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CELEBRATING BEUYS 100 Few German cultural figures of the 20th century were as controversial as the action artist, sculptor, draftsman, art theorist and professor Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986). His work dealt with a new, expanded concept of art that included the political co-creation of society. Beuys would have turned 100 on May 12th 2021. The Goethe Institut in the US is celebrating Joseph Beuys 100th Birthday with a series of four films, you are invited to join us. Free to st...ream in the US. More details and registration: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/ver.cfm For more perspectives on the artist’s work and additional programs please also visit: www.goethe.de/beuys100 Goethe-Institut Chicago #beuys100 Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles German Consulate General Los Angeles Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Washington Image: (c) Courtesy Video Data Bank of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Fri, 05/14/2021 and Sat, 05/15/2021 Live Performance | Stream THE NEW COMPASSIONATE DOWNTOWN By the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD)... Presented by MOCA as part of ART RISE, a project of We Rise LA. Directed by: John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers. Visual Art by: Robby Herbst Cast: Stephanie Bell, Iron Donato, Tom Grode, Leyla Martinez, Lee Maupin, Matt Miyahara, Lorraine Morland, Clarence Powell, Dianne Prozeller, Anthony ToneTone Taylor, Maya Waterman Downtown L.A. has long been marketed as a nightlife destination. Los Angeles Poverty Department's "The New Compassionate Downtown" dares to imagine a downtown that attracts people who value the wisdom and compassionate practice exemplified by Skid Row workers and residents. In The New Compassionate Downtown, an alternative marketing approach touts downtown as "a place you can live guilt- and resentment-free. No longer will the subterranean guilt of ignoring privilege haunt you and, through psychological displacement, manifest itself as anger." Work on the performance began pre-pandemic and explores themes that have gained resonance in the past year. The setting is a meeting of "The New Compassionate Downtown," a diverse group of people living and working in all parts of downtown who embrace building a community of compassion. The performance interweaves the meeting with scenes that concretely explore compassion in action as life unfolds daily. The performance, staged in a socially distant manner by a cast of eleven performers, is live-streamed and recorded. Los Angeles Poverty Department is a performance group of people who live and work in Skid Row. All the cast members have contributed to this script. The New Compassionate Downtown was funded in part by the Mike Kelly Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Theater, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Goethe-Institut, the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, The BOX, and MOCA-Geffen. More Info and streaming links: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/ver.cfm #artrise #werisela Los Angeles Poverty Department The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Goethe-Institut

Jumpstart your German studies with a Superintensive! At 50% virtual class time and 50% online practice our popular Blended Learning classes offer an immersive learning experience at all levels. Starting on May 17th, you can get an even more intense effect with our Superintensive Blended Learning classes. Learn more about our courses: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/dks/tup.cfm

Current Music from Germany in our May POPCAST Together with Zündfunk, Bavarian Radio’s scene magazine, we showcase the latest music by fresh off-the-charts bands and artists.This month with music by: Die P | 365xx Irakli | Dial Records... Ja, Panik| Bureau B MESSER & Toto Belmont | Turnland Servicio Al Cliente | Imara Listen: https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/mus/gen/pop/cas.html #POPCAST Goethe-Institut Zündfunk Photo: Ja Panik by Max Zerrahn

WHEN IS ART REALLY ART? Artificial intelligence making art puts a new spin on age-old questions, such as if AI art can really be called art, and who gets credit as the artist the machine, the programmer or the person whose data was fed into the algorithm. Read the full article by Harald Willenbrock in our ONE ZERO SOCIETY Magazin: https://www.goethe.de/prj/one/en/rme/22094490.html

"Worlds of Homelessness", a project of the Goethe-Institut that proposes an interdisciplinary engagement with homelessness and its connections to participation, inequality, racism, and migration, continues this month of May. Two performances of The Los Angeles Poverty Department's latest project, "The New Compassionate Downtown" will take place on Friday, May 14th and Saturday, May 15th, 2021, and you may join this Webinar tomorrow, May 6th. RSVP now.

