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:::: Our new home

A long cherished wish of our still young organization has come true! Starting April 2009, the city of Weimar is giving us our own building to realize our projects, for a minimum of 33 years (!) and the symbolic price of one Euro per year. Originally built in 1909 as the Grand Duke’s Customs Office near to Weimar’s main train station, later used as a school and in recent years empty, the building now the new home of the OTHER MUSIC ACADEMY.
This is how it looked at the beginning:

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:::: And how the first steps looked...

Many hands, quick results: from April 16-18, we cleaned up the house from basement to attic, took down over 100 old lamp fixtures, tore old wallpaper of the walls and renovated the office on the ground floor.
Thanks to everyone who helped from near and far!!

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:::: Office move and another work weekend...

On April 24 and 25, 2009 and after much preparation in advance, shelves, computer, sound equipment and much much more found their way to our Academy. At the same time in the building itself a lot of activity and cleaning took place, and an interim storage room was set up. Once again many thanks to all the helpers who came from near and far! 

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:::: Office Opening

Also between May 8th and 9th 2009, many friends from near and far came to Weimar to help tear down walls, clean up, install a new marquee, plant vegetables, and more. Journalists, neighbours, visitors (our first guest was the Mayor of the town Stefan Wolf) and lots of other curious people got their first look inside the old building…

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"For many years now, OTHER MUSIC and "Yiddish Summer" have enriched the cultural life of Weimar in a manner equally surprising and infatuating. On its own initiative and without major municipal or federal assistance, OTHER MUSIC has brought a new spirit to Weimar. This spirit is not only good for the image of this city whose history straddles both high culture and barbarism; it is above all good for our own intellectual and emotional well-being. The people who come here from all over the world to transform Weimar in the summer into an annual, city-wide intercultural festival of "other music" with workshops, sessions, and concerts, are among the most important standard bearers of the future for our City of European Culture".

Stefan WOLF, Mayor of Weimar

 

"OTHER MUSIC is an important and innovative organization that has grown and deepened over the years, branching out now in compelling new ways that explore cultural identity and tradition in today's world. With projects such as 'Yiddish Summer Weimar' and 'The Other Europeans,' OTHER MUSIC fosters a deep interaction with the Jewish world, and the Jewish creative world in particular. Through teaching, workshops, concerts, improvisation, symposia and research, Jewish culture is being transmitted and – importantly – created in ways that are truly alive."

Ruth Ellen GRUBER, author of "Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe", "Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern"