Quebec Esperanto Society

The Annual General Meeting of the Quebec Esperanto Society has bee on Saturday the 26th of September 2009, at the restaurant Le Commensal (1720 St Denis, Metro Berri, Montreal) . The Annual Meeting begans at 7pm.

The Quebec Esperanto Society now has a group on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7934930994

Other Facebook Esperanto groups :
Esperanto (more than 3700 members) : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204470288
Esperanto-Canada : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22661961390
Esperanto-Montreal : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4016534771

Normand Fleury, president of the Canadian Esperanto Association was recently interviewed by Géraldine Zaccardelli, journalist at La Godasse (the Urban Internet Radio of Montreal). The 16-minutes long interview is available here (in french). Big thanks to both Géraldine and Normand !

The 7th PanAmerican Esperanto Congress (T.A.K.E.) has bee in Montreal, from July 11 to 18, 2008.

The theme of the congress was 'Ecosystems, Languages, Cultures : Diversity for Sustainable Development in the Americas'. More information is available on the T.A.K.E. website : http://www.take7.ca

In many countries, year-end celebrations are coming, and, again this year, more than one million children in Canada and across the planet will write to Santa Claus. In Canada, most children write to Santa Claus in English, French or one of the twenty five other languages spoken by Santa Claus and his elves.

Since 2002, Esperanto is among the languages used by Santa Claus. The Quebec Esperanto Society invites esperanto-speaking children to discover this Christmas tradition by writting a handwritten letter to the following address (please indicate clearly the word ESPERANTO in your letter) :

AVO FROSTO
NORDA POLUSO
HOH OHO
KANADO - CANADA

This program, which aims at promoting literacy, is made possible by Canada Post's hard working elves.

On September 2009, a new executive was elected for the Quebec Esperanto Society (QES). The executivve for the upcoming 2-years mandate is :

Normand Fleury
President

Suzanne Roy
Vice-president

Pierre Pouliot-Lavoie
Treasurer

Sylvain Auclair
Secretary

Martin Benoît
Advisor

The Quebec Esperanto Society took part in the Quebec Social Forum, from the 23rd to the 26th of August 2007. The Social Forum was a success with more than 5000 participants from all province and elsewhere, and esperanto supporters had the opportunity to have their voice heard, among other things with the workshop "What language(s) for the alternative glozalization movement?", as well as with an information table on the 24th and 25th of august, in collaboration with the group Esperanto-UQAM. The Quebec Esperanto Society was also part of the festive demonstration in the streets of Montreal on Sunday the 26th, and then distributed hundreds of flyers. The group Esperanto-UQAM set up a website, to stimulate discussion surrounding democracy and fairness in international communication, including within the alternative glozalization movement.

The Quebec Esperanto Society will participate in the Montreal chapter of the World Earth Festival. The QES will have an information table, as part of the section "culture and heritage" on June 19th (2pm to 8pm), 23rd (11am to 8pm) and 24th (10am to 5pm).

The main location for the Festival will be in the Georges-O'reilly Park, in the boroughs of LaSalle and Verdun. For more information about the event (in French only) please visit the website : http://www.festivaldelaterre.ca.

One can listen to the hymn of the festival in Esperanto on the international website of the Earth Festival : http://www.festivaldelaterre.org.

The website of the Quebec Esperanto Society has recently been revamped, with the help of the open source CMS Drupal. From a user's perspective, the main changes are :

• Regularly updated New contents page : What's new
• It is now possible to pay/renew membership to the QES by credit card or PayPal account
• It is also possible to make online donations (credit card, PayPal account)
• More friendly interface, easier to move from one page to another and one language to another

Note that we welcome all suggestions and comments.