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  • A MUSEUM (THEATRE) IN SRI LANKA

    Hamlet-MachineA MUSEUM (THEATRE) IN SRI LANKA

    The Museum (theatre) opens its doors from Friday July the 1st to Sunday July the 3rd at the Kandy City Center. This participative installation offers the opportunity to stage oneself in a political and poetical self-portrait, to experiment a creative process, to create a micro-fiction. 

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    Digital LibraryBibToGo

    BibToGo is the Goethe-Institut library app and your personal library account. It provides all services of our library at your fingertips, anytime and anywhere. Download BibToGo now to your mobile device and carry our entire library in your pocket. Just search for BibToGo on Google Play / App Store.

  • IDO 2022 © Goethe-Institut

    Join the Contest!HAMBURG LOOKS FORWARD TO HOSTING YOU!

    At the International German Olympics (#IDO2022), students from over 50 countries will meet in Hamburg. Participants will learn together, expand their knowledge and compete with each other in language learning competitions.

  • The Sound Room Sessions - Archiv Page © Goethe-Institut

    Sound Room Sessions on Demand

    Nine live-streamed concerts from the Sound Room at Musicmatters available on demand: with Manji Koombanjis, The Soul, Dinelka Liyanage, Owl Tree-O, Serendib Sorcerers, Orange Mango, Tri-Ohana, Amila Sandurawan and Swara Sahithyanadan.  

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    Music from the fringes of Sri Lanka Thattu Pattu

    Like knocking stones together to spark a flame, “Thattu Pattu” derives its meaning from two loan words between Sinhala and Tamil — the languages predominantly spoken in Sri Lanka. Thattu Pattu intends to spark a renewed interest in music from the fringes of Sri Lanka.

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    Become a StudentDigital Kinderuni

    The German Children’s Online University (Kinderuni) is a free educational platform of the Goethe-Institut for children aged 8 to 12. It helps children to find answers to questions about the phenomena of the world, and enables children to learn and play in the German language.

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The International Deutscholympiade, the world’s biggest contest for German language learners, is gathering steam again.

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Word! The Language Column
May I Say “Du” to You?

To say “Sie” or to say “du” – sometimes, that’s the question. Hasnain Kazim thinks so too and looks around the world: How do formal and informal forms of address work in Scandinavia and Asia, at government agencies, editorial offices and in political parties? And how do they sometimes not work? In any case, they do mirror real life.

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Pop and Electronic Music 2020
The figures aren’t everything

2020 was a year of great upheavals, a turning point. The pop and electronic music sectors had to grapple with the basic question of how to make a living amid a pandemic, ensuing crisis and concrete policy decisions.

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Thattu Pattu

Thattu Pattu intends to spark a renewed interest in music from the fringes of Sri Lanka.

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Contemporary arts festival and creative platform for interdisciplinary dialogue that has grown steadily within the cultural landscape of Colombo. The seventh edition titled Language is Migrant took place from 21 - 30 January 2022.

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A trans*oceanic platform for slow approaches, performative interventions and poetic strategies in visual and literary forms, kal traces decolonial and feminist futures and pasts that are connected through bodies of water lapping at different shorelines.

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