Culture talks @ Goethe: Tearing Down Walls

25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. One generation in a unified Germany and Europe. We are taking this seismic event that 2014 raises as a starting point to look at what divides and unites us – in Germany, Europe, Canada and the world, expressed across film, arts, literature, discourse and exchange.

Three events in our ongoing free salon-style series Culture talks @Goethe look at Europe now:

An award-winning Calgary writer on global barriers, a Poland-based Portuguese new media artist throws light on a continent in motion, and Jurek Becker’s widow reads and discusses his story collection “The Wall”.

Oct 17, 5.30pm: Culture talks @ Goethe: Marcello Di Cintio on “Walls: Travels Along the Barricades”

For his latest book about walls, fences and other “hard” barriers – and the people who live in their shadows – Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio visited walls in Berlin, Morocco, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, Israel, Palestine, India, Cyprus, Montreal, Belfast and along the US-Mexico border.

“What Di Cintio does do, bravely and forcefully, and with impressive commitment, is to bear witness to the suffering of people who live in the shadow of separation barriers.” – The Guardian

Presented by the Goethe-Institut

Culture talks @ Goethe-Institut

100 University Ave., North Tower, 2nd floor, Toronto

free admission

www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en12870291v.htm

Nov 7, 5.30pm: Culture talks @ Goethe: media artist Pedro Ferreira

In our first juried residency within the two-year international media art project “Move On”, Wroclaw-based Portuguese artist Pedro Ferreira talks about his own practice between Europe’s south-west and north-east and the new experimental work “Fragments” he is undertaking in Toronto.

Presented by the Goethe-Institut & Images Festival

Part of the European Media Art Network Exchange with Australia and Canada 2014 & 2015

Supported by the Culture Programm 2013 of the European Commission and the Goethe-Institut

Culture talks @ Goethe-Institut Toronto

100 University Ave., North Tower, 2nd floor, Toronto

free admission

www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en12870343v.htm

November 13-16: “The Wall, And Other Stories” by Jurek Becker

Jurek Becker was one of the giants of postwar German literature. "The Wall" is a new collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or not published in book form before. Readings and discussions with Becker's widow Christine Becker.

Location: INSPIRE! The Toronto International Book Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Tickets $15 (+HST) adults; $10 students & seniors; free for children under 12

Details and hours see INSPIRE! website

www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en12870268v.htm

Contact:

Jutta Brendemühl

Program Curator

Goethe-Institut Toronto

100 University Ave, North Tower,

2nd floor, mailbox 136

Toronto, ON M5J 1V6

Canada