One more week to watch - KINO! GERMANY NOW! Our streaming series ends Sunday, 04/11/2021. Stream KINO! Germany NOW! A project of the German Film Office, presented in partnership with the Frida Cinema, this series presents some of Germany’s most promising narrative, documentary, and short films that premiered within the last year. Including 13 films by 14 up-and-coming directors from Germany, all with distinct backgrounds and unique approaches to filmmaking, Kino! Germany Now...! offers a diverse cross-section of current German cinema. Kino! Germany Now! Film Stream is a project of the KINO Germany Now German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films, and is presented in partnership with The Frida Cinema Orange County's only 501(c)(3) not-for-profit art house theater. All proceeds directly support the Frida Cinema's mission to enrich, connect, and educate communities through the art of cinema. For the complete line-up of the films and streaming links and coupon codes please visit: http://bit.ly/KinoGermanyNowLA German Currents Film Festival German Consulate General Los Angeles Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Washington Villa Aurora - Los Angeles Thomas Mann House

HUNTING DOWN FAKE NEWS In the worst case, targeted disinformation can become a real and present threat to our democracy. A number of initiatives in Germany have responded by taking on the mission of fact checking information on the net. Read the feature article by Petra Schönhöfer: https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/ges/22147824.html

#FEHLER // Your top-brand washing machine is showing signs of malfunction after only four years? The laptop you recently bought starts having hard drive issues right after the warranty expires? To make it even more frustrating, in both cases you are being told that repair will be more expensive than buying a new appliance or device? Nimish Sawant on the challenges of dealing with planned mistakes in mass consumerism in the latest edition of our FEHLER magazine: www.goethe.de.../mistakes Image courtesy of Erdmuthe Hacken, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut #Fehler #Mistakes #plannedobsolescence

Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Corona Virus Update. In light of the current situation, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles will remain closed to the public and all events are postponed until further notice. Our staff is working from home. Please join our innovative and unique Online German Classes! You can sign up for our new and upcoming Spring Online Language Classes, starting on April 13th. If you have always wanted to learn German, they are the perfect way to learn from home.... We also keep posting interesting online offers you might like, such as information on our e-library where you can download books and other media as well as stream films online. You can also check out our online dossiers such as Binge Fever and Worlds of Homelessness. We hope that we can all overcome these difficult times together and that you are staying safe! https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/ueb/c19.html #StayAtHome Goethe-Institut #CultureAtHome

Presenting: GERMAN CURRENTS 2020! The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, the American Cinematheque, and the German Currents Film Festival are pleased to announce the program for the 14th Annual German Currents Film Festival. Presented from November 9th -15th as a virtual cinema event, German Currents 2020 will showcase an exciting and diverse selection of award-winning films and engaging filmmaker discussions, representing the best of current German Cinema. Festival trailer: ht...tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHy0zQZK3NU Read all about GERMAN CURRENTS 2020 here: http://www.germancurrents.com/ In addition to the 10 award-winning films, a selection of Short Tiger Award-winning short films, filmmaker discussions and more will round out the program. Watch the German Currents 2020 trailer line-up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist We look forward to seeing you at the festival!

RADICAL DIVERSITY: MEXICO CITY At the end of October, the discussion series #RadicalDiversity will continue in Mexico City, where Max Czollek will speak to three independent curators from Mexico City: Violeta Horcasitas, Clara Bolívar (Tlaxcala3) and Alí Cotero (Tlaxcala3). They will discuss the current state of critical curatorial practices, both within the context of the Mexican museum and outside it and examine the structural and social walls one encounters in Mexico. Jo...in us for the event taking place on October 28, 2020 at 9:00 pm PDT hosted by Goethe-Institut Mexiko: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_gZMhzX_zSY6pGHBs1zocJw Radical Diversity is presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America in collaboration with its pop-up branches, the Thomas Mann House, and the Institut SocialJustice und Radical Diversity under the sponsorship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America. Find out more about the discussion series here: https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/sfr/ver.cfm Institut Social Justice & Radical Diversity Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/325469891191771 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung North America Thomas Mann House Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston #RadicalDiversity

