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The Wales Gene Park/Cardiff University

The aim of the workshop will be to bring together d/Deaf and hard of hearing people with health professionals who have clinical and academic experience in the deafness and genetics field.

Genetic Counselling offers information to families about the chances of passing on different genetic conditions, most consultations are requested to discuss a family history of cancer.

It is known that deaf and hard of hearing adults rarely access genetic counselling services. Why is this?

The workshop will be used as a venue to foster a discussion about how to develop genetic counselling services for deaf people and their families.

The day will be structured around a number of light presentations and also fun role-plays by the research team. Video-clips of deaf people giving their views will be shared. The audience will be given hand-held computer terminals (as seen on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ TV show) so that votes can be taken from the audience on a number of issues raised by the research.

The event is aimed at:
Deaf and hard of hearing members of the public Academics working within Deaf Studies, linguistics, genetics Health professionals working with deafness Health professionals working within genetics
Policy makers, commissioners of genetics services Support groups and deafness charities Experts in health communication

Presenters include:
Dr Anna Middleton, Cardiff University
Dr Steve Emery, Heriot-Watt University
Prof Graham Turner, Heriot-Watt University
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This reinvention of Grimm’s classic fairytale is an exciting promenade adventure.

Hansel and Gretel have been abandoned by their cold-hearted stepmother and cowardly father. Deep in the forest and trying to find their way home the children discover the sweetest of houses. Surely no-one would mind if two hungry children had just one little nibble?

As you walk through the wintry world of Hansel and Gretel, you will be taken on a thrilling journey through an eerie forest into a tempting Sweetie House, where someone is waiting for you…
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863097/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863097/ Barbican http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863097/#comments 51.5298 -0.0939 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:50:56 -0700 2008-07-04T06:50:56-07:00 SIGNED PERFORMANCE of Hansel and Gretel 20081213T130000 20081213 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/45365/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/45365/ Barbican Theatre Barbican Centre, Silk Street London England EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom http://www.barbican.org.uk/bite SMS: 020 7256 9577 Performing/Visual Arts Captioned by STAGETEXT

Following its triumph during bite07, multi award-winning hit A Disappearing Number, returns by popular demand.

Taking as its starting point one of the most mysterious and romantic collaborations of all time, this is a story about connections between ideas, cultures and times. In London a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In Bangalore a woman collapses on a train. In Cambridge in 1914 Englishman GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan. A Disappearing Number weaves a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.

Running time: 120 mins/no interval

Age guidance 14+
]]> http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863073/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863073/ Barbican http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/863073/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:23:07 -0700 2008-07-04T06:23:07-07:00 CAPTIONED PERFORMANCE OF A Disappearing Number 20081025T143000 20081025 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/45365/ http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/45365/ Barbican Theatre Barbican Centre, Silk Street London England EC2Y 8DS United Kingdom http://www.barbican.org.uk/bite SMS: 020 7256 9577 Performing/Visual Arts