AtSin Palabras Café Sordo , a trendy new watering hole in Bogotá , Colombia , patrons can trip the light fantastic toe , bet secret plan , savour exhibitions and performances , and grab a drink . But while ordering from the carte du jour , they use their hands to pass on . Sin Palabras Café Sordo — which translates to No Words Deaf Café in English — is the South American nation ’s first - ever bar designed to admit workers and customer with hear impairments , according toThe Carry Amelia Moore Nation .
turn up in Bogotá ’s Chapinero neighborhood , Sin Palabras Café Sordo has both deaf server and menus written in sign spoken communication . client sit at small tables and flick on a bantam lamp to signal a barkeep over to order a beverage . When patron hit the saltation base , they ’re greeted by large screen playing medicine picture with lyrics in sign language , and a pulsing story that allows partiers to keep in time with the cadence .
A threesome of Bogotá entrepreneurs — Maria Fernanda Vanegas , Cristian Melo , and Jessica Mojica — team up to plunge Sin Palabras Café Sordo in June 2017 . None of these co - owner is deaf , but Vanegas toldThe Nationthat their goal is “ for us , mass who can hear , to adapt to the deaf , and not the other way round , which is always the case . ” keep with this theme , the cake has low cards to teach non - hearing - mar customer some canonic phrases in sign language . ( Visitors who do n’t recognize enough mark language to rank off the carte can place to item they want , or write them down . )
line of work has been so honorable for Sin Palabras Café Sordo that Vanegas and her Centennial State - owners might establish even more café locations around Colombia , according to Lonely Planet . That tell , they are n’t the first ace to establish a business that caters to customer with get wind impairments : Granada , Nicaraguarecently became home toCafé de las Sonrisas(“Smiles Cafe ” ) , a eating place that employ only deaf James Cook and servers , and similar establishments have opened inCanadaandIndia . And in the U.S. , there arerestaurants likeSan Francisco ’s deaf - possess and -operated pizza parlor , Mozzeria .
[ h / tThe Nation ]