Fri, October 23, 2020, 3:00 PM 4:30 PM PDT Online Shaping the Past: BLACK DIGITAL FUTURES Virtual Walking Tour & AR Launch with Quentin VerCetty Presented by Goethe-Institut Toronto... Register for free on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/shaping-the-past-black-digital- The multidisciplinary Canadian artist Quentin VerCetty invites you to follow him on a virtual walking tour, reimagining Toronto's monuments by foregrounding neglected Black biographies and exploring Black digital futures. VerCetty will invite your questions through XXX VerCetty will share his walk around downtown Toronto with the audience, present biograhical shorts of Black leaders, host a live conversation with artist-mentor Ken Lum and a Q&A with the audience. They will be joined by Prof. Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and elder Ginelle Skerritt, whose work focuses on reclaiming African people's connection to arts,culture, and spirituality for future generations. This project, Missing Black Technofossil Here, is a public space intervention and conversation proposed by multidisciplinary Canadian artist and Monument Lab fellow Quentin VerCetty. This event is part of the ongoing project Shaping the Past, a transnational exchange program bringing artists and activists together in dialogue to highlight ongoing critical memory interventions in sites and spaces in North America and Germany, designed by the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab and the Federal Agency for Civic Education. With the launch of the project's interactive website and a tutorial by the artist during the event, participants and interested parties are invited to create and experience the interactive self-guided tour by themselves using their own mobile devices (smartphones or tablets)! More info about the project can be found here: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/en/ver.cfm

Next Couch Lesson: AI+ DEMOCRACY Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 08:00 AM ( PDT) via Zoom Democracy is one of humanity's most important achievements. But in recent years we have had to learn that it is by no means something we can take for granted. Anti-democratic tendencies in society are on the rise, elections are influenced by modern technology, disinformation and misleadingly altered images promote racist and sexist attitudes. Increasingly rapid developments in the field of ...Artificial Intelligence are blamed for filter bubbles, fake news, manipulation, discrimination, and increasingly efficient surveillance of people, and thus for the corrosion of fundamental democratic principles. One thing is certain: Intelligent computer programs and computer systems pose a challenge to democracy. The question, therefore, arises as to how we can minimize those aspects of AI that are detrimental to democracy and how we can use AI to support democratic activities and reinforce democratic institutions. Info and Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZcufuGqqzMtH9wZiC5TgdPPQQiir2xYx What you will learn: In what ways does AI challenge democracy? How can the damage-potential of AI technologies be minimized? Can AI also be deployed to promote democratic activities? Presenters: Linda Monsees, Research Chair in the Geopolitics of Risk, Ecole Normale Supérieure / France http://geopolitics-of-risk.ens.fr//collabora/linda-monsees Nathaniel Raymonds, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs /USA https://jackson.yale.edu/person/nathaniel-raymond/ Auswärtiges Amt Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington German Consulate General Los Angeles Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles #CouchLessons #AI #artificialintelligence ##kunstlicheintelligenz #discuss #online #CultureAtHome #science #democracy

If you missed the first episode of our new discussion series COUNTER MEMORIES with JOEL GARCIA AND PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER - our friends over at dublab got you and will air the episode on Monday, October 19th, from 3 4 pm (PDT) on dublab radio. Tune in: https://www.dublab.com//counter-memories-joel-garcia-and-p And since you're there, check out their #QuarantineTapes Podcast series, a week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab hosted by Paul Holdengräber: https://quarantine-t...apes.simplecast.com/ or download this legendary gem: https://www.dublab.com//dublab-the-goethe-institut-los-ang Monument Lab 1014 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles German Consulate General Los Angeles Joel Garcia dublab.de Onassis Foundation USA #IndigenousPeoplesDayLA #yaangna #tongva #tataviam #CounterMemories #paulholdengraber #dublab #ShapingThePast

Artist Talk: There Are Black People in the Future Join us for an artist talk about the Kansas City iteration of "There Are Black People in the Future" featuring Alisha B. Wormsley and the group of contributing Kansas City artists. On October 18th at 12:00 PM (PT) the Goethe Pop Up Kansas City will welcome the contributing artists together with Wormsley for a virtual artist talk as they discuss the Kansas City iteration of "There Are Black People in the Future" and their visio...ns of how to imagine Black futures. The talk will be moderated by Kreshaun McKinney, Manager of Audience Engagement at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Time Follow the link to register for the Zoom discussion: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_1J-DizW3RFy2aqd_QkXcww Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Monument Lab Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Washington #ShapingThePast, #monumentlabfellows, #publicart, #culturalactivism, #publicspace, #advocacy, #advocacymatters, #activists, #memoryculture,

