July 2016 - European Language and Cultural Events

1 July

First World War Centenary – Battle of the Somme

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, Northern France

1-3 July

22nd Anglophoner Tag 
Chartered Institute of Linguists’ 
German Society 
Düsseldorf, Germany
Theme: Reaching your Audience

2 July

2016 Big Dance Festival

Trafalgar Square

London, UK

2-3 July 11am-9pm (each day)

Tafwyl Fair

Cardiff’s Welsh Language, Arts and Culture Festival

Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales

2 July-2 October

David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life

Exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts,

London, UK

4-6 July

SFT Court/Legal Translation and Interpreting Course

University of Lille 3

Lille, France

5 July 6-9pm

From scratch to success: Business stories

French Chamber of Great Britain

Ciné Lumière, French Institute

London, UK

5-10 July

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Hampton Court Palace

Surrey, UK

6-8 July

UETF16 
SFT’s Summer School for Financial Translators 

(in French/English) 
Paris, France

7 July opening

Beyond the Lab: The DIY Science Revolution

Science Museum

London, UK

9 July

City Lit Deaf Day 2016
City Lit, London, UK
Find out more about deaf education, BSL, etc

9 July 10.30am-3.30pm

Languages: MK – Free Language Event

The Open University

Milton Keynes

UK

9 July 12-6pm

Eid Festival

Trafalgar Square

London
UK

9 July

Hermeto Pascoal at Barbican

Brazilian composer and bandleader

Barbican

London

UK

11-15 July

International Terminology Summer School

Vienna
Austria

11-15 July

Translate in the City

City University, London, UK 

11-15 July

AIIC Spanish Judicial System for Interpreters 

(in Spanish)
Madrid, Spain

11-16 July

AIIC French Language and Culture Workshop

(in French)
Paris, France

11-22 July

AIIC– Portuguese C-Language Refresher Course for Interpreters

University of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

13 July

Brexit: Legal & Constitutional Requirements

UCL, Beveridge Hal, Senate House, Malet Street

London, UK

14 July

BP Big Screen of the Royal Opera’s Il Trovatore

Venues: London’s Trafalgar Square, Aberdeen, Portsmouth, Southend, Warwick University, Leeds, Bristol, Bradford, Plymouth, Hammersmith, Canary Wharf, Waltham Forest, Woolwich

15-17 July

Bristol Harbour Festival

Bristol, UK

15 July-6 November

Colour and Vision – Through the Eyes of Nature

Natural History Museum
London, UK

15 July

Our Lives in Data

Science Museum

London, UK

16 July

LRG Kenwood House guided tour

London Regional Group, ITI, 

London, UK

16 July

7th AIIC Workshop on Interpreters for Interpreters

(in German)
Berlin, Germany

17 July
ITI Western Regional Group
Family Bike Ride
Bristol to Bath, UK

23 July 2-3pm

Summer Exhibition Tour in BSL 

(British Sign Language)

Royal Academy of Arts

London, UK

23 July

European Conference of Science Journalists
Manchester Central, Manchester, UK

23-30 July

5^th AIIC Workshop on Spanish Language and Culture

For active Conference Interpreters
Barcelona, Spain

25 July-20 August

Italian course for B2-C1 Interpreters and Translators

AIIC Course
Malcesine, Italy

25-31 July

World Youth Day 2016 

Krakow, Poland

27-29 July

AIIC Upgrade Course: 
Interpreting into English as a B Language

Tallinn, Estonia

28 July 9-11am

Summer Exhibition 2016 

Tour for Mobility Impaired Visitors

Royal Academy of Arts

London, UK

31 July-6 August

World Shakespeare Congress 2016

Stratford-upon-Avon and London, UK
Theme: Creating and recreating Shakespeare 
on 400th Anniversary of his death

NB: Inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement of any conference, event or third party by Anglicity Ltd. This list is for information purposes only. All details should be checked on the organisers' websites, as they may be subject to change.

