Registration is now open for the FAWCO Region 5 Meeting in Berlin November 11–13, 2016, http://www.awcberlin.org/event/fawco-regional-meeting/.

Festivities will start with the “Charity Concert with Robin Goldsby” on Thursday and continue with pre-meeting tours on Friday. The meeting officially begins with a tour of the Allied Museum and Welcome Dinner on Friday evening.  Taking place over the weekend at the Seehof Hotel on Lietzensee in Charlottenburg, the meeting will cover FAWCO business, club interchanges and development workshops, and a discussion panel on refugees titled Integration through Education.  

Cost for full participation: 130 Euro for 2 days of meeting, lunches and coffee breaks, welcome dinner and meeting materials (does not include lodging and transport to/from dinner by shared taxis or public transportation). Limited participation is also possible. (My-Linh Kunst, President, AWC Berlin)

All AWC Hamburg members are cordially invited to participate. Let’s help make this the biggest turnout ever! For more information, contact Carol at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please join us for an evening with world-renowned Steinway Artist Robin Goldsby at an exclusive location on Thursday, June 23 at 7 PM. The evening Home and Away will feature music from Robin's recent recordings and lyrical stories from her books. Afterwards there will be a reception with plenty of time to socialize and enjoy the unique setting. This is a fabulous opportunity for AWC Hamburg to celebrate its membership in its 60th anniversary year. 

AWCH members and families free. Non-members €10 at the door.

For more information and/or to RSVP, contact Becky at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


Robin Meloy Goldsby, Steinway Artist, composer and author, has appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland. As a lyricist Goldsby has penned songs for Till Brönner, Curtis Stigers, Jeff Cascaro, Jessica Gall, and Peter Fessler. In 2010 Goldsby’s collaboration with singer/composer Joyce Moreno, Slow Music, received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Brazilian Album. In July 2012, she performed for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at the Eric Warburg Awards, sponsored by Atlantik Brücke, e.V (Berlin). She has presented her program in New York, Berlin, Oslo, Vienna, Marrakesh, Vilnius, Stockholm, Paris, Dublin and Geneva. www.goldsby.de

AWC Hamburg is proud to announce the first seminar of its expat series. Stuyvesant Wainwright IV, Esq. and RA Jan-Hendrik Frank, WF International Berlin, will highlight differences between US and German inheritance laws; German–American Treaty on Estates, Gifts and Inheritances; Estate Planning for German–American marriages including QDOTS; German-style wills vs. US-style wills; choice of laws; and need for Living Wills and Health Care Proxies. A Q&A session will follow the coffee break.

You are welcome to submit questions in advance. Friday, June 17 from 1–4 PM.

AWC Hamburg members free. Non-members 10 Euro at the door.

RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by June 10. Seating is limited to 50 people.

On 25th April 2016 7 of 8 Board members and 3 club members have been at the Open Board Meeting and discussed upcoming topics and events. We had meet in the conference room of the organization Deutsches Youth for Understanding e.V. (YFU), which supports international youth exchange programs.

Open Board Meetings are always open to all members and you may also vote there on the topics discussed. We’re alternating between evening and lunch meetings on a monthly basis. The next meeting will take place at 11am. Wait for the May invitation.

Please join us at our next Open Board Meeting to discuss current AWC Hamburg business and plan future events.

We are looking for donations to the Diamonds GALA Raffle

·      if you have creative ideas,

·      if you know potential sponsors,

·      if you are in possession of any (AWCH, Hamburg, etc.) memorabilia you would like to donate

please contact the Planning Committee at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Applications are now being accepted for the fourth FAWCO Youth Cultural Volunteers Program, which will take place in Dublin, Ireland from June 7–12, 2016.  The Program will be available for 8–10 FAWCO teens between the ages of 13–17 (open to past participants on a space available basis). Many thanks to the AWC Dublin for their generosity and willingness to set up this year's program!  The Program will introduce the group to some of the sights and sounds of Dublin, and the teens will be introduced to Ireland’s structure of volunteering and the underlying needs. To download an application, click here. The application deadline is April 30, 2016. 

Last year's Youth Cultural Volunteers Program took place in Mumbai, India and was a huge success! For more information, reports of the volunteers, and a video of the group experience, click here. (from the FAWCO Youth Program)