Fw: Language exhibitions in Australia

[Peter Austin]

We did an exhibition in London three years ago called "Endangered Voices" - see http://www.hrelp.org/events/endangeredvoices/ It consisted of a series of thematic panels and a full wall map of endangered languages, and was done in collaboration with a sound artist, John Wynne, who had a parallel exhibition of his creative work called "Hearing Voices". We produced a CD-ROM in connection with the exhibition.

Peter

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From: Eleonora Deak <wmlinguist at kisser.net.au>
To: Resource Network For Linguistic Diversit <Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity at unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:26:24 +0800
Subject: Fw: Language exhibitions in Australia

Language exhibitions in Australia


From: Adriano 
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 9:15 AM
To: Chris Patterson ; Sue Hanson ; Sally Dixon ; Eleonora Deak ; DAC Coordinator ; Maree Klesch ; 'Jeanie Bell' ; Lorraine Injie ; Barbara McGillivray ; KJ Olawsky ; Vicki Butters 
Subject: Language exhibitions in Australia 


Good morning All, 

I hope this email finds you well.

We're about to open a travelling regional exhibition at the local WA Museum called Nganhungu Wangga - Our Languages. 

It will focus on the speakers from several languages in the Mid West region of WA and their journeys through life in varying situations that did/did not allow them to continue their way of living and communicating. The exhibition mainly attempts to encourage the audience to understand the actions of dominant society of the  past and present, and the impact on identity and human rights.

Is anyone aware of any language focused exhibitions in the past? Or is anyone working on anything? 

Many thanks, 


Adriano
  
Eleonora Deak ~ Linguist
Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre
PO Box 2736
Sth Hedland WA, 6722
ph: (08) 9172 2344       fax: (08) 9172 2355
www.wangkamaya.org.au

Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Academic Program
PhD convenor
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

web: http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa