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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Charla con Josué Maychi: Ser Maya en México

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From his early childhood as a Spanish-Maya speaker in a Maya community, to his current job as an international theater actor and playwright, this lecture given by renouned Maya actor and playwright Josué Maychi, to our students at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Tampico, was fascinating and engaging, mixing in cultural and current issues information about his life experience and challenges as a indigenous actor living in México,
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Créssida Danza Contemporánea

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Créssida Contemporary Dance makes their New York debut with the world premiere of Naj (House), created by the troupe’s Artistic Director Lourdes Luna in close collaboration with Mexican-American composer Carlo Nicolau. The piece is inspired by Mayan poet Briseida Cuevas Cob’s “A yáax tuupl” (The First Earring) and offers a contemporary focus of Mayan worldview. Créssida will also perform La primera piedra (The Foundation Stone), created by Roberto Olivan and directed by Lourdes Luna. This work approaches the current Mexican character and personal themes that pierce through borders. This performance is part of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s 2019-2020 Season. Music and choreography for Naj are co-commissioned, co-produced and co-presented by Celebrate Mexico Now Festival and LaGuardia Community College.
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Screening and Q&A: Mexican series 68 Voices, 68 Hearts

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Celebrate Mexico Now Festival has partnered with the Center for Fiction for a screening and panel discussion on the importance and challenges of translating indigenous languages. The conversation will include the screening of 68 Voices, 68 Hearts, a series of animated short films that retell Mexican indigenous stories in their native tongues. This panel will feature filmmaker and creator of 68 Voices, 68 Hearts Gabriela Badillo; Américo Mendoza-Mori, Quechua and Spanish professor at the University of Pennsylvania; and Mirian Masaquiza, Social Affairs Officer at the Indigenous Peoples and Development Branch of the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Beyond Words: Dictionaries and Indigenous Languages exhibition

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Beyond Words: Dictionaries and Indigenous Languages highlights the complex relationship between Indigenous languages and dictionaries over several centuries, from word lists and dictionaries developed for exploration, colonization, conversion and assimilation purposes, to online language materials being developed by Indigenous communities to transmit the elders’ language knowledge to today’s youth. On display at the Canadian Language Museum Thursday, […]
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Let’s Talk About Sex! – Kunyaza Workshop followed by screening of Sacred Water & Q&A

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Watch-Africa is about sharing African culture through film screenings, workshops and conversations. Culture is Food. Culture is Language. Culture is Music and Dance. Culture is Relationships. Culture is.....Sex! So let's talk about it. Sacred Water confronts the western viewer with its own intimacy and immerses you into a modern Rwanda rediscovering its heritage in the most secret way: female pleasure.
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Aboriginal place names – Our language matter – First People of the Millewa-Mallee Aboriginal Corporation

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The workshops will provide opportunities for Traditional Owners to promote the importance of local Aboriginal languages in the place naming of roads, geographic features and localities. Importantly, participants from LGAs and emergency services, in addition to planners and surveyors will be supported to explore ways for establishing strong professional relationships with Traditional Owners to enable […]
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Story Pavillion at TU Dortmund University’s Summer Festival

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Within the context of this year’s Sommerfest at TU Dortmund (4th of July 2019) the university library invites native and heritage speakers of indigenous languages and rare dialects to tell or sign stories and subsequently explain their significance and meaning to the audience in German or English.Through academic posters and language activities the researchers will engage both the students and staff of TU Dortmund University and visitors.
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

Aymara Identity, Culture and Language

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The Course (Diplomado, in Spanish) will be organized into different modules: linguistics, history, anthropology, traditional world vision and will be dictated in Aymara as well as the graduation paper that will be written and published in Aymara.
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01.01.1970 - 01.01.1970

The Sang’s the Thing

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Aimed at anyone affected by dementia, this event features Scots songs old and new in the Library collections where participants are invited to listen to and sing with the Scots Scriever (writer), Dr Michael Dempster.
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