The Waterloo Centre for German Studies and partners present award-winning Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits, who will play a selection of modern and classical pieces as part of her coast-to-coast tour during Canada 150.
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Ms. Kokits's appearance is co-sponsored by Conrad Grebel University College, the Embassy of Austria in Ottawa, Alexander Zemlinksky Fonds bei der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Waterloo Centre for German Studies. Photo of Ms. Kokits by Nancy Horowitz.
In addition to Ms. Kokits' concert, the Austrian Embassy will be showcasing an exhibition called "CALLIOPE AUSTRIA: Women in Society, Culture and the Sciences." The exhibition is both a celebration of women in Austrian history and a reckoning with their invisibleness in the history books. CALLIOPE opens this evening and will then be available for general viewing from Monday, October 3 - Thursday, October 12.