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BERLIN 

Resistance -- A reading by Welsh author Owen Sheers -- moderated by Jan Bild

Owen Sheers will read from his novel Resistance and there will be a chance for discussion and questions from the audience (in English); Entrance free, for more information see the Berlin intercultural reading group’s website: http://www1.to/reading-group

Wednesday 1st October, 7 pm at the Ingeborg Drewitz Library, 3rd floor Schloss Centre, Rathaus Steglitz (U9 and S-Bahn)

Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin: InternationalSLAM!Revue

A great chance to see Mark Terrill and MC Jabber performing, as well as the other class acts (see the festival website for details: www.literaturfestival.com and click on Specials)

Thursday 2nd October, 8 pm, Ballhaus Ost, Pappelallee 15, Berlin, 12 euros.

Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin: SLAM Special!

As part of the ILB, Berlin Slammer Martin Jankowski hosts a show presenting the

best of the International Slam Revue, alongside some surprise guests. International Poetry Slam show with Lara Stoll (Switzerland), Markus Köhle (Austria), Mark Terrill (USA), Ludditák (Hungary) und Wojciech Cichon (Poland) Host: Martin Jankowski, Free Entry!

Friday 3rd October, 8 pm, Baxpax hostel roof terrace, Ziegelstrasse 28, 10117 Berlin, S-Bahn Oranienburger Strasse

COMEDY: The Laugh Olympics

Every Saturday the Laugh Olympics will be held at Kookaburra Comedy Club on Schönhauser Allee! See: www.laugholympics-berlin.de

4th, 11th, 18th, 25th October, 11.30 pm, Kookaburra Comedy Club, Schönhauser Allee 184, 10119 Berlin-Mitte, Tickets 10€ / 8€ students, For advance sales or group sales, call Brian Kapell (0173) 649 0106

Worldwide Reading of Mahmoud Darwish and ILB Closing Event

The reading will feature more than 20 writers, actors, translators and friends of Mahmoud Darwish, and will be the closing event of this year's festival (September 24- October 5). The reading will include the following poems: "Oh my father, I am Yusuf," "A lover from Palestine," "Psalm Three," "He is calm, and I am too," "We love life," among others. For more information check the website: www.literaturfestival.com)

Sunday, 5th October, 7 pm, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Große Bühne, Schaperstraße 24, Berlin

No Man's Land Translation Lab

No "homework" and no advance planning required! Simply show up with your texts (either for publication or for fun) and we will discuss as many as can be accommodated (first come, first served). Excerpts to be discussed should total no more than 1-2 pages so that they can be read on the spot. Please bring sufficient copies (about 6) of both original and translation. Apart from the in-depth discussions, we'll reserve some time for people with "quickie" questions, i.e. on single words, expressions, etc. If no texts are in the offing, the organizers will provide a problem text of their own and/or other material to get the discussion going. Even if you don't have a text to discuss, you are more than welcome to come and brainstorm, critique, kibitz or simply listen. We look forward to seeing you there and hearing your thoughts and suggestions! -- Isabel Cole and Katy Derbyshire

Tuesday October 7th, 8 pm in Max & Moritz (Bibliothek, upper floor),

Oranienstraße 162, X-berg, Berlin. www.no-mans-land.org/ isabel@andere-seite.de

American Academy Lecture

Jagdish Bhagwati -- In Defense of Globalization

Location: Magnus-Haus Berlin, Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin

Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor of Economics and Law, Columbia University

Economic Policy Forum

Please register with Sara.Seppelfeld@randomhouse.de

In cooperation with Pantheon Verlag

Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

The 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, organised by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin at the Babylon Mitte will show the winning entries to the competition from all over the world, with English language poetry films as part of the programme. For more information see: http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org/index.php?id=494&L=1 and www.babylonberlin.de/zebra08.htm

Thursday 9th October to Sunday 12th October, Babylon Mitte Cinema, Rosa

Luxemburg Platz, U-Bahn U2, Tram M2, Bus 240

Midnight Poetry

English-German reading with Tyler Williams & E.C.M. Tuex

Friday 10th October 2008 at 11:45 pm, coffee karma, Sonntagstrasse 30, 10245 Berlin (near Ostkreuz) free entry! check: www.midnight-poetry.net

Creative Writing Group Monthly Meeting

Read out your own texts for constructive discussion (fiction, verse, verse translations). Please bring 15 copies. Room charge: 3 euros

Friday, 10th October, 7 pm, Buchhändlerkeller, Carmerstrasse 1, 10623 Berlin

(near Steinplatz).

