Events

UNESCO and FOSSASIA are organizing the Hackathon for Promoting Indigenous Languages through Free and Open Source Software, which will be held from 15-17 March 2019 during the FOSSASIA Summit 2019 in Singapore. The event will have two main objectives: To raise awareness among young developers and free and open-source software communities on the importance of indigenous languages and […]

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 […]

Documentary photo series “Woman” represents Finno-Ugric women in their national clothes who are based in Estonia. These women are proud of their behaviour and traditions and they are inheriting it to the next generations. Series represents communities such as: Estonians, Erzyans, Izhorians, Livonians, Maris, Mokshans, Setos, Udmurts. The artist have asked from each participant what does it mean to be a woman? Different answers will echo around the exhibition space, and can also be read from the “red book”. Finno-Ugric are people who speak Finno-Ugric languages. Regardless the similarities of languages, it is not so easy to understand each other. Similar structure of the languages have brought a common thinking and several parallels in national cultures. For example Finno-Ugrian sees a surrounding still and living nature as a partner. Among Finno-Ugric communities woman has been a carrier of traditions. In our rapidly changing world simple Finno-Ugric woman have become a rare find and therefore deserves a place in a “red book”.

Gouel Broadel ar Brezhoneg is the "National Fest of Breton language".