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From fire-breather to Girl on Fire: In conversation with Hyacinth Powell

On leaving secondary school, Hyacinth went to Drama school. On completing her diploma at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and...

IOCN’s reach into Europe – Going Dutch for ‘real' - a conversation with Anna Mbayo

What I (Jacqui Beckford) learnt while chatting via Zoom with the charming Anna Mbayo, was that it is priceless to be understood by...

Deaf Day 2022 at City Lit

Deaf Day is a free annual event hosted by City Lit's Centre for Deaf Education where the Deaf community come together, socialise and walk...

Lisa Li: My Journey into Sign Language Interpreting

Whilst studying for a BA (Hons) at Stirling University between 2004-2008, I joined a BSL interest group. To keep the group open and to...

#MoreThanJustAnInterpreter – Izegbuwa Oleghe

#MoreThanJustAnInterpreter is a regular segment in our newsletter where we highlight the other things that our members do, aside from...

Spotlight on...Omoyele Davey

Happy New Year from everyone in the Interpreters of Colour Network! On the 27th November 2021, IOCN had our very first, joyous AGM....

Spotlight on...Bharti Kothari

Bharti – a name which in Indian Sanskrit, means “Cherished”. In the Hindu language and religion, Bharti is the “Goddess of knowledge and...

The IOC Network mushroomed before we knew what we would eventually become

From a post-workshop WhatsApp group set up in early December 2019 for informal support, to a 100-plus membership network, Jacqui Beckford...

Black Interpreting

Having been asked to write this piece, I had to look back over my working life and do some evaluating. Not only of the profession but of...

Poetry's dizzy heights to painting that picture in BSL

Interpreting between British Sign Language and spoken English, using standard language, is challenging enough on good days. But the gear...