Clubbing as a Deaf person

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danniiwalker69

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Hi,

I am a design student currently in my fourth year of university. My major project for this year is involved with looking at disabled clubbing, with the hope of finding a product that would enhance the clubbing experience.

I have been unable to contact many Deaf people and i was wondering if anyone on here could help.

I would like to know what your experiance of clubbing is and how you feel about music.

If anyone could post a reply that would help me i would be very thankful.

Cheers, Dannii :fingersx:
 
danniiwalker69 said:
Hi,

I am a design student currently in my fourth year of university. My major project for this year is involved with looking at disabled clubbing, with the hope of finding a product that would enhance the clubbing experience.

I have been unable to contact many Deaf people and i was wondering if anyone on here could help.

I would like to know what your experiance of clubbing is and how you feel about music.

If anyone could post a reply that would help me i would be very thankful.

Cheers, Dannii :fingersx:
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WTF ? What does that supposed to mean? Do you mean that , " Are there any Deaf Dance Clubs" = "disabled clubbing" ?

Sure many deaf people love to go to clubs as much like hearings does except that obviously music isn't #1 priority to deaf people. Deaf like to go to club to escape from reality and enjoy the scene - different types of people , drinks, etc..
 
KINGOFNOOBS, it is all the same -- no need to get all upset.
 
All young Deaf I know go to what ever club or bars are out there. There is no difference. Yeah the type of music isn’t necessarily the focus as with hearing people. However a good strongly felt beat is needed if they want to dance. And I know some Deaf that are amazing dancers and can hold a beat better than hearies. Now as for atmosphere and drinks that is all personal taste. Luckily in the gay bars in my town there are cards and pens on the bars to give people your number. Deaf friends of mine will use them to order drinks if they are not very oral. There isn’t much in the way of accessibility to clubs as far as Deaf is concerned as Deaf people can do anything except hear, (I. King Jordan) so I don’t know exactly what you are looking for. Deaf people can drive just like hearing people so there is no special parking and Deaf people don’t need wheel chairs unless there is some extenuating circumstance unrelated to their deafness. Maybe if you explained your question better we would get a better understanding of what you are looking for.
 
I think it was the Disabled thing.... since he bolded and made that part really big.
 
I love clubbing especially with my NJ gang.. we have so much fun and it helps that we love to dance and love music.. hehe! :giggle:
 
Felix is that pic you? If so you look a lot like the guy from Fallout Boy!!
 
Well, actually there is one thing I would like to see more in the clubs....more boom boxes on the floor. I notice when I am dancing at a club, I need to be close to the speakers cuz the music is so lopud, my hearing aides can barely work. It is weird and hard to explain but if I can feel the bass everywhere, then I can go to any part of the dance floor rather needing to dance close to the speakers. Maybe that's just me.

Other than that, no other accessibilty is needed. If there r videos..I won't need captioning cuz I won't be watching them while dancing my ass off. Lol
 
Danni-- you wanna a damn good Deaf club??? then you better use:

WOODEN FLOORS, ALL THE WAY!!!
Cement or carpeted floors suck because it muffle the vibrations from boombox. (my senior prom got wooden floor mat ON carpeted floors.. OMG, it sucked!!!)

Raised floors definitely will help spreading the vibrations easy...

SO you have to think about the vibrations of boomboxes and how to spread it throughout the club, so nobody has to crowd up near the boombox (fire hazard, fire hazard)....

;-) GOOD LUCK Danni
 
About clubs, night clubs, singles dances, etc.

In the past, I used to be a regular at roller skating from 1978 till 1991. Yeah, I love to skate! You do not feel the booms or the music as much as dancing floor does. I switched to bars and night clubs in late 80s but I hated the scene since it was too much of a "meat market" with the quotes. I can feel on wooden floors or it was turned up and the women there can not hear me! I kept telling them LEARN SIGN LANGUAGE!!!! DUH!!!!! They gasped. Their attitudes suck.

Then I found out about the singles dance in mid-90s. Much more grown up and more slow dances. Ah, I like that scene. I went every friday or saturday nights for ten years or so. Often it was hosted in Knights of Columbus "castles" as they are called around here. Or at American Legions halls. They are laminated floors. The sounds dont feel right and they are NOT turned up like in bars. It was bit easier for me to communicate with hearing women! That is how I met my wife April of 2004! Hardly deaf people come to singles dances. I prefer this scene than bars and night clubs although the crowds are bit older than I was during mid-90s to mid 2000s.

Only once a year a deaf man would come to the singles dances upon my invitation but they never came back.

There is NO deaf people going together to a dance club or night clubs around my hometown at all. I love to dance but it was their loss in my hometown. I tried to invite them to the single dances but they would not come. I know why. They are all hearing people there!

By the way, I used to work at the roller skating rink for a year and volunteered myself to help my friend who ran the singles dances.

Singles dances are more for people who are really looking for a relationship and marriage. Bars are not the place to look for someone. It is more of.. "Meat market."
 
Sad to say I dont go to Deaf Club anymore cos things have changed soo much and it been difficult for me being a Teacher and is only recognised as the teacher and not the person so most topic always focus on my work rather than my social life. It is sad this is happening and have tried to explaing the difference between professional and personal but with no luck. Never mind one day will go back but who knows.
 
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