UK-2012-Hanoi Karaoke Song With Film

I participated in Karavano-2012 (over 30 participants), Universala Kongreso de Esperanto-2012 in Hanoi (almost 1,000 participants)  and International Youth Conference of Esperanto (only two older Americans were at the Youth Conference unfortunately--the Asian majority of some 200 full and part-time participants were mostly under 30 years old.)

The following link includes photos of the seven day mostly adult Universala Kongreso.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islraY-nRtc

A young all-Vietnamese group of a dozen singers, named Rizoj (or Rice in the plural) entertained us several times.  A leading contributor is Cung, who plays guitar nicely. We jammed a few times in Hanoi.  Most singing members, and most Vietnamese Esperantists are young women, recent graduates of international and foreign language university programs. One of them, Anh, said as much as 90 of these university departments are women. Here they sing the same song as the Karaoke version.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/247442/13261444

Former New Yorker, Enrique Ellemberg,  Argentinian by birth, did a good job posting pictures of UK with trilingual descriptions.

http://esperantofre.com/uk2012/

Hanoi Newsletter During UK/Do You Want to Dance?

As in all 7-day Universalaj Kongresoj, a daily newspaper is published and distributed on location....in Hanoi, Vietnam.  This last publication was procrastinated.

In the International Art Evening it is mentioned that I sung "Do You Want To Dance/Cxu Vi Volas Danci?" a well-known song thanks to singers like Jo-Mo and also  a nice version by Jxomart, Natasxa and Karina. I added the original English refrain, when  performing in Hanoi,Vietnam.



http://www.uea.org/pdf/Loa!-7%29.pdf

1. Ĉu vi volas danci? ( Esperanto ) - YouTube
   ► 3:41► 3:41	www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhursnV4neY.

2. JoMo - Cxu vi volas danci?
   ► 2:53► 2:53	www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18hzOTEVFk

Smithsonian and Mario Pei's important contribution to Esperanto.

If I understand well, a division of the  Smithsonian National Museum, Folkways, offers the important book by Mario Pei,  Wanted One World Language, as an audio-book.  I rarely buy material on-line, but this may be an exception.  Between the years 1950-1970, Mario Pei's positive view on Esperanto, was the first source of information, for most American Esperanto speakers.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/TrackDetails.aspx?itemid=23529
Se mi bone komprenis la plej grava muzeo de usono enretigis la plej gravan
libron pri Esperanto eble de la jaroj 1950-1970.

Church Center, 777 UN Plaza,  with Josh Cohen of the Youth Hostel Movement.

Language Diversity Symposium Final Program

Symposium on Language and the United Nations, May 1, 2012

777 United Nations Plaza, New York

PROGRAMME 

9:30 – 10:00  Registration

10:00 – 10:30 Opening greetings

• H. E. Ambassador Filippe Savadogo, Permanent Representative of La Francophonie to the United Nations
• Alassane Diatta, Chief, French Translation Service, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, United Nations 

10:30 – 11:30.  Language Policy at the United Nations

• Françoise Cestac, Former UN Assistant Secretary-General.  Introduction
• Marie-Josée de Saint Robert, Chief, Languages Service, Division of Conference Management, UN Geneva, “Policy Regarding Language Use at the United Nations.”  Paper read by Bonnibeth Fonseca-Greber. 
• André Corrêa d’Almeida & G. Bahar Otcu, Columbia University, “The Portuguese Language in the United Nations”

11:30 – 12:30.  The Language Policy Background and Its Implications (1)

• Clément Mbom, Brooklyn College, “Langues et développement humain: Le français, acteur du développement dans les pays où il n’est pas la langue maternelle”
• Anna Luisa Daigneault, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, “The Endangered Languages of South America: Grassroots Language Activism and New Media for the 21^st Century”
• Lauren Zentz, University of Arizona, “Legacies of Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Globalization: Language Policy in Indonesia”

12:45. Lunch. Film Screening: Languages Lost and Found: Speaking and Whistling the Mamma Tongue

Iris Brooks and Jon H. Davis, Cultural Reporters / Film Directors, Northern Lights Studio 

1:45-3:00.  The Language Policy Background and Its Implications (2)

• Timothy Reagan, Central Connecticut State University, “But What Is My Mother Tongue: Rethinking the Challenges of Mother Tongue Education”
• Myriam de Beaulieu, United Nations, “Loss of lexical and cultural diversity  with global communication ”
• Panel discussion by the speakers in the morning and early afternoon sessions

3:00 – 3:45.  Language Teaching and Learning

• Bonnibeth Fonseca-Greber, University of Louisville, “Preparing the UN’s Next Generation: A Professional Development Plan for Translator Candidates”
• Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth & Brianna Avenia-Tapper, New York University, Steinhardt: Patricia Duffy, UN Language and Communications Programme; Jill Kalotay, webmaster and consultant, “Learning English for Peace: An Online English Course about the UN”
• Sohair Soukkary, Baruch College, CUNY, “Language Teaching: Tapping the Right Side of the Brain”

