Sorosoro news


October 6, 2009: Account of the Results of the Sorosoro Programme at the Quai Branly Museum

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June 2, 2009: Screening of the movie “One of Many” at the quai Branly Museum

On June 2, 2009, a year after its launch at the quai Branly Museum, Sorosoro proposed a public screening of the movie “One of Many” with Sally Tisiga, whose story is depicted in the movie.

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June 2009: Pictures from the second shooting in Gabon

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June 2009: Rozenn Milin tells the Sorosoro program and the actual shootings

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March 2009: Pictures from the first shooting in Guatemala

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February 23, 2009: SOAS: Endangered Languages Week in London

SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) organises in London until February 28, a week devoted to endangered languages. Under the direction of Peter Austin, specialist in Australian and Indonesian languages, and member of the scientific Council of Sorosoro, the HRELP (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project) wants to increase public awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity.

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February 21, 2009: International Mother Language Day, UNESCO

February 21st, UNESCO celebrates two events: the tenth International Mother Language Day and the end of the International Year of Languages. It’s an opportunity for the UNESCO, instigator of these two projects for linguistic diversity, to organize conferences and meetings on February 18th and 20th. Among its guests is Rozenn Milin, Sorosoro Program Director at the Fondation Chirac.

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February 14, 2009: Sorosoro with the Mayans

A day after the first film crew returned from Gabon, another head cameraman, José ReynËs headed for Guatemala (on February 14, 2009). Perfectly fluent in Spanish, he is assisted by two Guatemalan linguists, Juliana Sis’Iboy and Juventino Perez, from the OKMA Centre (Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’), who specialize in documenting Mayan languages.

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February 2009: Pictures from the first shooting in Gabon

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January 25, 2009: Sorosoro’s first shooting!

Lights, Camera, Action! On January 25, Rozenn Milin, the director of “Sorosoro, so that the languages of the world may prosper!” launched the first phase of her program which is to collect audiovisual documents in order to constitute a Digital Encyclopedia of Languages.

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