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**************** Some of the AAUPW members at our 2014 Holiday Party ***************

December 6, 2016

AAUPW December Events


Holiday Party
December 9th at 6:30 PM
Our Annual Holiday Party is this coming Friday. Join us and rejoice in some holiday revelry! If you have recently joined our group, this is a nice event and a great way to meet other members of the group in the cheery holiday season. We look forward to enjoying each member's shared dish, playing games, wrapping gifts donated for the young ladies of IMMA (a ‘safe house’ for young women in Munich we support) and dancing the night away.

For those who would like to take part in the white elephant exchange, please bring a wrapped gift of something you no longer want, but which may be a treasure to someone else!

Sing-a-Long Messiah Dec. 11 and Christmas Carol Sing-a-Long Dec. 18th
English Speaking Church of the Ascension Holiday Events

Church of the Ascension, Seybothstrasse 4 81545 Munich
Every year the English speaking congregation of the Munich Church of Ascension hosts two wonderful holiday events not to be missed. Take this opportunity along with family and friends to join others from the English speaking community in celebrating the holiday season.
The Sing-a-Long Messiah (Handel's Messiah) with an orchestra and soloists will be held on December 11 at 2 p.m. Admission is free, scores are provided for those who want to join the fun. And of course listeners are always welcome!

And the very popular and fun filled Christmas Carol Sing-a-Long will be the Sunday following, on December 18th also at 2 p.m. Admission free, music is also provided. Get there early if you want a seat!

Glühwein GNO!
Its Glühwein time! Let's bundle up and enjoy some festive drinks and fun together at one (or several) Weihnachtsmarkts around town. We can meet at Odeonsplatz and decide where the evening takes us! Hope to see you all there!!!

Where to Meet: Contact club president at: info@aaupw.de
When: Tuesday Dec 13th at 7pm

Mark your calendars! Book Club in January/February 2017
Many thanks to Carolyn for kindly hosting us twice in a row! Mark your calendars for our next meetings:

Jan 10: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Feb 21: 'Eligible': A modern retelling of 'Pride and Prejudice' by Curtis Sittenfeld 
March 16 (tentative): Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitude

November 7, 2016

AAUPW November Events

November Program Meeting
The American Consulate in Munich Program Change!!!

Please join us for an informative evening with Terry Swartzberg (born July 22, 1953 in Norwalk, Connecticut).  Terry is an American Public Affairs campaigner and journalist based in Munich, Germany.  He contributed for 25 years to the International Herald Tribune and other international publications. He is especially known for his work for the holocaust memorial project Stolpersteine. Terry, versed in many other subjects, will speak to us about his trip biking through the Himalayas in Nepal last year.

For more information and details about membership and upcoming meetings, please contact our club president at: info@aaupw.de

MING Event – US Election Night Party
Tuesday, 8th November (22:00 – whenever) – U.S. Elections’ Night Party, Wirthaus am Bavariapark, Theresienhöhe 15, 80339 Munich. Sign-Up: Events tab at on the AGBC Munich Community Platform at www.agbc-munich.com

December Holiday Party
AAUPW Annual Holiday Party
December 09 -- 6:30 PM

Rejoice in some holiday revelry! Mark your calendars for the upcoming holiday party. This is a nice event for our diverse members to relax and socialize with each other in the cheery holiday season. We look forward to enjoying each member's shared dish and wrapping gifts donated for the young ladies of IMMA. (a ‘safe house’ for young women in Munich we support). Reminder-this is a Members Only event.


Annual AAUPW THANKSGIVING DINNER
This year's Thanksgiving Feast will be on Thanksgiving Day. We are very much looking forward to another great evening of food and a bit of entertainment.

The cost of the meal will be for Adults 24.00 euro and children up to 12 yrs old 13.50 this includes the tip. Please make your reservation and transfer your payment by the 17th of November.

Entity Theatre presents Aladdin – A Panto
Entity’s 2016 winter production is based on the story of Aladdin from the One Thousand and One Nights the original Arabian Nights classic. It is a traditional English pantomime (known as a panto, not to be confused with the German or American “pantomime”) and is a musical comedy for the whole family, mainly performed at Christmas. It contains song and dance routines, slapstick, cross-dressing, where men dress as women and women dress as men, magic tricks and lots of audience participation. After two successful pantos, “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty,” Entity Theatre e.V. is now proud to present Aladdin – A Panto. A colorful, entertaining Christmas cracker for the whole family. Join us on our magic carpet ride, with music, song and dance – a show to remember. Performances at Pepper Theater (pep Einkaufscenter, Munich-Neuperlach) November 24 – 26, December 1 – 3 and 8 – 9 at 8:00 pm Performances at Theater Leo17 (Leopoldstr. 17, Munich-Schwabing) December 10 at 8:00 pm and December 11, a matinee beginning at 3:00 pm To order tickets and to watch the trailer please go to: www.entitytheatre.com Tickets cost €15, students: €10. For the matinee only children under 12: €8. There will be a booking fee added to all ticket prices.

