Category: Language Celebrations

Online conference: Towards a Multilingual Utopia – How can knowledge lead to action?

On By Manchester City of LanguagesIn Language Celebrations, News

Celebrating UNESCO International Mother (and Father) Language Day 2024 This online conference with international participants will take place on Wednesday 21 February 2024 at 4-6.30pm UK time. Registration through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-multilingual-utopia-how-can-knowledge-lead-to-action-tickets-710184469867?aff=oddtdtcreator The conference will feature discussion panels on language teaching, indigenous language rights and the role of language in UNESCO cities of culture. Panellists will include …

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Manchester Multilingual City Poets

On By delmcolIn Engagement, Language Celebrations, News

Manchester City of Literature and partners have introduced Manchester’s inaugural team of Multilingual City Poets, three talented creatives who have been appointed to produce a series of original works on behalf of the City throughout 2022, as part of International Mother Language Day 2022. The City’s new Multilingual City Poets team has been created to …

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A City of Languages: implications for policy and practice

On By Manchester City of LanguagesIn Engagement, Language Celebrations, News

A panel discussion on the occasion ofUNESCO International Mother (and Father) Language Day 2022Manchester Central Library, Monday 21 February 2022, 6.30-7.30pm Over the past decade, Manchester has risen to prominence as ‘Britain’s City of Languages’, where over 200 languages are spoken. The city has been celebrating its language diversity, bringing together communities and cultural institutions …

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Bilingual Storytime

On By Manchester City of LanguagesIn education, Engagement, Language Celebrations, Uncategorized

Developed in partnership with the Somali Advice Link charity and the Powerhouse Library, the project consisted of weekly sessions of storytime in English and other languages such as Arabic, Somali, Romanian, Russian. Originally designed to support families with pre-school age children who spoke those languages at home, the sessions also became language tasters as families …

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