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DEAF DAY – City Lit
BRIGHT is 10 years old this year and we FINALLY made it to Deaf Day at City Lit!!! We met so many new people. Many thanks to our fantastic team for working hard that day.
BRAILLE FOR BRIGHT!
Did you know that there are very few places that teach Braille to adults? This is because fewer people are learning Braille these days. Most blind people can rely on technology such as audiobooks and software that will ‘speak’ what’s on a screen. But what about deafblind people? How can we make sure we can keep ‘reading’, even if our eyes can’t make out letters anymore? Luckily, we found out…
Foraging for Food
On a rainy Monday April 15th the BRIGHTies gathered in Lewisham to learn about what we could find in our local woodlands to eat or drink! Our woodland guide was a wise park ranger named Theresa from ‘Wild Food Walks’. She took us on a trail through the trees and shrubbery, stopping along the way to educate us on various wild growing plants and flowers that we were able to…
Haptics Workshop
On Monday 19th February friends of BRIGHT gathered together in London Waterloo to learn about ‘Haptic Communication’. We were joined by the wonderful Penny Gunn who gave a lecture on the history of Social Haptics for Deafblind; who created the concept, why it was created and how it can be implemented in everyday life. Social haptics is a form of non-verbal communication whereby messages are conveyed through the sense of…
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