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May 9, Europe Day: US Events in
Celebration
Europe Day, May 9, marks the anniversary of the day in
1950 when the
European Union was conceived. French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman gave a
speech calling for European countries to combine their coal and steel production
under a single European institution, paving the way to our current European
Union.
European Commission President
Barroso
EU External
Relations Commissioner
Ferrero-Waldner (en
español)
- EU Ambassadors
Teach for A Day: EU Member State
ambassadors teach a class on the EU at Washington, DC, area
schools:
AUSTRIA: Ambassador Eva Nowotny at BENJAMIN BANNEKER High
School, Washington, DC, May 9
BELGIUM: Ambassador Frans van Daele at DUKE ELLINGTON
School of Arts, Washington, DC, May 10
BULGARIA: Ambassador Elena Poptodorova at MARET School,
Washington, DC, May 12
CYPRUS: Ambassador Euripides L. Evriviades at ST. PETER'S
Interparish School, Washington, DC, May 3
CZECH REPUBLIC: Ambassador Petr Kolar at THEODORE
ROOSEVELT High School, Washington, DC, Washington, DC, May
11
DENMARK: Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen at
GARNET-PATTERSON Middle School, Washington, DC, May 9
EUROPEAN UNION: Ambassador John Bruton at WOODROW WILSON
High School, Washington, DC, May 8
FINLAND: Ambassador Pekka Lintu or Deputy Chief of
Mission Matti Anttonen at McLEAN High School, McLean, VA, May 8
FRANCE: Ambassador Jean-David Levitte at ST. STEPHEN
& ST. AGNES High School, Alexandria, VA, May 15
GERMANY: Ambassador Scharioth at SPRINGBROOK High School,
Silver Spring, MD, May 9
GREECE: Ambassador Alexandros Mallias at MONTGOMERY BLAIR
High School, Silver Spring, MD, May 3
HUNGARY: Deputy Chief of Mission Viktor Szederkenyi at
WASHINGTON-LEE High School, Arlington, VA, May 12
IRELAND: Ambassador Noel Fahey at STUART-HOBSON Middle
School, Washington, DC, May 2
ITALY: Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta at WALTER JOHNSON
High School, Bethesda, MD, May 9
LITHUANIA: Ambassador Vygaudas Usackas at WAKEFIELD High
School, Arlington, VA, May 8
LUXEMBOURG: Ambassador Joseph Weyland at ALBERT EINSTEIN
High School, Kensington, MD, May 8
MALTA: Deputy Chief of Mission Mark Pace at SIDWELL
FRIENDS School, Washington, DC, May 12
NETHERLANDS: Ambassador Boudewijn van Eenennaam at MURCH
Elementary, Washington, DC, May 10
POLAND: Counselor Mariusz Brymora at BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE
High School, Bethesda, MD, May 1
PORTUGAL: Ambassador Pedro Catarino at GONZAGA COLLEGE
High School, Washington, DC, May 9
ROMANIA: Ambassador Sorin Ducaru at SCHOOL WITHOUT WALLS
Senior High School, Washington, DC, May 9
SLOVAKIA: Ambassador Ratislav Kacer at JEB STUART High
School, Falls Church, VA, May 11
SLOVENIA: Ambassador Samuel Zbogar at THOMAS JEFFERSON
High School, Annandale, VA, May 10
SPAIN: Ambassador Carlos Westendorp at WASHINGTON
INTERNATIONAL Upper School, Washington, DC, May 9
SWEDEN: Ambassador Gunnar Lund at CARDOZO High School,
Washington, DC, May 9
UNITED KINGDOM: Deputy Chief of Mission Alan Charleton at
WALT WHITMAN High School, Bethesda, MD, May 9
In celebration of Europe Day, Ambassador John Bruton teaches a
10th-grade class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC. Underlining
the importance of reaching America’s next generation, Mr. Bruton initiated an
area-wide effort that involves 26 European ambassadors in classroom discussions
about the European Union at local schools.
April 28 - 30:
- Washington
International Middle School: Europe Day Program
Event features representatives from the European Commission and
the EU Member States; Washington, DC.
