Most of our 2023 work will built upon 2022 eco-culture-arts projects and will revolve around the theme of ‘Water’
Language-Arts- a Cultural project
Some languages have become an important medium of global communications. They have played a key role in bringing the world closer in many ways and we should be thankful for that. But except for these few popular languages, not many others are respected in our jet speed techno age.
Are all languages important? Do we need to revive them?
Listen to Language of Waters- talks and discussions.
Interested in Sharing a language, submit the form here.
2023 Cultural project Phase-II, Starting mid-August
Cultural Language talks will continue as Cultural workshop meets (hybrid). These are planned to promote Arts like Visual/ Dance/ Music/ Crafts/ Culinary/ Storytelling/ and more as part of Language cultural project around the theme of Water.
If interested in joining fill the form below.
This Language- Arts project aims to explore the literature, the views, the beauty of different Languages revolving around the theme of ‘Water’, and discuss what role they can play in these modern times.
Opening on 21 Feb to commemorate United Nation's International Mother-Language day this project runs through early June (environmental day)
We are grateful to Dr. Sowmya Anand for supporting and helping organize Language workshops.
Check below, entries created during the language workshops.
To join our virtual monthly meets please submit this participation form .
How does your culture see water
on different dimensions,
is there any Poem any Song,
any literature that sings of Waters glorious forms?
Did your mother
teach you any scientific theory?
Did you grandpa tell you a story
that revolved around water's glory?
Celebrating Poetry month with kids, making poems/ haikus/ tankas/ on Waters
Cards made during Asian American Cultural center's Leadership workshops at Siebel Center for designing. Thanks to AACC UIUC
Dr Sowmya presenting the Language- project at Siebel Center
Embroidery workshop with Hindi group kids learning embroidery with Mrs Gothe
Language Arts (with Waters) exhibited at Urbana Park District's Earthday event at Meadowbrook Interpretive Center. Thanks to UPD for including our displays for this event.
Poems/ writings in Mother-Language displayed at the International night at Central High School.
Embroidery motifs and writings based on Water displayed at the Boneyard Arts fest. Thanks to Planted CU for hosting our exhibits.
Embroidery with writing displayed at the Planted shop for this year's Boneyard Art fest
Aim of the project :
To explore the literary content from Heritage-Languages (Mother-Language) revolving around the theme of Water, in the process, revisiting our relation to Waters and also to our own languages that can still amuse our modern taste.
This project also aims to generate Cultural awareness about the many rich Literary works from Languages that might be lesser known to our world.
Please join us for this fun family exploriation that will encourage inter-generational dialogues. Lets celebrate languages and our cultures while celebrating our Waters!
Background - Language project 2022
Language-Arts 2023 will be building upon The ‘Lingo Language Dialect’ Language project 2022. It included an exhibit displayed March-April 2022 at the IAS library and 'Language' virtual meet on zoom.
Some background references can be found here Lingo, Language, Dialect- Discussions
We are grateful to Mara Thacker and the IAS Library for the cooperation and support throughout this project. Many Thanks to Dr Atoma Batoma, Dr Sowmya Anand, Dr Yu Wang, Mrs Tracy, Phillip Nyman, Alice Sinzato and Leonardo Ventura for being our guest with their respective groups.
Talking of Languages, India represents a wonderful diversity of languages, spoken and scripts, under one Nation. In the past, we have celebrated Scripts of India along with Visual exhibits, Cultural events and Performances. Some excerpts of Scripts of India can be found here.
Langugae-Arts Youth entries for 2022 displayed at IAS Library
Please contact us if you would like to get involved in Designing Planning, organizing.
More info to come on this page. Stay tuned!
Renovated floors at the O’Hare airport with ‘Welcome’ in various scripts
.Except for a few popular languages, not many native languages, are respected in our jet speed techno age, but they seem to convey the cultural stories and the wisdom of their respective lands.