The Intersection
Description: Speaking Place focuses on documenting and reviving endangered languages, addressing a worldwide trend that has reached crisis proportions. We work closely with communities to train local partners in the use of innovative, media-based language and activity documentation methods.
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Banner Image above: (from left to right): Totontepec, Southern Mexico: Linguist Margarita Melania in a video feedback session with Ana; Oaxaca, Mexico: MariaElena, video instructor, presents her own work to trainees in the TAVICO community self-documentation workshop; TAVICO trainees filming a musical performance in Oaxaca; New Brunswick, Canada: Ben and Julia documenting natural conversation in Maliseet with speakers Imelda and Raymond.
In February 2020 Speaking Place sponsored this language-forward mural, designed and created by the Blaseños, an artist and filmmaking collective based in San Blas Atempa, in the Isthmus of Oaxaca State, in Southern Mexico. The idea for the mural, with its message: “I speak Zapotec”, arose after a Speaking Place video feedback public event in the town.
The Intersection