- University of North
Carolina: 2-day program
on Europe
Including: Public Support for European Integration and Fresh Voices,
a US/European study group; Chapel Hill, NC.
May 1:
Ambassador Bruton to attend the conference; Washington, DC.
May 2:
Deputy Head, Washington Delegation, Angelos Pangratis to speak at
the conference; Washington, DC.
May 3:
Ambassador Bruton to speak at the conference; Washington, DC.
May 4 - 5:
- Deputy Head,
Washington Delegation, Angelos Pangratis: 2-day EU outreach
program
In cooperation with the Austrian
Embassy and Los Angeles Consuls General; Los Angeles, CA.
May 5:
- Agis Group
Conference: "Future Energy Demands Have the EU/US the
Answers"
Ambassador Bruton to speak; Washington, DC.
- Indiana University:
Workshop for Social Studies Teachers on "The EU and why it
matters for Indiana"
Bloomington, IN.
May 7, 8 & 9:
- Eleven US regional
newspaper editors to be briefed by EU officials
Organized by the American
Consortium on European Studies (ACES); Brussels, Belgium.
May 8:
- Meeting of EU
officials and members of the US/EU Congressional Caucus, Washington, DC.
- Transatlantic
Cooperation on Homeland Security: Roundtable Seminar.
European Security & Defense Policy (ESDP) and Wider Europe; ACES; Washington, DC.
At his residence in honor of Javier
Solana, EU High Representative for Common Foreign and
Security Policy. A number of US Senators and Congressmen and women
will also be in attendance; Washington, DC.
- Jazz Concert:
Jazzta Prasta
Martin Lubenov, accordion
Stefan Thaler, bass
Ventsislav Radev, drums
"Jazzta prasta" is a Bulgarian slang expression and
means something like “tohobohu: everything upside down.” Behind
this autoironic title, we find probably the most original Balkan
jazz group of our days. The musicians from Bulgaria and Austria
fuse old Southeast-European traditions with Latin-American
elements and ideas of the broad fund of swing and modern jazz.
May 8, 2006 at 7:30 pm at the Embassy of Austria, 3524
International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission free.
RSVP required: 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org,
www.austria.org/culture.
May 9:
- European Commission
President Barroso
on May 9
Peter Berz, of the Washington Delegation's Trade Section, to speak
at this event; Seattle, WA.
Ambassador Bruton to speak at this conference; Washington, DC.
Hosted by Ambassador
Bruton at his residence. Mr. Javier Solana, members of
Congress, business leaders, media, EU Ambassadors and about 500
guests will be in attendance; Washington, DC.
Hosted by Ambassador Fernando M. Valenzuela, EU Head of Mission of
the New
York Delegation, at the Cooper-Hewitt
Museum; New York, NY.
- Lecture: Professor
Jost Dulffer, Conrad Adenauer Visiting Chair at Georgetown
University
Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC
20001; RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext. 166, www.goethe.de/ins/us/was.
- Documentary Film
Presentation & Recital
“Oedipe: The American Premiere”
Romania, 2005, 57 minutes
English
Director: Mihai Cosma, Producer: Senso TV
The film relates to the story of the first American performance
of the singular opera of Romanian composer George Enescu in 2005
at the Foellinger Great Hall of Krannert Center, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. George Enescu has been a musician
whose fame extends worldwide to this day. Enescu's Romanian
Rhapsodies remain among the most important musical works ever to
emerge from Romania and the only works that have ever truly
captured the spirit of universal Romanian Culture.
The presentation of the film will be preceded by a recital of
George Enescu music.
May 9, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Embassy of Romania, 1607, 23rd
Street, NW, Washington, DC; admission free; for information
call: 202-332-4852, ext:151; e-mail: iilie@roembus.org; www.roembus.org.
- Panel Discussion:
"Phoenix from the Ashes: European Integration after World
War II and during the Cold War"
Panelists: Xavier Coller (Madrid), Hope Harrison (GWU), Emanuela
Scarpellini (Milan); moderated by Jost Dülffer (Cologne)
Over the past sixty years, Europe has emerged as a "phoenix
from the ashes" of World War II. Starting with six Western
European states, by the late 1990s the European Community
included fifteen states. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall
and the end of the Cold War, states from the former Eastern bloc
began to join, bringing the European Union to twenty-five states
in 2004. The panel will discuss this development and its social
and cultural repercussions on Europe over more than six decades.
