JUNEAUGUST 2014 PROGRAMME
OVERVIEW WHEN
WHAT & WHERE
05/06/2014 - THE AFRICAN CHILD: A PHOTOGRAPHY AND 26/06/2014 PAINTING EXHIBITION TACITUS NANA-YABANI & MUSAH SWALLAH 12/06/2014 - FIFA WORLDCUP 13/07/2014 SCREENING OF SELECTED GAMES 23/06/2014
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL ACCRA
10/07/2014
DANISH CINEMA: MERCY MERCY KATRINE W. KJAR, 2012
17/07/2014
DANISH CINEMA: A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN) TOBIAS LINDHOLM, 2012
24/07/2014
DANISH CINEMA: THE EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD (EKSPEDITIONEN TIL VERDENS ENDE) DANIEL DENCIK, 2012
31/07/2014
DANISH CINEMA: A ROYAL AFFAIR (EN KONGELIG AFFAERE) NIKOLAJ ARCEL, 2012
07/08/2014
THURSDAY FILM: CAFE MÜLLER PINA BAUSCH, 1987
21/08/2014
THURSDAY FILM: PINA BAUSCH ANNE LINSEL, 2006
25/08/2014
ARCHITECTURAL LECTURE: STONES TELL STORIES IN OSU PROF. H. WELLINGTON
28/08/2014
GLOBAL ART LOCAL VIEW
REGULARS:
FLEA MARKET THURSDAY FILM OPEN MIC JAZZ JAM WITH GOETHE BAR&GRILL WRITER’S PROJECT OF GHANA BILINGUAL ROUNDTABLE
EXHIBITION
GAGREEKGOD AND MUSAH SWALLAH PRESENTS THE AFRICAN CHILD: A PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING EXHIBITION 05/06/2014 – 26/06/2014 GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA Photographer Tacitus Nana-Yabani and Musah Swallah present their “African Child Project” at GoetheInstitut as a combination of photographs and mixed material artworks, made of repurposed wooden panels and uses glass, plastic bottles, pieces of cloth, and other recycled materials.. The main idea of the African Child Project came from an original vision with a focus on children and the beauty of life. Children then and now work to feed themselves and sacrifice their
education just to survive. The artists can identify with the happiness of the children, but also with the challenges they face. Tacitus Nana-Yabani remembers what it was like as a child for him, as he dropped out of school and needed to fend for himself until he met mentor Wanlov and started pursuing photography. Baba Musah Swallah is a freelance professional artist born and raised in the community of Nima in Accra. His mentors were Mozzay and Akirash.
FOOTBALL
WORLD CUP
12/06/2014 - 13/07/2014 GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA It is time for another World Cup. We will be transporting you to Brazil as we screen selected games at Goethe-Institut. It will be interesting: Ghana and Germany are together in Group G, so we will be cheering for two teams at the same time.
Fixed dates are: June 15, 5pm Germany vs. Portugal June 21, 8pm Germany vs. Ghana June 26, 5pm USA vs. Germany Check facebook.com/goetheinstitutghana for regular updates
FILM
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL ACCRA (EFFA)
23/06/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA The EFFA in collaboration with Creative Storm will do a free public screening of environmental films as part of the celebration of the Festival.
Visit www.effaccra.org for more information.
THURSDAY FILM
DANISH CINEMA: MERCY MERCY
10/07/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA
Image: Fridthjof Films
July 2014 will be all about films at Goethe-Institut. By courtesy of the Royal Danish Embassy in Accra, we will be showing several films of Danish origin. Katrine W. Kjaer | 2012 | 94 Min What happens when adoption turns into an industry with the aim to alleviate the Western world’s childlessness, forgetting about helping the children and families? Mercy Mercy is a character-driven global tale on the catastrophic consequences of a choice made with the best intentions and out of love for two children: We follow the adoption on both sides of the globe, from the biological parents’ new life to their children’’s experiences in their new family.
THURSDAY FILM
DANISH CINEMA: A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN) 17/07/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA
Image: Magnus Nordenhof
Tobias Lindholm | 2012 | 99 Min The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is boarded and captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship´s cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan, who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates.
THURSDAY FILM
DANISH CINEMA: THE EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD (EKSPEDITIONEN TIL VERDENS ENDE) 24/07/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA Daniel Dencik | 2012 | 90 Min The Expedition to the End of the World is a film about the origins of the world, the end of human civilization and life on earth once we are gone. A road movie into unknown region of the globe and mind – on an Arctic schooner heavily armed with art and science bound for the most spectacular nature in Northeast Greenland, Manmade speed and efficiency confront the power of ice but no matter how far we travel and how hard we try to find answers, the ultimate confrontation is with ourselves and our transience as a species.