THANK YOU! Our Shaping The Past Town Hall Monument Lab brought together internationally renowned artists, curators, historians, and activists whose work focuses on understanding our ways to remember historical events and how to change and expand those narratives in order to include forgotten and hidden voices of the past. During 2 afternoons, our panelists shared their thoughts on how what and who to remember in public spaces guided by questions from our moderators and the au...dience. There was a broad consensus about the need to reshape conventional historical narratives and develop an understanding for how they could be changed. We were thrilled by the engagement and the positive feedback we received and would like to send a heartfelt Thank You to all participants, our audiences, and the staff members. Stay tuned for more events during our Shaping The Past Memory Month. Did you miss it? No problem. Just follow these links for the archived conversations: Day 1 Shaping The Past Town Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Uq6PstCGI Day 2 Shaping The Past Town Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6f4ivV-6zY Graphics: Danielle Iwata #ShapingThePast, #monumentlabfellows, #publicart, #culturalactivism, #publicspace, #advocacy, #advocacymatters, #activists, #memoryculture, #erinnerungskultur, #denkmaldebatte, #denkmäler, #denkmal, #erinnerung, #goetheinstitut #kunst #ArtsakhStrong Monument Lab 1014 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington German Consulate General Los Angeles Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles

A Walking Tour from your couch: Explore colonial pasts, presents and Afro-Indigenous Futures with an Augmented Reality Tour through the Goethe-Institut Montreal (Oct 17) and the Goethe-Institut Toronto (Oct 23). Visual Griot, artist and Monument Lab Fellow Quentin VerCetty will be your guide, highlighting neglected black biographies along the way. Afterward, you are invited to discuss your view on the past, present and future of monuments and the representation of black people in public space with the artist. Using the AR elements on his interactive website, which will be launched on Oct 17th as well, interested visitors can take a city tour and interact playfully with the found monuments. #ShapingThePast

From our LATITUDE magazine: "Shaping The Past" - WAVERING MONUMENTS How do monuments shape the commemorative culture? How can they become places of participation? The project Shaping the Past of the Goethe-Institut, the Monument Lab and the Federal Agency for Civic Education brings together initiatives from North America and Germany.... By Paul M. Farber https://www.goethe.de/prj/lat/en/dis/21975501.html With the online magazine Latitude, the Goethe-Institut provides a platform for global discourse on colonial power relations, their consequences and how to overcome them. In interviews, essays and a range of other formats, the magazine highlights issues such as decolonisation, preservation of indigenous cultures, the role of museums, restitution and dealing with cultural heritage. Read more: http://goethe.de/latitude

Check out this Bloomberg CityLab article "There Must Be a Better Way to Make a Monument" by Kriston Capps, discussing how artists and activists are pushing cities to rethink the memorialization process. The article also portraits Joel Garcia, Monument Lab Fellow of our Shaping the Past project, (www.goethe.de/shapingthepast) and curator of our series "Yaangna, beyond LA. Indigenous Frameworks" https://www.bloomberg.com//as-monuments-to-colonialism-fal... #ShapingThePast

Today, live at 12:00pm PDT! Don't miss this live online discussion via Zoom: "UNMONUMENTING, SCIENCE AND STRATEGY": Registration is free at: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_l_mEagMISm29NMlWQd6HIA... Join us for this online conversation that brings participants from the United States and Germany together to talk about the toppling and removing of monuments from public space. They will share their experiences regarding strategies, planning, and post-removal efforts of monuments with their audiences. Guests: Morning Star Gali, a member of the Ajumawi band of Pit River located in Northeastern California, and a Leading Edge Fellow focusing on the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. Dr. Urte Evert is Head of Museum Zitadelle, which since April 2016, shows the permanent exhibitionUnveiled. Berlin and its Monuments in the Citadel former Provisions Depot. Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator and cultural organizer with over 20 years of experience working transnationally focusing on community-centered strategies. (Joel García will also moderate this event.) The event series "Yaangna, Beyond LA. Indigenous Frameworks" is embedded in the project SHAPING THE PAST: MEMORY MONTH and hosted by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Joel Garcia Monument Lab 1014 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington German Consulate General Los Angeles Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles #ShapingThePast, #unmonumenting, #yaangna, #monumentlabfellows, #publicart, #culturalactivism, #publicspace, #advocacy, #advocacymatters, #activists, #memoryculture, #erinnerungskultur, #denkmaldebatte, #denkmäler, #denkmal, #erinnerung, #goetheinstitut

