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April 29, 2021

Newsletter of the Goethe-Institut Washington

Dear Friends,

We are thrilled to announce our first in-person event since March 2020! On May 5 and 6, join us at the corner of 14th and R Streets for Kept Under Glass: Unheard Women’s Voices, a multimedia pop-up performance of music by Austrian and German women composers. The program will operate within Washington, DC’s health and safety regulations, and social distancing will be monitored on the sidewalk.

“Just as these magnificent female composers were kept under the glass ceiling of their potential by a male-controlled industry, our singers perform behind glass separating artist and audience - longing for a barrier free future,” says Gillian Drake, Producer of Kept Under Glass. “With these songs, these glorious singers express our year-long communal experience: demoralized, muffled, isolated from those we love… our stifled voices yearning to be unleashed. We are so happy to bring to our neighborhood a covid-observant and humanly-exuberant street concert to enjoy together.”

Cultural Programs

Kept Under Glass
© Aliza Razell

Music | May 5-6, 2021

Kept Under Glass: Unheard Women's Voices

On May 5-6, join us at the corner of 14th and R Streets for Kept Under Glass: Unheard Women’s Voices, a multimedia pop-up performance of songs about love and longing for connection by under-recognized Austrian and German women composers.

Kept Under Glass
Reflections on Beuys
© Goethe-Institut / Hirshhorn Museum

100 Years of Joseph Beuys

#aboutbeuys - Reflections on Joseph Beuys at 100

On the occasion of Joseph Beuys’ 100th birthday, the Goethe-Institut Washington and the Hirshhorn Museum paired up and challenged nine contemporary artists to reflect on Beuys. In short videos, each artist conveys their relationship to Beuys, his work, and his legacy.

Reflections on Beuys
Rent Rebels / Mietrebellen
© schultecoers

Film Streaming | Sunday, May 16, 8:00am EDT

STP-on-Demand: Rent Rebels (2014) | Dir. Matthias Coers, Gertrud Schulte Westenberg

Berlin – In recent years, Germany's capital city has changed rapidly. Apartments long considered unattractive are now being flipped by investors into financial assets. Mass conversions to condominiums and rent increases on an unprecedented scale are becoming commonplace. The visible tenant protests in the dazzling metropolis of Berlin are a reaction to the increasingly inadequate supply of affordable housing.

The film is a kaleidoscope of tenants' struggles in Berlin against displacement from neighborhood living contexts. An occupation of Berlin's city hall, the camp at Kottbusser Tor, organized resistance to evictions and the struggle of pensioners for their age-appropriate apartments, and a leisure center symbolize the new awakening of the urban protest movement.

Rent Rebels

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