Tinteán

Cost: A Free event.  Meals available from 5pm at the Club
RSVP:  Missionary Sisters; Ph: 9873 5520

Further information: Missionary Sisters of Service & The John Wallis Foundation
PO Box 2075, Rangeview Vic 3132; Ph: 03 9873 5520

Missionarysisters.org.au  Johnwallisfoundation.org.au
http://www.facebook.com/The-Silent-Book-197026147346141

(An Auslan Interpreter will be present)

An engrossing story, both deeply personal and historical, of the disappearing Australian-Irish sign language told through the experience of Bernadette’s own Deaf family.

‘The Silent Book’ will be revelatory for most of us as we learn the history of a “threatened” language once so vital in Australia. It is a fascinating tale in diverse ways: in its closeness to the colonial and rural context of its protagonists, its respect for indigenous naming and knowledge of that same landscape, its careful introduction of the reader into a chronology of thinking about deafness and ways of educating deaf children……

Margaret Coffey, Broadcaster
and Journalist Melbourne