United Nations World Humanitarian Day
Animation piece for United Nations to raise awareness around World Humanitarian Day. N9ve hand crafted this 30 second cell animation in PhotoShop and used Maya for designing the objects based around liquid as they morph into trans-created languages of different...Don’t kill your language
More and more, English is a global language; speaking it is perceived as a sign of being modern. But — what do we lose when we leave behind our mother tongues? Suzanne Talhouk makes an impassioned case to love your own language, and to cherish what it can express that no other language can. In Arabic with subtitles. (Filmed at TEDxBeirut.)
Say hello in 40 different languages!
Nearly 7,000 languages are spoken in the world. Some languages have many millions of speakers wheras some have fewer than ten! Here we teach you how to say hello in forty languages from around the world! Reproduced...Liz Lochhead reading ‘The man in the comic strip’ in Bethlehem
Liz Lochhead reads her poem ‘the man in the comic strip’ in the Lajee Centre, the arts and community centre in Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem. This video was recorded during our 4 day stay in Aida in June 2012 as part of a tour of the West Bank. The upcoming...Read more“As a deep expression of the human mind and as a universal art, poetry is a tool for dialogue and rapprochement. The dissemination of poetry helps to promote dialogue among cultures and understanding between peoples because it gives access to the authentic expression of a language.”
– Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
