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  • Invisible Inventories_RJM © Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

    Rautenstrauch-Joest-MuseumInvisible Inventories

    25th May - 29th August 2021

    Through contemporary artworks and academic research, the artists and scholars involved in the exhibition project approach the question of how to make objects—which currently reside in institutions within the global North—present again in contemporary Kenya.

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    Thursday, 29th July 2021 // 8pm - 9pm Lesung: Daughters by Lucy Fricke

    The Spiegel bestseller about friendship, fathers and life at forty. 

  • Amka July 2021 © Goethe-Institut

    Saturday, 31st July 2021 // 10am - 1pm AMKA Literature Forum

    This is a forum for upcoming writers and literary critics to share and discuss stories, poems and current literature trends with the aim of enhancing their creativity. 
     

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    TrainingGetvico24

    GETVICO24 is a virtual conference for teachers of German that will take you around the world within 24 hours.

    This year GETVICO24 will take place from 20 to 21 October 2021. If you would like to contribute with a 20-minute presentation, please submit your abstracts via the open call for abstracts!

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    FestivalJiji ni Ya Who?

    Jiji ni ya Who? is adapted from the successful ‘Nai ni Who?’ (Who is Nairobi?) project initiated by the GoDown Arts Centre to explore urban identity and space and celebrate Nairobi and its neighbourboods. 

    5 – 31 July 2021

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Frankly ... Berlin
 Pop feminism: greetings from the other side of self-empowerment​

Do Beyoncé and Netflix feminism really liberate us? And if so, who is this “we”? Our Berlin columnist Margarita Tsomou has written a feminist manifesto in the seclusion of the lockdown. Because everything is closed outside, she takes us into her world of thoughts today

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Exploring Visual Cultures – A Transnational Project
Decolonisation of Art Education?

Teacher training in art education at German universities is faced with a dilemma: Instruction is seldom diverse and rarely influenced by non-European perspectives. An interview with the project manager of “Exploring Visual Cultures” Professor Ernst Wagner, Academy of Fine Arts Munich. 

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What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

The symbolic shedding of culture was commonplace. When Pope Pius XI organized his exposition, boxes upon boxes were shipped to Rome. The content of these boxes were objects, together with comprehensive notes on their attendant histories and how they had been acquired.

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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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Invisible Inventories

Through contemporary artworks and academic research, the artists and scholars involved in the exhibition project approach the question of how to make objects—which currently reside in institutions within the global North—present again in contemporary Kenya.

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Sustainability in Kenya

The Goethe-Institut Kenya explores the current state of environmentalism in Kenya. 
 

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