Image: Haslund Film
THURSDAY FILM
DANISH CINEMA: A ROYAL AFFAIR (EN KONGELIG AFFAERE) 31/07/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA A gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for the people, but above all it is the story of a passionate and forbidden romance that changed an entire nation.
Image: Magnolia Pictures
FILM
CELEBRATING PINA BAUSCH
01/08/2014 - 31/08/2014 GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA It began with controversy: in 1973 Pina Bausch was appointed director of dance for the Wuppertal theatres and the form she developed in those early years, a mixture of dance and theatre, was wholly unfamiliar. In her performances the players did not merely dance; they spoke, sang - and sometimes they cried or laughed too. Dance theatre evolved into a unique genre, inspiring choreographers throughout the world and influencing theatre and classical ballet too. Its global success can be attributed to the fact that Pina Bausch made a universal need the key subject of her work: the need for love, for intimacy and emotional security. To this end she developed an artistic form which could incorporate highly diverse cultural influences. Over the thirty-six years in which Pina Bausch shaped the work of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, till her death in 2009, she created a an oeuvre which casts an unerring gaze at reality, while simultaneously giving us the courage to be true to our own wishes and desires. Her unique ensemble, rich with varied personalities, will continue to maintain these values in the years to come. We set aside the month of August to celebrate and honour this great German woman choreographer with books and film screenings on some of her works. Below are the dates for the film screening. You may also visit the Goethe-Institut Library for books on Pina Bausch.
Study and Research Opportunities in Germany The DAAD Information Center holds a monthly Introductory Session on Study and Research Opportunities in Germany. Participation in this session is free of charge but mandatory prior to visiting the Information Center for individual consultation. Anyone planning to study or do research in Germany is welcome to attend the Introductory Session. The Introductory Session will be held on the 1st Thursday of every month (unless otherwise stated) between 4pm and 5.30pm at the Goethe Institut (inner courtyard). For further information check www.ic.daad.de/accra Dates for the next Introductory Sessions: 5th June, 2014 | 3rd July, 2014 | 7th August, 2014
The events in this programme are in partnership with:
GOETHE-INSTITUT GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. It promotes knowledge of the German language abroad, fosters international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive picture of Germany by providing information on Germany‘s cultural, social and political life. In Ghana, our focus is on strenghthening cultural scenes, libraries and the teaching of German.
Library & Information Center Monday to Thursday 1 - 5 pm, Friday 10 am - 2 pm
Language Departement Monday / Tuesday / Thursday 9 am - 12 noon / 3 pm - 6 pm Wednesday / Friday 10 am - 12 noon / 3 pm - 5 pm Kids Course: 27/09 - 13/12 every other Saturday Twi Course: 12/09 - 11/12 (Tue/Thu) Registration: 28/07 - 08/08 language@accra.goethe.org
Goethe Bar&Grill Monday to Friday from 5 pm - 9:30 pm, Saturday from 3 pm - 9 pm
Cafeteria & Canteen Monday - Friday 8 am - 4 pm
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THURSDAY FILM
CAFÉ MÜLLER
07/08/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA Pina Bausch | 1978 | 50 Min The rhythm of a Pina Bausch piece is obsessively regular. Bursts of violence are followed by long stillness. Bits of business are systematically repeated, sometimes with increasing urgency but more often with no variation at all. At every repetition, less is revealed, and the action that looked gratuitous to begin with dissolves into meaningless frenzy. “Café Müller,” which opened the Bausch season and set the pattern for it, is thirty-five minutes long and feels ninety; its subject is duration, and repetition is its only device. The café-apparently meant to resemble a real place--seems to be the canteen of a mental hospital. A small cast of inmates gives us intermittent doses of violent/apathetic behavior while a woman who may be a visitor scurries noisily about in high-heeled shoes. Music from Purcell’s operas drifts over the loudspeakers, doing its best to solemnize the goings on. “Café Müller,” with its thin but flashy shtick, is a how-to-make-theatre handbook. It enshrines the amateur’s faith in psychopathy as drama.
