Friday,
19.9.2008
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Charity Concert "A Venetian Baroque Night"
21.00 hrs at the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral)
The concert “A Venetian Baroque Night” with Albrecht
Mayer, the single oboist of the Berliner Philharmoniker
was organized in cooperation with the Pro-Retina-Foundation for the prevention of blindness and has
been placed under the patronage of
Dr. h. c. Georg Ratzinger, priest, musician and brother of
pope Benedict XVI.
Tickets can be ordered at the ticket office of the Berliner Dom at the following number:
+49 30 20 26 91 36, daily from 11-18 hrs
Price: from € 4 bis € 25 (five different price categories)
No bus transfer |
| Saturday,
20.9.2008 |
Babylon – Myth and Reality
Please note that this event is already fully booked.
The three biggest European collections of old Babylon art – the ones of the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum and the Berliner Vorderasiatische Museum – reunite this summer their precious treasures into a unique exhibition shown in front of the "Berliner" Ishtar-Tor at the Pergamon Museum.
Babylon - myth, city, legend and truth. Vivid associations, which no other city can quite evoke as strongly in our minds. With this major exhibition, the museums venture to explore the myth of Babel and the true facts surrounding the ancient city of Babylon: two worlds - one exhibition.
The visitor will be conducted in his personal Babylonian imprisonment and will rediscover almost forgotten mythic pictures of humanity’s memory: the antique world city, that flaunted with two of the Seven Wonders of the World, being herself a kind of World Wonder. The city was also disdained as “the big hore Babylon”, as a metaphor for the dark sides of civilisation - repression and the lack of freedom, terror and violence, hubris and madness. In European art and culture, the myth of Babel is closely related to mankind's primal fears. Here, visitors experience the mythical story of the rise and fall of Babylon as a city of sin and tyranny, as the site of the confusion of languages and the metropolis of eternal apocalypse.
Enjoy 800 objects among them statues, reliefs, votive offerings, architectural fragments, and documents.
Schedule:
09.00 hrs: meeting at the Lobby of the Estrel Hotel; departure
by bus
10.00 hrs: short walk over the Museum’s Island and
introduction of the topic
11.00 hrs: begin of the tour of the Babylon exhibition
13.00 hrs: end of the tour and departure by bus
14.00 hrs: arrival at the Estrel Hotel
min. number of participants: 45
Price per person: 35 € incl. bus transfer, entrance ticket, guide with an art historian
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