GW EVENT TIP: Nov 8 at 11 PM – 12.30 AM
20 Years of the Fall of the Wall Celebration in L.A.:
Wall Across Wilshire Street Festival
On August 13, 2009, Councilmember Tom LaBonge of L.A.’s 4th District, held a press conference announcing The Wall Project, presumably the largest and most ambitious celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany. L.A. has always enjoyed a special relationship with Berlin since 1967, when L.A. became Berlin's first Sister City. The project, conceived by The Wende Museum, in cooperation with the City of L.A. and supported by the German Consulate General in L.A., the GIC in Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles Berlin Sister City Committee, will combine one mega street festival on November 8 at 11 PM and two art initiatives: The ''Wall Across Wilshire“ and the ''Wall Along Wilshire.“ Local artists and a Berlin-based French muralist will create a wall, symbolic of the one that once separated East and West Berlin, that will be erected across Wilshire Boulevard in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A public ceremony will feature an reenactment of actual events, with invited dignitaries breaking down segments of the wall, a live-feed of events between Los Angeles and Berlin, a video-montage presentation, speeches and live music. The second part of the art project, the ''Wall Along Wilshire“ features ten wall segments installed in front of 5900 Wilshire as an outdoor gallery exhibition on view from October 17 through November 14. Participating artists including Los Angeles' muralist Kent Twitchell, ' 'Obama Hope'' graphic artist Shepard Fairey and Berlin-based muralist Thierry Noir.
www.wallproject.org
OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS THIS MONTHARIZONA November 7, 2009
Ambassador Ball Honoring Germany & The Fall of the Wall.
The Arizona Center for Germanic Cultures (AC4GC, Inc.) is proud to invite you
to join the Ambassadors' Ball 2009.
Location: Hyatt Regency Resort at Gainey Ranch, Scottsdale
Information: www.consularcorpsfoundation.org or (480) 948 8348
CALIFORNIA
November 9, 2009 – 7 PM
71ST ANNIVERSARY OF KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION
Author Daniel Jonah Goldhagen will discuss his latest book - Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity . A screening of excerpts from the new PBS documentary, based on his book, will also be shown. Goldhagen, a former Associate Professor at Harvard University, is also the author of the #1 international bestseller. Hitler's Willing Executioners. Book signing to follow program.
Location: Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, 9786 West Pico Boulevard
Information: 310-772-2527. D.C.
October 5 – November 30, 2009
Wende Flicks: Last Films from East Germany
”Wende Flicks” showcases six feature and two documentary films made by East German filmmakers from 1988-1994. Most of these films were made by the last generation of East German filmmakers, many of whom had not been allowed to make their own films before, and all of whom trained at DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft), the state-run film production studio. October 15 – November 10, 2009
Kids Euro Festival
This fall Washington once again hosts one of the country's largest performing arts festivals for children, with more than 150 free events around the city. A project of the 27 Washington-based European Union embassies and more than a dozen Tuesday, November 10, 12 – 1:15 PM
Deutsch am Mittag (German at noon)
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Join us for monthly lunchtime gatherings of those interested in hearing and speaking German. Each month, a special guest will speak on a topic. Participants can bring their lunch and join in the ensuing conversation. Led by Irmgard Wagner, professor emeritus of German at George Mason University.
Sebastian Graefe (Heinrich Böll Foundation) will speak in German on Leipzig Wendestadt: Before and After the Fall of the Wall.
Beverages and sweets are provided. Tickets: $6/$4
RSVP to Irmgard Wagner at iwagner@gmu.edu
Location: Goethe Institut, 812 Seventh St. NW, Washington, DC
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