An English Advent Carol Service
Samstag, 26. November 2016
15:30 Uhr Klosterkirche St. Ottilien
Leitung:Stephen Norton, Orgel:Christoph Hauser
The Munich English Choir offers a lovely Carol Service at Kosterkirche St. Ottilien on 26 November. The Carol service follows the Anglican tradition first held in 1878 in Truro, England. It has been used continuously since then, perhaps the most famous version is that from Kings College Cambridge which has been broadcast on the radio since 1930. The structure of the service is as simple as the title: nine passages of Scripture are followed by nine carols. The Lessons will be read alternately in German and English. The service has a profound dignity and simplicity. Each lesson follows the same format: a reader goes to the podium and introduces the Scripture lesson, reads the passage, and concludes by saying, "Thanks be to God." Then the congregation and/or choir sing a carol reflecting on that passage of Scripture. For more information, please see their website at: www.munich-english-choir.de

Messiah and Christmas Carol Service at the Church of the Ascension
Church of the Ascension Seybothstrasse 4 81545 Munich

Every year the Church of Ascension hosts two wonderful holiday events not to be missed. Sing-a-Long Messiah (Handel's Messiah) with an orchestra and soloists will be held on December 11 at 2 p.m. Admission free, scores are provided just in case. And of course listeners are always welcome! And the very popular and fun filled Christmas Carol Sing-a-Long will be the Sunday following, on December 18th also at 2 p.m. Admission free, music is also provided. Get there early if you want a seat!



October 10, 2016

October Events

October Program Meeting

A look at the Democratic Convention
Wednesday, October 19th at 6:30 PM

One of our members, Shari Temple, will be our October speaker. Shari was part of the delegation at the Democratic National Convention representing Democrats Abroad – Americans living outside of the USA. She will share her experiences of being in Philadelphia as the first women accepted the nomination as a presidential candidate for a major US political party. She will explain the process for selecting candidates as well as the role Democrats Abroad plays in the DNC.

Shari has been an active member of DA since 2004 serving in various roles within the organization. No matter what your political preferences are, this should be an interesting opportunity to learn more about how political parties operate from someone that was on the convention floor.

For more information and details about membership and upcoming meetings, please contact our club president at: info@aaupw.de

Girls Night Out Photo Scavenger Hunt

When: Thursday, October 13 at 6:30 PM
Host: GNO Event Coordinator

Let's get out and enjoy the beautiful fall weather! Join us for a photo scavenger hunt around the city. We will meet at 6:30 p.m. and break into teams for a fun filled evening filled with adventure and laughs. Bring your phone or camera (and any cable you may need to upload). Following the hunt we will meet together and have a drink and enjoy the photos and crown our winning team! Hope to see you all there!  Contact for location details: info@aaupw.de

Bookclub

We have decided on the following books for the next months:

October: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
November: The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
January: All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)

Next meeting: Tues., October 25, 2016
For more information, please contact our club president at: info@aaupw.de

Thanksgiving

Let us give thanks! This year's Thanksgiving Feast will be on Thanksgiving Day where we hold our monthly meetings. So please mark your calendars for Thursday, November 24th! We are very much looking forward to another great evening of food and a bit of entertainment.
 
Members are welcome to bring along partners and family members. You can find additional details regarding cost & reservations in the November newsletter.

2016 English Book Sale - New Location!

Friday 14th October from 3pm to 7pm and Saturday 15th October from 11am to 3pm.

The English Book Sale Winter is fast approaching and you'll be wanting to stock up on plenty of good reading matter and viewing for the months ahead. You'll have an excellent opportunity to buy good-as-new English books and DVDs inexpensively - and at the same time support our partner villages in Tanzania - by buying from the ample selection we'll be offering.

Please note our new venue: Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium, Jagdfeldring 82, 85540 Haar. The school is just a 10 minute walk from Haar S-Bahn station (S4 and S6). For a map showing the school's location please see https://goo.gl/maps/ykue1e1w26K2.

Proceeds
The entire proceeds of the Book Sale will help to support the Ilembula partnership project in Tanzania. If you would like to learn more you will find further details in German and English under www.ilembula.de/aktion/annual-booksale. We are also on Facebook under Munich English Book Sale, and on Twitter under @EnglishBookSale.

Your Haar Book Sale Team

Sichere Wiesen 2016 Update

Seven AAUPW members and 3 volunteers from IMMA met up on Monday night to do our annual Sichere Wiesn flyer "action". We created 4 groups, fanned out around Munich inner city and passed out hundreds (no, probably thousands) of brochures to around 70 hotels, hostels and pensions. Thank you to everyone who participated!

FYI -- Sichere Wiesn is a safety point on the Oktoberfest grounds that helps women and girls who run into any kind of trouble during their visit (e.g., losing their friends, losing their purses/phones, drinking too much, health issues, sexual harassment). They help up to 30 people a night!

 Election Party!



 

Dear Members of MING (Munich International Networking Groups),
Dear Friends of the Bavarian-American Friendship,

TripleD Events and the Democrats Abroad Munich will hold an Election Party at the Wirthaus am Bavariaring on 8 November starting at 8 p.m. and will continue through the night until we know who the next American President will be. 

This election will be one of the most important that we have had over the last decades because we Americans will tell the rest of the word what kind of country we want to be.  Either we honor our international treaties and behave accordingly, or we go into isolation. This is just one example.  There are many more.

There will be plenty of food and drink, music, dancing and 2 large screens with continuous CNN live coverage. There will also be a small entrance fee to pay for the rent of the room and equipment and music.  About the cost I will inform you shortly.
Please let me know by return email if you plan to come if you have not already done so.

Best regards,
Dave Dowdy
ddd@tripled.de
0172-8538874
On Facebook: TripleD Events