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10th Bonn Balloon Festival: Opening of the festival with a mass start of the participating hot air balloons, a colorful spectacle to see (weather dependent), Rheinaue, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee, 7pm

Fun fair in Lannesdorf: Opens at 5pm on Friday with rides and a DJ playing music from 7pm. On Saturday, it opens at 2pm and in the evening there is live music. On Sunday there is a mass at 10am, a concert at 11:30am and a tambourine corps at 3pm. For lunch, sauerbraten will be on the menu and coffee and cake will be offered in the afternoon in the tent. It is also open Monday from 2pm.

The Night Watchman: Travel with the night watchman through Bonn. A walk through the darker, wilder sides of the city. These were dangerous times and the tasks which faced the night watchman meant that it was certainly not an easy job. Apart from dealing with the normal rabble and riff-raff in and around the city, the electoral capital of Bonn was threatened in the 17th century by war, fire and pestilence with the bubonic plague (tour in English) Friday, June 8, 9 - 11pm approx., €10-12, Please register in advance (0228) 654553, meeting point at Rheingasse on the corner of Brassertufer

Bonngasse 20: Music as it was in Beethoven's time: Concert on the fortepiano with Olga Pashchenko, Beethoven-Haus, Bonngasse 20-26, 5 pm, (0228) 981750

Bonn Schumann Festival: Sophie Pacini (piano), works by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Hensel, Schumann, and others, Schumannhaus, Sebastianstr. 182, 8 pm, (0228) 773656

International evening songs: With the vocal ensemble Kreuzkirche, Kreuz Church, Kaiserplatz, 8 pm

Ghost Trio B -- Corps Multiples: CocoonDance, Theater im Ballsaal, Frongasse 9, 20 Uhr, (0228) 797901

The largest mobile labyrinth in the world: Park area in the Rheinaue, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee, 9 am to 10 pm, 0163-7653728

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Living & Lifestyle fair: Exhibition featuring garden, living and lifestyle, with supporting program, lectures, music and children's entertainment, Kurpark, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Kurgartenstr. 1, 11am to 8pm, (02641) 8010

Handle with Care!: Rock, Western'n Love Songs, Drehwerk 17|19, Wachtberg, Töpferstr. 17-19, 8pm, (02225) 7081719

Engelbert Humperdinck Music Festival: Opening concert with Monika Tschurl (piano) and Michael Dartsch (violin), Stadtmuseum, Siegburg, Am Markt 46, 7:30 pm, (02241) 9698510

The Bridge: Drama based on the novel "The Bridge of Remagen" by Rolf Palm; the bridge played a pivotal role in WWII, theater in German at the original scene where it happened in the tunnel of Erpel under the Erpeler Ley, (in Erpel across the river from Remagen), 7:30pm, (02644) 4643

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Runrig: A Scottish Celtic rock group formed in Skye, in 1973 under the name 'The Run Rig Dance Band'. It’s 14th and final studio album is “The Story”. Lanxess-Arena, Willy-Brandt-Platz 3, 8pm, (0221) 8021

Live concert Game of Thrones: Lanxess-Arena, Willy-Brandt-Platz 3, 8pm, (0221) 8021

BONN

10th Bonn Balloon Festival: Colorful family fest at the hot air balloon festival, from 3pm; start of the hot air balloons from 7pm; lit up hot air balloons from 11pm (weather dependent), Rheinaue, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee

24th Bonner pottery market: pottery workshops and ceramic artists from home and abroad presenting contemporary ceramic art, Münsterplatz in Bonn city center, 10am - 6pm

Fun fair in Lannesdorf: Opens at 5pm on Friday with rides, and a DJ playing music from 7pm. On Saturday, it opens at 2pm and in the evening there is live music. On Sunday there is a mass at 10am, a concert at 11:30am and a tambourine corps at 3pm. For lunch, sauerbraten will be on the menu and coffee and cake will be offered in the afternoon in the tent. It is also open Monday from 2pm.

University Summer Festival: lectures, hands-on activities, music and shows, on the University Campus Poppelsdorf, at the end of Endenicher Allee / Nussallee, Bonn, 1 to 10 pm

La ClinicA: Reset.La ultima revolución, Theater in Spanish language, Brotfabrik, Bonn-Beuel, Kreuzstr. 16, 8pm, (0228) 43368070

Ghost Trio B -- Corps Multiples: CocoonDance, Theater im Ballsaal, Frongasse 9, 8pm, (0228) 797901

Victor Jara - A musical portrait: Alejandro León (vocals, guitar) and Axel Schindler (guitar, percussion); Ibero-Club Bonn, House of Aerospace, Bad Godesberg, Godesberger Allee 70, 6pm

