Diplomats have always been tasked with knocking down walls that keep countries from collaborating, but members of Atlanta’s consular corps last month took a different tack: painting one. Nine consulates […]
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Emory, Georgia State Partner to Digitize Museum Exhibition on 2014 Ebola Outbreak
An exhibition on the fight to stem the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will reach a wider audience through the […]
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Goethe-Zentrum Taps Former Playwright, German Language Instructor as Executive Director
The Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta, the city’s primary nonprofit promoting German language and culture, has named a new executive director after a national search. Oliver Gorf, who hails originally from Hamburg, Germany, […]
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Canadian Cannabis Firm to Buy Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing for $300m
SweetWater Brewing Co. has built its brand around the outdoors, leisure and not-so-subtle references to cannabis culture, hosting the signature 420 music festival and offering its 420 brew, a recent […]
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Juice for Jobs: Atlanta Entrepreneur Expands Snack Business to Help Displaced Persons in Her Native Country of Georgia
Following the success of her organic rosehip juice business, NADI, Atlanta entrepreneur Nina Tickaradze is launching a second product that will provide further meaningful work for internally displaced persons (IDPs) […]
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Japan-based Toppan’s Two Georgia Factories Keep Focus on Innovation While Adjusting to New Realities
While Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. is celebrating the preservation of traditional printing practices back home in Japan, the company’s two Georgia subsidiaries are using the latest technologies to drive growth […]
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Japanese Language, Culture Seminar Series Seeks Black, Latinx College Students from the South
College students of color in the South are being sought for a four-week seminar series designed to get them interested in studying Japan’s language and culture. Black and Latinx students […]
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Mexicans in the South: From Agriculture Diplomacy to Anti-Immigrant Dialogue
Since the early 1900s, Mexicans settling in the Southern United States have always straddled a line between discrimination and assimilation, but the today’s rancorous debate over immigration policy has its roots […]
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American Youth Ambassadors, Cultural Performers Can Apply for Free Dubai Expo Trip
Dubai has put out a call for youth ambassadors and cultural performers to represent the United States at next year’s world expo in the Middle Eastern emirate. Expo 2020 was […]
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German Consulate Marks 30th Reunification Anniversary Remotely
In a normal year, a momentous 30-year anniversary would call for an evening dinner, or at the very least a reception, hosted by the German Consulate General in Atlanta. But with […]