The German-Polish Seniors' Academy invites you to a lecture on senior citizens' policy in Germany and Poland on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 3:00 pm. The event will take place in the small lecture hall of the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice.

For the eleventh time, the Viaphoniker University Orchestra and the Frankfurt Friends of Music Orchestra are inviting you to a joint concert entitled "Uni meets Stadt". On Thursday, June 20, starting at 7 p.m., the Viadrina Audimax will be filled with the sounds of classical and modern music under the direction of Markus Wolff from the Frankfurter Musikfreunde and Robert Hübner and Tony Köster from the Viaphoniker.

As part of the lecture series "The Palace as Residence. People and artifacts, continuities and ruptures since the 18th century" of the Research Center Sanssouci (University of Potsdam, Viadrina and Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation), Prof. Dr. Paul Zalewski from the Viadrina will give a lecture on Monday, 17 June at 4 p.m. on the topic of "Palaces and their subsequent use in the age of modernity and postmodernity".

This year, the Oderland-Spree start-up partners working group is once again looking for committed entrepreneurs who have successfully implemented their business idea. To this end, the initiative presented the Founder Award 2024 at the East Brandenburg Founder & Entrepreneur Day in Strausberg on June 6.

On Wednesday, June 19, the Strausberg Employment Agency and the Märkisch-Oderland Job Center are hosting a job fair in the parking lots of both buildings. Anyone looking for a job or training position can drop by from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and receive first-hand information from employers in the region and their training and job opportunities.

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, the open day of the Frankfurt (Oder) Music School will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Interested people of all ages are invited to try out instruments and talk to the teachers. You can also listen to bands rehearsing in the Friedenskirche. A drumming workshop invites you to join in and a demonstration with an electric violin and loop station shows the diversity of the violin. Finally, there will be a concert in the Friedenskirche.

The application phase for the Kleist Prize for New Drama 2025 is in full swing. Authors have until August 31 to submit their works for the award, which is being presented for the 30th time by the Kleiststadt Frankfurt (Oder), the Dramaturgische Gesellschaft and the Kleist Forum Frankfurt (Oder). For the first time, the age restriction has been lifted; previously, applicants could not be older than 35 at the closing date.

Does German employment law offer sufficient protection? For whom? And to what extent does it enable intersectional and systemic inequalities and injustices to be addressed? The new English-language discussion series "Law ǀ Works" by the Center for Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies (C*LLaS) at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), which is being held in Berlin, is dedicated to these questions. The discussion series will kick off on Monday, June 17, 6:30 p.m., at Refugio in Berlin.

On Friday, June 14, 2024 from 9.15 a.m. to 5 p.m., the culture.landscape.excursion "Eisenhüttenstadt. On a discovery tour in the first socialist planned city of the GDR" with Dipl.-Ing. Architect Martin Maleschka. The expert guided tour by architect and artist Martin Malescheka offers the opportunity to get to know the first socialist planned town in the GDR.

Public viewing without annoying presenters can be experienced at the start of the European Football Championship on June 14 in Frankfurt's Kleist Forum. Stephan Graf von Bothmer, Germany's most successful silent film pianist, will be commentating live on the grand piano for the German national team's opening match against Scotland.