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Mehtap Baydu at the Kulturakademie Tarabya“A grotesque mirror-image of digital communication”

(27 May 2020)
Mehtap Baydu is currently a resident at the Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul. In an interview with “The Latest” at Goethe, she tells us how the coronavirus pandemic impacts her residency and how her fictional character “Osman” is experiencing the crisis.
Design (Detail): Gogolfest
“Lorenz.io (Romeo Meetz Yulija)”Romeo meets Juliet, Dortmund meets Mariupol

(22 May 2020)
“Lorenz.io (Romeo Meetz Yulija)” with 20 actors from Ukraine and Germany celebrated its premiere online. The youth theatre project demonstrated that theatre productions can also be put on during the coronavirus pandemic.
Illustration: Marcia Mihotich
Generation A=AlgorithmusCouch Lessons

(20 May 2020)
A series of in-depth lectures and conversations about Artificial Intelligence. A project of the Goethe-Institut. Sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

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Outline of a head. Inside the head many colourful segments with English writing in them like Togetherness, Solidarity, Social Distancing.

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On a Post-Corona-Time
Day-Afterthoughts

What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole? Here are some responses from intellectuals and artists around the world with regard to our present predicament and what lies in store for us afterwards.

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Illustration: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

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#Ersatzprogramm

Bored at home? Check out our free offers for children and young people, which you can easily access from your own couch. Play, listen, read, and test your knowledge!

Latitude - Rethinking Power Relations

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Rethinking power relations
Latitude

The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

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#oekoropa: Europe-wide youth competition on sustainable travel

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Environmentally Friendly Across Europe? Of Course!

The digital youth competition #oekoropa makes travel even in these times possible – first conceptually, later for real. Students and teachers from all EU member states are invited to participate.

Drawn picture; 2 people sit next to each other, inbetween them plays a radio

Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

Time to Listen

In the current situation that has forced many people around the globe to stay at home, the project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories – told by storytellers from all genres of art, from all over the world.

Kenya: Digo girl with mango. The ethnic and linguistic population of the Digos lives near the Indian Ocean and is native to Kwale County in southern Kenya and Tanga in northern Tanzania.

Photo (detail): W. Dolder © picture alliance / blickwinkel

Sunflower

Theresa June Lovegate is returned. Ten years after she was taken away to a strange family. On social stratification and class differences in post-colonial Kenya. Also available as audio.

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