2nd German Cultural Week, Goa
9th 13th December 2009
9 December (Wednesday)
9:00 a.m. - Traditional German Home Pastry Class by German ladies
Agnel Institute of Food Crafts and Culinary Sciences, Agnel Ashram, Verna.
A morning class that allows you to learn how to make some of the traditional
German
cakes. Try it at a high-end non-professional pastry class.
Previous registration required. Limited number of participants. Please contact.
4:00 p.m. - "Dr. Elisabeth Dessai Prize in the Opportunity for Women and
Promoting
the Environment"
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim. Entry free.
The Ceremony will be presided over by Mr Aleixo Sequeira, Minister for Power
and
Environment.
In order to promote opportunities for women, especially those belonging to the
Goan
backward classes, and to take into consideration the environmental issues in
Goa,
the Indo-German Friendship Society, Goa (IGSG) is proud to announce the
institution
of two awards for Goan women. The "Dr. Elisabeth Dessai Prize in the
Opportunity for
Women and Promotion of the Environment" is funded by Dr. Venkatesh Dessai, an
eminent Goan surgeon at the Academic Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf,
Germany and husband of late Dr. Elisabeth Dessai. Dr. Elisabeth Dessai, a
German,
was an eminent social writer dealing especially with the problems faced by
women in
Germany and in Goa and was actively raising her voice in environmental issues.
The prize will be awarded every year and is administered by the IGSG.
10 December (Thursday)
5:30 p.m. - Presentation: Alternative System of Medicine - Homoeopathy, its
Indo-German Connection
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim. Entry free.
Dr. Indira Noronha e Fonseca, Homoeopathic Physician for Directorate of Health
Services (Govt. of Goa)
German Films: The Berlin Wall and behind
Feature films and documentaries about the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic
Republic (GDR). The screenings will commemorate twenty years of the fall of the
Berlin Wall. All films with English subtitles.
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim. Entry free.
6:30 p.m. - Mein Bruder. We'll meet again. Documentary directed by Thomas
Heise, 57
min, 2005
How can you decide to spend the last year of your life with the man who 30
years
previously was an informer for the Stasi in East Germany and betrayed your
political
activities? This is the question posed by this film and the one that Thomas
Heise,
the director, asks his brother, who now lives in a small French village working
as a
cook for Micha, the man in question.
7:30 p.m. - Good bye, Lenin! Feature film directed by Wolfgang Becker, 120 min,
2003
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His
mother
watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a
coma.
Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since
she
has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in
their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
11 December (Friday)
10:30 a.m. - Presentation: Good reasons for studying in Germany
Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Agnel Technical Education Complex,
Verna.
Entry free.
What conditions do I have to meet if I want to study in Germany? How can the
German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD-Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) help to
study and doing research work in Germany?
These and other questions will be explained by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guenter Hommel of
the
Technical University of Berlin
3.30 p.m. - Conference: Goans in Europe and Europeans in Goa - Cultural
Experiences
and Identity
Hotel Nova Goa, Panaji
Paulo Neves Pocinho, Consul General of Portugal; Udipta Ray, Secretary, NRI
Affairs;
Cecilia Menezes, Hon. Consul of Germany; Antonio Dal-Negro, Hon. Consul of
Italy;
Cesar Menezes, President of G.C.C.I.; John De Silva, Vice-Admiral (Retd.),
Chairman
Overseas Employment Agency of Goa; Aurobindo Xavier, President, Indo German
Friendship Society (Goa); Adelino Rodrigues da Costa, Delegate of Fundação
Oriente.
In collaboration with the Office of the Commissioner for NRI Affairs.
Commissioner
for NRI Affairs, Eduardo Faleiro, will preside. Other distinguished speakers
will
address the gathering.
German Films: The Berlin Wall and behind (continued)
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim
6:00 p.m. - Das Leben der Anderen ("The Lives of Others") Feature film
directed by
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 137 min, 2005/2006
The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the
former
East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and
his
longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big
intellectual
stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don't always think loyal
to the
party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so
the
secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple,
but
their life fascinates him more and more...
