AGB Open Sunday Part 4: Aphorisms, Cornering and Späti-Saufen

AGB Open Sunday Part 4: Aphorisms, Cornering and Späti-Saufen

Aphorisms are a great way to stretch the brain , to think big, like universe- and humanity-big. They're also called "street poetry" or "literature's handluggage." Last Sunda…

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AGB Open Sunday Nr. 3: Flash Stories or How To Think Of Things

AGB Open Sunday Nr. 3: Flash Stories or How To Think Of Things

Flash fiction is a bit like poetry. It acquires a mindset that is alert to things. "Do not dream of influencing other people," Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own , "Think …

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Preis der Nationalgalerie, Female Panels, and Who's gonna Win?

Preis der Nationalgalerie, Female Panels, and Who's gonna Win?

Panel at Me Collection for the exhibition Portrait of a Nation I always brace myself before I go to the talk of the Preis der Nationalgalerie, which happens every two years. I know that the sound wil…

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Open Sunday: Sonia Sanchez and Afternoon Haikus at the Library

Open Sunday: Sonia Sanchez and Afternoon Haikus at the Library

On the first Sunday of the AGB workshop Keep It Short! we thought about short thoughts, half thoughts, top of the head ideas etc. For the second workshop we explored haiku poetry - the art of few word…

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 AGB Open Sunday Action: Keep it Short at the Library

AGB Open Sunday Action: Keep it Short at the Library

The Amerika Gedenkbibliothek is my favourite library in town. I hang out there a lot. You can take your coffee to your working table, how cool is that! And now there's an action to keep the libr…

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