SignDNA is the home of Aotearoa New Zealand’s visual Deaf history.

Auckland Deaf community hold their annual picnic at Duders Beach, 1951.

News Review coverage of the 16th World Games for the Deaf in Christchurch 1989.

A fancy dress party is held at the Canterbury Deaf Society’s clubrooms.

Not long after opening Co-Ed Cafe and the associated training school, Claire Matheson began running courses for students of Newlands College Deaf Unit. NZSL is now used in meetings and training, and they have menus in sign language.

Eunike Mose, a profoundly deaf Samoan high school student, and her mother Heather, talk about the challenges of being Deaf, particularly in relation to the family’s Pasifika heritage, and education.

Total Communication is promoted on ‘The South Tonight’ by MOACOM, a newly formed influential group.

Shaun Fahey, a Deaf artist, talks about illustrating signs for the NZSL Dictionary, and what life was like for a young Shaun growing up in Christchurch under the rule of oralism.

The Sign Singers perform the famous carol 'Silent Night' for the Stars on Sunday programme.

This footage appears to be an early attempt in creating an educational filming activity for deaf children at Titirangi School for the Deaf.

Marlene Rush was the 20th Deaf student to enrol at St Dominics School for the Deaf in 1946. Marlene looks back on her life and involvement with the Deaf community.

The Christchurch Deaf Basketball Club, established in 1951, celebrates their 25th Jubilee on Saturday 31 July, 1976 – with a game between old previous members versus young current members, before a social dance evening at the Armagh Street clubroom.