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21 February 2024 - The Permanent Delegation of the Philippines to UNESCO participated in the 2024 UNESCO celebration of International Mother Language Day (IMLD) hosted by the Permanent Delegation of Bangladesh to UNESCO. Pursuant to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 56/262 adopted in 2002, the celebration calls upon Member States and the United Nations Secretariat to contribute to the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world. The Philippines shared books and videos to introduce baybáyin - the ancient and traditional scripts of indigenous Filipinos - to guests and counterparts in order to convey baybáyin’s unique history and recent revival in social media and its popularity among the younger generation of Filipinos. Visitors at the Philippine booth, which included Ambassadors and Permanent Delegates, UNESCO officials and personnel, were invited to practice writing their names in baybáyin, and they in turn shared with the Philippine delegation how their own systems of writing resembled or differed from the Philippines’ baybáyin. Apart from being the focus of this year's Philippine celebration of International Mother Language Day, the Philippines is also working towards inscribing baybáyin documents in the UNESCO Memory of the World (MOW) International Register. END

    

04 December 2023, Paris – The Philippine Embassy, in partnership with the 17th district of Paris and Pinoy Jam Paris (PJP), started the Yuletide celebration with a free Christmas concert. 
Dubbed “A Christmas Full of Hope,” the concert brought together members of the Filipino community and French nationals who were treated to Filipino, English and French Christmas carols.
The Ambassador, addressing the non-Filipinos in the audience, likened their presence to “kinship and the privilege of belonging to an extended Filipino family which is the true essence of the Christmas spirit we bring to Paris, offering you a taste of our festive celebrations back home.”

The representative of Mayor Geoffroy Boulard, Mr Jean-Didier Berthault, Advisor in charge of European and international affairs and relations with metropolitan unions, welcomed the partnership with the Embassy and PJP, and expressed interest in deepening his knowledge of the Philippines and its culture.
The show was fully booked, with over  200 members of the audience enthralled by choral and solo performances which culminated with an original composition  entitled  “Pasko na, C'est Noel” by PJP members Angelica Shane Reyes and Joseph Michael Torrijos.

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The Ambassador also donated a copy of the book to the Mairie du 17eme arrondissement as a reference on Philippines-France bilateral relations.

  

For more details on Pinoy Jam Paris, please visit the following:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/pinoyjamparis 
Instagram: pinoyjamparis 
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