📰 sin: typography, skits, and having a home.

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!

o awen pona.
— kala Asi