European Language and Cultural Events - May 2016

2016

23-28 May

LREC 2016

Portorož, Slovenia, 
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Twitter: @LREC2016 #LREC2016

24-25 May

NordicTechKomm 2016

Theme: Intelligent Information, First Hotel Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Twitter: @tekom_Europe #nord_tk #tekom #techcomm

25 May 5.30-8.30pm

A Practical Introduction to MemoQ, ITI London Regional Group/UCL, London, UK

26-28 May

Transint2016

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting, 
University of Trieste, Italy

Theme: Convergence, Contact, Interaction
Twitter: #transint2016

26-28 May

Law, Language and Communication: negotiating cultural, jurisdictionaland disciplinary boundaries,

4^th International Conference of CRILL (Centre for Research in Language and Law), Naples, Italy

26-28 May

8^th International Conference on Youth Language 2016,
University of Graz, Austria

27 May

Conference on Better Regulation and EU Lawmaking - includes role of language and linguistic diversity in topics, 
Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands

30 May-1 June

EAMT 2016, 

19^th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 

Riga, Latvia
Twitter: @EAMT2016 #EAMT2016

30 May-10 June

NIDA School of Translation Studies (NSTS) 2016, Italy

NB: Inclusion in this list does not constitute endorsement of any conference, event or third party by Anglicity Ltd. This list is for information purposes only. All details should be checked on the organisers' websites, as they may be subject to change.

London’s Days of Poland Festival

Glorious sunshine greeted the Days of Poland Festival in London on 1^st May. The event was staged at Potters Fields Park between Tower Bridge and City Hall, home of London’s Mayor.

View of the crowds at Days of Poland from Tower Bridge

The Polish festival is an annual event to celebrate Polish culture in the UK. It was like a large family picnic with Polish food and entertainment. There didn’t appear to be anything nationalistic about the event at all.

Large family picnic at Days of Poland Festival, London

There is a large Polish community living, working and bringing up their children in London. The festival was an opportunity for Polish families to share their culture with their children and the rest of London.

Polish mother and son admire the biscuits on a stall

Everyone seemed welcome. I heard and saw many other nationalities joining in – especially Italians.

The food queues were already very long when I arrived. I decided to wait. Big mistake. The queues got longer every time that I passed. The Polish sausages and pierogi (Polish dumplings) were extremely popular with the crowds.

Polish folk dancing, music and singing took place on the stage. I managed to get a good view of some of the dancing while they were rehearsing. There were also many activities for children. The face painting was some of the most artistic that I have ever seen.

Large crowds watched the Polish folk dancing on stage

There were also lots of market stalls – from Polish builders to bakers. The event seemed to have lots of sponsors and was organised by a Polish public relations company.

Photo opportunity with one of the sponsors

I very much hope that the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, maintains all London’s multicultural events. It’s great to share our cultures in this way.

Large crowd at City Hall for Days of Poland Festival

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ITI Bulletin on Revisions

The ITI Bulletin is the journal of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. The May/June 2016 issue of the ITI Bulletin has gone full-colour. As a marketer, I am a great believer in pictures and text working together. I am therefore delighted to have an article in this first full-colour issue. 

You can find the article on pages 14 and 15 of the printed journal or as a pdf on the Publications page of my website. The article is entitled  Revision collision.

Eastern European Conference

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my co-author, Angie Taylor. I first met Angie not in the UK or even in France, but at the BP15 Conference in Croatia. We had a great time together at the friendliest conference that I have ever attended. We got to know each other better during the sight-seeing tours. We enjoyed visiting Zagreb and the Plitviče Lakes, as well as Lake Bled and Ljubljana in Slovenia. Such beautiful cities and countryside. Highly recommended.

ITI LRG Workshop

The article idea sprang out of an ITI workshop. The London Regional Group invited experienced EU revisers to run the session. There were differing opinions and much debate during the workshop. Our aim was to gather constructive viewpoints from different sides of the profession in the follow-up article.

Thanks

I would particularly like to thank my two contributors. Françoise Bajon and Lindsay Bywood. Angie collated the two freelancers’ viewpoints for the articles.

Françoise was very gracious with her time as we discussed the article on Skype and in a WebEx meeting. We succeeded despite a few technical hitches.

It was a little easier with Lindsay. It turned out that she lives surprisingly close to me in Harrow. The time she spent away from her PhD for this article is much appreciated.

Last but not least, I would like to thank the ITI Bulletin’s editor, Femke Colbourne.

Happy reading!