<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">Dear friends and colleagues:<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">The UN has adopted 2019 as the
World Year of Indigenous Languages, and I’d like to do whatever I can to
support this resolution. <span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">I’m the founder of the Endangered Alphabets
Project, a nonprofit organization I created to support endangered, minority and
indigenous cultures by preserving their writing systems. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">To this end, I’ve spent the last nine years making
hand-carved artwork involving sayings, proverbs, spiritual texts, and
individual words and letters; exhibiting this artwork and speaking on the
importance of cultural preservation; and partnering with revival organizations
to create and publish educational materials and games in endangered alphabets.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">To the point: <b>My hope is to set up exhibitions and talks in the United States in
January-May, Australia and New Zealand in July-August, and Europe in
September-October 2019.</b><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">If you’re interested in what an
exhibition and/or appearance might involve, please check out <a href="http://visits.endangeredalphabets.com/" target="_blank">http://visits.<wbr>endangeredalphabets.com/</a>.
You can also see me talking about one of the Alphabets carvings at <a href="https://vimeo.com/240496339?ref=em-share" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">https://<span class="m_6404762116097814999gmail-il">vimeo</span>.com/240496339?<wbr>ref=em-share</span></a>.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">I’ve taken the <span style="color:black">Endangered Alphabets to the Smithsonian Institution, Yale,
Harvard, Cambridge University, and other colleges, universities, galleries, museums
and libraries throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. They have also
been a feature of conferences on endangered languages in Canada, the United
States, and the United Kingdom.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">I hope 2019 will be a watershed year in the way
people all over the world think of indigenous peoples and their rights to their
own cultures and languages. I’m right there with Article 13 of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">“Indigenous peoples have the right to
revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories,
languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and
to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.” <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">Please don’t hesitate to contact me with
questions and suggestions.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><span style="color:black">All the best,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">Tim Brookes<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">Founder, the Endangered Alphabets
Project<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">A federal 501c3 non-profit
corporation<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro""><a href="http://www.endangeredalphabets.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.endangeredalphabets.com</a><span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro"">P.S. I’m sorry if this message appears in your Inbox from
more than one source!<span></span></p>





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