On Thursday, Dec. 20, the Third Man Bar opened its doors to the public. Located at 116 Avenue C between 7 & 8 in the lively East Village neighbourhood in Manhattan, the bar offers its guests an atmosphere reminiscent of Orson Welles' film noir masterpiece from 1949.
The second Hanukkah celebration of the Austrian Embassy together with the American Jewish Committee, took place on December 11, 2012. The Embassy would like to thank friends at AJC and ACCESS DC and all guests for a wonderful evening!
On Thursday, December 6, 2012, Austrian Ambassador to the United States Dr. Hans Peter Manz presented Philipp Lorio III, Austrian Honorary Consul General for Louisiana and Mississippi, with Austria's Grand Decoration of Honour in New Orleans.
The Embassy of Austria was a proud program partner of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington on December 2, 2012. The event, which took place at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, included remarks by Austrian Ambassador to the United State Hans Peter Manz as well as Sydney Silver, President of the Society.
On November 29, 2012 the Jazz band Lukas im Dorf presented their new album Lukas im Dorf - very live!, recorded at several live performances during the past few years, at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, D.C.
From November 9-20, 2012, the annual AFI-EU Film Showcase celebrated its 25th Anniversary with a two-week festival of special events featuring filmmakers, film premieres, European happy hours, and Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Closing Night parties.
Architecture | Landscape forms a visual starting point for a broad array of interpretations of the tangible experience of reality. The works of the eight Austrian artists selected for this exhibition examine, in a wide range of ways, the perception and manipulation of our daily surroundings – worlds at once graspable and utterly alien, in part constructed (or perhaps in turn destroyed) by man or, not least, ones artificially generated, seemingly infinite in their reproducibility.
© Russ Hirshorn
On November 8, 2012, the Austrian Press and Information Service together with the Austrian Trade Commission and AJC Access invited Austrians and friends of Austria to a Happy Hour at Georgetown's L2 Lounge.
As part of this year's Kids EURO Festival Austrian puppeteer Stefan Karch performed a staged reading at The J. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on November 1, 2012.