By Brian Robert Best | Project Collaborator
The 5th of October marked the 1-Year Anniversay of the Shipibo-Konibo radio program Axenon Ikanwe (We Learn Together)! It has been a wonderful year full of amazing achievements.
In August, all members of the program, Mesta Jisbe (Ketty), Inin Yoi (Janis), and Ranin Koshi (Jeiser), participated in a week-long training for Intercultural Translators and Interpreters sponsored by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. They are all now official translators and interpreters for the Shipibo-Konibo language!
At the end of August we held a two-day workshop focused on the creating a plan for revising the Shipibo-Konibo dictionary with the Linguist Carolina Rodríguez Alzza, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She also taught the us all how to use the software Toobox, a program designed for field linguists by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. We ultimately settled on using the readily accessible program Excel to begin digitizing the whole dictionary. We are working from a pdf document of scans from the original dictionary that was published in 1993. Once it is all in an editable text format we will begin the revison work.
Axenon Ikanwe also co-published their first book of Shipibo-Konibo poetry titled Jene Nete: World of Water. This book includes 30 poems written in Shipibo-Konibo with Spanish and English translations, along with original artwork by US/Japanese artist Mike Saijo. Jene Nete is the first of a four part series that explores the 4-world cosmovision of the Shipibo-Konibo.
Later in September Axenon Ikanwe was also recognized and celebrated for opening dialouges about domestic and gender violence -and providing spaces for their discussion- by the NGO Movimiento Manuela Ramos. That was a wonderful honor for the team as it provided afirmation of the importance of the subjects their program addresses. Using the Shipibo-Konibo language to promote the Shipibo-Konibo culture is the overall goal of the program and it has been very successful over the first year.
We are greatful to all the support we have received and look forward to another year on the radio waves! If you would like to tune in you can find us here: Monday - Friday 8pm-9pm Peruvian Time.
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