Events

In celebration of the reopening of the Cultural Centre of Porto do Boi, tonight at 7pm the community of Porto do Boi will be conducting the Awê ritual for the last full moon of 2018. The reopening tonight will be filled with celebrations of their culture and traditions in which they will be performing rituals, paintings, dances and food. 

The objective of SANA 2019 small grant competition is to support grassroots initiatives for developing and utilizing indigenous Finno-Ugric languages in the Baltic Sea region. The competition supports mostly new and independent initiatives that aim to preserve or revitalize indigenous Finno-Ugric languages in their traditional territories.  From among 65 applications submitted to the competition, 10 applications were awarded grants. Winning projects of the mini-grant competition include a variety of themes that have been prioritized by UNESCO in the action plan of the International Year of Indigenous Languages: teaching of languages, promotion of languages via modern information and communicatio technologies (ICTs), language visualization via crafts and design, preservation of indigenous toponyms and intangible cultural heritage, working with the youth. Projects by language activists of the Baltic Sea region supported by SANA 2019 will be implemented by April, 2019.

BUILD (Blockchain Unabridged Indigenous Language Database) is a blockchain project by Indigen Asia Limited designed to preserve indigenous languages using an immutable and decentralized repository of information. Through this seminar, we hope to achieve participation of local government officials of Hingyon, Ifugao in order to implement our project within their locality and tribal people.