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Posts tagged with theme Language
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How Storytelling HealsA Selection of Staff Picks at the Mother Tongue Film FestivalStorytelling provides the vital opportunity to understand elements of our history we most deeply resonate with.
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Animating the Mother Tongue: An Indigenous Language PlaylistStrengthening distinct Indigenous identity is the central theme of this playlist, directed toward a younger audience.
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What Is a Mother Tongue Film?Language is a lens that allows us to make sense of and interpret the world.
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Summer of Peace, Love, and Yiddish Song: The Legacy of New York’s Camp BoiberikCamp Boiberik was the first Yiddish secular summer camp in America.
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Traveling with Language, Through Language: Easter in the Griko and Greko Communities of Southern ItalyEaster time is a vibrant period in the two Greek-speaking communities of southern Italy.
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A Kurdish Immigrant Finds His Voice through PuppetsAyhan Hulagu performs Karagöz, the 700-year-old art of Anatolian shadow puppetry.
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Winter Ends with a Bonfire: Culture and Community in North FrisiaEvery February 21, on the eve of feast of the Chair of St. Peter, people light huge bonfires called biikebrennen.
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Mother Tongue Film Festival Celebrates Cultural and Linguistic DiversityThe four-day festival runs February 20 to 23.
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Folklife Director Honored with International Prize for the Promotion of Catalan CultureThe award ceremony was held at the National Auditorium of Andorra, in Ordino.
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New Film Festival in Paris Celebrates Indigenous LanguagesFilms d’auteur/Langues ancestrales takes place in Paris, France, November 28–December 1, 2019.
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