Month: January 2015

MOTHER TONGUES: ENDANGERED LANGUAGES IN NEW YORK CITY AND BEYOND ELA in collaboration with City Lore and Bowery Arts + Science presents Mother Tongues: Endangered Languages in NYC and Beyond, an exhibit from Jan 29 – April 16, 2015 at: the City Lore gallery. The exhibit features new photography by Yuri Marder, Bob Holman‘s Khonsay video w/mural by… Continue reading Mother Tongues: Endangered Languages in NYC and Beyond

Please come to a special free event in honor of our new PBS documentary  Language Matters with Bob Holman a film by David Grubin. Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC, 1 Bowling Green The event will feature poets, performers, excerpts from the film, a Q&A… Continue reading Language Matters event tonight!

“LANGUAGE MATTERS WITH BOB HOLMAN” TO AIR ON PBS JANUARY 25th, 2015 at 12:30 PM in NYC where will meanings be when the words are forgotten – WS Merwin New York—There are over 6,000 languages remaining in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of… Continue reading Language Matters with Bob Holman