Woodford Prep
This year should be interesting. This is the first year that parts of the Woodford Folk Festival program have been formally organised to be Auslan interpreted. There will be Dancing Hands performances as well. In previous years, there has only been a few off the cuff performances that have been interpreted, so this is quite exciting.
The only issue is that they stuffed up one of the events, they were told not to organise 2 events to be interpreted at the same time & they did on Tuesday - Spirituality the quadruple bottom line with Professor Sohail Inayatullah & Bob Hawkes talk, Political Bigotries and Statesmanship both at 12 -1pm, which is extremely disappointing as there is no way that everyone can be at 2 places at once & when there was a limit to the number of events that could be interpreted - bummer!!
To view the parts of the program that have been officially organised to be interpreted into Auslan click here
You can download a program timetable online here
If you are viewing the program online or if you get the actual program book, look for the little hand symbol to show which events will be interpreted in Auslan
In other news, because we have such a large group this year, we are not camping in the normal full week performers area, we will be in the overnight performers area. Hopefully it will be a little cooler, as we are over the hill or on the hill (not really sure on that one), only problem is that you have to catch a bus to & from the camp site to the main festival area, so you are restricted by the bus schedule, but there should be a little more room I hope & perhaps some flatter camp grounds too (will try not to get my hopes up too high on that one) as long as it isn’t like last year, when we had to prop up the mattress & it was still on a slope, which made sleeping interesting.