Monday, May 20, 2013

LA: Violin Concert in REDCAT

May 3, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under CULTURE, Music

REDCAT in LA presents: VLN & VLA, featuring Malcolm Goldstein
LOS ANGELES, CA—REDCAT, CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, presents VLN & VLA, featuring violin virtuoso Malcolm Goldstein. This epic concert of music for solo, ensemble and concerto violin and viola, gathers internationally acclaimed string musicians to perform an exhilarating array of new, recent and older works. Curating [...]

LA: Cabaret Artist Thomas C. Breuer at Goethe-Institut

May 2, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under FEATURED EVENTS

As is often the case, the criminal returns to the scene of the crime.  German author and cabaret artist Thomas C. Breuer last paid the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles a visit in 2007, where he won the audience over with his unique take on all things German.  Breuer returns to the Goethe-Institut at May 7, bringing [...]

Visit the Goethe-Schiller-Monument in San Francisco

May 1, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under TRAVEL

This statue in San Francisco, placed in the Golden Gate Park, is indeed an exact copy of the original monument that has stood on the Theaterplatz in Weimar since 1857. Not only that, like the original, the copy was also cast in Germany.
In 1899 it was cast from a plaster model of the original at a [...]

LA: International Children’s Film Festival at REDCAT

May 1, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under FILM

REDCAT, CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, in partnership with Northwest Film Forum, presents the 8th annual REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival, May 4, 2012 through May 19, 2012. With three weekends of acclaimed, international short-film programs, the beloved festival returns to delight movie-goers big and small. This family favorite features the best live-action and [...]

In the Phoenix Club, the Maifest is a Kinderfest

May 1, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under FEATURED EVENTS

The “Phoenix Club” in Anaheim, CA, presents his Maifest / Kinderfest on May 5.
In the park and in the Festhalle, there are lots of activities and entertainment for young and old.
Dance to the music of the EXPRESS BAND.
A Special Performance of  “Der Loewe lacht” by Christof und Vadislava Altmann is also announced.  Dancing Performances will [...]

Euro VAT Receives Eminent Business Award

April 30, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under NEWS

Euro VAT Refund, Inc., has been selected by the LA Chambers Southern California World Trade Week Awards Committee to receive the “2013 World Trade Week Service to World Traders Award”. The award will be presented during the World Trade Week Kickoff Breakfast.
Euro VAT Refund, Inc. is a leading Los Angeles based financial services firm, [...]

Deutsches Haus at NYU: Discussion about Happiness

April 30, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under Books, CULTURE

In the context of “The PEN Voice Festival/ The Literary Mews” the German House of the New York University (NYU) presents at May 3rd a discussion about the search for happiness, under the motto “Running after Happiness or Running away from Bad Luck“.
“I think it is impossible to write a novel or screenplay without addressing [...]

Workshop at New York University: Garden in Mind

April 30, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under EDUCATION

Barbara Frischmuth organize a workshop at Deutsches Haus at New York University. The title is “Do You Have a Garden in Mind?”

If the answer is yes to this evocative question, how does this garden influence what you are thinking and feeling? Inspired by the Barbara Frischmuth’s garden books, the workshop asks gardeners and garden-lovers alike, do [...]

San Francisco: Benefit Concert on May 1

April 27, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under FEATURED EVENTS

50 MASON SOCIAL HOUSE SPONSORS OURSHELVES BENEFIT CONCERT
FEATURING LIVE PERFORMANCES BY SF ARTISTS DAWN OBERG AND IRA MARLOWE
San Francisco, CA – Dawn Oberg and 50 Mason Social House are sponsoring a benefit concert to raise funds for local organization, Ourshelves. The benefit concert will feature live performances by two local San Francisco artists Dawn Oberg [...]

LA: Villa Aurora Presents “Up To The Border” on May 2

April 27, 2013 by GW Editorial Staff  
Filed under FEATURED EVENTS

The Villa Aurora and Pacific Palisades Film Festival present “Bis an die Grenze – Up to the border”, a documentary by Claus Oppermann and Gerald Grote, on Thursday, May 2, 7:00 PM.
Sunday, August 13th 1961, the government of the German Democratic Republic lays the foundation stone for the “ugliest monument in the world”. A whole city [...]

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