May 9, 2006 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 812
7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001; admission free, RSVP to
202-289-1200 ext. 166, www.goethe.de/ins/us/was;
cosponsored by the German Historical Institute.
- Film: "One Day
in Europe"
Germany/Spain, 2005, color, 95 minutes
In Russian, English, Turkish, German, Galician, Hungarian and
French with
English subtitles
Director and Screenplay Hannes Stoehr
In Moscow, fans clad in red and gold have gathered to cheer on
their Galatasary Istanbul team against Galicia’s blue and white
Deportivo La Coruna club in a Champions League final. Against
the offscreen backdrop of this raucous match, four pairs of
mismatched Europeans struggle to understand each other in at
least seven mangled languages - defaulted into comically
accented English - as four tourist thefts are reported in four
different police stations. (Eddie Cockrell)
May 9, 2006 at 7:45 pm at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 812
7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001;tickets: $6; for Students,
Seniors and Friends of the Goethe-Institut: $4; for information
call: 202-289-1200, www.goethe.de/ins/us/was.
May 10:
Ambassador Bruton is the keynote speaker at the dinner; Stamford,
CT.
- Film:
"L’Auberge Espagnole"
France/Spain, 2002, color, 122 minutes
In French, Spanish, English, Catalan, Danish, German, Italian
with English
subtitles
Director and Screenplay: Cedric Klapisch
A representative of the European Commission of the European
Union will introduce the film.
In this hit from Summer 2003, as part of a job that he is
promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on
to Erasmus,
a European exchange program, in order to gain working knowledge
of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he
says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona.
Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural
melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of
international students who join him in a series of adventures
that serve as an initiation to life.
May 10, 2006 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 812
7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001;tickets: $6; for Students,
Seniors and Friends of the Goethe-Institut: $4; for information
call: 202-289-1200, www.goethe.de/ins/us/was;
cosponsored by the European Commission.
- Film: "Girlie
(Devcatko)"
A film by Benjamín Tuček, Czech Rep. 2002
(In Czech with English subtitles, 90 minutes)
This film maps a few days in the life of a seventeen-year-old
girl looking to find her place in a cool and disinterested
world, trying desperately to gain a sense of self. Without a
father, in an exhausted suburbia that is emotionally barren, the
lead role of Ema is played by the extraordinary Dorota Nvotova, who
surprised just about everyone when she hit the screen.
May 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Embassy of the Czech Republic,
3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008;
admission free. RSVP: 202-274-9100 x 3413, questions:
202-274-9105, www.mzv.cz/wwwo/?zu=washington.
- Exhibition: “The
Unknown Europeans”
Photos by Kurt Kaindl
Europe: Many nations, many languages and a quest for a common
identity based on cultural diversity. This exhibit takes a look
at some of Europe’s smallest national minorities: the
Albanian-speaking Arbëreshe in Italy, the Degesi in Slovakia,
the German-speaking Gottscheers in Slovenia, the Sephardim in
Bosnia-Herzegovina – descendants of Spanish Jews exiled in 1492
- and the Slavonic Sorbs in Germany. They defended their
cultures over many centuries and history’s vicissitudes and are
living evidence for a vision of Europe where the dismantling of
national boundaries is not a loss of identity but allows ethnic,
linguistic, cultural and religious diversity to thrive.
The Austrian photographer, Kurt Kaindl,
visited these minorities and documented their culture, everyday life
and landscapes in insightful and intense pictures.
Special viewing and guided tour during Europe Week: May 10, 2006 at
6:30 pm at the Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court, NW,
Washington, DC 20008; admission free, but limited to 60 guests. RSVP
required: 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org,
www.austria.org/culture.
