The Language Festival Association is hosting a free language festival on Saturday, 3 December, at Erina Fair. The purpose of this language festival is to promote awareness of language diversity, by providing “tasters” of multiple languages and cultures in a fun environment. A highlight will be a fascinating presentation by Australian linguist, Dr Gregory Cooper. In the early 1980s Dr Cooper travelled to remote north-western Pakistan to study an as-yet unwritten language. Just by interacting directly with the native speakers, […]
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Second AMO seminar – Sidney, Canada
On 9 and 10 July 2014, thirty or so activists from Canada and the United States, plus visitors from China, Japan and Taiwan, and I from Australia, participated in a two-day seminar for activist development (“AMO-2”) in the coastal town of Sidney (British Columbia, Canada). The seminar addressed the theme “The strategy and practice of Esperanto promotion in North America”, under the guidance of Dr Mark Fettes, president of UEA. Within the program were several presentations and discussion sessions, and […]
Adelaide winter school
This year’s winter school was a one-day event on Sunday, 8 June 2014. Fourteen interested people assembled in the comfortable rooms of the Box Factory community centre, two of them from Whyalla (400 km from Adelaide). Sandor Horvath taught the beginners, and Trevor Steele the intermediates. After a communal lunch, organised by Indrani Beharry-Lall, were speaking games, personal stories, short talks and discussion of linguistic and organisational issues. We had fun and learned at the same time. Several participants shopped […]
Beijing Esperantist receives award from the Canberra Esperanto Film Festival
On 30 March 2014 was the Beijing Esperanto Film Festival. After a talk about the short-films contest, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Esperanto, Rainer Kurz introduced the Canberra Esperanto Film Festival, which took place during the Australian Esperanto Summer School and Congress in January 2014. As the founder and director of the festival, Rainer Kurz specially organised the voting to choose the favourite film of the congress participants, while the film Esperanto Muzikigas Vian Vivon (Esperanto […]