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 ;-) > > -------- > > > > > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Adam Frost wrote: > > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> Non temiamo alcun confronto: Tiscali ha l'Adsl più veloce > d'Italia!Risparmia con Tutto Incluso Light: Voce + Adsl 20 mega a soli 17,95 > € al mese per 12 mesi. > http://abbonati.tiscali.it/telefono-adsl/prodotti/tc/tuttoincluso_light/?WT.mc_id=01fw > >> > > > > -- Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Assistant Professor of Anthropology Oberlin College