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  • aMAze Train Jam 2020 © aMAze

    aMaze Train Jam 2020 - Registration now open!

    This year COVID-19 has changed those plans, but we decided to make that important community event happen again - fully virtual!

    For more info and to apply: https://forms.gle/MqVvGek3viSHHoGbA

  • Pop-Up Drive-In © Goethe-Institut Johannesburg

    Pop-Up Drive-In

    The Goethe-Institut is happy to play a role in this revival, and proud to use this opportunity to introduce 4 of the groundbreaking recent films from around the African continent that are included in the African Film Package curated by Katarina Hedren of the Goethe-Institut.

  • Archive of Forgetfulness © Goethe-Institut Johannesburg

    Archive of Forgetfulness

    We are inviting contributions which focus on the things that enable us to move – literally or figuratively – trains, roads, space programmes, aeroplanes, ports, boda bodas, and many others – to question what it means to imagine living otherwise across borders. 

  • Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and Carola Lentz in conversation with "The Latest at Goethe". Photo (detail): © Goethe-Institut e.V./Marcus Sporkmann

    “We have to face our responsibility to society.”

    On the occasion of the official handover, The Latest at Goethe spoke with the outgoing president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and his successor Carola Lentz.

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    The Journey

    The Journey | New Positions in African Photography documents the collaborations between 17 young African photographers and their mentors – international curators and practitioners

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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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As Cav’ Creative Economies Platform, we aim to be a catalyst for furthering, enabling and improving income-generating opportunities for creative entrepreneurs through access to: skills-training, mentorship, relevant information, networks, networking opportunities, market/showcasing opportunities.

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Goethe-Institut Project Space

The Goethe-Institut South Africa is accepting proposals for the 2021 Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) grant, which supports artistic projects all over South Africa with up to R60,000! Deadline: 17 August 2020.

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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.

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