12 December (Saturday)
"German Alumni Meeting" and "TU Berlin (Technical University Berlin) Alumni
India
Meeting"
10:00 a.m. - Visit to the German company Putzmeister Concrete Machines Pvt Ltd,
Plot
N4, Phase IV, Verna Industrial Estate at the kind invitation of Mr.
Schmid-Lindenmeyer, General Manager of Putzmeister, Goa
1:00 p.m. - Alumni lunch. Alumnus Mr. Valentino Correia cordially invites the
German
alumni for lunch in his ancestral house built around 1800 at Velim - Salcete.
Dress
casual.
This is an opportunity to share information about professional life and a
reminder
about the great times in Germany. It promises to be a great day and a great
networking event! Open to all former students of German Universities and
Fachhochschulen. By invitation only. Please contact.
German Films: The Berlin Wall and behind (continued)
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim
6:00 p.m. - Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem (Last to Know) Documentary
directed by
Marc Bauder, Dörte Franke, 72 min, 2005/2006
Four former GDR political prisoners, sent to jail for openly opposing the East
German Regime, talk about their times of trial and their lives today. Neither
they,
nor their families, have come to terms with what happened and their offspring
show
little interest in their ordeals.
7:30 p.m. - Der irrationale Rest (The Irrational Remains) Feature film directed
by
Thorsten Trimpop, 95 min, 2005
In 1987, Suse's boyfriend Matthias flees the GDR with her best friend Susanne.
The
escape fails. They fall into the hands of the secret police, who try to break
their
will. It's not until sixteen years later that the three of them meet again.
Before
the reunion they visit the sites of their youth, their escape, and their
imprisonment. They begin to recall their collective past - the only remnant
that
connects their lives today.
13 December (Sunday)
10:00 a.m. - Roundtable: Language learning in the context of globalisation: The
study of European languages in Goa
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim. Entry free.
Maria do Céu Barreto, lecturer in the Dept of Portuguese at the Goa University
and
President of Goa Association of Teachers of Portuguese; Dr. Edith Melo Furtado,
Associate Professor at the Department of French and Francophone Studies, Goa
University and Member of Indian Association of Teachers of French; Manuela
Carponi,
lecturer in Italian language at the Goa University and President of Circulo
Italiano; Margarete Hermanns Xavier, lecturer in German language.
11:00 a.m. - Presentation: From Eicher Germany to Eicher India, narrated by
Dipl.-Ing. Egon Eicher, President of the non-profit "Eicher Association" Germany
Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim. Entry free.
German Festival
Oktoberfest with buffet and German music, Bazar, Film screening and information
about "Germany and Goa as Tourism Destinations", painting exhibition by Ms
Alexandra
Weidmann (Berlin)
4:00 p.m. onwards. The Oktoberfest will begin at 7:00 p.m. - Aguada Anchorage
Resort, Sinquerim
For information and contacts: 9850975140 or 9921170602
E-mail: [email protected]
We express our gratitude to:
German Embassy in New Delhi; Office of the Commissioner for NRI Affairs of Goa;
Ministry of Tourism of Goa; Consulate General of Germany, Mumbai; Max Mueller
Bhavan, Mumbai; Putzmeister Concrete Machines Pvt Ltd, Goa; Zeiss - GKB Hi-Tech
Lenses Pvt. Ltd., Goa; Sociedade de Fomento Industrial Pvt Ltd.; Padre
Conceicao
College of Engineering; Deutsche Welle (Germany's International Broadcaster);
The
German National Tourist Office; Agnel Institute of Food Crafts and Culinary
Sciences; Clube Vasco da Gama, Panjim; Aguada Anchorage Resort; Hype
Entertainment
Services and to all the Goans and Germans who contributed to the success of
this
German Cultural Week through generous and voluntary collaboration.
SOURCE: Indo German Friendship Society Goa (IGSG)
http://igsg.org/de/events-12-01-09.htm
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