- Concert: Flory
Jagoda, vocals and guitar
Susan Gaeta, vocals
Howard Bass, guitar
Sephardic singer and composer, Flory Jagoda, performs songs that
tell stories from the Sephardim in Sarajevo, Bosnia. In
conjunction with the Embassy’s ongoing exhibit “The Unknown
Europeans.” (See above.)
May 10, 2006 at 7:30 pm at the Embassy of Austria, 3524
International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission free,
but donations for the artists’ honoraria welcome; RSVP required:
202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org,
www.austria.org/culture.
May 11:
Hosted by Ambassador Bruton in honor of members of the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR). About 150 members will attend representing
CFR branches throughout the US; Washington, DC.
- Exhibition: Michael
Rittstein, Boris Jirku, Vladimir Kokolia
The exhibition is organized as an artistic contribution by Czech
painters to celebrate the vision of the new millennium and the
fact that the Czech Republic is a member of the European Union.
Each of the artists featured in this exhibition are outstanding
representatives of expressive figurative art building on the
tradition of the Czech modern grotesque.
May 11, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Embassy of the Czech Republic,
3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008;
admission free. RSVP: 202-274-9100 x 3413, questions:
202-274-9105, www.mzv.cz/wwwo/?zu=washington.
- Film:
"Rose-Tinted Dreams (Ružové sny)"
Slovak film (1976), color, 88 minutes
In Slovak with English subtitles
Director: Dušan Hanák
Poetic picture of love between the postman (Jakub) and young
Romany girl (Jolanka). Jakub (Juraj Nvota) lives in a rural
Slovak village and delivers the mail to the neighboring
gypsy settlement. A good-natured and friendly boy, he falls in
love with Jolanka (Iva Bittova) and she with him. However, their
parents and communities are dead-set againts a union between
these two. They run away together only
to discover that, despite their great love for one another,
they are too much a part of their communitites to remain together.
May 11, 2006 at 8:00 pm at the Slovak Embassy, 3523
International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission:
Optional donation of $5 to Friends of Slovakia at the door;
RSVP: information@slovakembassy-us.org.
May 12:
- Europe Day
Teleconference: Transatlantic Relations at Work.
Young professionals from the US and Europe discuss; University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Concert:
Villa-Lobos Trio
Rosângela Antunes, piano
Katrin Schickedanz, cello
Florian Wilscher, violin
Astor Piazzola: Verano Porteño (arranged by José Bragato)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Piano Trio No. 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Trio in B Flat Major, KV 502
Franz Schubert: Adagio (“Notturno”) in E Flat Major, D 897
Astor Piazzola: Primavera Porteña (arranged by José Bragato)
May 12, 2006 at 7:30 pm at the Embassy of Austria, 3524
International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission free.
RSVP required: 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org,
www.austria.org/culture.
May 16:
Ambassador Bruton will be the keynote speaker; Washington, DC.
May 19 - 20:
- Graduate Student
Conference: Governing Work and Welfare in an Enlarged Europe
University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI.
May 21 - 22:
- 2006 Graduate
European Union Simulation
Maxwell
European Union Center of Excellence, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY.
May 22:
Ambassador Bruton to speak at the seminar; Washington, DC.
- EU @ Cannes: Slovenian Director Kutin "New Talent" Award
Winner
In the presence of Culture and Audiovisual Ministers from the EU Member
States, the President of the Cannes Festival, cinema professionals and
technologists meeting to celebrate Europe Day 2006 at the International Cannes
Film Festival, Slovenian scriptwriter and director Blaž Kutin received the “New
talent in the European Union” award from EU Commissioner for Information
Society and Media Viviane Reding.
May 23
- Concert: From the
Series “Musical Treasures from Bulgaria”
To
introduce the wealth of European classic music and on the
occasion of 24 May, the Day of Slavonic Alphabet and Bulgarian
Culture.
May 23, 2006, by invitation only, at the Embassy of Slovakia,
3523 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008.
May 26:
- Global Music Radio
Program
University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
May 31:
Ambassador Bruton to deliver speech; Philadelphia, PA.
For further information please contact Kevin Gilna, Senior
Outreach Advisor @ 202 862 9535 or email; Kevin.gilna@cec.eu.int
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