Dear {Contact_First_Name},
At last, Spring has sprung! Trees have begun to bloom, birds are singing ... and many of you have managed to sneak out of town for Spring Break elsewhere. If that's you, we wish you safe travels! I'm in Berlin these weeks, but I certainly can't complain, since I had the chance to run off to Bratislava a week ago with 6 other AWC Berlin members for the inspiring FAWCO Conference. You can read our Conference Report here, with thanks to My-Linh Kunst for drafting it and to Shweta Gupta for her excellent minutes as FAWCO Board Secretary. I hope to see you on the 21st for our April membership meeting, this time featuring Hannah Jacobi as our Guest Speaker. Hannah will talk about mohit.art, the platform she co-founded for collaboration in contemporary art between Iran and Germany. It's a crucial time to amplify the voices of Iranian artists and promote international exchange, so I'm eager to learn more about the project. Join me - and invite a friend! Read on for our latest news, including your chance to get involved in planning fun for the 4th of July or in celebrating our 130th anniversary in 2024. I look forward to seeing you soon! Warmly,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Post Dräger
President, The American Women's Club of Berlin
president@awcberlin.org |
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Sara Lily Perez Ina Geige-Rabe Courtney Metzler Valbona Kleinert Marie Frohling Kate Waters Molly Gerster Sunny Lin Selica Winston Antje Ruhfus
We look forward to seeing you soon! |
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MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Friday, April 21 12:00pm |
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Join us at Kaffeehaus Mila near Savignyplatz to catch up on Club news, socialize with fellow members, and hear from our Guest Speaker, Hannah Jacobi, co-founder of the mohit.art platform.
Hannah is an art historian, author and curator specializing in global art. She co-directs the mohit.art platform, launched in 2021 to promote transnational collaboration in the visual arts between Iran and Germany. She has written and researched extensively on contemporary art in Iran, and for ten years developed projects at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW in Berlin, connecting theory and art. Monthly Membership Meetings are open to guests as well, so consider bringing a friend who might be interested in our speaker or our Club. As with all events, please be sure to register yourself and any guests so that we can plan appropriately.
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Hannah Jacobi, photo by Laura Braun |
11:30am: Registration & social time 12:00pm: Meeting begins 1:00pm: Meeting ends, optional lunch to follow
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Special thanks to member Sieglinde Tuschy for connecting us with Hannah and this project. |
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SHARE YOUR TALENTS, SHARE THE FUN!
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130TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE Our Club will celebrate its 130th anniversary in 2024. We are sketching out a year-long commemoration, and we could use your help! There are two work areas: - Historical research - Our archives are incomplete, especially concerning the Club’s history from 1893 through the Second World War. Club member Mary Pepchinski will be leading the charge to visit archives, find missing documentation, and learn more about our founding members. If this sounds like a wonderful treasure hunt to you, join us!
- Event planning - We’ll host a gala fundraiser, as well as smaller events throughout the year. If you’d like to be involved in the planning, join the anniversary event team.
Email My-Linh at mylinh.awcberlin@gmail.com with your interest to join one of these work areas. |
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4TH OF JULY We're looking forward to our annual Independence Day celebration, to take place this year on Sunday, July 2. We could use your creative ideas to plan games, music, and other festive activities for kids and adults to celebrate the day. Sound fun? Email president@awcberlin.org to join our planning group. |
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BOOK CLUB Q&A
(Thanks to Kathy Lyon, who first posted these tips in Bookmarked in Berlin - our Club's private Facebook group dedicated to book-related discussion.)
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Q: Where can I find the list of books the Book Club is reading (or has previously read)?
A: Here is the list of our Book Club selections through July 2023, going back to 2015.
Q: Where can I find English-language books?
A: Many regular Book Club members get all of their (digital) books through the Berlin Library or libraries in their home towns in the US. If you're a print lover, there are many bookshops across Berlin, especially in Prenzlauer Berg and Neukölln, that have either a large English section or stock only English books. Often you'll need to special order English books (especially older titles), and most local shops are happy to do this for you: call, email, or just drop in. Genialokal is a service to help you search and place your own special orders online, to be delivered to your home or a local bookstore.
Q: How can I suggest a title for the Book Club to read?
