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On the border: Berlin, 10 November 1989, Brandenburg Gate

Photo (detail): Jürgen Lottenburger © wir-waren-so-frei.de

30 year anniversary: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

On November 9th 1989, as a culmination of the peaceful revolution against the regime of the GDR, the Berlin Wall fell, starting the process of reunification.

Terreno Occupado, Cuito Cuanavale, Angola

Call for papers: In whose place?

The Wits History Workshop and the School of Architecture & Planning in partnership with the Johannesburg Art Gallery and the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) are hosting a conference titled “In whose place?” from 4 to 6 June 2020.

Photo (Detail): © Getty Images, Logo: Tobias Schrank

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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Henrike Grohs Prize for African Artists

The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have announced a prize in memory of Henrike Grohs, who died on 13 March 2016 in a terrorist attack in the Ivory Coast. Applications are open from 15th of October 2019 to the 15th of November 2019.

Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS)

Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) is a multi-disciplinary roving project space that follows on GoetheOnMain, which was based at Arts On Main in Johannesburg from May 2009 to November 2016.

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I am Science

The I Am Science or Digital Access to Knowledge project aims, in the short term, to increase interest in and meaningful understanding of basic scientific concepts among early high-school girls in disadvantaged, urban areas which will support them to continue studying science at school.

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Henrike Grohs Art Award: Applications open!

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