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New issue of “das goethe”
Generations

The new issue of “das goethe” focuses on the topic of “generations”, on the occasion of the Kultursymposium Weimar.
Festival | Until Friday, June 18, 2021 | Online
Revisions: Decoding Technical Bias

Join City Lights, the Goethe-Institut, and Gray Area for Revisions, a festival exploring how technological bias shapes our cultural realities.

This week's events:

June 16: Understanding AI Data Bias (Workshop)
June 17: BYOW Workshop: Build your own words to resist algorithmic censorship
June 18: Meme tactics Workshops
© Stefanie Sixt

Posthumanism
At the threshold to a new era

Ethical, social and political questions arising in a new era.
© Pro-ject Filmproduktion im Filmverlag der Autoren

Film series online
Signs of Resistance

With documentaries from four decades, the film series Signs of Resistance presents 14 films about civil society engagement, protest and emancipation movements, culture of remembrance, migration and environmental issues.
Illustration: Maria Tran Larsen © Goethe-Institut

German Literature
Onleihe

The Onleihe is Goethe-Institut’s digital library (eLibrary). More than 23,000 German language eBooks, audio books, movies, materials for German language learners, magazines and newspapers are available for downloading from the Onleihe.

German Language

Timeline: Text that became a movement
There Are Black People in the Future

There Are Black People in the Future © Alisha Wormsley Alisha Wormsley’s "There are Black People in the Future" is inspired by afro-futurist artists and writers who highlight the need for Black people to claim their place.

German Series in Canada
"Bauhaus - A New Era"

Key art from the series “Bauhaus - A New Era“: Anna Maria Mühe as Dörte Helm and August Diehl as Walter Gropius in front of a abstract spiral vortex painting. ©obs/ZDF, Foto: Mathias Bothor How should the story of this laboratory for new art and architecture be told in the Bauhaus centenary year? Director Lars Kraume chose to portray it as a battle of the sexes. In our interview he explains why he found this aspect in particular so fascinating.

Popcast
in June

Photo: Markus Spiske at Unsplash The latest music from Germany - every month in our Popcast. This time with Der Plan, Haiyti, Skee Mask and others.

Projects

Media Art
Image & Bias

Illustration: Goethe-Institut San Francisco The Goethe-Institut, Gray Area, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and Artivive are launching an open call for artists, designers, and the general public to submit creative representations on the subject of bias.

Project
Shaping the Past

How does the past take shape? What happens in the process of coming to terms with the past? What social repercussions are associated with the rooting of history in monuments and memorials? How can those narratives be shifted or upended through alternative, innovative approaches to memorialization?