Gatherings

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

North America Edit

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)^[1]
San Francisco, on 10–17 January 2024 (11 participants)
Chicago, scheduled 14–17 June 2024 (upcoming)^[2]

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)

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

↑ kalama sin. (19 February 2024). "Episode #31: tenpo kulupu pi ma Sisi, tan jan Peton tan jan ale kulupu" (in Toki Pona). RedCircle. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
↑ jan Tepo [@tbodt]. (13 February 2024). [Message posted in the #ijo-sin channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 20 February 2024.