That is a great video!
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> SignWriting List
> June 2, 2011
>
> Hello Claudia...
>
> Thank you Adam, for answering this message. I did not receive Claudia's
> message in my email box this morning. If you had not answered I would not
> have realized you wrote to the List, Claudia, so from now on I will check
> our SignWriting List Archives every day...
>
> And I agree with Adam that it is understandable, although of course you
> feel sad....but September may be a better month than the summer time when
> people scatter for vacations and traveling...I hope the workshop will happen
> in the Autumn -
>
> I am sooo excited about this video:
>
> http://youtu.be/RTniYA1lTDM
>
> Everyone on the LIst - you MUST see this video!
>
> Claudia, may I make a request? Can you keep that video on YouTube? I would
> like to embed it into our web site....under the SignWriting in Italy
> section, which needs updating and new information - and I would like to
> place it on the SignWriting site front page too...
>
> It is a marvelous video to see Italian signers writing SignWriting so
> skilled on the board - and reading it so well too!
>
> Val ;-)
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> On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Adam Frost wrote:
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> > Yes, it is sad that you had to postpone your workshop. But for the
> reasons that you have listed below, I think that you have made the right
> choice. I understand how everyone in Italy is focus on legal issues right
> now. It is very sad. Hopefully it will all work out for the best with the
> workshop being postponed. Thanks for letting us know and best of luck.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Claudia S. Bianchini wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Valerie and everyone
> >> I’m quite sad to announce that we have to
> >> postpone the workshop on SignWriting that we were planning for 10-11-12
> >> of June in Rome.
> >> In fact, we haven’t had enough deaf people inscribed.
> >> I think this is explainable by 2 main situations that are going on in
> >> Italy:
> >> - The 12th of June there is a very important referendum poll in
> >> Italy, to avoid the construction of nuclear power plants in our (very
> >> seismic) territory: to vote, we have to be in the city where we live,
> >> so this avoids a lot of people to come to Rome for our workshop.
> >> - The
> >> Deaf Community is now fighting for the recognition by Italian law of
> >> the Italian Sign Language. Every way of communication used by Italian
> >> Deaf people (institutional and private web site, video-blogs, social
> >> networks…) is full of information about the organization of sit-in,
> >> protests, reunions… so our announce of the workshop was literally
> >> submerged by post connected to the LIS recognition’s fight.
> >> Because of
> >> those two situation, we think that postpone the workshop after the
> >> summer will increase our possibility to have more people inscribed, so
> >> our possibility to do the workshop. I’ll write you more when we have
> >> decided when the workshop will take place; we think it will be at the
> >> end of September.
> >>
> >> :-) (even if today I feel more ":-(" about this
> >> postponing )
> >> Claudia
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
>
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Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College
