Cultural Notes By Joelle Petit Adkins

Internationa Digital Library

ICDL (International Children's Digital Library) (http://en.childrenslibrary.org/) is a site that offers children's books from all over the world in various languages that have been scanned and can be looked at and read online.  The books can be searched by age, awards, length, language, genre or cover color among other ways. The books can be read by clicking to move through the pages. If the print is too small to read, just click the text, and it enlarges. The site also offers information about the books including author, publisher, publishing date and occasionally other information.

Next Week at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles

 

Dear Friends and Patrons,

please take note of these four Goethe-Institut Los Angeles events coming up next week:

 
 

AFI FEST - International Film Festival

Overall Festival Programming Philosophy:
For more than 40 years, AFI has embraced and inspired the world's film community. Continuing this tradition, AFI FEST presented by Audi showcases films from around the globe that stretch the limits of our imagination and expand our understanding of the world.

The Festival saw record levels of business through films represented at both AFI FEST and the American Film Market (AFM). Activity among US distributors was particularly heavy throughout AFI FEST, with a record 56 titles in Official Selection also being represented at the AFM.

For 10 days in the fall, AFI FEST is delighted to host the international film community in the film capital of the world.
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Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 7:00 p.m

Wednesday, March 7th   2007, 7:00 p.m.
  Emmas Glueck (Emmas Bliss)  
 
    Dir.   Sven Taddicken, starring Joerdis Triebel, Juergen Vogel, 2006, 99 min.,   German w/English s.t.
  Beautifully filmed, show-don't-tell flick about a man dying of pancreatic   cancer and a down-to-earth young woman who takes him into her farmhouse after   he wrecks the Jaguar he wanted to get away in. The situations they get into   are by turns absurd, funny and moving.
 
 
 

Director Taddicken treats the subject with cheer and grace and sure instinct   for what really matters.
  Read more about the film on the official website:     emmas-glueck.pandorafilmverleih.de ( German only)
 
 
   
Sven   Taddicken was born in Hamburg and is a graduate of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy.
In addition to winning numerous German and international awards, he was   nominated for the 2000 Student Oscar for his film Schaefchen zaehlen   (Counting Sheep).
 

 

 

Sven Taddicken will be present at the screening   and available for a Q&A.
  Reception for the filmmaker following the screening.

 

  Sven Taddicken is currently a fellow at Villa-Aurora and this program is   presented in collaboration with Villa   Aurora.

Admission for film and reception: $5.00 / Free for FOG members

Goethe-Institut Los Angeles,
5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Info: Tel. 323 525 3388

 

  Doors open   at 7:00   pm. Admission is on a   first come, first seated basis.  
  FREE PARKING in the building   after 6:00pm, please bring your parking stub for validation.

 

 

Ute Lemper, A Journey from Berlin to Los Angeles - March 14

Ute Lemper             

            

A Journey from Berlin to Los Angeles

            
            

Concert
March 14, 2007 at 8 PM
UCLA Royce Hall
Tickets: $30., $50., $60.
Ticket Office:310.825.2101 tickets@uclalive.org

            

            

            

                                          On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the L.A. - Berlin Sister city partnership, the LOS ANGELES-BERLIN SISTER CITY COMMITTEE in cooperation with LUFTHANSA present UTE LEMPER in
"A Journey from Berlin to Los Angeles"

Ute Lemper's performing career grows out of a passionate and enduring commitment to art, politics and history, and out of a contentious and complicated relationship with her homeland and its past. Her panache, versatility and sophisticated repertoire - including Berlin cabaret songs and the dark gems of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill - have led her to international acclaim as a recording artist, and in the theatre, cabaret and film worlds.

Guest of Honor, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.

http://www.utelemper.com/
http://www.la-berlin.org/