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Call for Proposals: Goethe 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.
Images supplied by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
& Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Literary Crossroads with Ngwatilo Mawiyoo & Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Two female poets, one South African and one Kenyan, discuss what "Writing the Human Experience" means to them
Image courtesy of Jin Jim
Jin Jim

Eclectic German band to host workshop and perform at Afrikan Freedom Station, Johannesburg.
Dresden Semperoper Ballett © Ian Whalen
Semperoper Ballett

For the first time ever, the internationally acclaimed Semperoper Ballet from Dresden, Germany, is on tour in South Africa.
Di Dikadika tsa Dinaledi by Lerato Shadi © Herman Verwey
DI DIKADIKA TSA DINALEDI BY LERATO SHADI

Lerato Shadi explores assumptions about the Black female body at GoetheonMain
© Lot Kafesu/Goethe-Institut
Super-Intensive Courses

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Courses offered in October and November

German LanguageOpportunities for students and teachers of German

Practise German free of charge

Practise German free of charge with our varied selection of online exercises and in the community

MagazineNews from culture and society in Germany and South Africa

Humboldt Forum Workshop Johannesburg, Februar 2016

Photo: Goethe-Institut / Benjamin Keuffel

Humboldt Forum
A Key to the World

Three years until the opening of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum: at a Goethe-Institut congress in Johannesburg, Hermann Parzinger, Neil McGregor and others discussed how it will not just be a museum, but can be a place where we can come to terms with the history of oppression in Africa. [more …]

Christian Zöllner and Sebastian Piatza test the Eyesect camera helmet.

Filmstill (detail): © Arte Tracks

The Constitute at the Fak’ugesi Festival
Music with Sensors

Seeing the world through an insect’s eyes is possible thanks to the Eyesect camera helmet designed by the Berlin-based think tank The Constitute. In our interview, The Constitute’s Christian Zöllner explains how Eyesect works and how music can be made with sensors. [more …]

Photo: Goethe-Institut/Lerato Maduna

African Futures
“The fate of our planet will be decided in Africa”

The future is African: The African Futures Festival saw artists revealing their visions and utopias in the search for a post-colonial view of the continent. [more …]

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in South Africa

Music in Africa

Music In Africa is an information and exchange web portal dedicated to the African music sector.

Literary Crossroads

Literary Crossroads is a new series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today.

Wiki Loves Women

Wiki Loves Women bridges two significant gaps on Wikimedia projects – women and Africa – both in terms of content about these subjects and in terms of participation by people from these groups.

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Literary Crossroads with Ngwatilo Mawiyoo & Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Jin Jim

Semperoper Ballett

DI DIKADIKA TSA DINALEDI BY LERATO SHADI

Super-Intensive Courses

German LanguageOpportunities for students and teachers of German

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Practise German free of charge

MagazineNews from culture and society in Germany and South Africa

Humboldt Forum
A Key to the World

The Constitute at the Fak’ugesi Festival
Music with Sensors

African Futures
“The fate of our planet will be decided in Africa”

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in South Africa

Music in Africa

Literary Crossroads

Wiki Loves Women

Quick access:

Call for Proposals: Goethe Project Space (GPS)

Literary Crossroads with Ngwatilo Mawiyoo & Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Jin Jim

Semperoper Ballett

DI DIKADIKA TSA DINALEDI BY LERATO SHADI

Super-Intensive Courses

Humboldt ForumA Key to the World

The Constitute at the Fak’ugesi Festival Music with Sensors

African Futures“The fate of our planet will be decided in Africa”

Music in Africa

Literary Crossroads

Wiki Loves Women

Humboldt Forum
A Key to the World

The Constitute at the Fak’ugesi Festival
Music with Sensors

African Futures
“The fate of our planet will be decided in Africa”