Sunday, 26 July 2026 Esperanto House (143 Lawson Street, Redfern) and Revolve Art Gallery (138 Little Eveleigh St, Redfern) – connected internally Esperanto Day is a worldwide observance, which celebrates the publication of the first book in the Esperanto language (26 July 1887). Esperanto Day is a day of linguistic justice, and therefore of just and fair relations among ethnic groups, cultures, and peoples. Program 10:00 AM – Opening Ceremony Free tea and coffee available 11:00 AM – Presentation: “Esperanto Day” Exploring the significance of International Esperanto Day, the history of the language, and its role in promoting international friendship, […]
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Sydney Language Festival 2026
Saturday, 7 February 2026, 11am–4pm State Library of NSW (Dixson Room – enter via Shakespeare Place) FREE Sydney Language Festival 2013, Macquarie University The Sydney Language Festival celebrates language diversity and provides an opportunity for people to come together and learn a variety of languages, and have fun. Languages will include: – Aboriginal Australian languages – Chokri (Nagaland, India) – Hebrew – Irish – Peranakan (creole dialect of the Malay language) – Pijin, Bislama, Tok Pisin (Pacific English-based creole languages) – Serbian and Croatian – Torwali (Indo-Iranian language, northern Pakistan) – Udmurt (Uralic language, eastern Europe) – Esperanto (international constructed […]
Annual report 2024–25
The Esperanto Federation of New South Wales exists to educate the public about, and raise awareness of, the international auxiliary language Esperanto, by providing suitable classes and club facilities in New South Wales, by providing suitable online services and by cooperating with other clubs and organisations. President’s report Presented at the Annual General Meeting 6 September 2025 Management board At the Annual General Meeting on 7 September 2024, three new board members were elected: Kyung-Mi (Joanne) Cho, Gregory Cooper and Mark Rodowicz. The existing board members (Jonathan Cooper, Dmitry Lushnikov, Nicole Else, Alan Turvey and Terence Manley) were re-elected. From […]
Surabaya-Sydney Language Festival, 2025
The Surabaya-Sydney Language Festival will celebrate language diversity and present brief introductions to a wide variety of languages. Entry is FREE. Ten languages will be presented: Arabic, Balinese, Chorki (Nagaland, India), Esperanto, Kalasha (North-west Pakistan), Korean, Pitjantjatjara (Australian Indigenous), Melayu/Malay (Malaysia), Madurese (Java, Indonesia) and Tobanese (North Sumatra, Indonesia). When: Saturday, 28 June 2025, 12 noon – 5 pm Where: Online, via Zoom – register on Meetup. Program (Click program to view as PDF)
President’s report 2024
Presented at the Annual General Meeting 7 September 2024 Membership From the beginning of July 2023, we welcomed 17 new members: Monika Agarwal, Gwen Chan, Eszter Coombs, Elsa Cooper, Rory Coverdale, Karim De-Lancel, Minh Thong Do (Tom), Dominic England, John Grant, Amy Hong, Melody (Errol) Hooper, David Ludeke, Jack McMahon, Imogen Marosz, Chunliang Mu, Steve Ripley and Nicole Stevens. Five members from 2023 didn’t renew. Current number of members: 40 Esperanto courses Two courses for members were organised. Although they were held at Esperanto House (and students were encouraged to attend in person), there was always the option of participating […]
President’s report 2023
Presented at the Annual General Meeting, 3 September 2023 Buildings The most significant event in the 2022–23 financial year was the departure in February of our long-time tenant, Hugh Ramage, who had rented the Little Eveleigh Street building as a studio and gallery for over 27 years. Initially, a co-operative of artists (including Hugh’s daughter, Stella) expressed an interest in taking over the lease. However, it turned out that they would only be able to afford to pay $2,000 per month (Hugh had been paying $2,754.00 until the end of 2022, and we had increased the rent to $3,720 before […]
The AGM 2022
On Saturday, 10 September 2022, 12 members of the Federation participated in the annual general meeting (AGM) – five at Esperanto House, and seven via Zoom (including Terry Manley from Armidale and Rainer Kurz from Germany). Jonathan started the meeting with an “acknowledgment of country”. After we approved the minutes of the last AGM (12 September 2021), Jonathan read the president’s report aloud. (See below.) Next, Dmitry read aloud a summary of the treasurer’s report for the 2021–22 financial year: The monetary value of the entire property of the Federation on June 30, 2022 was $1,900,119.83 (however, this is based […]
A new way to have meetings: virtually
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the rules of social distancing, regular meetings of Esperanto clubs have had to stop. Instead, a new form has been set up: the virtual meeting – most often via the video group chat system, Zoom. While the older Skype system works like a telephone conversation (one person calls others, who already must be connected to the caller), Zoom works in a way like a traditional meeting place: Anyone with the link and password is allowed to enter. [1] In addition, Skype is free for conversations with no time limits, and theoretically no limit on […]
Letter from Bjelovar Esperantist Society
On Sunday, 1 March 2020, during the monthly meeting of Esperanto NSW, we had a special guest from Croatia: Damir Matašin, the great grand-nephew of John Matasin, whose hard work and generosity enabled the purchase of Esperanto House in the 1960s. Damir brought with him gifts, including a beautiful book on the history of the Esperanto movement in Bjelovar, Croatia, written by Josip Pleadin. On the blank first page of the book was pasted a letter from the president of Bjelovar Esperantist Society, to Esperanto NSW. The text, translated into English: BJELOVAR ESPERANTIST DRUŠTVO BJELOVARIAN EXPERANTIST SOCIETY 43000 BJELOVAR, Vlatka […]
President’s Report 2018
For the period 13 November 2017 – 7 October 2018 Presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Esperanto Federation of NSW, 7 October 2018, by the president, Jonathan Cooper Governance At the 2017 Annual General Meeting, Jonathan Cooper was elected as both president and interim treasurer. At the December 2017 board meeting, Dmitry Lushnikov agreed to become treasurer if he could get support from Jonathan Cooper and Alan Turvey. This was consented to and Dmitry was duly appointed treasurer. Events During the 328 days since the last Annual General Meeting, 101 advertised Federation events were held at Esperanto House: […]