2024, 2:30pm
The grand Kailash Hall of the Park Village Resort, Budhanilkantha was home to a program that perhaps could be called the first of its kind in our capital city. Researched, designed and facilitated by myself with invaluable support from dear Deaf friend and colleague, the knowledgeable, committed and proactive Balaram Karki, the entire seminar was an effort to project the Deaf as a Linguistic and Cultural Minority with tremendous potential to contribute meaningfully in the workforce.
Saturday, 03 September 2011 01:27
In Dancer in the Dark, the eccentric singer and actress Bjrk plays the role of a single mother, whose deteriorating aural and visual senses spiral her into a heart-wrenching series of misfortunes. When it comes to the subject of the disabled, the silver screen often portrays a dreary world wrought with tragedy, hopelessness and self-pity.
Deaf Artist from France
Friday, 26 August 2011 07:38
The French Connection!
It is with pride and pleasure we introduce Deaf Artist Arnaud Balard from France. Arnaud reached out to us through this website and yes, this international Deaf camaraderie is beautiful. Arnaud is an established artist who pioneered a unique/new form of art in Europe. Please read on and be inspired by what Aranaud has to say
Monday, 30 May 2011 11:54
In John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me, the white journalist describes his experience traveling through the segregated American South of the 1960s, disguised as a black man. Griffin intentionally darkened his skin to apassable shade and logged his experiences in a novel that would eventually draw white America's attention to the tribulations faced by marginalised African Americans.
Nepal's 2nd Exhibition of Deaf Art
We are looking forward to Nepal's 2nd Exhibition of Deaf Art scheduled for the week of June 3rd, 2011. Entitled 'Eyes Empowered - Part Two', the exhibition will be hosted by a very special hotel in Kathmandu, the Summit Hotel.
Nepal Deaf Art & Culture Society (NDACS)
A Milestone
Yes, it's been a long, long silence on our part. Did not want to surface without something positive to announce to all of you. So now, is there something to announce? Yes!!! Finally, the Nepal Deaf Art and Culture Society (NDACS) has been registered with the Nepal Government as an NGO committed to work for Deaf development in the region. Who is our first sponsor?
Is life a journey?
Many accept so such a beautiful thought.
Then what is the destination, the ultimate goal?
Have we examined and charted out a route, a path?
Have we set our milestones?
Milestone 2008 is past. What does it say?
Are we closer to our ultimate goal? Or are we farther away?
What about Milestone 2009? Will it take us closer or farther?
Depends on what we plan, what we do.
Well, let's take a few minutes off and look hard at just one living, feeling, mobile, creative and communicating minority in our midst. It's actually quite a sizable one.
I'm looking at our Deaf Community. We have schools for the Deaf right around the globe. The students there will soon emerge from the cloisters of academics and step into mainstream society as done by thousands of other deaf adults. I have as friends and acquaintances, web designers, software developers, chartered accountants, artists, bakers, college students and restaurant stewards who are Deaf. Do you?
I am sorry some of my dear visitors have expressed displeasure at my use of the title Deaf with proper names. Naturally, I owe an explanation and here we go....
As per my understanding and research, the word deaf with a small d has been used to denote a lack or absence of ability to hear. I am personally not in favor of this use either and therefore my choice not to have it as a title for any of my dear fellow workers and travelers!
2024, 2:30pm
The grand Kailash Hall of the Park Village Resort, Budhanilkantha was home to a program that perhaps could be called the first of its kind in our capital city. Researched, designed and facilitated by myself with invaluable support from dear Deaf friend and colleague, the knowledgeable, committed and proactive Balaram Karki, the entire seminar was an effort to project the Deaf as a Linguistic and Cultural Minority with tremendous potential to contribute meaningfully in the workforce.
Thursday, 03 June 2010 06:26
"Eyes Empowered'
Nepal's First Exhibition of Deaf Art
Dates: March 10 -12, 2010
Partners: Nepal Deaf Art & Culture Society (NDACS) & Laxmi Bank
"Eyes Empowered' ....... Nepal's very first exhibition of Deaf Art finally became a reality. The dates were March 10 to 12, 2010. The venue selected was Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu. Visiting and participating Deaf delegates came from the cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad, Orissa and Kolkotta in India. In all, 32 of them. Then we had 10 Deaf Guests from the UK. Finally, more than 100 Deaf assembled from Nepal, the host country.
Friday, 17 July 2009 10:14
For my client, the Nepal Pharmaceutical Company, the first of our four annual Professional Development Training workshops for managers and next for medical representatives were due first and second week of this month of July. What could we do different this time?
Friday, 17 July 2009 07:58
Sometime first week of June, 2009, when out driving between a meeting and counseling, there was a call from home saying the ABC Television team was waiting and with them was my dear Deaf Dancer friend Muna Gurung. After 35 minutes and some rescheduling, I was home. What was it about?
The ABC team was led by Samir Joshi, a program director and one of the programs he's responsible for is Anautho Parivesh (Strange Encounters). In the usual search for program ideas he had been to the Kathmandu Association for the Deaf (KAD), met Muna Gurung, a performer in my Deaf Dance group and now Muna had them all here, sitting at my patio, sipping lemonade on a summer's afternoon!
Monday, 06 April 2009 09:54
Nepal Adventure Resort: Borderlands
& Deaf Language Experience