One World Festival 2025

Bringing together communities and faiths of Oxfordshire

We are delighted to collaborate with the University of Oxford Ashmolean Museum – the holder of one of the richest collections of art, archaeology, and ancient world artefacts.

Photo courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum

Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Abstract: Set amongst breathtaking scribal artefacts, this multiscriptal and multilingual event explores the past through the ancient art of calligraphy, and languages. After introducing to scripts of the Eastern and Western civilisations, visitors will be invited to write their chosen words in multiple languages and beautiful calligraphies. Date: 23 February, 2025 Time: 11 am-4 pm GMT Venue: Reading and Writing Gallery | The Hans and Märit Rausing Gallery | Ashmolean Museum

Programme

(an incomplete list)| Introduction: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity, Dr Thea Gomelauri Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ) Language/Scripts Aramaic (ארמית) Language/Scripts Armenian (հայերեն) Language/Script Georgian (ქართული) Language/Mkhedruli (Ⴋხედრული) Script Georgian (ႵႠႰႧႳႪႨ) Language/Asomtavruli (ႠႱႭႫႧႠႥႰႳႪႨ) Script Georgian (ⴕⴀⴐⴇⴓⴊⴈ) Language/Nuskhuri (ⴌⴓⴑⴞⴓⴐⴈ) Script Hebrew (עִבְרִית) Language/Scripts/Micrography Marathi (मराठी) Language/Devanagari Script Punjabi Language/Gurmukhi (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) Script Slavonic (Славянский) Languages/Kirilitsa (Кириллица) Script Syriac (ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) Language/Scripts

ALL Welcome

The Reading and Writing Gallery depicts the ancient scribing civilizations and their artefacts. This multilingual educational workshop explores the past through multiple ancient languages, scripts, and calligraphy. Participants will be introduced to various Eastern and Western alphabets, including Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Syriac, etc. The visitors can write sacred words, their names, and/or other phrases in multiple ancient scripts. The event offers everyone the first-hand scribal art experience, and promotes awareness about the diversity of our planet seeking beauty in every community, their languages, scripts, and cultures.