Poetry, sculptures, photography and events.

The organization of a series of piano recitals (3rd edition, in cooperation with piano restauration atelier Toets des Tijds; Blue Mondays, evenings for which we invite fellow artists to present their work-to-be (and their struggles with it) in our studio to a selected audience in order to help them to finalize the work; Body Double, a filmed performance in which the performers (college students from the Amsterdam Bijlmer Scholengemeenschap play with shadows in a Wayang Gulit way); Chat Challenge, a theatre play with youngsters on the impact of modern technology on their identity (together with Theater De Engelenbak); Harira, a theatre play on migration, to be performed in public spaces along the route Amsterdam-Casablanca (together with various partners in Holland, France, Spain and Morocco); etc.

We realise interdisciplinary projects in a spirit of partnership and cooperation, which generate long-lasting effects. Our worldwide network stands for high quality and direct contact. We combine over 50 years of continuity with change and innovation in order to overcome new challenges.
We foster the principle of respectful cooperation both within the institute and with others. This means: appreciation of achievements and commitment, taking up responsibility, sensitivity in our interactions, openness and critical faculties.
Goethe-Institut sets internationally recognised standards in the teaching and learning of German as a foreign language. It runs language courses, compiles teaching materials, trains teachers, contributes to scientific research and participates in politicolanguage initiatives.
Goethe-Institut monitors trends in Germany and encourages cultural collaboration across the globe by organising programmes of events and making contributions to various festivals and exhibitions in the fields of film, dance, theatre, literature and translation.
Libraries and information centres, forums for discussion, diverse print-, audio- and video-publications and our visitors’ service aim to paint a contemporary portrait of Germany, promoting international discourse on the key concerns of what is becoming an increasingly global society.
Together with our local partners we plan and organise the following:
- Conferences, colloquiums, symposiums, lectures, readings and workshops
- Concerts of classical and contemporary music, jazz, pop, rock and hip-hop
- Music masterclasses
- Exhibitions
- Film screenings
- Television and radio seminars
- Performances of ballet and dance
- Theatre productions.
The extent, cost and organisation of these events vary according to topic and location. However, expert seminars covering a number of objectives carry the same weight as prestigious large-scale events.

Dance training and choreography projects, training the trainers workshops aimed at developping and spreading dance amongst youngsters. Le Grand Cru has a specific method that reveals the strenght and identity of cultures and putting it in a contemporary setting
Le Grand Cru works from a self developed unique mapping methodology. The purpose of this technique is to reveal the social and cultural identity of the participants ( dancers / actors) and at the same time has its focus on intercultural exchange. The method focuses on issues dealing with general culturally recognizable human values. Through a process of guiding assignments and improvisations all kind of matters pop up that stimulates cultural awareness: who are you, what is important for an individual's life, matters from personal to politics. By using this method De Geus en Bijvoets do not work with preconceived issues but they let the themes for a performance organically come into being. This unique method of working is constantly tested, extended and adjusted.

Project Lixus- Larache, Morocco

Marom Budapest has been residing and working within a unique non-profit cultural center (squat) in the heart of the Jewish district of Budapest, called Sirály, Since 2006. (www.siraly.co.hu)
Here our main programs are the New Year of the Trees (Tubishvath), Purim, The day of civic culture, Hanuka-Christmas-Eid El Adha and further films, discussions, exhibitions.
We support an egalitarian prayer group, called New Generation (Dor Chadash) and we celebrate together Jewish holidays, like Seder night. We have one bigger festival yearly outside of Budapest (Jewstock), in 2009 between 6-8. August.
Our online projects are: www.pilpul.net - an alternative Jewish life style and academic magazine and www.jewave.com video-sharing website. Once a year we have the Marom -roof on the occasion of the Jewish holiday "Sukkot".
We support artistic and cultural initiatives for re-creating Jewish culture, such us the Hungarian music bands Hagesher or Skayach.

