From Thursday, January 11 to Thursday, February 8, 2024, works from the Artothek will once again be on display in Gallery B of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. This year's exhibition of works from the Artothek takes a closer look at the various Frankfurt faces who have exhibited at Galerie B over the past decades.

Who is the best reader in Frankfurt (Oder)? At the regional round of the 65th German Book Trade Reading Competition, the winners of the school competitions in Frankfurt (Oder) will once again be competing against each other. Pupils from year 6 at all elementary school will then present passages of text to a three-person jury.

On Friday, January 12, the Muesum Viadrina invites you to a guided tour of the permanent exhibition. This will be followed by a reading at the "Victims of Political Tyranny" memorial and documentation site on January 14.

The Ministry of Culture is funding the planned conversion and renovation of the former movie theater into the new BLMK location in Frankfurt (Oder) with around 2.2 million euros this year and over the next two years. The funds will be made available for planning services.

With selected hits, songs and "Wiener G'schichten", the Cottbus State Theatre's production of the same name will create a coffee house atmosphere at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum on 15 and 17 December and whisk the audience away to the wild, wine-soaked and sometimes contradictory Danube metropolis.

On December 1, 2023, the state's most important business prize, the "Brandenburg Future Prize" 2023, was awarded to six companies at the Holiday Inn Berlin Airport Conference Center in Schönefeld, two of which were from Oderland-Spree.

The European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) officially opened the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies (VCPU) on Thursday, November 30. With the VCPU, interdisciplinary research into Polish and Ukrainian history and the present has a new center in Germany.

On November 30, Viadrina student Anastasiia Latkovska received this year's DAAD prize for outstanding achievements by international students. The prize was awarded during the opening of the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies.

As the largest event location in East Brandenburg, the Messehallen Frankfurt (Oder) are a fixed point in the tour schedules of big names from the music and comedy business. Comedian Paul Panzer, the rock band SILLY and Max Raabe will soon be performing live there with the Palast Orchester.

The Theater des Lachens tells an enchanting and unusual story full of magic about love, family and loneliness in this year's Christmas tale. "Grandma's Christmas Eve" premieres on 16 December on the studio stage at the Kleist Forum and will be shown the following week in the morning program for nursery and school children.