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25th anniversary of the city partnership between Berlin and Paris
2012
The city partnership between Berlin and Paris is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, since the agreement on friendship and cooperation between Paris and Berlin was signed in Berlin on 2 July 1987.
Berlin and Paris want to use this anniversary to draw attention to the many projects and encounters being organized by the people of both cities and to generate new ideas for our relationship in the future.
The anniversary program is intended to spark interest and curiosity and to encourage others to start their own initiatives within the framework of our city partnership contacts.
On 27 February 2012, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, will announce the anniversary program at a joint press conference at the Paris Town Hall and unveil the bilingual program website www.paris-berlin25.com
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Across the Atlantic – BMW Guggenheim Lab on the way to Berlin
24 May to 29 July 2012
Berlin is the second stop on the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s nine-city tour around the world. This mobile think tank and “future laboratory” started off in New York in the fall of 2011. Its third stop will be Mumbai, where it concludes the first of its two-year thematic cycles, “Confronting Comfort.”
The lab is conceived as both an urban think tank and a multidisciplinary meeting place. Young international teams from the fields of city planning, architecture, art, design, science, academics, technology, education, and sustainability use projects, experiments, and public discourse to explore issues related to contemporary urban life. The goal is to investigate and experiment with new concepts and to develop forward-looking solutions to problems of life in the city. It is intended to spark discourse in the cities it visits, on the BMW Guggenheim Lab website, and in social networks. Find out more at www.bmwguggenheimlab.org.
VAMOS Hertha! Argentina tour in 2012
2 to 13 April 2012
The youth football teams U 12 from Hertha 03 Zehlendorf and U 11 from Hertha BSC have been invited to visit one of the world’s football powerhouses: Argentina. Their motto will be “VAMOS Hertha!” as they travel to Rosario and Buenos Aires from 2 to 13 April. Their Argentinean coaches are playing a big part in the organization of this training and exchange trip. The two teams will play against the Boca Juniors and River Plate, top teams in Berlin’s partner city Buenos Aires, among others.
Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit welcomed the two teams and their coaches and other organizers to the Berlin Town Hall and wished them every success with what is sure to be a very interesting trip within the framework of our city partnership.
60th anniversary of the German-American Fulbright Commission – Annual meeting at the Berlin Town Hall
20 March 2012
Around 300 American and German Fulbright Scholars will be welcomed to the Berlin Town Hall on 20 March 2012 by the Head of the Senate Chancellery, Permanent Secretary Björn Böhning, for their organization’s 58th Berlin Seminar. The German-American Fulbright Commission is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
Since 1954, the annual meeting of American Fulbright Scholars has traditionally taken place in Berlin. Named after former American Senator J. William Fulbright (1905-1995), the program was founded in 1952 as a bilateral German-American student exchange program aimed at promoting mutual understanding between the two countries through academic and cultural exchanges. As the largest and most diverse of the Fulbright programs worldwide, the German-American Fulbright Program has supported more than 42,000 Americans and Germans since its inception in 1952.
“Pacific Standard Time – Art in Los Angeles 1950–1980” at the Martin-Gropius-Bau
15 March to 10 June 2012
The Berliner Festspiele and the Martin-Gropius-Bau are organizing an exhibition by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, which was made possible by the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles and is being funded by the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin.
The “Pacific Standard Time – Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980” exhibition project traces the development of the postwar Los Angeles art scene. This strikingly diverse and versatile West Coast art scene demonstrates that the city on the Pacific is more than just Hollywood or a sprawling metropolis in the land of sunshine and palm trees. “Pacific Standard Time” spotlights internationally renowned artists.
More: www.berlinerfestspiele.de.
Exhibition: “Karl Marx & Eternal Peace: Images of Two Boulevards in Beijing and Berlin”
10 March to 17 June 2012
The exhibition Karl Marx & Ewiger Frieden. Bilder zweier Prachtstraßen in Peking und Berlin (Karl Marx & Eternal Peace: Images of Two Boulevards in Beijing and Berlin) by the Chinese artist Lu Hao will open at the Museum of Asian Art on 10 March 2012. This exhibition will run from 10 March to 17 June 2012 in the Dahlem Museums.
The artist created two 50-meter-long scroll paintings of Chang'an Street in Beijing for the Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007, and a 21-meter-long pendant to these depicting Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin. The scroll paintings are being shown together for the first time in Berlin. You can find out more here: www.smb.museum.
Berlin – Beijing city partnership
Berlin and Beijing will now be working together on tourism. Beijing has asked Berlin to join the World Tourist Cities Federation (WTCF) as a charter member, and Berlin is very pleased to accept this invitation. We are glad to have visitBerlin representing Berlin’s interests in this organization.
The WTCF has been launched as a networking platform and aims to develop joint marketing instruments with its member cities and organizations that will benefit all members and be used as part of a concerted effort. Dialogue and exchange platforms will be established and conferences and exhibitions organized, among other things. The idea is to tap tourist markets worldwide and to improve exchanges on tourism between the member cities.
Berlin – Paris city partnership