Tomorrow! Don't miss this live online discussion: Wednesday, October 14, at 12.00 PM PDT via Zoom. "UNMONUMENTING, SCIENCE AND STRATEGY": Registration is free at: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_l_mEagMISm29NMlWQd6HIA... Join us for this online conversation tomorrow, 10/14/'20, 12 pm PDT that brings participants from the United States and Germany together to talk about the toppling and removing of monuments from public space. They will share their experiences regarding strategies, planning, and post-removal efforts of monuments with their audiences. Guests: Morning Star Gali, a member of the Ajumawi band of Pit River located in Northeastern California, and a Leading Edge Fellow focusing on the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile justice systems on Native Americans. Dr. Urte Evert is Head of Museum Zitadelle, which since April 2016, shows the permanent exhibitionUnveiled. Berlin and its Monuments in the Citadel former Provisions Depot. Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator and cultural organizer with over 20 years of experience working transnationally focusing on community-centered strategies. Joel García will also moderate this event.) Grafik: Johanna Benz The event series Yaangna, Beyond LA. Indigenous Frameworks is embedded in the project SHAPING THE PAST: MEMORY MONTH and hosted by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Joel Garcia Monument Lab Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Zitadelle I Museen und Ausstellungen Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut German Consulate General Los Angeles Thomas Mann House Villa Aurora - Los Angeles #ShapingThePast, #unmonumenting, #yaangna, #monumentlabfellows, #publicart, #culturalactivism, #publicspace, #advocacy, #advocacymatters, #activists, #memoryculture, #erinnerungskultur, #denkmaldebatte, #denkmäler, #denkmal, #erinnerung, #goetheinstitut

Joel Garcia takeover: "Cindi Alvitre #Tongva cultural bearer, artist & activist reminds us about the importance of creation stories and what they mean for #Indigenous folks. #Puvungna an ancient village and sacred site of & for LA County's #FirstNations is brought to life by her new #VR experience Birthplace of the People which will make it’s LA City debut later this fall at #GrandParkLA as past of #FuturityAndMemoryInYaangna a project reclaiming the narrative around this i...dea of a city called #LosAngeles. Cindi and her nephew River Garza, members of Ti’at Society, the Tongva community’s efforts to revitalize their maritime traditions, and I have spoken about what memorials for California Indians mean and manifest as, the communal efforts in creating them and the impermanence and permanence of them. What and how do #ancestorpoles and #tiats (canoes) carry that significance for Los Angeles’ first peoples. As Cindi says, Memory is in the Present." #FutureAncestralMonuments #NatureAsMonument #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ShapingthePast #Puvungna #Tongva #Yaangna #Tataviam #Chumash #Acjachemen Monument Lab Goethe-Institut Washington Goethe-Institut Los Angeles @rageone

Joel Garcia takeover: "#Tongva Elder Craig Torres once shared that when Spaniards first came across his ancestors, the Spaniards wrote that they didn't recognize Craig’s ancestors as humans. Craig says he doesn’t get offended by that, in fact he takes pride in it. For him it meant that his people were in tune with nature and hadn't lost their humanity, but the Spaniards had lost all sense of value towards that interconnectedness with other living beings and didn’t recognize w...hat humanity was anymore. Monument Elder Craig Torres once shared that when Spaniards first came across his ancestors, the Spaniards wrote that they didn't recognize Craig’s ancestors as humans. Craig says he doesn’t get offended by that, in fact he takes pride in it. For him, it meant that his people were in tune with nature and hadn't lost their humanity, but the Spaniards had lost all sense of value towards that interconnectedness with other living beings and didn’t recognize what humanity was anymore. What can nature-centered monuments be like? Leave your thoughts in the comments. #NatureAsMonument Art by Joel Garcia rage1 for Meztli Projects Monument Lab 1014 Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) Goethe-Institut San Francisco Goethe-Institut Boston Goethe-Institut New York Goethe Pop Up Seattle Goethe Pop Up Houston Goethe Pop Up Kansas City Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Goethe-Institut Chicago Goethe-Institut Mexiko Goethe-Institut Montreal Goethe-Institut Toronto Goethe-Institut Washington #FutureAncestralMonuments #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ShapingthePast #Wixaritari #Tongva #Yaangna #Tataviam #Chumash