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    Language Courses in 2020

    The dates for all of our new language courses in 2020 are online.

    Sign up by 19 December 2019 and get 10% off. Also, you stand a chance to win a language course for free!

  • “Invisible Inventories, Installation, 2018” Photo: Shift Collective

    Decolonisation'Invisible Inventories' : The Return to Wakanda

     Last week the launch of the exhibition project "Invisible Inventories", which is supported by the Goethe-Institut, took place in Kenya. At the "Object Movement Dialogue #4" in the Nairobi National Museum, the role of local communities within the restitution debate was discussed. The Kenyan journalist Abigail Arunga was on site for "Goethe aktuell".

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    "Call for Application"

    Launch of the Enter Africa Video Game Co-production platform in cooperation with SpielFabrique and the Goethe-Institut!

    Start: 30 October 2019
    Deadline: 15 December 2019

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    European Film Festival 2019

    From the 29th of November until the 8th of December, the European Film Festival is showing exciting movies in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town, including the German entry "System Crasher".

    For information about the programme, please visit the EUFF website at www.eurofilmfest.co.za.

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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 © Jo Ractliffe

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.

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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 Award © Art: Ferdinand Makouvia , Photo: Excerpt of a photo by Peter Houston

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.

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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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