After a long break, two City of San Francisco - Landeshaupstadt Kiel sister city events with The Bay Areas e.V. this week! 4/8 - Presentations from #CINEMARE_Kiel CINEMARE Kiel at SF oceanfilmfoundation 4/10 - Premiere of lighthouse-swim.de #OpenWaterSF with #SERC, Dolphin Club & San Francisco Baykeeper 🌊

Landeshaupstadt Kiel is back! City of San Francisco’s youngest sister-city is in town! A big thank you to City Hall‘s Chief of Protocol a.i. Meron Foster and Mark Chandler for a lovely reception. Welcome to City-President Hans Tovar, Uwe Wanger, CEO Kiel-Marketing & Till Dietsche, CINEMARE Kiel #kiel

Landeshaupstadt Kiel and City and City of San Francisco - love for great cinema and the #ocean. Thank you for contributions of Kiel‘s CINEMARE Kiel to San Francisco‘s IOFF. Congrats to festival directors Ana Blanco and Till Dietsche. #kiel #sanfrancisco #filmfestival #ocean #thankyou

#Passover at Sherith Israel and thank you to AJC San Francisco, Adam Chase, Rabbi Eisenberg and Irvin Unger as well as colleagues Shlomi Kofman 🇮🇱, Sergio Strozzi, Socrates Sourvino and first and foremost Dmytro Kushneruk for being there. I feel truly blessed. #thankyou #passover #ajc

Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month throughout the month of May. Visit the Celebration Guide to find events, expand your bookshelf, and find inspiration: apasf.org . . . #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #APAHM #SanFrancisco

Es ist endlich soweit, heute starte das 6. CINEMARE Meeresfilmfestival Kiel!!!😍 Wir freuen uns auf eine großartige und spannende Festivalwoche mit euch💙#CINEMARE_Kiel #meeresfilmfestival #kiel #eröffnung #meer #kino #ocean

Highlights of the #DWIH San Francisco’s grand opening gala last night in the amazing #Exploratorium. Words of Welcome were offered by Zahar Barth-Manzoori, Dir. DWIH San Francisco, Joybrato Mukherjee, Pres.DAAD, Vito Cecere, German Federal Foreign Office. #DAAD #GermanyinSF

Europe-Day at San Francisco. Celebrating 72 years of European integration. A united Europe supporting our Ukrainian friends. Thank you Mayor London Breed, to Frederic Jung 🇫🇷🇪🇺 and Dmytro Kushneruk and all EU-colleagues present. Happy Birthday, Europe! #thankyou #europeanunion 🇪🇺🇩🇪

Excited to cohost Equality California endorsed candidate for Congress Robert Garcia 🏳️‍🌈 He’s been an incredible Mayor for City of Long Beach & can’t wait to have him in DC. Only 9 openly LGBTQ elected members currently. Also, remember to vote Rob Bonta for CA Attorney General! 🇺🇸 🗳

#StrongerTogether Aircraft from 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇸🇪 Sweden and the 🇺🇸 U.S fly in formation above the #USSKearsarge during #BALTOPS22, a NATO exercise in the Baltic Sea.

Kiel Week 2022 Open Ship (vessel galore during BALTOPS exercise) Solomon H I Sutton

(2/2) It was an honor be here in Germany as this years' exercise comes to an end. Read more here: go.usa.gov/xJytE

Kicking off #KielerWoche2022 on board of USS Mount Whitney. Special thanks for the invitation to Official account of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Patrick O'Keeffe. International partnerships have never been more important than today. #KiWo #KielWeek #NATO

Kiel, San Francisco’s German Sister City on the #baltic coast is celebrating its 141st #KielerWoche sailing event! Millions of visitors come to #Kiel, while thousands of athletes compete in sailing events. Meanwhile visiting naval vessels and tall ships are moored at the piers.

SF Sister City Kiel — The #KielWeek in it’s 141st year happening now. Kieler Woche 2022 — sailing day 6. Great impressions from the olympic foiling cats and surfers, #Nacra17 and #IQFoil. Daily video highlights at kielerwoche.tv. #KielerWoche2022 City of San Francisco Port of San Francisco

#sfpride 2022! 🏳️‍🌈Tens of thousands people out in the streets of City of San Francisco. European Union in the U.S. and European partners too in great numbers! Thank you to many colleagues out there. Special thanks to Mercedes-Benz USAㅤ and their amazing team for providing such a wonderful car. #PrideMonth

Open air classical music —The #Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra with Conchita Wurst @ #KielerWoche2022

Fireworks, lasers, drones and searchlights on the #HDWPortalkran — #KielerWoche2022 is a wrap! 🧡 from SF!

🇩🇪German Day of Unity🇩🇪German American Heritage Day 🇩🇪 Flag-raising at City Hall of City of San Francisco. As always a wonderful display of 🇺🇸friendship and hospitality. Eternally grateful to a great Protocol team ❤️A big thank you to London Breed and to Sean Elsbernd for greeting us.🇩🇪

SAVE THE DATE for 🇩🇪German Day 🇩🇪in Golden Gate Park 🌁 and join this free family event celebrating music and culture from Germany on Oct 16. 📅 Sunday, October 16, 2022 ⏰ 11am - 5pm 📍 Bandshell/Music Concourse See you there! #SFGermanDay2022 sfgermanday.org