Events

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Jul 2025

4th of July Picnic

ORF-Park (Harmsdorfgasse 68, 8042 Graz)

Join us for our 4th of July Family Picnic

US Americans in Graz & Styria warmly invite you to join us for a fun and family-friendly Independence Day celebration.

Date: Friday, 4 July 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: ORF Park

This is a relaxed picnic-style event, so feel free to bring your own blanket, food, drinks, and music to enjoy with others.

Hosts: Sara Crockett & Paul Bilek

Socrates Café

Bar Flora, Park Hotel Graz (Leonhardstraße 8, 8010 Graz)

Join us for our ongoing Event, the Socrates Café on the first Wednesday of every month, hosted by Nina Gettlet! The first drink is on us as we dive into thought-provoking discussions in a relaxed, public venue.

Date: First Wednesday of every month!

Our meeting dates for 2025 are: February 6, March 12 (because March 5 is Ash Wednesday), April 2, May 7, June 5, July 2, August 6, September 3, October 1, November 6, December 3

Next meeting: 02.07.2025

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Bar Flora, Park Hotel Graz, Leonhardstraße 8, 8010 Graz (walk past the reception desk, past a seating area in the back part of the lobby, and up a couple of steps).

Inter.Reading Book Club

The Inter.Reading Book Club is a book club open for everyone, this is why we called it `Inter´.Reading:

Inter.Generational
Inter.Disciplinary
Inter.National

We invite readers of all ages, from all disciplines and professions, and from all around the globe to join our group of passionate readers for regular meetings and discussions!

C.IAS Academy Awards Discussion

Center for Inter-American Studies (Elisabethstraße 59/II, 8010 Graz)

The Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) is hosting an Academy Awards Discussion.

Date: March 12, 2025

Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Location: Center for Inter-American Studies (Elisabethstraße 59/II)

In this event, we will be discussing the nominated films, their aesthetic merit as well as their cultural significance, and respond to the award decisions made by the Academy. We will also reflect on the meaning and importance of an event such as the Oscars in the context of the wider American culture and the contemporary social and political moment.

Join us for free drinks and snacks!

* 28 *
Nov 2024

ÖAG Thanksgiving Dinner

Restaurant Brandhof (Gleisdorfergasse 10, 8010 Graz)

We are happy to inform you that we will host a Thanksgiving dinner again this year.

Our annual Thanksgiving dinner will again take place at Restaurant Brandhof (Gleisdorfergasse 10, 8010 Graz) on Thursday, November 28, and we'll start at 6 p.m.

The meal will feature cream of pumpkin soup, some succulent turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and some other goodies as well as dessert. (Note: If you are veg*, please let us know, and we will endeavor to meet your culinary needs!)

Mountain Warfare against Hitler, Mountain Rescue at Home

Quartier Leech (Leechgasse 24, 8010 Graz)

Exhibition and Film Screening about Austrian Ski Champions and Refugees as U.S. Mountain Soldiers during World War II and on the Philosophy of Civilian Mountain Rescue in Seattle and Tyrol.

Alpinism Meets Antifascism: Austrians in the 10^thUS Mountain Division in World War II

Program:
6 p.m. “Soft Opening” of the poster exhibition.
7 p.m. Presentation of the online portal & Filmscreening “The Volunteers”.

Afterwards, Get-Together with drinks and snacks.