Enjoy snacks and activities, listen to endangered sounds, and find out if you’re a “supertaster” at this fun event.
**limited registration available, so register quickly to ensure availability.
Yes, you really can touch all of the art in this exhibition! Join us for an opening reception 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 16 celebrating the return of the popular exhibition “Please Touch the Art” after a pandemic-related hiatus. The exhibition engages all five senses, with a special focus on visitors who are blind or visually impaired. “Please Touch the Art” is for anyone who wants to experience art in a new way – or who has had to suppress the urge to touch a painting at a museum! Enjoy snacks and activities, listen to endangered sounds, and find out if you’re a “supertaster” at this fun event. Free parking is available in any TCC lot.
The exhibition was formed through an open call, and thirty percent of exhibiting artists identify as blind, visually impaired, DeafBlind, or disabled.
Many thanks to our partners, the Tulsa Community College Foundation, the Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges, NewView Oklahoma, Oklahoma School for the Blind, and especially Jeri Cooper of Jeri’s House.
Join us as we have lunch and speak about the DeafBlind community and how to help our organization SHEP, in our mission to continue empowering the community.
Time 11:30am - 1:00pm
Date: May 23rd
Location: Nick Harroz, Midwest City Community Center, 200 N Midwest Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73110
SSPs are the eyes and ears for the DeafBlind community and they help encourage independence that may be difficult without the resources the DB community need. SSPs provide environmental information to DeafBlind so that the bigger picture is given and that short exchange communication is understood.
SSP work very flexible and you work when you are available and when a DB requests that service.
If you are interested you can RSVP to this event and we will have our SSP coordinator contact you with more information. Or visit https://www.shep-ok.org/become-ssp or email humanresources@shep-ok.org
Prices:
Level 1 SSP training fee: $50
Level 2-3 SSP training fee: $75
Refresher: $20
It's time for a Deafblind Community Day!
Guess where this AWESOME event will be at?
In Kemah at the Boardwalk!
How cool is that?
Kemah is located just outside of Houston along the ocean. It is home to one of the most fun and amazing boardwalk experiences in the United States. The boardwalk has restaurants, an amusement park, and shops. The best part is the boardwalk runs toward the bay where you can feel the sea breeze! It will be awesome to gather and socialize here!
STOMP! STOMP! DeafBlind Camp of Texas (DBCTX) has agreed to host this event with us! You can request support service providers (SSPs) for this event through DBCTX at (https://www.dbctx.org/SSP-REQUEST).
DETAILS
When: Saturday, April 28th, 2019
Where: The Boardwalk in Kemah, TX. Meet at the front of Starbucks
Time: 10:00 am There is no end time. You can decide how long you want to stay and have fun!
We will meet at the front of Starbucks at 10:00 to 10:30 am, then we will walk around as a group. We will decide together where we would like to have lunch. If you arrive after 10:30 am and need to find us, you can text Ashleigh Smith at 713-515-1846.
Questions? You can email Sarah Goodwin at ptsocialhouston2017@gmail.com
For those of you who have never been to Kemah, here is a website for more information: www.kemahboardwalk.com
This day will also feature a special event: The Blessing of the Fleet! Enjoy a parade of festive decorated boats as cruise down Clear Creek Channel!
TOUCH YOU THERE!
**Learning Braille Basics Details:
Shepard Mall
2401 NW 23rd St #23, Oklahoma City, OK 73107
Time: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Ponca City Silent Dinner
You are invited if you are Deaf/HOH, family of Deaf/HOH, or you are an interpreter, or you are interested in sign language
Chili Supper
We will provide chili and drinks. Please bring: cheese, or chips, or other ‘fixings’, or dessert.
Please let us know you are coming so we can make enough chili.
January 17, 2019 (Thursday), 5:30 p.m.
Hartford Avenue Church of Christ (Fellowship Center)
1905 Joe St. Ponca City, OK
(Fellowship Center is located east of the church building, in the upper parking lot.)
The aim of the Sight Hearing Encouragement Program (SHEP) Deaf-blind Symposium is to provide opportunities for persons with deaf-blindness to have their own forum to learn from others with own personal experiences of deaf-blindness and to self have the possibility to share own experiences. We strive for these conferences, where people with deaf-blindness can share their own experiences with others from all over the nation.
We’re inviting our brothers and sisters from all over to attend! The conference will be from Thursday, October 18 through Sunday, October 21, 2018 held in Hulbert, Oklahoma.
Event Details
Theme: ‘Deep Water’ – Slogan is “Cast your net; Grab the opportunities!”
Activities: Welcome Bags, Door Prizes, Fun Games, Horseback Riding, Submarine Tour, Workshop, Social Time, Saturday Night Party and more!
Location: Sequoyah State Park Lodge - 19808 Park 10, Hulbert, OK 74441
For Deaf-blind camper applications click here.
For SSP/Observer applications click here.
Applications are in Microsoft Word document format.
If you need more information about the Symposium, please email Cassandra Oakes at cassandra@shep-ok.org or Jeri Cooper at jericooperdb@gmail.com
The autumnal equinox marks the start of days that contain more darkness than light. It is a great metaphor for the threat of Usher syndrome. We want to Own the Equinox, claiming the third Saturday in September as Usher syndrome awareness day. But to do so, we need your help. We want this to be a worldwide event that starts on one side of the world (we're looking at you, Australia) and runs around the globe to the farthest point before the international date line (that’s your cue, Alaska).
Watermelon Festival - Saturday, August 11th. Rush Springs, Oklahoma
Visit the: Annual Arts and Crafts Show.
Amusement and Carnival
Carnival Days are August 9th, 10th and 11th
Food and Drink Concessions are available all day at the festival. Park downtown and ride the bus free to the festival
Rodeo fans - Rush Springs Rodeo - August 9th and 10th at 8:00pm at Rusty Acres Area on Hwy 81, North of the blinking lights. Parade is August 10th - 5:00pm. Downtown Rush Springs
This event is FREE to everyone! It is open to students only at noon and then public at 7 p.m. on the same day. The presentation will be at Oklahoma School for the Deaf auditorium. For public, the doors will be open at 6:30 p.m. There will be also a meet and greet with Calvin afterwards.
Thanks to our sponsors, Oklahoma Association of the Deaf and Oklahoma School for the Deaf for making this event possible.
Here's a short background information on the presenter:
Calvin Young, the founder of Seek the World, will share his experiences of traveling around the world. He has been to 38 countries on 3 different continents.
While traveling, Calvin does not only capture the beauty of nature through photography and videos but he captures the culture of Deaf and hard of hearing people in different countries. Calvin often makes videos of different sign language from different countries.
