THREE EVENTS WITH DOROTHEE ELMIGER
AT BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL
May 4 & 5
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Saturday and Sunday, May 4 & 5
- Seeking Connection: Literature from Germany and Switzerland Dorothee Elmiger, Nora Krug, Katja Petrowskaja, Takis Würger, moderated by Sabine Kieselbach.
Where is my place in the world? Where do I belong? Four distinct voices from Germany and Switzerland explore these questions in their work, all bestsellers in Europe.
Sunday, May 5, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Hotel Shattuck Plaza - Boiler Room, 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA For further details please click here.
Supported by "Wunderbar Together,“ an initiative by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI); Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; Goethe-Institut San Francisco; Goethe-Institut’s translation support program "Books First".
- Wunderbar Together - Pavilion of German-American Friendship Meet Dorothee Elmiger at the German pavilion as she reads from and talks about her novel Shift Sleepers. Sunday, May 5, 2 - 2:30 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley, CA For further details please click here.
- Literary Bravery: Sleepwalkers, Ghosts, and Radical Storytelling from Three International Luminarie
Dorothee Elmiger, Laura Lindstedt, Mike McCormack, moderated by Anita Felicelli
Take a liminal literary journey with three writers, who will describe how they created such brave, rule-breaking works of the imagination. Winners of the Finlandia Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the Swiss Literature Award respectively, these international voices are taking the literary world by storm. Sunday, May 5, 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Brower Center - Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA For further details please click here.
With the support of FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange; the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation; Culture Ireland; the initiative "Wunderbar Together,“ initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI); the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco; Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; and Goethe-Institut’s translation support program "Books First".
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MAX KELLENBERGER
Solo Show: Selected Photographs 1979 - 2019May 2 - June 15
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This exhibit will showcase a broad range of silver gelatin works both new and old, along with some never before seen projects.
Opening reception
Thursday, May 2, 5:30 - 7:30 PM Corden|Potts Gallery 49 Geary Street, Suite 405 San Francisco, CA
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HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE:
ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Exhibition is open until June 28
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swissnex San Francisco's exhibition is a visual journey through research on the digital transformation of architecture and construction. It reveals the conception and making of the DFAB HOUSE: A three-story experimental building demonstrating the pioneering research in computational design and digital fabrication being conducted by architects in collaboration with leading experts in fields ranging from robotics to material science.
Discover the DFAB HOUSE and the pioneering collaboration of Gramazio Kohler Research & Digital Building Technologies of ETH Zürich.
At swissnex San Francisco
Pier 17, The Embarcadero, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA
For further details please click here.
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| GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMS FROMSWITZERLAND, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIAAT SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALMay 16 - June 9
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Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) kicks off on May 16. For the past 45 years, SIFF has been promoting cross-cultural exchange through cinema. This year, Goethe Pop Up Seattle and the Honorary Consulates of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are partnering with SIFF to present the festival's official selection of German-language films.
Discover an array of recent releases covering various genres, including documentary, comedy, and drama. Check the SIFF website for all screening dates and venues, and mark your calendars now!
May 22, 9:30 PM
SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA
May 24, 4:15 PM
SIFF Cinema Egyptian, 805 E Pine Street, Seattle, WA
May 31, 6:15 PM
SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA
June 1, 4 PM
AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine Street (Ste. 400), Seattle, WA
For further information on all German language films click here.
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RAVING IRAN BY SUSANNE REGINA MEURESMay 17
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Raving Iran by Susanne Regina Meures, Switzerland, 2016, 84 min.
Raving Iran follows Anoosh and Arash, central figures of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert.
May 17, 6 PM
Goethe-Institut San Francisco, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA
For further details please click here.
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SWISS DEATH METAL BAND VIRVUM IN THE US
May 9 - 14
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When a relatively unknown Zurich-based Death Metal band released their debut album Illuminance in 2016, only insiders suspected the massive impact it would stir. Yet it was on the strength of this release that VIRVUM were offered to sign on Season of Mist. Now their new home is reissuing Illuminance, which will be available on vinyl for the first time.
May 9 El Corazon, Seattle, WA
May 11 Metro Opera House, Oakland, CA
May 12 Whiskey-A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, CA
May 13 Brick By Brick, San Diego, CA
May 14 Club Red, Mesa, AZ
This tour is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
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URS LEIMGRUBER
May 10 - June 4
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With his seventh solo CD, Broken Silence, Urs Leimgruber once again enters brand new musical territory. He has long left the path of powerful electric jazz that characterized his time with “OM”
during the 1970s, having since advanced into one of the most masterful representatives of a
form of improvised music that is delicately sophisticated and often quite abstract. -Reinhard Kager
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This tour is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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SWISS SINGING SOCIETY HARMONIE's
SPRING CONCERT
May 19
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Join the Swiss Singing Society for their Spring Concert celebrating 90 years of Harmonie.
May 19, 3 PM
Swiss Park, 1905 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, CA
For further information please click here.
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KLAUS JOHANN GROBE DUO On Tour
May 20 - 25
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Photo credit: Ralph Kuehne
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This Swiss band was founded in 2011 with the fantasy name Klaus Johann Grobe. In their newly released album Du Bist So Symmetrisch, the group continues to defy description and blur the lines between electronic pop, dance music, synthesis, and kosmische.
While the band invariably feels more at home in a club, Klaus Johann Grobe certainly aim towards the more dance-orientated arena of German music, aligning the metro pulse of Klaus Dinger and Kraftwerk's later techno work to more biological factors - like moss growing on the mainframe." -Trouble in Mind Records
May 20 Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
May 21 Sister Bar, Albuquerque, NM
May 22 Yucca Tap Room, Phoenix, AZ
May 23 Whistle Stop, San Diego, CA
May 24 Lodge Room, Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
May 25 The Independent, San Francisco, CA
For further details please click here.
This tour is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
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SWISS LAUNCHES STOPOVER TRAVELPACKAGES FOR SWITZERLAND
Visit 2 places for the price of 1 with Stopover Switzerland
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SWISS now offers its travelers the option to book a variety of destination packages to explore Switzerland’s iconic sights and cities. The new Stopover Switzerland program is a collaboration between SWISS, Switzerland Tourism and Switzerland Travel Centre, and it offers an initial range of eight different tourist packages including accommodation and public transportation covering all Swiss regions. The United States, Singapore, and India are the first SWISS markets to introduce the new stopover program. Generally, from point of commencement U.S., most fares to destinations in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia allow stopovers free-of-charge. Interested? Find your Stopover Switzerland package here.
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VENTURE CAPITAL ACADEMY SWITZERLAND
June 27 – 29
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Venture Capital Academy Switzerland - Presented by the University of California, BerkeleyLaw and Switzerland Global Enterprise is a three-day executive education and certificate program focused on the nuts and bolts of dealmaking for investors, entrepreneurs of startups and SMEs, enterprises, attorneys, and policymakers. It combines a theoretical approach with hands-on learning and will take place for the third time from June 27 to 29 in Zurich.
Program participants are provided with the tools to improve their ability to define, negotiate, and execute early-stage investments and build effective venture and innovation ecosystem. VC Academy Switzerland is adapted from “500 Startups” and UC Berkeley’s popular “VC Unlocked: Deal Camp”, a program hosted twice a year at the University of California, BerkeleyLaw and one of the university’s most popular executive education programs.
Target audience: Angel, VC, and corporate investors, directors of innovation, startups and attorneys.
Event language is English.
Registration fee: Regular fee CHF 4.500 / S-GE members & UC Berkeley alumni CHF 3.000.-
For further details please click here.
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