The Multilingual Museum digital platform has re-launched its website. The platform was initiated in 2020 by City of Languages co-founder Yaron Matras and collaborators at Manchester Museum. It was further developed in 2022-2023 thanks to a grant from Heritage Fund based on a concept developed by City of Languages in collaboration with Manchester Museum. The …
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Language Day 2023: International panel discussion
On the occasion of UNESCO International Mother Language Day on 21 February 2023, Manchester City of Languages in partnership with MACFEST and Manchester City of Literature hosted an online panel discussion on the topic ‘How and why should we protect multilingualism?’ The event was part of the programme of this year’s IMLD events in Manchester …
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Bilingual Storytime
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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