You can read below about our activities and our projects.
If you are interested in helping out with any of these initiatives, don’t hesitate to reach out via email or whatsapp!
Activities
Workshops
We offer workshops of various kind: Southern Quechua workshop, bookmaking or zine-making workshop, Wikimedia editathons, etc. Our workshops can be online or in-person in New York, Paris, Lima or Cusco and access to these is donation-based. For more information: 🔗
Quechua classes
We teach Southern Quechua courses online and in-person in Lima, New York and Paris. Our courses start every four months and include grammar, listening and speaking classes, group projects (c.f. Student projects), office hours and more. We focus on the Southern Quechua langages spoken in Bolivia and the South of Peru and work with native speakers different variants such as Ayacucho, Cusco, Cochabamba and Puno. For more information: 🔗
Digital library
We compile a digital library documenting Indigenous language books and zines and helping others browse resources in a specific Indigenous language. For more information: 🔗
Film library
We compile a film library (filmoteca) documenting Indigenous languages and helping others browse movies in a specific Indigenous language. For more information: 🔗
Bookmaking
We encourage literary creation in Indigenous languages through bookmaking and zine-making workshops and by compiling zines ourselves (see Ayllu Zine). For more information: 🔗
Board games
We design indigenous language board games to help promote the language between indigenous language speakers, non indigenous languages, young kids, teenagers and adults. We play these games in class and in various workshops and quwichats and improve them along the way. Featured Indigenous languages include: southern quechua, aymara, mapudungun, inuktitut, nahuatl and more. For more information: 🔗
Gatherings
We organise various informal gatherings in Paris, Lima and New York (bookclub, meetups, picnics, game night, language exchange…). Our informal gatherings focusing on quechua language exchanges are called quwi chats. For more information: 🔗
Resources
We compile the various resources created throughout our activities (workshop recordings, presentation slides, hands on tutorials, board games, and more) into an online platform for others to access. For more information: 🔗
Projects
HIGA Alumni
We help organise HIGA Alumni. Since 2011, HIGA gathers 75+ speakers from all around the world virtually and in-person in Vitoria Gasteiz (Basque Country). During one week, they meet, attend talks, roundtables and workshops, they collaborate in projects, share knowledge and ideas, and together build bridges between their communities. HIGA Alumni are the online editions happening on even years. For more information: 🔗
Student projects
We encourage all of our quechua students of all levels – from beginner to advanced – to explore their relationship with quechua and their interest in a specific element of the quechua language and culture through a project of their choice. We compile these projects into an online archive and a printable zine (Ayllu Zine). For more information: 🔗
Kichariy
We co-organise along with the organisation Yupaychay (yupaychay.org) a secondary school exchange programme between Quechua speakers in Peru and Spanish speakers in France. Through language learning and the co-construction of a Wikimedia project, the students connect and broaden their horizons while learning to value their own culture. For more information: 🔗
MOOC Quechua
We co-created with INALCO University (inalco.fr) the first Quechua MOOC – a free open online course to learn the basics of the Quechua language in the course of three weeks. We designed the course to offer a novel teaching method combining oral speaking homework and culturally relevant material, as well as a variant inclusive approach involving native speakers of the Ayacucho, Cusco, Puno, and Bolivian variants. For more information: 🔗
Ayllu Zine
We coordinate the edition and publication of Students Projects into a collaborative zine showcasing the work of students from various cohorts. For more information: 🔗 TBD