German Language School Ottawa

Christmas Pageant Video

January 29th, 2011

Many thanks to Matt Copelan for putting together this video of the 2010 Christmas Pageant.

You can watch it on-line or download a higher resolution version here.

Oktoberfest

September 20th, 2010

The congregation at St John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 270 Crichton St, is preparing to celebrate the 115th Anniversary of the church. To mark this occasion we are planning an Oktoberfest Dinner & Dance, in the true German tradition, on Saturday, October 30th beginning at 6pm in the Ebinger Memorial Hall.

Dinner will feature sausages and sauerkraut with apfelstrudel for dessert. A cash bar serving beer, wine and soft drinks will be available.

The Ottawa Rube Band will get everyone on the dance floor, so bring your dancing shoes and help us celebrate! The Band has it's origins in the Baden Rube Band, a volunteer band at the former Canadian Forces Base Baden, Germany. The Baden Rube Band consisted of military and civilian personnel from CFBs Baden and Lahr, their families, teachers and local German personnel. They played traditional oom-pah-pah music all over Germany and also in many other European countries. With the closure of CFB Baden in 1993, the tradition continues with the Ottawa Rube Band. It remains a volunteer band, one of the largest traditional German-style bands in Canada.

Tickets are $30 per person and $10 for children under 12 years. Call 613-749-9680 or 613-749-6953

Please see the announcement here.

Playgroup is a GO!

September 18th, 2010

After evaluating this year's registration numbers it was decided to combine the Playgroup with the Junior Kindergarten class.

Parents are still welcome to stay with their children during class and help out the teacher and her assistant. Please note that parents of children that are not toilet-trained have to stay during class.

If you have not already paid during registration, please bring payment to the next class.

A German Night at the Races

September 8th, 2010

The Rideau Carleton Entertainment Centre and the German Embassy in Ottawa are pleased to present German Night at the Races on Sunday, September 19, 2010, starting at 6:00 pm.

Sample German culinary delights at the all-you-can-eat German buffet while enjoying the sights and sounds of Germany. Catch all the action of live harness racing. Everyone is welcome to this family celebration!

Buffet $19.99 (plus taxes) per person. Children under 5 years of age eat free, children 6-12 years of age eat for only $12.99 (plus taxes), per child. To reserve your table and to find out about complimentary advertising opportunities for businesses, please contact Jody Buggie at 613-822-2211 ext. 245 or at jbuggie@rcr.net.

The Rideau Carleton Raceway provides free parking. For driving directions and for details of a complimentary shuttle service from the Greenboro transit station, you may visit http://www.rcentertainmentcentre.ca/directions.html. Please feel free to spread the word among your colleagues and friends. Hope to see you at German Night!

Please see the announcement here.

A New Show About Creative Writing in Europe

September 8th, 2010

CKCU-FM 93.1 Ottawa's Community Radio Station at Carleton University announces:

CKCU Literary News
Literatures in Europe Today

Starting this fall, the program will be heard live at CKCU-FM 93.1 (time to be announced), on live stream as mp3-audio and as podcast. The host is HANS G. RUPRECHT, moderating this innovative radio show in collaboration with correspondents and members of the multicultural community of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Info:	www2.carleton.ca/litnews
Contact:	radio.ckcu.litnews@gmail.com

Please see the announcement here.

Author Reading with Music at the Martin-Luther Church

September 8th, 2010

On September 12th, in the series Church and Culture, there will be an author reading at the Martin-Luther Church in commemoration of the 110th birthday of Anna Seghers (1900-1983). Irina Wittmer, an increasingly noted writer from Germany, will read from her recent book Ausflug der toten Bräute: Acht fiktive Begegnungen mit Anna Seghers und dem jüdischen Mainz (2009) (Excursion of the dead brides: Eight fictional encounters with Anna Seghers and Jewish Mainz). The evening will be framed musically by Dina Namer, piano, and Rachel Eugster, soprano.

Born into a Jewish family in the city of Mainz, Anna Seghers was a major writer. Her best known novel, Das siebte Kreuz (The Seventh Cross), served as vehicle for a film with Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. It deals with the attempted flight of seven prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

Date and Time:	September 12th, 7:30 PM
Place:	Martin Luther Church, 499 Preston St (corner Carling and Preston)
Contact:	Joachim Moskau, jmoskau@travel-net.com Helmut Zobl, hzobl@rogers.com

Please see the invitation here.

GLS gets a website makeover

September 1st, 2010

This makeover has been in the works for a long time and we will add many more features to the new website over the coming school year starting with bringing back versions in German and French.

If you would like to help speed up this process and volunteer some of your time, please contact our webmaster.

GLS gets a new Logo

September 1st, 2010

Inspired by a discussion at the last Annual General Meeting the board of the GLS decided to update its logo to more accurately represent its members and the fact that we are the German Language School and not the German School.

Thanks to parents Heiko Fettig and Adrian Garcia for the new design.