AUSLAN INTERPRETER AWARDS

Auslan Interpreter of the Year 2007 Awards: Ross Onley-Zerkel, the member of Deaf Community, receives the award for Deaf Relay Interpreter in the 2007 ASLIA National Interpreter of the Year Categories at Lincoln of Toorak in Melbourne last July. More than 320 guests attended at the Awards Night, organised by ASLIA Victoria, to see eleven awards presented to the winners. Watch the exciting ASLIA (Auslan Sign Language Interpreters Association) awardings in our Deaf TV program on Channel 31 on 25th August. See more eight photos in our PHOTO ALBUM.

Deaf TV is a non-profit local organisation which is based on the entusiasm of Deaf volunteers in Melbourne. Deaf TV is primarily funded through member donations and sale of products. This volunteer organisation does not receive any Government or private funding.

Deaf TV screens programs on a local community television Melbourne Channel 31 station every Monday at 7 p.m. and Tuesday at 9.30 a.m. 

We often film the activities in the Deaf Community as many as we can. Some Deaf producers may make their own sequences and may submit theirs to us. We will have a look and edit them for our Deaf TV programs.

 From 1st June 2008, Channel 31 runs its Season 59 (each season every three months to re-schedule) and there is one repeat during the week after Monday's original screenings.

Deaf TV on Channel 31 (C31) in Melbourne

Mondays at 7.00 p.m. (Original) & Tuesday at 9.30 a.m. (Repeat) 

*11 August 2008 - Australian Deaf Games 2008 - Part 1  The National Games at Gold Coast, Queensland, early this year stage the Opening Ceremony, athletics, tenpin bowling, lawn bowls, darts, swimming and beach volley.

*18 August 2008 - Australian Deaf Games 2008 - Part 2    The Games run the last part featuring golf, tennis, squash, eight-ball pool, netball and the Closing Ceremony. The Games, organised by Deaf Sports Australia, run every three/four years since 1964/65.

*25 August 2008 - Auslan Interpreter of the Year Awards 2007   ASLIA Victoria presents its 2nd Auslan Interpreter of the Year Awards 2007 at  Lincoln of Toorak this year in which there is a number of awards for various translating nominees and organisations in the exciting atmosphere.

*1 September 2008 - Unspeakable 2008   An inaugural comedy event features Sammy J (Spicks and Specks) and Heath McIvor (Walking with Dinosaurs), award-winning Sam Wills and Deaf circus performer Asphyxia unleashing their talents at Gasworks Theatre.

Werribee Deaf Club   at Social Function at Lonsdale Circuit,   Hoppers Crossing - 22 km west south of Melbourne GPO  Friday night, 22nd August 2008 at 7 p.m.

  Deaf Tour in Vietnam

Deaf tourists and Vietnamese friends meet and talk in a gathering.

   Vietnamese Sign

Smile Tours Service provides tours for the Deaf and Hard Hearing tourists with guides speaking International Signs. See more details - www.smiletoursvietnam.com