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While blogging about the things I’m passionate about yesterday, I remembered that I had totally forgotten to post about the Goethe Institut in Washington, DC. Since hearing about the Goethe Institut in high school, I had always wanted to visit one of their offices, but never had the chance until our TransAtlantic Program reunion last month. Straight from their About page, the Goethe Institut is “the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide,” and the DC office didn’t disappoint.

Film/Neu is their series of foreign films shown in the small theater. The office entrance showcased a few posters from some of the past features. (I especially love Good Bye Lenin! — it’s such an excellent film, and I love the design!)

Movie Posters in the Lobby

We were able to pick up a whole bunch of free bilingual publications: most of which were rather well designed. Nachtrecorder was one such publication that features beautiful black/white photography of German cities at night. Great design (I’ll have to take a photo) and great interviews/articles about the subjects photographed. We also got some really awesome buttons: who wouldn’t want a button that says “Na, und?” or “Prost!”

After a short program in the theater, we had lunch upstairs in their gallery space.

The gallery space

The exhibit that was currently showing was Ivonne Thein’s Thirty-Two Kilos.
Normally, I’m not a fan of this subject matter, but I really loved the lighting and just everything about these. You just couldn’t stop looking at them on the wall.
In any case, it was a really great visit, and I wish we had an office close-by so I could go to some of their programs or classes.

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