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Marc Gee – Change of time and venue!

Change of time and venue!
In August we will have a sunday instead of the monday session:
On monday, the 1st of August, 4-6 pm the UK author and film maker Marc Gee will be presenting his latest novel Autumn kill and answer your questions.
Where: In the beautiful wellness resort Longevity situated in the curve before arriving [...]

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Alfa Newsletter 10.10

dear ALFANs
I hope you are enjoying the summer that finally seems to have arrived. Coming monday, the 5th of July there won’t be any ALFA (thanks god for that, I hear somebody say, what difference does it make, another voice).
Well, I have tried for more than two years to give authors a platform to make [...]

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Newsletter january

Dear Alfans,
Before you can blink – the first month of this still very new year has almost swished past us, rained away or frozen stiff – depending on where in the world you happen to be. (Hopefully NOT in/on Haiti!!)
Now get yourselves together and come to this year’s first ALFA literary salon on monday the [...]

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ALFA concert

8.12. is a holiday (Mary’s immaculate conception – no comment) and another
ALFA concert at 5 pm in the Convento S. Jose, Lagoa. I wrote
ATTENTION! SLIGHT CHANGES:
THE VENUE IS THE AUDITORIO MUNICIPAL, i.e. the nice big theatre
and the actual concert starts at 5.30 pm, permitting you to comfortably go out for dinner afterwards.
Do me (and Lagoa) [...]

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Alfa english

7.12. ALFA english 7.30 pm Convento S. Jose, Lagoa DOWNSTAIRS  in the more cosy sala Polivalente – no stairs involved, no high stage.
Janice Russell will be presenting and read from her latest book – providing her sciatic nerve permits her to do so.
Octávio dos Santos will be presenting his recently published book – Poems -
a [...]

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Alfa october events

Coming events:
27. 10. 7.30 pm AM   ALFA-cinema   Sonnenallee (1999) by Leander Haussmann
The film portrayes a nostalgic view of the GDR  in the 1970s. During
the communist period the street was intersected by the Berlin Wall
including a border crossing.
30. 10. 7.00 pm CSJ  inauguration of the highly acclaimed photo exhibition
ORTSZEIT – LOCAL TIME (open – 30th of [...]

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ALFA invites – October 5th and more

Dear Alfans,
time flys and a sunny more yellow than golden October is upon us.
Tomorrow we show the first german ALFA-film of the season:
die Rote (1962) by Helmut Käutner:
Redhead, originally released in Germany as Die Rote, is adapted from a novel
by Alfred Andersch. Ruth Leuwerik is the carrot-topped protagonist, at wit’s
end over her disappointing marriage and [...]

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