Since 2000, every 21 st February is observed by countries as International Mother Language Day. It is a day for every child – youth – adult to remember his/her own mother language as also linguistic heritage of all others around, everywhere.

The Embassy and the collaborators invite you to please join for a creative (virtual) celebration of multi-lingualism and multi-culturism
on 21 February 2021, Sunday
11.00 to 12.15 pm (CET)
4.00 to 5.15 pm (BD time)

with

Hon. Jan van Zanen, Mayor of The Hague
H E M Riaz Hamidullah, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Netherlands
Ms. Kathleen Ferrier, Chair, Netherlands UNESCO Commission
Ms. Sneška Quaedvlieg–Mihailovic, Secretary General, Europa Nostra
and
celebration of our linguistic diversity with
recitation by Poet Laureates from Europe and Bangladesh in
Arabic, Bangla, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

The event will be streamed on Embassy's FB page https://www.facebook.com/bangladeshembassyTheHague