50 years Goethe-Institut Glasgow
History
Impressions of our celebrations and past work
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Reception on 25.10.23: Thomas Deleuze, Director Alliance Française in Glasgow; Stéphane Foin, Interim Director & Deputy Cultural Counsellor, French Embassy to the UK & Attaché for Co-operation in Education; Hanna Dede, Director Goethe-Institut Glasgow; Stéphane Pailler, Consul General of France in Edinburgh and Director of the Institut français d’Écosse; Hélène Duchêne, Ambassador of France to the UK; Miguel Berger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK; Rainer Pollack, Executive director and member of the board of Goethe-Institut; Dr Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte, Director of the Goethe-Institut London and the institutes in Northwestern Europe; Christiane Hullmann, Consul General of Germany in Edinburgh
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Reception on 25.10.23: Hanna Dede, Director Goethe-Institut Glasgow; Hélène Duchêne, Ambassador of France to the UK; Miguel Berger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK and Thomas Deleuze, Director Alliance Française in Glasgow presenting two poems of our poetry trail
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Reception on 25.10.23: Andreas G. Wolff, BBC Correspondent and Videojournalist; Angus Robertson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture; Christiane Hullmann, Consul General of Germany in Edinburgh
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Reception on 25.10.23: Bailie Paul McCabe, Glasgow City Council in conversation
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Reception on 25.10.23: Syed Zahid Raza, Consul General of Pakistan in Glasgow; Miguel Berger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK in conversation; Raymond MacDonald, saxophonist and composer is visible in the background
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Reception on 25.10.23: Cutting of the cake are Hanna Dede, Director Goethe-Institut Glasgow; Miguel Berger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UK; Angus Robertson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture; Hélène Duchêne, Ambassador of France to the UK; Thomas Deleuze, Director Alliance Française in Glasgow
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Reception on 25.10.23: The evening ended with a Scottish ceilidh
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As part of our poetry trail newly commissioned work from some of the most exciting poets in Scotland, France and Germany is exhibited in our building and gardens.
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Festival on 28.10.23: Participants in Elisabeth Schilling's Moved by Materials dance workshop
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Festival on 28.10.23: Jessica Paris's durational performance creates reflecting pools to see ourselves looking back at our selves
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Festival on 28.10.23: Participants during the German Language Adventure - a motivational game
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Festival on 28.10.23: Crafting workshop for children with artist Elspeth Chapman
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Festival on 28.10.23: Live drawing with German comic artist Reinhard Kleist; musically accompanied by Scottish saxophonist and composer Raymond MacDonald
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Festival on 28.10.23: Dancer Kemono L. Riot creating a good atmosphere during his dance workshop
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Festival on 28.10.23: Author Mithu Sanyal (online) in discussion with British journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy and Hanna Dede, Director of the Goethe-Institut Glasgow
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Festival on 28.10.23: BWA: A choreography for two performers and a flexiply strip, by Esyllt Lewis, left, and Emma Lewis-Jones
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Festival on 28.10.23: Ray Aggs' concert got the audience dancing
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2-3 Park Circus, outside view and inside the reading room, early 70s
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2-3 Park Circus, outside view and inside the new welcome room, 2023
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Glasgow 1990 / Official Opening of Garnethill Park, a Scottish-German Project
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German Language Adventure, 2013
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Exhibition 'Umdenken', 2016
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Opening ceremony of the installation 'Fungal Datascape', 2021
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Immersive art installation ‘Fungal Datascapes: A Sporous Commons of Mushrooms and Climate’; part of the Goethe Institute’s supra-regional project 'Weather Glass or Crystal Ball? Mapping the Weather in Arts and Science'.
It was a great honour to celebrate these very special anniversaries – 50 years of the Goethe-Institut in Glasgow and 40 years of the Alliance Française – together with my French colleague Hélène Duchêne. This festive gathering was a celebration of friendship, language, culture and exchange.
