May Program Meeting

Speaker: AAUPW member Audra Shanley, Website Editor of The New7Wonders Campaign, which has the express aim of documenting, maintaining, restoring and reconstructing world heritage.

May Stammtisch

Zerwirk (vegan)

IMMA Open House

IMMA (Initiative für Münchner Mädchen) hosted an Open House, and AAUPW members supported the event by baking cakes, greeting guests, handing out leaflets and serving at the café.

April Program Meeting

Naomi Isaacs presented an investigation into how the dynamics of breathing influence our voices, our style of communication and our daily life, and offered members the chance to investigate our individual breathing patterns and identify our personal breathing dynamic – a bit of self-awareness which can help to enhance our "charisma quotient".

April Book Club Meeting

We discussed On Beauty by award-winning author Zadie Smith.

April Stammtisch

Hoguom (Vietnamese and Thai specialties)

March Program Meeting

A keynote lecture and panel discussion on the topic of Raising Bilingual Children, featuring Christine Louise Hohlbaum, award-winning American writer, AAUPW member Kristy Koth, co-owner of a publishing house specializing in bilingual children's books, and Leslie von Wangenheim, board member at the Bavarian International School.

March Book Club Meeting

We discussed A Confederacy of Dunces, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Kennedy Toole.

March Stammtisch

Il Cigno Ristorante & Pizzeria (cozy and simple restaurant with traditional Italian menu)

February Program Meeting

Sascha Mamczak, Senior Editor for Fiction Hardcover and Paperback at Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, spoke on the topic of Book Publishing.

February Book Club Meeting

We discussed My Antonia by Willa Cather.

February Stammtisch

Crêperie Cabus (small French restaurant)

January Program Meeting

Member Christina Negulesco Tolan spoke on her involvement in many aspects of the art world and the challenge and satisfacton of owning her own photography gallery here in Munich, Galerie Negulesco.

January Book Club Meeting

We discussed The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif.

January Stammtisch

Cedar Lounge (Lebanese cuisine)

Private Tour of Stadtmuseum Exhibit

Our popular January 2006 speaker, Herr Gerhard Meighörner, conducted members on a private tour of the München wie geplant exhibition at the Stadtmuseum.

December Book Club Meeting

We discussed The Good of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

December Stammtisch

Sangeet (Indian cuisine)

December Program Meeting

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Our annual Holiday Party - including the popular White Elephant Gift Exchange!

November Program Meeting

Eva Hieronymus, who runs a Socialburgerhaus in Berg am Laim informed us about the center - one of several in the city - which bring together various social services under one roof.