Festival visitors were invited to share their language stories and post them on a world map in the Family Activities tent. Responses ranged from phrases to trivia to family and personal histories.
Photo by Allen Carroll
Visitors read language stories posted in the Family Activities tent. Visitors were invited to post their own stories and memories on a world map, directly involving themselves with the One World, Many Voices program.
Photo by Allen Carroll
Children color in words in endangered alphabets in the Family Activities tent.
Photo by Francisco X. Guerra, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
A volunteer demonstrates the endangered alphabet stamps to a young visitor.
Photo by Francisco X. Guerra, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
Young visitors learn about endangered alphabets through arts and crafts activities.
Photo by Jennifer Graham, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
A volunteer shows a young visitor the endangered language stamps available in the Family Activities tent.
Photo by Maggie Pelta-Pauls, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project displays his carvings of endangered alphabets. The Endangered Alphabets Project is the first to bring attention to the fact that nearly a third of the world’s remaining alphabets are disappearing.
Photo by Willa Friedman, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project works on a wood carving to document and bring attention to the world’s disappearing writing systems.
Photo by Willa Friedman, Ralph Rinzler Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
