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Kultursymposium Weimar: WANDER

Inspired by the theme of the Weimar Kultursymposium 2019, “The Route Will be Recalculated,” WANDER is a unique immersive and performative experience in which participants will explore their orientation to and relationship with the geographical world. Through the lens of a morning hike, WANDER will give participants the chance to see the city around them in a new way. On Saturday, March 30, and Saturday, April 6, at 10:30 am.
© Marc Beckmann

Marc Beckmann: Anniversaries (Die Jahrestage)

A new exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Washington, Anniversaries is an exploration of how history is narrated, staged, and remembered collectively: the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Prague Spring, D-Day in Normandy, and the Srebrenica Massacre are just a few of the historical events whose anniversaries German artist Marc Beckmann documents with his photographs. They offer the occasion for collective remembrance, sometimes admonishing and warning, sometimes patriotic. Opening evening with reception and artist talk on Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 pm.
© Colourbox

GOETHE BOOK CLUB: TIGER MILK (2013/2014) BY STEFANIE DE VELASCO

Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this series hosted by the Goethe-Institut. All books can be read in recent English translation or in the German original; our discussion will be in English. Led in March by guest facilitator, DC-based poet and Zeitgeist Literature Festival curator Suzanne Zweizig, this book club focuses on contemporary fiction and will explore experiences and thoughts about the text. This month's book will be Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco. On Monday, March 18, at 6:30 pm.
© Anh Trieu, Henning Fehr, Philipp Rühr

#FEMINISMTOME: MILLI'S AWAKENING (2018), DIR. NATASHA A. KELLY

For centuries, Black women have been eroticized and exoticized by the white male gaze. This documentary film wants to immerse in the thought and emotions of renowned painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "muse" and let Milli awake figuratively. A discussion with the filmmaker follows. On Tuesday, March 19, 6:30 pm.
© Colourbox

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Kultursymposium Weimar: WANDER

Marc Beckmann: Anniversaries (Die Jahrestage)

GOETHE BOOK CLUB: TIGER MILK (2013/2014) BY STEFANIE DE VELASCO

#FEMINISMTOME: MILLI'S AWAKENING (2018), DIR. NATASHA A. KELLY

German Courses Spring 2019!