United Nations: Sam Green's Esperanto

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Date:

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Time:

8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Event Type:

Screening

Organizer/Author:

Craig Baldwin

Location Details:

ATA Gallery

Our good man Sam Green returns to San Francisco with the world premiere of his half-hr. cine-essay on Esperanto, a ‘world language’ designed to be spoken by all the planet’s peoples, and whose remaining adherents afford an inspiring face of utopianism. After Green’s in-person intro, we look at two other internationalist pieces: Peter Miller’s "L’Internationale," a fascinating—and moving—history of this famous “people’s anthem,” and Philip Stapp’s artful animation Picture in Your Mind, an epic allegory on the human potential for war and peace.

NOTE: BOOK POTLATCH! Bring in your used books to trade with others!!

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§Esperanto and the United Nations

by Brian Barker

Mon, Sep 26, 2011 2:06PM

Many ignorant people describe Esperanto as "failed" - other ignorant people say that if human beings were meant to fly, God would have given them wings. Esperanto is neither artificial nor a failure however. As the British Government now employs Esperanto translators it has ceased to be a hobby. More recently this international language was used to address the United Nations in Bonn. During a short period of 124 years Esperanto is now in the top 100 languages, out of 6,800 worldwide. It is the 22nd most used language in Wikipedia, ahead of Danish and Arabic. It is a language choice of Google, Skype, Firefox, Ubuntu and Facebook. Native Esperanto speakers, (people who have used the language from birth), include World Chess Champion Susan Polger, Ulrich Brandenberg the new German Ambassador to and Nobel Laureate Daniel Bovet. Financier George Soros learnt Esperanto as a child. Esperanto is a living language - see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 Their new online course http://www.lernu.net has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. That can't be bad :)

For more information: http://www.lernu.net

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