11.10.2019 - 12.10.2019

Créssida Danza Contemporánea

Europe and North America / / New York City
Little Theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center

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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10.10.2019 - 10.10.2019

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

Europe and North America / / New York City
The Center for Fiction

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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26.08.2019 - 27.08.2019

The 6th International conference “LIVONICA. Livonian language, history, culture.”

Europe and North America / / Rīga
University of Latvia Livonian Institute

The Livonians, though one of the smallest nations in Europe, have had a significant role in the languages, history, and culture of the Baltic Sea region, while also maintaining their own unique linguistic and cultural identity up to the present. Livonian is a highly endangered Finnic language indigenous to Latvia and has approximately 20 fluent […]
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22.05.2019 - 24.05.2019

17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII)

Global / / Leeuwarden
WTC Expo, Heliconweg 52, 8914 AT Leeuwarden

The 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) will address the challenges and opportunities of smaller languages such as minority and indigenous languages in a globalized society. It aims to bring together scholars and students across the multidisciplinary field of minority languages.
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19.08.2019 - 22.08.2019

PULiiMA Indigenous Languages and Technology Conference

Global / / Darwin
Darwin Convention Centre

PULiiMA Indigenous Language and Technology Conference is a biennial event aimed at bringing people together from all over Australia and internationally to explore pioneering project ideas and exciting products and equipment that can be used in community based Indigenous languages projects. The Conference allows people to network with an inspirational group of people who all share a common ambition of conserving and celebrating the languages of your country.
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