FUEL spoken word and performance night

Featuring comedy, poetry and short stories from Jacinta Nandi and friends and live music from Romanian special guests NU & APA NEAGRA – OMAG   (see www.lollipopshop.de for more info and links to listening samples)

Sunday 12th October, 9pm start, Schokoladen , Ackerstr 169, Berlin-Mitte 

American Academy Lecture

Kenneth Pollack -- A Transatlantic Strategy for the Greater Middle East

Location: American Academy in Berlin

Kenneth Pollack, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle

East Policy, Brookings Institution; moderated by Volker Stanzel, Political

Director, German Federal Foreign Office

David Rubenstein Foreign Policy Forum

Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

American Academy Lecture

Simon Schama - The American Future: A History/The Campaign in the Light of the Past

Location: American Academy Berlin

Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia

University; moderated by Amb. John C. Kornblum, Senior Counselor, Nörr

Stiefenhofer Lutz; and Trustee, The American Academy in Berlin

Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

American Academy Lecture

Ha Jin -- Writing about the US Immigrant Experience

Location: American Academy Berlin

Ha Jin, Professor of English, Boston University

We are deeply grateful to Karl von der Heyden, a native Berliner and founding

Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, and to his family, who have generously endowed in perpetuity two semester-long fellowship for fiction

Inaugural Mary Ellen von der Heyden Lecture

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

Springs and Strings Festival

Enjoy great live music, spoken word and storytelling at this new festival at LUX in Kreuzberg. "DANIEL KAHN AND THE PAINTED BIRD make their return to Berlin after a several month sojourn in the United States. Their critically acclaimed Klezmer music brings the best out of the folk tradition: powerful storytelling and driving instrumentation. Bluegrass and old-time staples THE NEW PROHIBITION BAND also perform, along with an acoustic version of the Berlin-favorite JAZZOETRY featuring poet and organizer ANTHONY BAGGETTE. For more info see: http://springsandstrings.wordpress.com/

Tickets are 5 Euros for a single night, 8 Euros for a two-night ticket, available on the door.

Thursday 16th & Friday 17th October, LUX, 8 pm, Schlesische Strasse 41, Berlin-Kreuzberg, U-Bahn U1 Schlesisches Tor, S-Bahn Warschauer Strasse, Bus 147, 265

Wonderbar: a night of performances, spokenword and live music hosted by lady gaby with: Depressivo & R.J.Schlagseite

Friday 17th October, 9pm start, Wonderbar, Wienerstr 45 Berlin-Kreuzberg

The Laugh Olympics

Every third Tuesday in the month, the Laugh Olympics is held at Kookaburra

Comedy Club on Schönhauser Allee! See: www.laugholympics-berlin.de

Tuesday, 21st October, 8.30 pm, Kookaburra Comedy Club, Schönhauser Allee 184,

10119 Berlin-Mitte, Tickets 10€ / 8€ students, For advance sales or group sales, call Brian Kapell (0173) 649 0106

American Academy Lecture

Patty Chang -- Touch World

Location: American Academy Berlin

Patty Chang, Artist, New York; moderated by Anette Hüsch, Curator, Hamburger

Bahnhof -- Museum für Gegenwart

Guna S. Mundheim Artist Talk

Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

borderlines @ styx project space

A (German&English) reading in the borderlines series, featuring Mathias Traxler, Martin Lechner and Brazilian-English poet Ricardo Domeneck. www.myspace.com/ricardodomeneck/ www.myspace.com/borderlinesberlin

Saturday 25th October, 7.30 pm, Alte Brauerei Friedrichshöhe (2. Stock), Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin

American Academy Lecture

Juliet Floyd -- Aesthetics, Mathematics, and Philosophy: Is there an Intersection?

Location: American Academy Berlin

Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy, Bostopn University; moderated by Jochen

Brüning, Professor of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Executive

Director, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik

Siemens Lecture

Monday, October 27, 2008, 8:00 p.m.

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

Exberliner magazine’s Wednesdays at Burger

This month it’s definite…Clare Wigfall (The Loudest Sound and Nothing, Faber) will be reading at the Exberliner’s regular last-wednesday-of-the-month event at the notorious Kaffee Burger. Check their website for more info nearer the time, and have a look at Clare’s excellent stuff while you’re at it! www.exberliner.com / www.myspace.com/clarewigfall

29th October, 9 pm, Kaffee Burger, Torstrasse 60, Mitte, U-Bhf

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

American Academy Lecture

Sarah Oppenheimer -- Folding Enterprises

Location: American Academy Berlin

Sarah Oppenheimer, Artist, New York

American Academy Artist Talk

In cooperation with Galerie Duve Berlin

Thursday, October 30, 2008, 8:00 p.m

Register by sending an email to program@americanacademy.de

BeatStreet Poetry: A Nightmare on BeatStreet

This month Beatstreet is putting on a special Halloween event - the event will entail BeatStreet regulars dressing up as their favourite dead poets and reading from those poets’ works. Host Rob Grant will be reading Charles Bukowski, Berlin performance poet Moon will be doing Jack Kerouac…Erin Teegarden will be reading Anne Sexton and co-host Mike is reading Edgar Allen Poe. There will also be music and an after-show party with The Cowboy Killers. It’s going to be a fancy dress party gig, so anyone dressed up, gets in for free!

