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Speak for Yourself!

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Please join us on Feb. 11, 2012, 6:00 -7:30PM @ the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston, NYC) for an evening of music, dance, poetry, food and drink in support of endangered languages at home and abroad! We will be presenting some of our recent work and updating everyone on what’s to come.     [...]

Language film @ the Margaret Mead Film Festival

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Please join us at the Margaret Mead Film Festival on Nov 12 to watch a great new film on Jesse Littledoe’s (MacArthur grant winning) work on the revitalization of the Wampanoag language. Hope to see you all there! We Still Live Here (Âs Natayuneân) Anne Makepeace 2010 · 56 min · United States Filmmaker in [...]

Summer 2011 Organizational Meeting!

Monday, May 30th, 2011

INVITATION SUMMER ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING You are invited to ELA’s second annual Summer meeting Learn about our summer projects and how you can get involved! All languages welcome! Spread culture! Tell your story! Saturday, June 4th, 2011 3:00-5:00 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker) New York City http://www.bowerypoetry.com

Language documentation and description workshop

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Since February 3rd, Daniel Kaufman has been leading a workshop on language documentation and description at the Cuny Graduate Center every Thursday from 5-7pm. This workshop is free and open to the public, although Daniel’s particular fondness for any of the following should not be taken personally: i) anyone with an interest in linguistics and [...]

Happy New Year!

Monday, January 10th, 2011

Dear friends of ELA, First of all, allow us to wish all of you the Happiest of Gregorian (not to mention Julian) New Years! We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your continued support as well as to give all of you a very brief summary of what we [...]

Second town meeting

Monday, June 21st, 2010

The second town meeting of the ELA was held successfully last Saturday at the Bowery Poetry Club. The transactions are briefly summarized here for those who were unable to make it. We discussed the broader goals of the language survey portion of our summer project and several groups spoke about their experiences searching out languages [...]

Next Town Meeting

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Please join us for our next Town Meeting! Same place, same time (different day) – The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston) Saturday June 19th, 2:00-3:30 PM We will be discussing survey progress and Phase II, the language documentation phase!

Town Meeting a success

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Many thanks to all of you who made the first town meeting a success! We are now well on our way to organizing for the language survey. More details and materials from the meeting can be found here.

Town Hall Meeting

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Invitation Endangered Language Alliance First Town Meeting Learn more about the Alliance and New York’s endangered languages Find a place in one of our new documentation projects! Saturday, June 5th, 2010 2:00-3:30 PM at the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker) New York CIty http://www.bowerypoetry.com