Liz Ward

Lizzie Ward: Looking for belonging between the deaf...

…Love What You Do.

These 8 words have being playing on my mind over the past few weeks. The truth is, we all have moments, weeks, months even, when we feel lost and don’t know what to do next. How do you go from that lost confusion and lack of passion to listening to yourself, what makes you happy, and how to pursue those things that put a spring in your step?

Access in Entertainment | Deaf Unity

A week ago, I watched J.K. Rowling’s commencement address at Harvard, from 2008 (the unsubtitled video is here, with a transcript underneath it but there is also a subtitled one here). What she said spoke to me – her speech reminded me of the times I have failed, or have come close to failing. It also reminded me of the power of imagination...

'I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.' – Robert Fulghum.

Identity is fascinating. If we didn’t find it fascinating, there would be no interviews, no memoir, no ‘I’, as such. To identify each other, we talk about interests, beliefs, our dreams, our likes and dislikes, our passions.

From the moment I could read, I became an introvert. The worlds I visited, the characters I got to know, the meditative and silent state I fell into – they fed my inner world.

Why I support the BSL Act.

Written by David Hare and first staged in 1998, The Judas Kiss was revived by Neil Armfield with Rupert Everett in the title role and Freddie Fox (brother of Emilia Fox) as Lord Alfred Douglas (otherwise known as Bosie).

As a deaf person who has grown up with a love of music, I was intrigued when I was asked to go along to a preview of a new film, Lost and Sound, a documentary exploring the lives of three deaf people and their relationship with music.

Every so often, a play comes along challenging perceptions of what theatre is. London Road, written by Alecky Blythe, is one such play. It opened at the National Theatre in 2011, to critical acclaim.

Written by Andrew Muir and directed by Paula Garfield, Gold Dust is an affecting and thoughtful play about the relationship between a hearing son and a Deaf father, as well as the relationship between the deaf and hearing world.

National Novel Writing Month, known as NaNoWriMo, was set up by Chris Baty one July in 1999. It began with 21 people, determined to write 50,000 words in one month.

Travel Review.

Week four in NaNoWriMo land is the sprint to the finishing line. What it means is pushing through your determination to procrastinate – when anything – Christmas shopping, doing the dishes, tidying your room – seems more exciting than writing the last 4,000 words of your novel.