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Wolverhampton's Bantock House Wins Award For Unique Deaf Project - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Deaf visitors to Bantock House are currently being provided with a BSL signed video devivce. © Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service
Staff at Wolverhampton’s Bantock House are celebrating after being awarded £1,000 to fund a unique project working with deaf people.
The grant from History Today magazine will help to continue work on the Unheard Stories project and record the reminiscences of deaf people who live and work within Wolverhampton.
Unheard Stories explores the history of deaf people within the city, researching and recording the experiences of people who use sign language to communicate.
An actor using sign language filmed at Bantock House and featured on the handheld MP4 player. © Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service shows a still from a video - it is a man in victorian costume signing some words
Linda Ellis, ICT development officer at Bantock House, part of Wolverhampton City Council’s Arts and Museum Service, collected the cheque at a presentation ceremony held at the Cabinet War Rooms in London.
She said: “We are extremely happy to have received this award, not only because the money will allow us to do more filming, but also because of the national recognition it gives to this project.”
The Arts and Museum Service also agreed to match the grant, which is allowing the project team to work with Deansfield High School and Zebra Uno, whose two directors are deaf, to produce a British Sign Language video exploring deaf history.
The video will form part of an exhibition being held throughout May and June 2008 on the same theme, which is being set up with help from Gordon Hay, a local member of the British Deaf History Society.
Deaf visitors to Bantock House are currently being provided with a BSL signed video devivce. © Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service
Staff at Wolverhampton’s Bantock House are celebrating after being awarded £1,000 to fund a unique project working with deaf people.
The grant from History Today magazine will help to continue work on the Unheard Stories project and record the reminiscences of deaf people who live and work within Wolverhampton.
Unheard Stories explores the history of deaf people within the city, researching and recording the experiences of people who use sign language to communicate.
An actor using sign language filmed at Bantock House and featured on the handheld MP4 player. © Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service shows a still from a video - it is a man in victorian costume signing some words
Linda Ellis, ICT development officer at Bantock House, part of Wolverhampton City Council’s Arts and Museum Service, collected the cheque at a presentation ceremony held at the Cabinet War Rooms in London.
She said: “We are extremely happy to have received this award, not only because the money will allow us to do more filming, but also because of the national recognition it gives to this project.”
The Arts and Museum Service also agreed to match the grant, which is allowing the project team to work with Deansfield High School and Zebra Uno, whose two directors are deaf, to produce a British Sign Language video exploring deaf history.
The video will form part of an exhibition being held throughout May and June 2008 on the same theme, which is being set up with help from Gordon Hay, a local member of the British Deaf History Society.