch and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Humboldt University Berlin. Conference languages are German Sign Language, International Sign, German and English.

The conference fee (which include lunch, coffee-/teabreak and conference items) are available here under Prices

You can take a virtual tour of the university and lecture hall.
Please look on HU-Virtual tour (Our lecture hall is visible under "Kinosaal").

Parallel to the conference, there will be cultural program (guided tours, theater, movies etc.)

Till another announcement.

Sincerely yours,

Mark Zaurov (M. A.)
DHI-Coordinator

Celebrating Deaf Awareness Month at Woodley Park, 6350 Woodley Blvd, Van Nuys, CA

Hosted By Councilmember 6th District Tony Cardenas

Presented by Department of Cultural Affairs and CSUN's Deaf Studies Department For more information contact Bertha Velazquez or 213-473-7006 voice, 213-847-0549 FAX, 213-473-5990 TTY

Greetings fellow members of the DEAFLYMPICS family, The 2007 Deaflympics Organizing Committee has been very busy this year. With all the support we now have, the 2007 Deaflympic Winter Games should become one of the very best ever staged!

I want to share with you what our committee has accomplished so far:

1. The 2007 Deaflympics headquarters hotel will be Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, an 880 room hotel which also was used for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. We have a great deal with the hotel, which includes unlimited gourmet buffet breakfasts and dinners. Little America Hotel will be an "Olympic Village" where athletes can meet, relax, and socialize. Teams staying at Little America Hotel will be provided with free bus transportation to the competition venues and ceremonies. More information on Little America Hotel and the costs, which include meals, is available in our website, 2007 Deaflympics
2. The Opening Ceremony and Closing Ceremony will be at the 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park, 5 minutes from Little America Hotel. This will be a gala event with lighting of the Deaflympic flame on the 2002 Olympics cauldron.
3. The alpine skiing and snowboarding competition will be at Park City Mountain Resort, and most of the competition events will be held on the same courses used during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Park City is a 25 minute ride from Little America Hotel.
4. The Nordic skiing competition will be at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center, and will use the same courses used in the 2002 Olympics. Soldier Hollow is a 45 minute drive from Little America Hotel.
5. The ice hockey and curling competition will be at Steiner's Ice Arena in Salt Lake City, which is a 5 minute ride from Little America Hotel.
6. Several entertaining arts and culture events will be held in Salt Lake City during the Deaflympics week; art shows, International Deaf Club, International Deaf Coffeehouse, Deaf theatre, and more. All arts and culture events will be held either in Little America Hotel or within a short walk of the hotel.
7. After the Closing Ceremony, there will be a gala closing banquet followed with a closing party at the Salt Lake City Convention Center, a few blocks from Little America Hotel.

Courtesy by: Dwight Benedict, Chairperson 2007 Deaflympic Winter Games Organizing Committee.

WRAD hosted an Academy Award Oscar Day on Sunday March 5, 2006.

First we had an open captioning film of "Brokeback Mountain" at the Pacific Theatre 12 in Culver City with nearly a full-house audience of deaf and hard of hearing people who came to see the good film that got many Academy Award nominations. (The film won three Oscars that night)

After the movie some of us went to SaddleRanch ChopHouse on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood to have dinner and to watch the Academy Award Oscars on their big television sets including one large TV screen. The waiters and waitresses were very friendly and a few of them knew some sign language. They made sure that we were able to watch the Oscars with closed captioning television.