{"id":3404,"date":"2014-03-18T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:14:15","slug":"international-womens-day-celebrations-to-feature-deaf-sign-language-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/18\/international-womens-day-celebrations-to-feature-deaf-sign-language-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#039;s Day celebrations to feature deaf sign language poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3406\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3406\" alt=\"Sunday's opening event for the Women's Arts exhibition was well attended. Photo: Jay Kynch\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown1-1024x479.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3406\" alt=\"Sunday's opening event for the Women's Arts exhibition was well attended. Photo: Jay Kynch\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown1-1024x479.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"479\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Sunday&#8217;s opening event for the Women&#8217;s Arts exhibition was well attended. Photo: Jay Kynch<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<strong>A week of events being held to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day in Cardiff will culminate in a performance from deaf poet Donna Williams.<\/strong><br \/>\nMiss Williams, who performs poetry using British Sign Language (BSL), will be performing at the Butetown History and Arts Centre on Saturday for the closing event of the Women&#8217;s Arts Association&#8217;s open exhibition week.<br \/>\nThe Women&#8217;s Arts Association, based at Butetown History and Arts Centre, aims to promote female artists and include women who are isolated due to their ethnicity or location.<br \/>\nDeaf poet Donna Williams attended mainstream school and only started to learn BSL while at the University of Central Lancashire.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/deaffirefly.com\/\">She said<\/a>: &#8220;By the time I graduated in 2006, I could sign fluently and considered myself bi-cultural, moving in both hearing and deaf worlds.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is an outlook I still have, as I spend time in both worlds, but sometimes this is not easy, I reflect on this in some of my poems.&#8221;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3405\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3405 \" style=\"margin: 10px\" alt=\"The opening day of the Women's Arts Association\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown2-1024x553.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"332\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3405 \" style=\"margin: 10px\" alt=\"The opening day of the Women's Arts Association\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Butetown2-1024x553.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"332\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The Women&#8217;s Arts exhibition features work from 20 different artists. Photo: Jay Kynch<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Women&#8217;s Arts exhibition was launched on Sunday with an opening display of postcards at Sunflower and I Cafe on Bute Street.<br \/>\nPaintings and photographs from 20 different artists will be on display throughout the week at Butetown History and Arts Centre, and the gallery will be open from 10am to 5pm from Monday to Friday.<br \/>\nA closing event called Empowering Women will be held on Saturday from 11am to 4pm, and will include a talk from the Black Association of Woman Step Out (BAWSO), a charity supporting women from ethnic minority backgrounds experiencing domestic abuse and other forms of abuse.<br \/>\nJacqueline Alkema, an artist with the Women&#8217;s Arts Association and former chair of the organisation, said: &#8220;We had a very good opening of the show on Sunday. The fundraising event in the Sunflower and I Cafe was also really successful.&#8221;<br \/>\nSian Holley, an artist involved in the exhibition, added: &#8220;With around 20 different artists on display there are a variety of different kinds of work in the exhibition.&#8221;<br \/>\nInternational Women\u2019s Day is celebrated annually on March 8.<br \/>\nBritish Sign Language poet Donna Williams writes a blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/deaffirefly.com\/\">deaffirefly.com <\/a>and can be seen performing her poetry here:<a href=\"http:\/\/deaffirefly.com\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"BSL poem Donna Williams &quot;That Day&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEqqy314o54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"BSL poem Donna Williams &quot;That Day&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEqqy314o54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week of events being held to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day in Cardiff will culminate in a performance from deaf poet Donna Williams. 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