Lovers of German language and culture can take heart.
The Goethe-Zentrum, also called Max Mueller Bhavan, in Thiruvananthapuram, is opening a branch in the city on February 23.
The centre, which will offer a wide spectrum of cultural and language programmes besides scientific, academic and art projects and programmes, will be located across Lotus Club on Warriam Road.
“The success of our activities over the past years and the emergence of Kochi as an art and industrial destination of Kerala have prompted us to start a branch in Kochi as well,” said Syed Ibrahim, director of the Goethe-Zentrum in Thiruvananthapuram.
Christoph Bertrams, director of Goethe Institute, Bangalore, will inaugurate the Centre. Andrea Christ, Deputy Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bangalore, will deliver the keynote address.
The inaugural at 5.30 pm at Lotus Club will be followed by an Indo-German music concert by noted artistes Florian Schiertz (on tabala), Wolfram Winkel (on drums) and Swetha Sivan (on violin).
A special exhibition on ‘Weaving Languages and Poetries’ by Zillie Homma Hamid, a Germany-born Pakistani visual artist who has been an active member of the German art collective ‘Honey Suckle Company’, will get under way as part of the inaugural till February 25.
The Goethe-Institute is a non-profit German cultural institution with a worldwide network and engaged in the promotion of German language outside Germany. It also fosters cultural exchange and relations. Goethe-Zentrum Thiruvananthapuram had played a role in bringing to the city an exhibition by German painter Eberhard Havekost ahead of the maiden Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012.
