Gatherings

This is a list of gatherings, meetups, and conventions with Toki Pona.

North America

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Toki Pona splash courses)
  • 2002 by Jacob Schwartz
  • 2003 by Jacob Schwartz
  • 2004 by Jacob Schwartz
  • 2006 by Jacob Schwartz
  • 2007 by Jacob Schwartz
  • 2008 by Leonid Chindelevitch
  • 2009 by Leonid Chindelevitch
  • 2012 by Chelsea Voss
• Stanford University (Toki Pona splash courses)
  • 2010 by Seth Schoen (1 participant)
  • 2011 by Seth Schoen (3 participants)
• Yale University (splash course about conlangs including Toki Pona)
  • 2014 by Samuel Brenner (12 participants)
• Princeton University (Toki Pona splash courses)
  • 2018 by Holden Lee (20 participants)
  • 2019 by Holden Lee (23 participants)
• Meetup in Dallas, Texas, on 23 November 2019 (~11 participants, including Sonja Lang)
  • Short documentary filmed during the meetup
• Montreal, on 2022, during the 107th World Esperanto Congress (5 participants)
• Pittsburgh, on 19–24 May 2023 (10 participants)
• Washington, D.C., on 9–12 June 2023 (16 participants, including Sonja Lang)
• San Francisco, on 10–17 January 2024 (11 participants)
• Chicago, scheduled 14–17 June 2024 (upcoming)

Europe

2022 meetup in Vienna

2023 meetup in Maastricht

2024 meetup in Berlin

• International Youth Congress (IJK 2006) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegoniva
• Summer Esperanto Study (SES)
  • 2013 in Martin, Slovakia (Toki Pona course)
• TokiPonathon (Actual Fluency) in London, 2014 (17 participants tried to learn Toki Pona in 48 hours)
  • Article on The Guardian
• kama kulupu Etoso in 2015 (9 participants from 5 countries met in the Czech Republic to enjoy studying and using the Toki Pona language together)
  • Video lecture about Czech history
• Workshop in Poland on 28 October 2018
• LingvaFest (polyglot festival in Bratislava, Slovakia; Toki Pona splash courses)
  • 2018 (PDF) by Václav Zouzalík
  • 2019 (PDF) by Václav Zouzalík
• Utrecht, Netherlands, scheduled 24 February
• Yearly meetups in Europe
  • Vienna, around 2 August 2022 (13 participants)
  • Maastricht, Netherlands, around 29 July 2023 (23 participants)
  • Berlin, around 19–21 July 2024 (upcoming)

Asia

• Singapore, hang-out session with jan Sonja during winter of 2022/23 (8 participants)