Friday 31st October, Coffee Karma, 9pm, Sonntag Strasse 30, S-Bahn Ostkreuz

Berlin Festival of Poetry in English

This year’s Poetry Hearings promise to be the strongest yet, with 10 poets from the US, UK, Ireland and Australia reading over two nights at Salon Rosa, above the Sophiensaele in Berlin’s central Mitte district. Berlin favourite MC Jabber goes head-to-head with Jem Rolls, whose performances are currently taking Canada by storm. Critically acclaimed new Picador poet Annie Freud reads alongside Ben Borek, whose novel in verse Donjong Heights was described by Time Out as "truly fantastic".

THE PROGRAMME:

14 November, 8 pm

Jaya Savige (AUS), Padraig Rooney (IRE/Basel), Christian Hawkey

(US/Berlin), Annie Freud (UK), Ben Borek (UK)

15 November, 8 pm

John Hartley Williams (UK/Berlin), Carrie Etter (US/UK), Maurice Scully

(IRE), Jem Rolls (UK/Copenhagen), MC Jabber (UK/Berlin) MC: Alistair Noon

Venue: Salon Rosa, Sophienstr. 18 (above Sophiensaele), Berlin-Mitte, S-Bhf

Hackescher Markt, U-Bhf Weinmeister Str.

Tickets: 6 EUR (2-night festival ticket: 10 EUR)

Poetry Hearings gratefully acknowledges the support of Culture Ireland.

www.myspace.com/poetryhearings

Other Country Bookshop events:

They send out a weekly events list of films, discussions, games nights and book groups, but as it’s weekly, it’s hard to list here, so get on their mailing list if you’re interested (events take place at the shop in Kreuzberg) send an email to: another.country.books@gmail.com

Friends Club- English Speaking Social Club
The Friends Club, established in 2001, is a free English-speaking social club in Berlin.We meet every Tuesday at 19.30 in Gazel restaurant, Markgrafenstrasse 69, located at Kochstrasse near Check Point Charlie. All ages and nationalities welcome. For more information, contact Ralph at emile.bronte@arcor.de

World Language Party
Every Wednesday, an international party takes place on the ship, Eastern Comfort, on the Spree in Berlin. The gatherings attract an international mix, usually 50 to 100 people and the common language is English. Starts at 7 p.m., no entry fee, a small free buffet. As for Charles. Muehlenstr. 73 Contact: charlesclawson@hotmail.com, +01635272213

STUTTGART EVENTS

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FRANKFURT EVENTS

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HAMBURG EVENTS

Feldenkrais for English speakers
Hamburg
Monday evenings
7-8pm

Feldenkrais classes in Hamburg, held in English, Monday nights from 7-8pm with Kathryn Hume-Cook (Australian).

The Feldenkrais Method of movement education is a remarkably effective, sophisticated, yet simple approach to improving flexibility, ease and coordination in movement.

Learning to approach movement patterns in new ways can help us to approach thought patterns in new ways. Thus we can rediscover freedom, creativity and flexibility in our problem solving skills and in our ways of dealing with our lives.

Actors, sportspeople, dancers, musicians and other professionals around the world use the Feldenkrais Method to enhance their performance. Anyone interested in increasing their capacity for learning, facilitating change and realising their potential more fully can benefit.

Please contact info@leichter-bewegen.de for more information.

OTHER CITIES

We have Anglican services in English on the first Saturday of each month at 6 pm. More about that here: http://www.alt-katholisch-hannover.de/anglican.php

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English speakers' Stammtisch
Halle an der Saale

Every Friday, we hold a lively "Stammtisch" (organised get-together in a pub - Ed.) here in Halle an der Saale (Saxony-Anhalt) at Diebels am Händelhaus, Kleine Marktstraße 3, 06108 Halle, beginning at 7pm. Native speakers are encouraged to attend. The atmosphere is casual, enjoyable and fun.

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Updated September 2008

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