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Talk: Endangered Alphabets and the Future of Writing
In 2009, writer/guitarist/soccer coach Tim Brookes discovered that many of the world’s minority alphabets were being driven out of existence, so he decided to try to save them - by teaching himself to carve and preserving them in beautiful woods.
Within four years he had created the Endangered Alphabets Project; within ten years he had exhibited his carvings and spoken about the crisis of script loss all over the world; by 2021 he had identified every form of writing in use across the globe and had promoted more than 100 minority cultures through revitalizing their unique and fascinating forms of writing.
In the process he has radically redefined writing itself and discovered how much is at stake today as digital tools and AI threaten the extinction of the art of writing by hand. His talk will encompass all these phases of his work, illustrated by his remarkable carved art.
Within four years he had created the Endangered Alphabets Project; within ten years he had exhibited his carvings and spoken about the crisis of script loss all over the world; by 2021 he had identified every form of writing in use across the globe and had promoted more than 100 minority cultures through revitalizing their unique and fascinating forms of writing.
In the process he has radically redefined writing itself and discovered how much is at stake today as digital tools and AI threaten the extinction of the art of writing by hand. His talk will encompass all these phases of his work, illustrated by his remarkable carved art.
Wednesday 16 September
Royston Museum, 5 Lower King Street, Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 5AL
7:15pm - 8:30pm£6 per person
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