Events

As part of support and promotion for IYIL2019 Treaty Education in collaboration with Mi’kmaw Culture and Language department will be celebrating a provincial event in the community of We’koqma’q. As part of the initial stages of planning an Atlantic wide video conference will showcase how we can promote language through creative arts as well as […]

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. -Nelson Mandela The Life Languages Impact • Help retain and empower Aboriginal languages and culture • Equitably transform genomic and broader health care • Create connected communities The Concept Improving the health and well-being of people living with rare diseases and Indigenous people are global public health needs. These domains are united by a shared them of equity. So, how can we innovate to better serve these areas of unmet social and medical need ? Life Languages will help retain and empower Aboriginal language, for all the benefits that brings, and partner that with our genetic language to transform health care. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein We have started a journey with local and international partners. We now need help to accelerate and scale the delivery of the Life Languages impact.

Now in their 12th year, the International Conferences of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums provide culturally relevant training and networking opportunities for indigenous cultural institutions.  In 2019, the conference will focus on how archives, libraries, and museums can support indigenous languages.

Present and celebrate Victorian Aboriginal Living inheritance of language and Indigenous languages across all First Nations of Australia Improve understanding of Indigenous language knowledge systems Increase awareness of Aboriginal languages as intangible heritage and role of language with treaty processes for Aboriginal people Strengthen working relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics Provide an environment for discussion, and networking, building opportunities for Indigenous peoples to platform their language Highlighting the approach to language reclamation as Indigenous peoples.