A: The coordinators meet twice a year to select titles for the upcoming six months. We pull titles shared with us via this Google form. The group will meet again soon to select titles for the second half of this year - so suggest away! |
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SPOTLIGHT ON PROGRAMS
Mountain Retreat Excursion: Zakopane
May 27 - 29
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Explore beautiful Zakopane, Poland
The last weekend of May is a holiday weekend in both Germany (Pfingsten/Pentecost) and the US (Memorial Day). Let’s take advantage of the long weekend with a trip to mountain resort town of Zakopane in Poland! With thermal baths, mountain hikes, and delicious cuisine, Zakopane is a beautiful getaway, accessible by train from Krakow. Rooms are being held for us at a beautiful mountain lodge; please try to book your room by April 15 for best availability. |
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Pictured: Gościniec Góralski Dwór lodge in Zakopane |
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Special thanks to Meg Harvey, VP Programs, for suggesting and organizing this excursion. Contact her at programs@awcberlin.org with questions. |
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BERLIN NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS |
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AWC Berlin Neighborhood Groups are a casual way for members to get together - for coffee, a drink, a walk, whatever suits the group. Coordinators organize gatherings via email, phone, or WhatsApp. The following neighborhoods have coordinators:
- Schöneberg/Wilmersdorf (Sahar Bargouti)
- Prenzlauer Berg (Melanie Baur)
- Reinickendorf (Ute Maisl-Wust)
- Charlottenburg/Westend (My-Linh Kunst)
- Charlottenburg/Kudamm (Kathryn Völkner & Janet Chesterman)
- Mitte (Amaya Lansing)
- Kreuzberg (Ulrike Henn)
- Dahlem/Lichterfelde West (Nelly Heidbrink)
- Kleinmachnow/Teltow (Robina Lillecrapp)
Are you already a member of your neighborhood group? If not, contact the coordinator and join the list! You can find member contact details in the Wild Apricot app or the Member Directory on our members-only website. Or email Silvia at membership@awcberlin.org to make the connection. |
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FAWCO: Our International Network |
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Bratislava Conference Recap: Read the full Conference Report here. Special congratulations to our member Suzy Nguyen on winning an Education Award to study gouache illustration. We are proud of you, Suzy! NEW: Thanks to FAWCO, AWC Berlin members who are US Citizens living abroad can now open bank accounts through the State Department Federal Credit Union, even if you no longer have a US Address or phone number. Details here. Do you ever get stuck trying to access links on the FAWCO website, denied because you're "not a FAWCO member"? As a member of AWC Berlin, you already ARE a FAWCO member; you just need to register for a login here. Phew! |
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Johanna Dishongh writes: As US Liaison, I coordinate FAWCO’s work with other overseas advocacy organizations and represent FAWCO’s positions in Washington. We are excited to return to Washington DC to advocate on your behalf in May and June of this year. If you have had any issues yourself or with your family member on any US issue – registering to vote or receiving a ballot; passport renewals or registering a child born abroad; tax filings, access to banking or financial services (either in US or your country of residence) or any other issue unique to an American abroad – please email me at usliaison@fawco.org with your story.
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AWC Berlin is a founding member of FAWCO, a network of American and international women's clubs around the world. AWC Berlin members are automatically members of FAWCO, connecting you to philanthropy and advocacy on a global scale. Learn more at FAWCO.org. |
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Week of April 17
Art & Culture: Industrial Photography in Divided Germany (In Person)
Monday, April 17, 11am-1pm
Mahjong (In Person)
Tuesday, April 18, 10:15am-12:15pm
Evening Book Club (Zoom)
Tuesday, April 18, 7-9pm
Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Mitsuko Uchida (In Person)
Tuesday, April 18, 7-10pm
Thirsty Thursday (In Person)
Thursday, April 20, 6:30-8pm
Monthly Membership Meeting (In Person)
Friday, April 21, 11:30am-2pm
Late Night Klezmer at the Philharmonie, with Noah Bendix-Balgley and Amihai Grosz (In Person)
Saturday, April 22, 9pm
Sunday Brunch at Eigengrau (In Person)
Sunday, April 23, 12-2pm |
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Week of April 24
German Conversation (In Person)
Monday, April 24, 9:30-10:30am
Tennis: Summer Season
Tuesday, April 25, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Women's Writes: April Feedback (Google Meeting)
Wednesday, April 26, 7-8:30pm
Art & Culture: Private Tour of Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin (In Person)
Thursday, April 27, 11am-1pm
Art & Culture: Broken Music Vol. 2 at Hamburger Bahnhof (In Person)
Friday, April 28, 11am-1pm
Swap, not Shop (In Person)
Saturday, April 29, 3-6pm |
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AWC BERLIN ONLINE AWC members can manage their account, access the membership directory and sign up for events by logging into their AWC member account. You can access your account from your smartphone via the Wild Apricot Mobile app, or simply by going on any computer with internet and visiting the "Members Login" area of the AWC Berlin website. Calendar and Event Registration As a reminder, AWC Berlin members must log in with a user name and password to access events on our calendar and register for them. So that we know to expect you, please remember to register for events you wish to attend.
IN THE MEMBERS ONLY AREA, you can:
- Register for and cancel events
- See your event registration
- Add events to personal calendar
- See who else is going
- Much more...
Step 1: Go to the AWC website and click "Members Login" (request new password from the website if needed). Manage your events from the calendar.
Step 2: You could also download the Wild Apricot Member app to your smartphone or tablet and use your website login on the app.
Step 3: Poke around and get familiar with the tools. See the Instruction Guide for detailed steps and pictures of set up and navigation. Currently, the event registration feature of the app is not available to Android users, but otherwise the app is fine for Android users. Questions? WA-Admin@awcberlin.org. |
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AWC BERLIN & SOCIAL MEDIA |
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AWC BERLIN FACEBOOK POLICY The AWC Berlin Private Members Only Facebook group is open to current members only and is a casual, respectful and friendly forum for member announcements (for example, babies! weddings!, etc.), discussion, information and questions regarding AWC-related topics and/or life in Berlin. Only authorized AWC Berlin events that are already listed on the AWC Calendar can be created as an event in our Facebook group. Please do not post charity donation requests or political items not related to the AWC Berlin. You are invited to let us know about your business, but please limit commercial, self-promotional posts to Mondays and be sure to preface your post with MARKETING MONDAY. No comments are allowed on these posts. When in doubt, please send your question to facebookpolicy@awcberlin.org.
Thank you for your cooperation! AWC Berlin Facebook Page | AWCB Website |
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