Embassy Events Calendar

PA Embassy Berlin Upcoming or ongoing events with Embassy involvement include:

February 11 – 16, 2012: Berlinale Talent Campus

The Berlinale Talent Campus is a creative academy and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world. The Berlinale Talent Campus lasts for six days and offers programs for actors • directors • cinematographers • distributors • editors • film critics • producers • production designers • screenwriters • sound designers and composers.

Did you know... that a U.S. officer initiated the Berlin International Film Festival?

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December 20 – Februar 22:
Play and Workshop at Atze Musiktheater – intercultural and interactive
Das Stück “Ayla. Liebe. Hoffnung“ ist eine von der U.S. Embassy gemeinsam mit dem Atze Musiktheater geförderte interaktive Neuinzenierung der Erfolgsproduktion „Ayla, Alis Tochter“.
Das Stück „Ayla. Liebe. Hoffnung“ ist so konzipiert, dass es auch außerhalb des Theaters, z. B. in Schulen, Bibliotheken, Jugendfreizeiteinrichtungen etc. gezeigt werden kann.
thru Sept. 5, 2012
Project “A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage” on the occasion of the 100th birthday of John Cage at Akademie der Kuenste (exhibit, lectures, concerts, presentation by Merce Cunningham Dance Company)

February 23–26: Festival Musik und Politik

Woody Guthrie

March 2: Teacher Seminar on “The U.S. Presidential Elections 2012 and Social Media”

Venue: U.S. Embassy Berlin, entrance Behrenstraße (back entrance)

Date and time: Friday, March 2, 2012; 15:15-17:30

PLEASE TRY TO ARRIVE BY 15:00 FOR CHECK-IN. BRING A VALID I.D. FOR IDENTIFICATION AND, IF POSSIBLE, LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AT HOME.

Registration: Please register via TIS Fortbildungsdatenbank Brandenburg:
https://tisonline.brandenburg.de/, event no 11L 224 701.

Should you encounter problems with the website, you may also register at IRCBerlin@state.gov or christine.junghanns@lisum.berlinbrandenburg.de.

Deadline: February 26, 2012.

Program

Jason Johnson, "U.S. Election 2012, candidates, platforms and the use of social media in the campaigns" (45 minutes plus discussion)
Torben Schmidt, "Social media in the EFL classroom - with special emphasis on teaching the U.S. election 2012" (45 minutes plus discussion)
Concluding discussion with faculty and participants.

Faculty

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Dr. Jason Johnson, Hiram College, Ohio, is the author of “Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell.” He serves as Politics Editor for The Source magazine, and Chief Political Correspondent for Politic365.com.He has worked as a campaign manager and assistant state director in a series of legislative campaigns in South Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. In 2001, Johnson worked on the London mayoral race, served as an international election observer during Mexico’s turbulent 2006 presidential election and was an honored guest of the Independent Electoral Commission in Johannesburg, South Africa during the parliamentary elections in 2007. Dr. Johnson has been quoted as an expert on politics by The Hill, the Wall Street Journal, the Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is a regular commentator on Al Jazeera English, has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and CNN and as a featured guest on National Public Radio affiliates WCPN and WHYY, as well as appearances on NPR’s Morning Edition. Johnson’s weekly op-ed column appears in the Chicago Defender, the Michigan Chronicle, the New Pittsburgh Courier, and the Memphis Tri-State Defender. Professor Johnson is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Torben Schmidt, Leuphania University Lueneburg, is an expert on teaching English as a Foreign Language and the use of social media in the classroom. He and his students will partner with the U.S. Embassy and LISUM in the election social media campaign. Dr. Schmidt received his teaching degree (state exam) in Mathematics and English from Gießen University in 2002 and his PhD from Frankfurt University in 2007. In 2010, he served as guest professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax (Canada). Dr. Schmidt has been granted several prestigious research and teaching fellowships as part of the Excellency Initiative of the German government.

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16 March: In-Service Training for English Teachers

U.S. Presidential Elections 2012

In-Service Training for English Teachers

9:30 – 17:00

Internationales Begegnungszentrum Rostock e.V.

http://www.bildung-mv.de/de/ausbildung/ -> "aktuelle Fortbildungsangebote"

http://www.amerikazentrum.de/index.php?&el_mcal_month=3&el_mcal_year=2012

March 19: David Guterson reading from “Ed King”

David Guterson - © Alan Berner

The U.S. Embassy Literature Series
in cooperation with Hoffmann & Campe and BUCHBOX
presents
David Guterson
acclaimed author of Snow Falling on Cedars
to read from his novel Ed King (Bloomsbury, 2011; Hoffmann & Campe, 2012)

In 1962, actuary Walter Cousins makes the biggest mistake of his life. When mild-mannered Walter - 'a man who weighs risk for a living' - sleeps with the sharp-tongued, not-quite-legal British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error. For this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles' immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an infant given up for adoption who becomes one of the world's richest and most powerful men. But beneath the sizzling story of Ed's seemingly inexorable rise to fame and fortune is a dark and unsettling destiny, one that approaches with ever-increasing suspense as the book reaches its shattering and surprising conclusion. (www.bloomsbury.com)

German text is read by Christian Brückner.
Moderator: Jörg Thadeusz (rbb)

March 19, 20:00
Backfabrik Clinker-Lounge, Saarbrücker Str. 36 a, Berlin

Tickets NOW in BUCHBOX! For 6 / 8 €. For more information in German and an online ticket, pl. go to: http://www.buchboxberlin.de/?area=events&kategorie=veranstaltungen&type=events

Additional venues:

17.03.12 - Leipzig
20.03.12 - Hamburg
21.03.12 - Munich
22.03.12 - Heidelberg

March 19: Mark Z. Danielewski reading from »Only Revolutions«

Der Bestellerautor Mark Z. Danielewski (»Das Haus. House of Leaves«) kommt vom 19.03 bis zum 29.03.2012 mit seinem neuem Roman »Only Revolutions« auf Lesereise nach Deutschland und Österreich. Merken Sie sich schon jetzt die Termine!

http://www.klett-cotta.de/nachricht/Save_the_Date:_Mark_Z._Danielewski_mit_%C2%BBOnly_Revolutions%C2%AB_auf_Lesereise_in_Deutschland_und_Oesterreich/25039

March 23: Jaimy Gordon reading from “Lord of Misrule”

Jaimy Gordon: “Lord of Misrule”

The U.S. Embassy Literature Series

The U.S. Embassy in cooperation with Aufbau Verlag and the English Theatre Berlin

Presents

Jaimy Gordon

who will read from her novel

Lord of Misrule (Die Aussenseiter, Aufbau 2012)

Jaimy Gordon’s fourth novel, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010, and was a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse racing. Gordon’s previous novels include Bogeywoman, She Drove Without Stopping, and Shamp of the City-Solo. She has been a Fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and has also won an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has translated several works of Maria Beig from the German, most recently Hermine, An Animal Life. Born in Baltimore, Gordon teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

Moderator: tbc.

Wednesday, March 23, 2012,

19:30
English Theatre Berlin

Fidicinstraße 40
10965 Berlin

Pl. register at IRCBerlin@state.gov. Admission is free.

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