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 […]
Report on the 2014 Congress and Summer School
Canberra, 3–12 January 2014 In the Australian National University in Canberra, one of countless buildings is called Ursula Hall. This is where the Board of AEA organised the Australian Esperanto Association 2014 Congress and Summer School. About 52 eager people took part, from Korea, Nepal, Indonesia, Germany, New Zealand, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Hungary, and even more from Australia. We met in a very clean, beautiful and large room. On the second evening (Saturday) Trevor Steele led a quiz, which amused […]
Website offline for a week
From 4 to 11 June 2014, this website was offline, due to a ‘hardware failure’ with the web server. Initial investigation indicates that everything is the same as it was before the failure, but if you find anything strange, please let us know. If you tried to send an email to AEA (to an address ending with ‘@esperanto.org.au’) during the offline period, please try again.
Esperanto, the language of love
Radio interview with Heather Heldzingen on 774 ABC Melbourne, by Richard Stubbs, Friday 6 June 2014, 1.30 pm Read the article
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 […]
Esperanto-TV launched
Sydney, Australia: The only IPTV channel in the world, in the international language of Esperanto, debuted on 5 April 2014. This new television channel is broadcast via high-speed Internet with IPTV technology. It is available worldwide via any device with a high-speed Internet connection, i.e. Internet-enabled TVs, computers, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS), and further growth and customer support is planned for other continents mid-2014. The content is mostly in Esperanto, and consists of original or dubbed, unique […]
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 […]