International Jazz Day 2022, program -Sortiraparis.com

A call for peace and unity in the world

International Jazz Day online. April 30, 2022.  Great live-streaming concert

(H Hancock, M. Miller, Y. Sun Nah etc.)  List at All-Star Global Concert

Jazz carries a universal message with the power to strengthen dialogue,

  our understanding of each other, and our mutual respect. As the world

  is affected by multiple crises and conflicts this international day highlights

  how much music and culture can contribute to peace.”

UNESCO A Azoulay, Dir.-Gen  

Free at unesco.orgjazzday.com From France 23h or Australia 9am AEST May 1           

UNESCO’s website, YouTubeFacebookjazzday.com, UN’s online TV channels.

International Women’s Day 08/03

100Words from Women Writers                     					                                 


  Don’t ever think that just because you do things differently, you’re wrong.
                              Gail Tsukiyama
 
              The most common way people give up their power is 
                    by thinking they don’t have any.
                              Alice Walker 

         I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else’s life.
                             Martha Gellhorn

      Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
                        Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

           It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there,
                   that tells us who we really are.
                            Joyce Carol Oates               

Happy World Radio Day

BILINGUE: Anglais et Francais 13 February/13 Février

        UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye  A young boy in Ethiopia takes lessons
        via the radio, which are being broadcast across the country.
Happy World Radio Day

One morning in 1969 in Zambia I entered my classroom at the remote
Mwinilunga High School which had no television or electricity, with a 
two-band battery radio so that my students would hear the momentous 
moon landing. The BBC crackle  was bad. I switched over to a French-
speaking station.  The radio announcer’s voice came through the static.  
I could just hear the French version of the astronaut’s words and 
translated for my students: 
    ‘One small footstep for man and a giant footstep for humanity’.
The class cheered, not at my translation, but because Neil Armstrong 
walked on the Moon. 

Bonne Journée de la Radio

Un jour en 1969 en Zambie, je suis rentrée dans ma classe à Mwinilunga 
High School, école secondaire isolée ou il n’y avait ni télévision ni
électricité. Je tenais à la main ma radio pour faire écouter à mes étudiantes 
l’atterrissage sur la lune. Puisque la  BBC faisait trop de craquements, 
j’avais changé pour écouter une station en Français. Ayant réussi à entendre 
la voix d’un commentateur malgré la statique, j’ai pu écouter la version 
française des mots de l’astronaute et je les ai traduits pour mes étudiantes:
 
   ‘One small footstep for man and a giant footstep for humanity’. 
La classe a applaudi pas ma traduction mais le fait que Neil Armstrong avait marché sur la Lune.

                                                     

International Drabble

O 22, here we come!
Instead of Happy New Year in your language, and because I learnt 
the word for ‘Good’ in many languages, I will try a way of wishing different people in Europe: French, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Irish, Polish, Russian; East Africa Swahili; Australia Wongatha, Ngarluma, Kaurna; PNG Tok Pisin, Motu; and Asia Bahasa Malay to have a Good 2022!
Bon 2022, Bra 2022, Hyvä 2022, Buono 2022, Bueno 2022, Kalos 2022,
Go maith 2022, Dobry 2022, Horosho 2022; Nzuri 2022; Palya 2022,
Marni 2022, Waba 2022; Gutpela 2022, 2022 Namo; Baik 2022.
[Comments are welcome]