For the return of the historic People's Poetry Gathering, ELA teams up with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance for an afternoon of multilingual song and poetry celebrating NYC at Poets House in lower Manhattan
At a minimum, several hundred members of different Kiranti communities now live in the New York City area, including those coming from India (e.g. Darjeeling, Sikkim) and Bhutan (as “Nepali” refugees).
With ten current larger-scale projects and additional work on individual languages, ELA focuses on communities and individuals in the New York City area.
ELA has worked to different degrees on numerous projects with speakers of over a hundred languages spoken in New York City and beyond. More in-depth work continues on the several dozen featured here.
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For the return of the historic People’s Poetry Gathering, ELA teams up with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance for an afternoon of multilingual song and poetry celebrating NYC at Poets House in lower Manhattan. Hosted by ELA co-director Ross Perlin, featuring Kuranko bard Kewulay Kamara, Tibetan poet Tsering Gyaltso and longtime ELA collaborator…
This Friday August 7 at 6 pm Eastern time, learn about the music of the Indigenous Ajuuyk (Mixe) bands of Mexico, with a presentation from Fabián Muenala and music from Pat Boy, as part of the 6th Annual Week of Indigenous Peoples hosted by the Concejo de Pueblos Originarios de Nueva York. (Mostly in Spanish and Mixe) Next Wednesday…