Il Caffè del Conte sin dalla sua costituzione, avvenuta nel dicembre 1997, si occupa di arte e letteratura; promuove il territorio e le sue risorse umane, artistiche e culturali; la conoscenza della storia e della cultura di Capitanata, ivi compresa l’eno-gastronomia locale.
Il 31.12.1999 ha fondato la testata “Cult.” e dal 17 gennaio 2005 è iscritto all’Albo degli Editori e Stampatori.
In questi anni si è dedicato a realizzare rassegne musicali, mostre d’arte personali e collettive, presentazioni di libri, incontri con gli autori, incontri con esperti nei vari campi del diritto, della storia, della medicina, della filosofia.
Ricordiamo, in particolare:
- la mostra d’arte “Cultura contadina ed arte contemporanea” di Pietro Spadafina, inaugurata da Vittorio Sgarbi al Museo del Grano (anno 2000);
- la mostra fotografica dedicata al Premio Nobel Ernest Hemingway con la presenza del nipote John (anno 2005);
- per gli “incontri con l’autore” la giornalista RAI Mariù Safier ed il suo libro “Mafalda di Savoia – un ostaggio nelle mani di Hitler”, insieme ad una mostra fotografica (anno 2006).
Dal 2005 il Caffè del Conte è associato alla Federazione italiana Scacchi ed, oltre ad organizzare tornei ufficiali ed amatoriali, ha collaborato con l’Associazione Scacchi Dilettanti alla stesura del progetto “L’arte degli scacchi” per promuovere la diffusione degli scacchi nelle scuole e la partecipazione degli studenti ai Giochi Giovanili studenteschi del 2007.
Appuntamento tradizionale, giunto alla settima edizione, il “Triangolare di…vino” è l’incontro annuale dedicato alla cultura del vino, svolto in collaborazione con l’Istituto Agrario Pavoncelli e con le cantine di Puglia e Basilicata presenti nelle diverse edizioni.
Il 19.02.2007 il Caffè del Conte è entrato a far parte dell’Associazione I Presidi del Libro” di Bari. L’obiettivo di diffondere il “piacere della lettura” si accompagna alla volontà di restituire un valore centrale al lettore, inteso come protagonista del processo di lettura. Dallo stesso anno è anche libreria e si è dotato di una piccola biblioteca.

THAILAND PROJECT
2005-2006 project: “Chao Lay after the Tsunami: formation for the sustainable development of an ostracized tribal community”.
MOROCCO PROJECT 1993-2003
Monitoring with the employment of biological indicators of the cedar forests in the Moroccan Middle Atlas.
THE NEW 2006-2007 MOROCCO PROJECT
“Desertification and human impact: Formation for the sustainable development of the last Amazigh tribes of the Moroccan Middle Atlas”
SMALL ISLANDS PROJECT
Socio-ecology of the Small Italian Islands
CASENTINO PROJECT
Census and monitoring, Casentino Forests National Park
INDONESIAN PROJECT
Rattan Celebes Island project (Sulawesi-Indonesia)
ZANZIBAR ROJECT
Evaluation of the impact of tourism on Zanzibar
PEMBA PROJECT
Pemba's Red Colobus survival and natural forest conditions
SRI LANKA PROJECT
Monitoring of the forest, the coral reef and Veddah project: an applied socio-eco-ethology project, Sri Lanka.

Participation au projet Langues d’Europe et de la Méditerranée (LEM), création d’un réseau national sur les langues d’Italie. Organisation de colloques internationaux annuels sur les droits linguistiques avec édition des Actes multimédia et en papier (http://portal-lem.com/fr/evenements/journees_droits_linguistiques.html) ; organisation d’un Festival sur les littératures minoritaires d’Europe et de la Méditerranée avec réalisation d’une Expositon itinérante sur les mêmes sujets et avec l’implication de plasticiens, de poètes et de musiciens (http://portal-lem.com/fr/evenements/festival_litteratures_minoritaires…) ; création de pages web concernant les différentes langues d’Italie, création et direction scientifique d’une Collection d’études sur les langues d’Europe et de la Méditerranée, à publier en ligne et en volume avec la maison d’édition Aracne de Rome. Création et direction d’un cycle de colloques en ligne (« Colloques virtuels », http://portal-lem.com/fr/evenements/colloques_virtuels.html). Organisation d’une grande exposition sur les « Langues de la Méditerranée », en préparation actuellement.

Videoprojects in public spaces, in commision of housing-companies in areas which are problematic. Working together with people who are living in the problematic neighbourhoud in order to come to a sence of communication between people. Through artprojects trying to create some space between people and to confrontate them with borders, possibilities and public spaces.