መልካም አዲስ አመት!
Melkam addis amat!
Happy New Year!
For the expression below, Lulit wrote that "this is something we say for the new year," but I'm not sure how it translates exactly. Maybe something like "Welcome to the New Year!"
እንቁጣጣሽ እንኳን ደህና መጣሽ!
EnquTaTash inkwan dehna meTash!
I tried the first greeting a couple of times today when Suzanne, Anemo, and I went back to Oakland, and I think I was understood. We drove back to Eastshore Park and found the Ethiopian hut (gojo bayt) completed and an art exhibit installed inside. According to the gallery notes, each piece displayed was inspired by a story of an Ethiopian or Eritrean taxi driver.
"We believe taxi drivers represent not just East African immigrant stories, but the immigrant story more broadly: stories of displacement and reimagining, the personal acts of creation and re-creation that every human does with the questions of where you came from and where you're going."
Another clever use of Amharic letters (ፀያሐአ), with the third letter on its side. |
Anemo looks through a View-Master in the exhibit. |
Suzanne looks through a different View-Master. |
We saw a lot of art today, and we even ran into Wosene Worke Kosrof and his wife at Studio Grand, where a big new year's event is being held from 6 PM to midnight.
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We stayed for some of the spoke word acts, but obviously could not last until the wee hours of Friday morning. |
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Google image Eden Hagos to see her other CD cover (the one I chose not to paste here). |
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Elias Negash, whose last name means "will be king," in his music studio. |
Below is a clip of Elias playing the intro and the A section once. |
Not exactly music to groove to, but there must be a reason why this is such a popular New Year's song (at least for a certain generation). Maybe the lyrics will provide the answer, if I can find them. Meanwhile, I am learning this and a few other songs on my keyboard.
So that's all for New Year's Day, also known as the 1st of Meskerem (መስከረም) in the Ethiopian Calendar. I also learned today that each Ethiopian year is dedicated to one of the four evangelists, in the order Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. So we've just made the transition from ዘመነ ማርቆስ (period Markos) to ዘመነ ሉቃስ (period Lukas). How about that. (Oh, and due to a different reckoning of the Annunciation by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian year is now 2007.)
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Happy 2007! You can see the name Lukas (ሉቃስ) written in the yellow font. |
Anemo modeling an Ethiopian scarf on Oakland's Grand Avenue. |
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Our unorthodox meal of sushi and miso soup on Ethiopian New Year. |
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