Event Highlights in August

A selection of German, Austrian, and Swiss cultural events in North America.

AUGUST 1: SWISS NATIONAL DAY
Numerous events taking place in the Swiss communities in North America on the occasion of Swiss National Day.
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CALIFORNIA

August 3 – 5: German-language Films at the “Feel Good Film Festival” in North Hollywood
SPAGHETTI FÜR ZWEI by filmmakers Matthias Rosenberger & Betina Dubler http://www.spaghetti-film.com/de/
The short film EIN TRAUM FÜR ZWEI by filmmaker Thorsten Kramer
Swiss movie DER SANDMANN by Peter Luisi http://dersandmann.ch/
For more information visit www.fgff.org

August 3 – 12, 8 PM: 9th Annual Beverly Hills International Music Festival
The festival will open on August 3 with a concert celebrating some of the world’s masterpieces of chamber music.
For more information and to order tickets at $25 each (seniors, students and members of Temple Emanuel – $15)
please call (310) 779-7622, email to dmgfest@aol.com, or visit www.panoramaticket.com
Location: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills on 8844 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA. 90211

D.C.

August 13 – 27, 2012: Film Series
Seize the Day: Outstanding German Films You Might Have Missed
www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en9518534v.htm

Friday, August 17, 6 – 9 pm: Games Evening (Spieleabend)
Come enjoy German games and a glass of wine with us! Games by German designers are enjoying increasing popularity outside their native country. In cooperation with Labyrinth Games and Puzzles. RSVP to rsvp@washington.goethe.org.
www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en9518520v.htm

August 22, 6.30 PM: Film Screening – Pina
In this powerful new film, German master Wim Wenders shoots in 3D, putting the viewer deep inside Bausch’s playful, thrillingly unpredictable pieces.  In German with English subtitles. www.goethe.de/washington

Through August 31: Daniel Libeskind Exhibition
Architecture for the Angel of History
www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en9087440v.htm

GEORGIA

August 10, 6.30 PM – 9.30 PM: Board Game Night (Spieleabend)
Meet new like-minded friends of the German language, socialize and improve your German without even thinking about it! Nothing is easier than practicing a language while applying it.
Location: Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta, 1197 Peachtree Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30361
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/atl/ver/en9543283v.htm

August 25, 7 PM:  German Movie Night: Sopie Scholl – die letzten Tage

NEW YORK

August 10 – 11: WHAT IS THE BLACK GERMAN EXPERIENCE?
HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, POPULAR AND VISUAL CULTURES
The Goethe-Institut New York, together with the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, will host the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey on August 10 and 11 in New York. Locations: Barnard College and Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
For more information please visit www.goethe.de/newyork.

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