KODAheart and Cedar Rapids Deaf Club Holiday Event!

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Image description: A flyer with a red and white zigzag background. In red, light-, and dark- blue, different types of bolded and cursive text the flyer reads: the Cedar Rapids Association of the Deaf invites you to celebrate the holidays with us at the Hiawatha Community Center, 101 Emmons Street, Hiawatha, Iowa for the 33rd annual Christmas potluck party starting at 5:30p Saturday the 20th of December 2014 Santa is coming! Bring a gift for your child and leave it with the admission table including workshop by: KODAheart. Admission $5 per person with dish, $10 without a dish, children 14 and under free

On Saturday, December 20, 2014, KODAheart was thrilled to spend the evening with the Cedar Rapids Association of the Deaf at their annual holiday party! Over 90 members of the local deaf community gathered together for a potluck dinner and a gift exchange with signing Santa. The evening opened with a presentation from the Mayor of Cedar Rapids, Ron Corbett, who expressed an interest in building a relationship with members of the deaf community.

Image description: People seated at rows of tables, watching the speaker.[Image Description: Two white, blonde-haired women stand in front of a wall smiling at the camera. On the right, Jannelle Legg is wearing a red t-shirt with a KODAheart logo, with a grey sweater and jeans. She is signing "set up". On the right, Jenn Legg, looks on, wearing a green t-shirt with a KODAheart logo and jeans. Between them, black text and a white background is projected on the wall, reading, "The solution: Pop-up camps, Multi-day 'camp' for kids and their parents - activities designed especially for kodas, parents attend workshops - establishing a network of support. Unanchored - we go where you want us, Community Involvement".]

 

 

 

 

 

Members of KODAheart organized a number of activities to support the local deaf community and to raise awareness about our organization. While the kids were busy with an arts and crafts activity, President, Jenn Legg and Secretary, Jannelle Legg, gave a presentation about the launch of KODAheart. Members of the deaf community responded positively, asking great questions and letting us know about the needs of the local community!

Members of KODAheart organized a number of activities to support the local deaf community and to raise awareness about our organization. While the kids were busy with an arts and crafts activity, President, Jenn Legg and Secretary, Jannelle Legg, gave a presentation about the launch of KODAheart. Members of the deaf community responded positively, asking great questions and letting us know about the needs of the local community!

A group of kids sit around a table draped with a black table cloth. In the center of the table is a three tiered cookie stand with stacks of unfrosted cookies. In the middle of the table are different colors of frosting, frosting tubes, sprinkles containers, and empty paper plates. Around the table kids bend over paper plates, adding green and red frosting, and multi-color sprinkles to ‘I-Love-You’ hand-shaped cookies.Snowman-, candy cane-, Christmas tree, and I-Love-You-shaped sugar cookies gave the kids a chance to show their creative side. Using tubs and tubes of frosting with bottles of colored sprinkles, the children of CRAD decorated their own cookies. It was a fun and sugar-filled activity!

[Image description: A family stands in a grouping, holding props and smiling at the camera. In the back, a man stands, holding a red and green frame in front of his face, next to him is a woman, holding a cardboard Santa hat over her head. In front of her are two young girls. Directly in front of her, in pink, a girl holds a pair of cardboard glittery horn rimmed glasses and a cardboard pair of red lips. The smaller of the two is obscured by the iPad. In a plaid shirt, holding a white cardboard mustache, a young boy stands next to her. Directly behind him, the eldest boy stands in front of the man. He is wearing a bright blue shirt and holding a brown cardboard mustache and a pair of cardboard black glasses to his face. The family stands in front of a black background with the KODAheart logo printed in white. It reads “KODAheart, Two Worlds, One Family”. The KODAheart logo is a slanted infinity symbol, with the top right circle replaced by a heart. The word KODA in all capital letters to the left of the heart and the word heart in all lower case letters at the bottom right of the symbol.]

KODAheart also sponsored a holiday-themed photobooth for the families in attendance. People lined up to play with wacky props and smile for our camera! The photos have been posted on facebook, but some of our favorites are below!

Many thanks to the Cedar Rapids Association of the Deaf for inviting us to share in their holiday party! We look forward to great events in the future!

Click here to check out the event photo album along with the photobooth pictures on KODAheart’s facebook page! 

 

PhotoGrid_1419210242833[Image Description: A collection of three photostrip images. Each photostrip has three small, square images. In the first photo of the first photostrip, a man and woman wearing red and white Santa hats smile into the camera. In the second photo, she holds up a black cardboard speech bubble that reads, 'hi' and he signs 'I-Love-You'. In the third photo, the two kiss as she holds up the sign. In the second photostrip, a man, woman and two young children take a group photo. On the left, the young girl, in a grey t-shirt, holds a red cardboard pair of lips and a red and white cardboard Santa hat. Next to her, a woman wears a red and white Santa hat. On the right, a man lifts a young boy in a red shirt. In the first photo, the group smiles for the camera, the young boy moving out of frame. In the second photo, the family laughs and the young boy is not pictured. In the third photo the group smiles, and the boy opens his mouth widely. In the third photostrip, a group of four men crowd into the frame. On the left, a man in a blue sweatshirt and blue baseball cap holds a green and white cardboard frame. Next to him holding a black cardboard sign that reads, 'cheese', a man in a black fedora and red and black plaid shirt has an arm around the third man, wearing a yellow shirt and a red Santa apron with fake yellow buttons and a black belt. He has a full white beard and a red and white Santa hat. On the far right, stands a man with a black backwards baseball cap and black shirt. In the photos, the men smile and make faces, with their arms around their shoulders. In the third photo an arm appears from off camera holding a pair of cardboard red lips to the mouth of the man in the fedora. In each photostrip, the group stands in front of a black background with the KODAheart logo printed in white. It reads “KODAheart, Two Worlds, One Family”. The KODAheart logo is a slanted infinity symbol, with the top right circle replaced by a heart. The word KODA in all capital letters to the left of the heart and the word heart in all lower case letters at the bottom right of the symbol.