A week to share projects for the language.
A few of the participants and their projects
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December Rose
Singer/Songwriter and vocal coach now content creator who's found her voice on social media bringing awareness to Italian immigrant struggles through humor, and showcasing the Sicilian language.
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Ignazio Corrao
Lawyer and independent Europarlimentarian in the environmentalist group. A proud Sicilian, he’s fighting for the dignity of the Sicilian language.
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U Sicilianu Ô Cinema
A podcast to learn Sicilian with films.
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Lia Gentile
Siculo-Canadian, Lia teaches Sicilian and promotes Sicilian culture on her YouTube channel, Big Mama Siciliana.
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Arba Sicula
Based in the United States, Arba Sicula has been promoting the Sicilian language and culture for 44 years through events, trips, books, and the only magazine published in Sicilian. Together with their publishing house, Legas, they produce many resources for studying the language.
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Cademia Siciliana
A non-profit organization founded in 2016 by a group of academics, activists, researchers, and students of the Sicilian language that aims to promote the research, education, and activism in the Sicilian language, about the Sicilian language, and for the Sicilian language.
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L'Accademia della Lingua Siciliana
An organization made up of experts and passionate volunteers with the goad of preserving and perpetuating the Sicilian language.
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Comu Veni Si Cunta
A podcast in Hyblean Sicilian by Ilaria Cassibba, who also has an account on Instagram where she speaks and teaches Sicilian @sikelia_lang
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Trinacria
An activist organization for Sicilian rights. They created the Sicilian language podcast, Faiḍḍa, and currently make the video news program, Faiḍḍa 2.0, entirely in Sicilian on Facebook and Instagram.
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Nino Barone
Writer, poet, editor, actor, and promotor of the Sicilian language.
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Roberto Villino
Content creator who wrote the first primer book in Sicilian.
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Sicilian with Nick
A 100% Sicilian YouTube channel from a Sicilian-American who studies and teaches the language. He will publish a comedic play in Sicilian.
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Napizia.com
Prof Eryk Wdowiak will release a new edition of his artificial intelligence Sicilian translator.
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Kademia du Krivu
An organization that promotes the study and writing of the Sicilian language. This year they will publish a collection of folk sayings written in their own writing system.
The Complete List
People and organizations that are participating with us
Accademia della Lingua Siciliana
Kademia du Krivu - they’re going to share a collection of popular wisdom in Sicilian and English
Mary Ann Manzella - author of the first book written in standard Sicilian, “Lu jornu ca lu Milinazzu chiancìu”
Davide Liotta - Associazione culturale ARB, Messina
Nini Barone - Writer, poet, editor, actor, and promotor of the Sicilian language
U Sicilianu Ô Cinema
Comu Veni Si Cunta
Eryk Wdowiak - Economics Professior Eryk Wdowiak, will release a new edition of his artificial intelligence Sicilian translator.
Salvatore Longhitano - Sicilian language translator and modertator of r/sicilianu, he’ll publish a collection of poetry and an original comedy
Giancarlo Antonucci - mathematics researcher, going to publish a digital Sicilian dictionary
Roberto Villino - writer and content creator
Steve Campo - Sicilian lessons at the Italian Cultural Museum in Independence, Louisiana
Fonso Genchi - president of Accademia della Lingua Siciliana
Sicilian Americans Learning Sicilian page on Facebook
r/sicilianu on Reddit.com
The Wandering Sicilian - 60 SeCunti video shorts
Rosario Mendola - Amateur research for Sicilian dialects on Facebook
Patrick Pregiato - Cademia Siciliana, expert in Messina dialect
Nick Panzarella - from the Sicilian with Nick YouTube channel, he’ll publish an original comedy and host a livestream on YouTube