Kuando empeso
El konkurso nasio tres anyos atras kuando un partisipante en Ladinokomunita observo ke se estavan eskriviendo munchas ovras (piesas) en la lingua, ama no egzistia dinguna forma ofisiala a rekonoserlas.
De esta manera se formo un chiko ekipo de personas ke servirian de organizadores i djuezes i ke ivan a arrekojer i evaluar los kuentos de forma mas ofsiala.
When it started
The contest was born three years ago when a member of Ladinokomunita observed that many works were being written in the language, but there was no official way of recognizing these efforts.
In this way a small team of people came together to act as coordinators and judges that would collect and evaluate written work in a more official fashion.
El buto
Definimos komo buto el adelantamiento de la lingua ladina i su prezervasion, i desidimos ke el konkurso serviria para dar a todos, tanto a los nativos komo a los elevos, una oportunidad para eskrivir de kualker sujeto kon tal de ke se eskriva en el djudeoespanyol.
The goal
We defined as our goal the promotion of the language and its preservation, and we decided that the contest would serve to give everyone, native speakers and students, an opportunity to write on any subject, as long as they were writing in Judeo-Spanish.
Komo evolusiono
Empesimos muy simple, kon un grupo de partisipantes i sin dinguna kondision ni restriksion para partisipar. Ama kada anyo refinimos, definiendo mijor los grupos de partisipasion para azer ke la evaluasion sea mas djusta, anunsiando el konkurso en mas lugares i redes sosialas para pujar la partisipasion, akonsejando mijor a los partisipantes i kolavorando kon mas jurnales i revistas para dar mas vizibilidad al konkurso i sus ganadores.
How it´s evolved
We started off simply, with one group of participation and without any conditions or restrictions. But each year we refined, better defining the group to make judging more fair, advertising the contest in more places and more social media networks to increase participation, giving more guidance to participants and partnering with more journals and publications to give more visibility to the contest and its winners.
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Contest Coordinator
Aaron Shapiro
Aaron Shapiro nasido i engrandesido en Maryland, Estados Unidos. Aaron siempre fue amante del arte i la istoria. El kumplio sus estudios universitarios en Washington University en St. Louis, MO i mas tadre moro i lavoro en varios lugares i paises, inkluyendo Espanya, Meksiko, Chile i varias sivdades en los Estados Unidos. Aaron tiene lavorado en konsultoria, marketing i media durante su vida profesionala i siempre tuvo un amor profundo para la istoria i la kultura djudia.
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