🗓 Events
Here's a look at just some of the events 👫 that took place around the 🌍 globe and online for 🎉 World Emoji Day. Are you hosting an event (digital or physical) for World Emoji Day? Let us know!
What happening for World Emoji Day 2023:
💙 Art That Feeds — Conscious Alliance Partnership
As part of World Emoji Day 2023, Emojipedia and Zedge are contributing to those in need by partnering with Conscious Alliance, a United States-based nonprofit hunger relief organization that unifies bands, brands, artists, and fans to collectively support communities in crisis.
What happened for World Emoji Day 2022:
🎨 New Emojis In 2022-2023
A Shaking Face, two pushing hands, and a plain Pink Heart. These are just some of the emojis that are up for approval this September. Ahead of World Emoji Day, Emojipedia has created sample designs for each candidate emoji. While some might not make the cut, most presented for approval are historically confirmed. Read more.
👥 Microsoft Teams' 3D Fluent Emojis
Ahead of World Emoji Day 2022, Emojipedia now includes the 3D Fluent emoji designs found within Microsoft Teams. Originally previewed just prior to World Emoji Day 2021, the 3D Fluent set has an additional striking feature: over 800 are animated. Read more.
📈 Global Emoji Use Reaches New Heights
One week out from World Emoji Day 2022, Emojipedia revealed that global emoji use on Twitter has experienced another record-breaking global increase. Read more.
🟢 WhatsApp Emoji Reactions to support entire Emoji Keyboard, Emojipedia helps settle Emoji Reaction debates
WhatsApp have announced that they will be expanding their Emoji Reactions feature, and asked Emojipedia to provide expertise on hotly debated emoji reactions. Read more.
🌐 Spanish, French, Portuguese, German & Italian now supported on Emojipedia
Five days out from World Emoji Day 2022, Emojipedia are rolled out support for five global languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. Read more.
📺 Emojis Across The World: World Emoji Day 2022
As part of our ninth annual World Emoji Day, Emojipedia will be debuting a series of interview-focused videos exploring emojis from several different angles: the Emojis Across The World video series.
The topics that will be addressed are as follows:
🌎🌍🌏 The Global Emoji Experience: Expressions, Identities & Cultures in our Emoji Keyboards
🤔📚🎓 Emoji University: the growing academic research on emojis as a communication method
💡📋📲 Making An Emoji: the Emoji proposal process
💀🧢🚩 Emojis, Slang, Memes: Rapport, Repurposing & Virality
These videos, the first of which will debut on Emojipedia's YouTube channel in the lead up to World Emoji Day 2022, will feature contributions from a variety of emoji experts and afficinados from across the globe. You can see our full list of contributors here.
Other Events:
Emoji2022 — International Workshop on Emoji Understanding & Applications in Social Media
🗓 July 14
Events from years prior:
2021
Making Faces (and Other Emoji)
A World Emoji Day workshop for graphic designers and illustrators designed to give “a taste of emoji design”, exploring their origins, how they work, and even designing your very own set.🗓 Saturday, July 17
2020
Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival
For 2020 this annual Australian film festival will feature an online screening of ‘Picture Character’, an emoji documentary taking “a glimpse into the hilarious world of emoji”.
🗓 Friday, July 17Codecademy: World Emoji Day Celebration
A live demo and Q&A with Theo B. Weidmann for the launch of a new ‘Emojicode’ course.
🗓 Friday, July 17The Star Online - Emoji Drawing Competition
Malaysian news outlet The Star Online is holding an emoji-themed drawing competition, and is asking younger readers “If you could create your own special emoji, what would it look like?” Scroll to the bottom of this post for details.
🗓 Competition now closed
2019
Here’s a look back at some of the World Emoji Day events from 2019:
Writing: Making Your Mark
🎟 Exhibition open now until August 27, 2019
🗓 Special events on #WorldEmojiDay
📍 British Library, London
Summer Splash in the Square
🎟 Family summer fun (with Emoji plushes and temporary tattoos for the first 100 visitors).
🗓 Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 11am – 4pm
📍 Cleveland Foundation Centennial Plaza, Cleveland, Ohio
Fuse Beads Crafts
🎟 Make your favourites! Fuse bead emoji keychains (or magnets) craft session.
🗓 Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 11:30am - 1pm
📍 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2018
Some of the World Emoji Day events from 2018:
Emojiland - 'The Textistential new Musical'
🎟 Premieres on World Emoji Day 2018
🗓 Various showtimes: July 17 through July 22, 2018
📍 Acorn Theatre, New Yor
World Emoji Day Experience
🗓 July 17, 2018 (12PM- 3:00PM)
📍 Christchurch Airport, New Zealand
World Emoji Day Celebration
🗓 July 17, 2018 (11AM - 4:30PM)
📍 Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Georgia
World Emoji Day Slime Time
🗓 July 17, 2018 (2PM)
📍Hagen Ranch Road Library, West Palm Beach, Florida
ParkLives Giant Emojis
🗓 July 17 - 22, 2018 (Various times)
📍Swansea, UK
130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art
🎟 Featuring the original emoji set from Japan
📍 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia