Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
The program for the week of January 7, highlights a not so widely known strength of braille. With January 4 being the 205th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, we have the 2nd this week, of a series of two programs celebrating the world-wide key to literacy for people who are blind that he devised. On this occasion, we are rebroadcasting a feature first heard in July last year. It offers you a taste of the joy of music and fellowship of the National Braille Music Camps. At the end of June each year, young students of music come together at Mittagong in New South Wales, for a week that’s so good, they keep going back to it. A camp organiser, tells us about the event with the DELIGHTS of music and braille. Three students talk about their music experience and we hear performances from the camp choir. Also, visitors from Fiji give us their impressions of the camp experience.
You can hear:
- Jordie Howell, blind musician and braille trainer, one of the organisers of the event;
- Brother and sister attendees, Thanh and Thien Autran, from Footscray in Melbourne;
- Micaela Schmidt, from Rutherglen in Northern Victoria.
You can listen here to the program or go to the Talking Vision web page for broadcast details, an outline of past programs and
links to the associated audio.
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