Filthtones and E.T. Explore me: Kult 41, Hochstadenring 41, 8pm, (0228) 9085707

For kids: Sketching comics for children: "Jungle", workshop for children from 8 to 14 years; Registration: +49 (0) 228 9093477, Kunstverein Bad Godesberg, Bad Godesberg, in the Glaskarree, Burgstr. 85, 3pm, (0228) 314516

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Faces of Musical: 150-member choir celebrates "Musical Voices SIEG" with international musical stars John Vooijs, Brigitte Oelke, Jesper Tydén and Wilma, musical highlights from the musicals "Gambler", "We will rock you" and highlights from various Disney musicals and "Music (al) goes sports", Meiersheide Hall, Hennef, Meiersheide 20, 7pm

Living & Lifestyle fair: Exhibition featuring garden, living and lifestyle, with supporting program, lectures, music and children's entertainment, Kurpark, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Kurgartenstr. 1, 11am to 8pm, (02641) 8010

The Bridge: Drama based on the novel "The Bridge of Remagen" by Rolf Palm; the bridge played a pivotal role in WWII, theater in German at the original scene where it happened in the tunnel of Erpel under the Erpeler Ley, (in Erpel across the river from Remagen), 7:30pm, (02644) 4643

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The Rape of Lucretia: From a play by André Obey, music by Benjamin Britten, in English, Opera in the State House, Rheinparkweg 1, 7:30pm

RheinRiot 2018: With bands Emil Bulls, Annisokay, To the Rats and Wolves, Walking Dead on Broadway; metal and hardcore rock from Germany, Live Music Hall, Lichtstr.30, 5:30pm, (0221) 9542990

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10th Bonn Balloon Festival: Colorful family fest at the hot air balloon festival, from 12pm; start of the hot air balloons from 7pm (weather dependent), Rheinaue, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee

24th Bonner pottery market: pottery workshops and ceramic artists from home and abroad presenting contemporary ceramic art, Münsterplatz in Bonn city center, 11am - 6pm

Fun fair in Lannesdorf: Opens at 5pm on Friday with rides, and a DJ playing music from 7pm. On Saturday, it opens at 2pm and in the evening there is live music. On Sunday there is a mass at 10am, a concert at 11:30am and a tambourine corps at 3pm. For lunch, sauerbraten will be on the menu and coffee and cake will be offered in the afternoon in the tent. It is also open Monday from 2pm.

Wearable Art: Summer art market - open air, from the Bad Godesberg Art Association, Bad Godesberg, in the Glaskarree, Burgstr. 85, 11am to 6pm, (0228) 314516

SWB Energy and Water Bonn-Triathlon:, Bonner Bogen, Bonn-Beuel

Record and CD Exchange: Brückenforum, Bonn-Beuel, Friedrich-Breuer-Str. 17, 11am to 4pm, (0228) 400090

In the mirror: Martin Grubinger (drums) and Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, works by Tan Dun and Igor Strawansky, Martin Grubinger in conversation with Dirk Kaftan, Bonn Opera, Am Boeselagerhof 1, 11 am, (0228) 778008

GA summer garden: Alma de México; "Las Fiestas", Mexican music, concert on the roof of the Bundeskunsthalle (National Art Museum), Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 11:30am to 2.30pm, (0228) 91710

Little Jon's Jazzband: Happy Jazz & Dixieland, beer garden of the Park Restaurant Rheinaue, Ludwig-Erhard-Allee 20, 2pm to 5pm, (0228) 374030

Charity concert: To benefit the Hospice Association Bonn, with the Bad Godesberg Cantat Orchestra, Susann Scheibling (oboe) and Lucas Brunnert (violin), works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and others, La Redoute, Bad Godesberg, Kurfürstenallee 1, 6 pm, (0228) 367720

For kids: The Snail and the Humpback Whale: From the picture book by Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson, ages 4 and up, Youth Theater Bonn (in German), (0228) 463672, Dome Hall in Thalia-Metropol, Markt 24, 3pm

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The Bridge: Drama based on the novel "The Bridge of Remagen" by Rolf Palm; the bridge played a pivotal role in WWII, theater in German at the original scene where it happened in the tunnel of Erpel under the Erpeler Ley, (in Erpel across the river from Remagen), 3:30pm, (02644) 4643

Living & Lifestyle fair: Exhibition featuring garden, living and lifestyle, with supporting program, lectures, music and children's entertainment, Kurpark, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Kurgartenstr. 1, 10am to 6pm, (02641) 8010

Sampling of Exhibitions in Bonn and surrounds:

Cinemas offering English-language movies:

Want to see a movie in English? The following theaters normally offer at least a couple of movies in English.

Films labeled with OV (Orig. version) or Omu (Orig. version with German subtitles) are generally in English unless otherwise noted, i.e. (Russ) = Russian, (Frz) = French.

Or check out this site, tap in your location and then select the OV Original Version.

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(Original Text: GA, Translation: Carol Kloeppel)