THURSDAY FILM
PINA BAUSCH
21/08/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA Anne Linsel | 2006 | 43 Min Three years before her death, Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theater came to a phenomenon of their own world success on the track. The film shows in stage clips and interviews that her fame came through perseverance and clearly explained the operation of the great German choreographer
ARCHITECTURAL LECTURE
STONES TELL STORIES IN OSU
25/08/2014, 7PM GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA One of Professor Dr. Ing. Henry Nii-Adziri Wellington main research topics is the link between Ghanaian and Danish history and heritage. “Stones tell Stories in Osu - Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” is a book based on research findings obtained in 2007 after an architectural and community history research had been conducted at Osu, in Germany and in Denmark from 2005 to 2007 on the Danish period in Ghana from 1665 to 1850. The research undertaken to write this book, was motivated and inspired by a book titled “Coast of Slaves” written by a Danish author who had tried to interpret archival materials to explain the Danish involvement in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, which was operated from Christiansborg at Osu from the 17th century to the year 1850, when the Danes sold out their interests and properties to the British administration in the then Gold Coast. “Stones Tell Stories at Osu” after having taken about four years to be completed, was published and launched on 21st November, 2011 by the SubSaharan Publishers with a Danish Government funded assistance from the Ghana Cultural Fund.
ARTIST PRESENTATION
GLOBAL ART LOCAL VIEW
28/08/2014, TBA GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA In 2012 the Goethe-Institut together with GIZ as partners began a project with 11 artists from two countries, Germany and Ghana. These artists collaborated to develop various aritisic projects peculiar to Ghana. This year this artist will travel to Germany to collaborate on another project peculiar to Germany. A pre-departure presentation on the various projects that will be undertaken in Germany will be done here together with an exhibition by the artists.
LIBRARY
JOIN THE LIBRARY
In the library you’ll find an up-to-date selection of printed and audiovisual media both in German and English to keep you informed about latest trends and current issues in Germany. We also offer you internet access! We can offer you: 1) German literature in German and English 2) African literature in German and English 3) Books about Germany 4) Books about Culture (i.e. art, film, photography, theatre, music) 5) German movies on DVD 6) German music on CD 7) Literature for Children and Young Adults 8) German language books 9) Reference books and dictionaries 10) German magazines 11) Further: General knowledge, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Applied Sciences, Medicine, Technology, Geography Opening hours: Mon - Thur
1 - 5pm
Fri
10am - 2pm
LANGUAGE COURSES
INCREASE IN PRICES
TERM DATES: AUGUST - OCTOBER REGISTRATION: 28/07/2014 - 08/08/2014 GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA New Course Prices Increase of the course fees with effect from 1. May 2014 We have to increase the course fees of all our German courses due to the depreciation of the Cedi!
A1/A2 morning/afternoon:
470 GHS
B1 morning/afternoon:
470 GHS
A1.1, A1.2/A2.1, A2.2 evening:
350 GHS
B2.1, B2.2/C1.1, C1.2 evening:
400 GHS
Registration fee (once):
30 GHS
Books: Schritte/Menschen (A1-B1):
60 GHS
Aspekte B2-C1):
200 GHS
Dictionary:
40 GHS
Examinations: intern / extern A1+A2:
90 GHS / 180 GHS
B1:
100 GHS / 200 GHS
B2:
110 GHS / 220 GHS
C1:
120 GHS / 240 GHS
Special date from A2-C1: double the price for all external students Exam Agenda: (Registration two weeks before date) A1
July 27 / October 05 / December 14
A2
July 30 / October 08 / December 17
B1
August 07 / October 15 / December 18
B2/C1
August 06/ December 19
Self-study materials for all levels are available at our library and information centre. Course participants have free access to all media and internet service.
EVENTS
GOETHE-INSTITUT REGULARS
EVERY MONTH GOETHE-INSTITUT GHANA
FLEA MARKET EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, 10AM-5PM The Open Air Stock Exchange offers a unique shopping experience. On the grounds of Goethe-Institut Ghana, selected stands and artisans offer all the heart could wish for: organic herbs, jewellery, beads, clothes, bread, home-made pasta and several more.
THURSDAY FILM EVERY TWO WEEKS ON THURSDAY, 7PM Goethe-Institut shows a film in a range from drama to documentary to shorts. Due to the World Cup and the focus on Danish films, the schedule will be irregular in June and July. Check the Homepage or the Facebook page for announcements.
OPEN MIC JAZZ JAM WITH GOETHE BAR&GRILL EVERY 2ND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH, 7PM Goethe Bar&Grill’s Russ has a deep love for jazz music he wants to share. He will be organizing the monthly Open Mic Jazz Jam at Goethe-Institut where you can go to listen to music and to enjoy some kebabs and burgers.
WRITERS PROJECT OF GHANA EVERY LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH, 7PM In cooperation with Writers Project of Ghana, Goethe-Institut organizes a reading by Ghanaian and other African authors. Writers will read, talk and discuss and books will be on sale.
BILINGUAL ROUNDTABLE
Front cover detail: Goethe-Institut
EVERY LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH, 4PM-5PM The “Tandemstammtisch” is to meet people and discuss topics that are of interest to everybody. The discussion will be in English and German. IN this way people will be addressed who enjoy speaking English or German and who have reached B1 level in both languages.