RT celebrates Irish Sign Language Awareness Week 2024
#ISL #irishsignlanguage #IDSL #BlueforISL #IWDP24
RT is proud to once again support Irish Sign Language Awareness Week from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th September, which coincides with International Week of Deaf People.
RT in collaboration with The Irish Deaf Society will celebrate our Irish Sign Language (ISL) community, with some additional Irish Sign Language content across the week. RT provides a large catalogue of ISL content throughout the year, highlighting our ongoing commitment to the Deaf/deaf, Hard of Hearing and ISL community in Ireland.
RT will fly The Deaf Flag on its Donnybrook Campus throughout ISL Awareness Week. In addition, on Monday 23rd September, International Day of Sign Languages, the RT sign on RT 's Donnybrook campus will be illuminated in BLUE, a significant colour which symbolises Sign Languages and represents how Deaf communities cherish their own language.
***HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Nationwide
On Friday 27 September, Nationwide will visit the children and teaching staff at Midwest School for the Deaf in Limerick. Bl thnaid will be joined in Phoenix Park by Caroline Worthington (pictured) from RT 's ISL News team. The programme will feature on-screen ISL presentation throughout.
RT News
RT 's daily ISL News will reflect the theme of each day of ISL Awareness Week.
On RT 2, news2day will feature some inspiring young Deaf and Hard of Hearing contributors across the week. The team will be visiting The Holy Family School for the Deaf where they'll talk to children about their rights. ISL Awareness Week will be the theme of news2day's Question of the Week for schools right across the country.
News2day presenter, Barry Gallagher will also meet some prospective Deaflympians at The Deaf Village in Dublin, to talk about their future sporting ambitions.
The Today Show
On Wednesday 25th September, Declan Buckley, presenter of Telly Bingo, joins Daith on the sofa to chat about his experience as a CODA. (Child of Deaf Adults)
Kids and Children's Programmes
On RT Kids online, we'll tell our young viewers about some of the exciting Irish Sign Language shows for young people. You can even watch some on our website:
RT jr: Check out these great shows with ISL (rte.ie)
RT 2 and RT jr will broadcast a number of additional children's programmes with ISL throughout the week's schedule.
Arena with Se n Rocks on RT Radio 1
To mark Irish Sign Language Awareness Week, RT Arena, the home of arts and popular culture on RT Radio 1 will make its full show available with live ISL interpretation on Wednesday 27th September, from 7-8pm on www.rte.ie/Arena and on RT News Channel.
RT Player
RT Player will feature a specially curated rail of ISL content, including documentaries of particular interest to the Deaf Community, including:
Deaf Not Dumb
These programmes and series are also available with Irish Sign Language:
Raised By The Village
Inside Penneys
PJ Gallagher Changing My Mind
Invasion: The Normans
Paths to Paris
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
The Irish for Se
David Puttnam: The Long Way Home
Vogue
Untameable
RT Player will also feature a range of RT jr content with ISL, such as:
Silly Sundays
Dizzy Deliveries
Funny Little Monsters
Body Brothers
Let's Find Out
For full ISL catalogue visit RT Player: https://www.rte.ie/player/.
RT Weather
Our ISL Weather team will broadcast additional ISL Weather bulletins on RT News Channel and RT social media.
RT continues to provide ISL classes for employees across the organisation.
For more on ISL Awareness Week on RT , keep an eye on RT 's social media accounts using: #isl #irishsignlanguage #IWDP24
ENDS
Corporate Communications Manager: Neil O'Gorman
NOTES:
To learn more about the Deaf flag visit: https://wfdeaf.org/deaf-flag/
For more on International Week of Deaf People visit: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/irish-sign-language/international-week-of-deaf-people-2024/
To find out more about the significance of the colour blue for the Deaf community visit: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/about/blue/
RT will be welcoming some Deaf Trainees from a Coimisi n na Me n-funded production* to RT . The trainees are passionate about media and will spend time with our Access Services team to learn more about subtitles, ISL and Audio Description.
*Curious North Productions is currently in production on a Screen Ireland and CnaM funded feature documentary it's the first feature in Irish Sign Language and the first to be produced by a mixed Deaf and hearing team.
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