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Apr 21, 2025, 12:01:03 PMApr 21

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toki, ale o! We’re in the second half of April!
This newsletter now has a permanent home page and RSS feed!

Some community-wide news:

suno pi toki pona, our yearly celebration and 24-hour livestream, is in roughly 4 months! You can now sign up to join it as a performer or helper.
jan Sonja has announced the Sitelen Pona Publishers and Typographers Association. Its purpose is to collaborate with Unicode and UCSUR on standardised representation of sitelen pona.
ma pona wrapped up submissions for its art contest and has opened a voting form. The vote closes on April 23rd, which is very soon!

Toki Pona folks continue making original content:

jan Usawi made a new original song, “mi lon tomo”!
aks Ejan made a new artistic sitelen pona font! (aks Ejan is also a producer for the recently released “ENA: Dream BBQ”, and jan Tepo appears in the game credits! We’ll wait and see what that means.)
jan Ke Tami has made three videos recently! Both for tokiponists interested in German and Germans interested in Toki Pona.
jan Ali wrote a short poem about supernovas!
ko Apo made a short skit about tomo tawa!

And more translations are with us as always:

tonsi tenpi translated the song “Phantom Island”!
I (kala Asi) celebrated 4/13 by translating the song “Leviathan the Girl”!
Another Sonic song translation from akesi Kilo — You Can Do Anything!
Several more songs have been translated and performed with Vocaloids / UTAU: “Mischievous Function”, “Daily Heaven and Hell”, and “Igaku”.
jan Mosutu translated a French get-rich-quick skit! Seems like the original is a real German ad, but it was poorly translated into French, which turned it into a bit of a meme.

And, of course, some weekly events you can take part in:

As usual, the VRChat community holds its weekend meetups, which you are welcome to join!
jan Lakuse hosts luka pona lessons in kama sona every Sunday!
jan Ke Tami hosts a weekly voice chat meetup for jan Eta’s lipu tenpo reading group. Both beginners and proficient speakers are welcome!
The next Tenpo Pana presentation / hangout is on April 27th on ma pona, come join!