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    Artist portraitsArt Upside Down

    The Goethe-Institut New Zealand and Contemporary HUM present a series of portraits about New Zealand artists who have found a new physical - and artistic - home in Germany. Kunst Kopfüber / Art Upside Down invites writers and curators to look at the practice of six contemporary artists from Aotearoa. 

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    Goethe on Demand

    On Goethe on Demand, the streaming platform of the Goethe-Institut, we present a variety of online film programs, film festivals and film series that can be streamed from home. They are accessible online and free of charge after registration.
     

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    The Goethe-Institut New Zealand turns 40!

    The Goethe-Institut is 40 years old. Since 1980 we have been active in New Zealand. To celebrate we asked friends and supporters for their fondest memories and stories that they connect with Germany, the German language and/ or the Goethe-Institut. Enjoy them here! More to come...

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    ComicQueer Comic Conversations

    Queer Comic Conversations is a webcomic series by artists Illi Anna Heger and Sam Orchard where they discuss similarities and differences about queer and trans lives.The series stretches from July to December 2020; every month, a new episode will be released.

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    Film SeriesLifeswap

    Lifeswap is a series of short animated Skype conversations between two young men, Jörg, 27, from Münster, Germany and Duncan, 27, from Wellington, New Zealand.

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    Living language

    Features, interviews, podcasts and a monthly blog exploring how learning a new language opens up worlds of possibilities, changes your outlook - and boosts your brain! Life is more interesting in more than one language. Find out more here...

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Judith Geare – when a job becomes a vocation

It’s only when I look up from my desk that I realise with a shock how many years I have been doing this. It seems like just the day before yesterday that I started work here …” For almost 40 years Judith Geare has been the face of the Goethe-Institut in New Zealand, but this year she is saying “goodbye”.

 

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Rising Sea Level
A Future in Tuvalu

Rising sea levels pose a severe threat to islands such as Tuvalu. Already the island faces heavy floods, which could one day erase the island state from the map completely. 

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Sustainable Communities
2n40: from cooperative apartment building to solidarity-based cohousing project

As far as the residents of 2n40 are concerned, living in a large community is really nothing new, but rather a way of meeting a perfectly normal human need. Multigenerational living was once the norm, but since industrialisation, has increasingly become the exception.

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Podcasts Around the World

The Goethe-Institut gets stuck in your ears and opens your eyes. Goethe-Instituts across the globe produce podcasts on different topics and in different languages. Choose from a range of diverse podcasts from around the world. Dive in and have fun listening.

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Zeitgeister

Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives – on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.

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Lifeswap

Lifeswap is a series of animated Skype chats between Jörg from Germany and Duncan from New Zealand. Facing their respective quarter life crises, they decided it was time for a change.             

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