3:45 – 4:30.  The NGO Experience

Presentations by the Legion of Goodwill (Danilo Parmegiani) & Universal Esperanto Association (Steven Brewer)

4:30 – 5:00.  Closing Remarks

Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford, “Thirty Years of Church Center Conferences on Language at the UN”

Closing Remarks: Françoise Cestac 

5:00 - 6:00  Reception

Photo-report: 
https://picasaweb.google.com/116403863606846422857/May121021aDeMajo2012UEANovjorkoEventoLingvaDiverseco

Esperanto Demonstrations and Group Photos

I would like to make an Esperanto-group for Esperanto Street Demonstrations and Group Photos. Here is a very nice song sung by non Esperantists with dozens of group photos in the background video.

I was among 30 Esperantists who demonstrated with 200,000 other at the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Brazil 2005. http://www.esperanto.com.br/libero/msf2005/5a-forumo.htm We also organized two lectures with perhaps 200 participants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhPNn3xhhus I found it while wandering the internet into South America----Cordoba, Argentina more precisely. Thanks/Dankon.

Group photos around the world with the song Volas Ni--We Want from the Czecholslovakian group "Team"--pronounced Tay-am and meaning the same en English....and I love you in French.
Grup-fotoj cxirkau' la mondo kun la kanto "Volas Ni" de Cxehxoslovaka kanto-grupo "Team".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54rqN9Jo_Do

Here are a number of group photos of the largest annual " Universala Kongreso".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHIY3MYW1OU

Forty or fifty Esperantists spread out in the Plaza of Arunda, Spain and after freezing for a minute or two yelled out "Esperanto Bridge Language for the World".
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlvMYjwZ-xw&feature=share

Group photos with music by Jomo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sX3J2h_7FE&feature=player_embedded

http://esperanto-cordoba.blogspot.com/

Placxas al mi komenca kanto kun video de grup-fotoj el dudeko da landoj kaj multaj urboj.

For several years Catholics and Roman Esperanto speakers demonstrate in front of the Pope at the Vatican. 
http://www.ikue.org/kristnasko2004/kristnasko2004.htm#plurligvaj%20salutoj

A young Danish Esperantist talks about Esperanto (and in it) at a peace demonstration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWfurW53eY


Group pictures with music by Sinkopo, Masko Productions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6s26BRFjZ4&feature=youtu.be

A new Hotel Esperanto (July 2012) in Macedonia, with a group of Esperantists in front.
Nova Hotelo Esperanto en Makedonio: 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3094706616949&set=oa.370259696369667&type=1&theater

Esperanto t-shirts. I buy from www.cafepress.com but here is an ad for another. I wear over 20 different Esperanto t-shirts, many designed by myself. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcuV6M6spaA 

 Photos out of the early Israeli Esperanto Movment.
Fotoj el la frua Israela E-o Movado: 1943-1945:

http://gxirafo.blogspot.com/2013/01/esperanto-photo-archive-at-harvard.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970/7036519361/ 

Out of Tagikstan/Tagxikio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlmarx_75/481701065/lightbox/

The last 7 minutes of this Russian/Ukrainian overview of Esperanto is full of recent group photos. 
It has subtitles in Esperanto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md11986GICk 

Esperanto in the Social Forum Movement in several countries. Naration in Esperanto. From minute 12:45 several photos are shown of Esperanto participation in Social Forums in Brazil, India and Africa.  https://vimeo.com/2843237 

A real demonstration and some special effects in the Ukraine makes for an interesting link: 
http://invideo.biz/s?9d9a270e8e364f29e76030873585c1e5#.USPt4eh8un- 

I like this discussion on English spelling reform. People actually demonstrated against the unlogical spelling of English during spelling bees:
http://unclutterer.com/2010/06/07/is-english-cluttered-simplified-spellin-supporters-think-so/ 

A 20 foot street sign in Slovenia of the Postal Union with stamps from throughout Europe with large words in Esperanto: Beautiful Greetings--Belajn Salutojn.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=550847051626740&set=a.348332581878189.83013.100001043514223&type=1&theater

Less on Esperanto but on the intermixing of nations I'm attracted to the fact the Hebrew and Esperanto are the top languages used in this Paris street-sign.
https://www.facebook.com/can.zamur.1/posts/144999765673457?notif_t=story_reshare

About half the participants in Bialystok Poland World Esperanto Conference: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=170016036377199&set=a.100868893291914.315.100001064102501&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_comment_tagged

Somewhere during the Social Forum of Porto Alegre Brazil, Neil Blonstein held a large Esperanto sign:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=368505023255893&set=a.363063903800005.1073741827.139329909506740&type=1&theater

The centrist anti-death penalty Radical Party/No Peace No Justice NGO demonstrate in Rome for Esperanto generally and at the Vatican Easter programs of the Pope in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgdnBy-YDTQ