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JuneFest JuneFest is a deaf-blind awareness festival in Toronto that celebrates June as Deaf-Blind Awareness Month in Ontario. Every June, Rotary Cheshire Homes and The Canadian Helen Keller Centre host the event. Local businesses, agencies supporting the deaf, blind, or deaf-blind community, as well as support groups, set up their booths to showcase their services. Attendees come from far and wide to meet new people, learn more about the dual disability of deaf-blindness, and visit with old friends. The event wouldn't be complete without the charity BBQ, juggling clown on stilts, who also does airbrush tattoos, and ASL storytelling. New this year, was the addition of a student area. Local area schools participated in the event, learning: how to communicate with someone who is deaf-blind, how to sign a popular song, and how to use a white cane. Students cheered for their teachers as they navigated an obstacle course blindfolded with a white cane.