Sustainable language school

Berlin is known for being a green city. Lots of parks and open areas. But these trees don't just spring up by themselves. The Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland has a tree sponsoring program that plants trees throughout the city with the help of local businesses. IH Berlin PROLOG took them up on it and is sponsoring many trees in the neighborhood. This is the seventh tree PROLOG has planted and this is very special because it's right in front of the school. The type of tree is special too because it's a False Acacia (Scheinakazie) and the name of the street where it's planted is Akazienstr. How fitting.

Crazy Horse performance at the Biennial

The 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, "When Things Cast No Shadow," opened to the public. Cyprien Gaillard's film "Crazy Horse," projected at Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, a semi-abandoned no-man's land in Kreuzberg, shows the drawn-out process of a memorial monument to the Lakota leader Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota. According to the program, "Cyprien Gaillard's film Crazy Horse is a tribute to the sculpture-in-the-making of Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1948 the sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, invited by the leader of the Sioux, began a sculpture to honor the Lakota leader Crazy Horse and Mother Nature. This monument, which will take approximately another eighty years to complete, will then be the biggest sculpture in the world. The dynamite used by builders when carving the figure into the mountains of the Black Hills, located beside Mount Rushmore, has wreaked destruction and chaos in the national park. The French composer and former opera singer Koudlam, who has collaborated on several projects with Gaillard, composed the music the artist's most recent film."