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We represent Southwest Germany, officially the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, home to two wine regions, Michelin starred food, sustainable tourism practices, the Black Forest, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg and Lake Constance; the city of Stuttgart, home to the museums of Mercedes and Porsche and delicious wines, beautiful palaces; and the state of Saxony, one of the world’s top cultural destination. VKLarson also is the Administrator for the SATW Foundation, which sponsors the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition to honor excellence in the field. The Foundation has awarded more than $600,000 to journalists since 1984. VKLarson Communications also works with Direct Travel, one of the leading travel agencies around the world.
Side of Culture is a monthly newsletter and website where we write about cultural organizations and their communities, including historic houses, museums, gardens, libraries and bookstores, and performing arts centers. Please follow us on social and join our newsletter.
We have worked with and successfully completed projects on behalf of a number of gardens and cultural organizations, including the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), a membership organization of professional communicators in the travel industry; Greenwood Gardens, a non-profit 28-acre historic site and public garden in Short Hills, New Jersey; The Wassaic Project, a Hudon Valley based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, that uses art and arts education to foster positive social change; Innisfree Garden, a garden in the Hudson Valley with extraordinary midcentury design; and the Austrian Tourism Board and their colleagues from the Tirol celebrating 200 Years of the famous Christmas song Silent Night in New York City.
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2022: Press Releases
- BodenSee/Lake Constance, September 2022
- Saxony Wine Trail, October 2022
- Post Bogota, September 2022
- Phoenix Awards, September 2022
- Culinary Excellence in Black Forest, August 2022
- Mendelssohn Masur and the Importance of Music in Saxony, August 2022
- Love in the Palace….and the Garden, July 2022
- SouthWest Germany’s Food Scene: Excellent, Elegant, Local, Authentic
- SATW Opens 2023 Bill Muster Travel Awards: June 1 – June 30
- Saxony Celebrates Bernardo Bellotto, aka, Canaletto at 300: Painter of Historic Cities on the Elbe, Dresden and Pirna
- Immersive Experiences in SouthWest Germany’s Stuttgart: Wine Festivals & Experiences, Beautiful Cars & Interactive Museums, Christmas Markets
- SATW Calls for Nominations for Distinguished Phoenix Awards: Applications due by June 6
- Saxony Celebrates 300 Years of the Moravian Church: Herrnhut – home to the Moravians around the world
- Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Heads to Bogota for Annual Convention in September: Registration Open thru May 16, Join Now
- We made the Final Round of Chronogrammies! Thank you for your Vote!
- Groundbreaking Expressionism Exhibition in Chemnitz: Die Bruecke und die Blaue Reiter in Show Together
- Beautiful Shopping Has a Home in SouthWest Germany: Breuninger – Beautiful things and unique shopping experiences in SouthWest Germany
- SATW Survey Reveals Top Destinations: Motivations for Travel in 2022
- SATW Foundation Opens 2022 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: New Categories, New Website, Refreshed Presentation
- Gerhard Richter in Dresden! Special Exhibition Honoring 90th Birthday Highlights Select Works
- Invitation to Saxony’s LIVE Stream of Sightgeist Magazine: Augustus the Strong – Legend and Legacy
- Fas’Nacht Traditions in SouthWest Germany: Hilarity, Revelry, Parades on Hold ’til Next Year
Newsletters
- Larson Architecture at Work Oct 2024
- Black Forest in Winter Oct 2024
- Side of Culture Oct 2024
- Leipzig: 35 Years Since the Peaceful Revolution Oct 2024
- Southwest Germany’s Fantastic Road Oct 2024
- Stuttgart’s Annual Beer Festival: the Canstatter Wasen Sep 2024
- Dresden’s Jewels are Back! Sep 2024
- Side of Culture August 2024
- Sustainable Destinations in Saxony June 2024
- Direct Travel’s Virtuoso Travel Advisors May 2024
- Side of Culture October 2022
- Side of Culture September 2022
- Side of Culture August 2022
- Millbrook Garden Club, October 2022
- Millbrook Garden Club, September 2022
- Hildene in Manchester, Vermont; Hill-Stead in Farmington, CT; Sao Paulo’s Casa Zalszupin: Building Communities with Arts Organizations, People and Places
- Time Travel & Tradition in SouthWest Germany from Monasteries to Retail: Preserving Palaces, Monasteries, Honoring Entrepreneurship
- Wave Hill, Barter Theatre, Miami Beach Botanical Garden: Building Communities with Arts Organizations, People and Places
- Alice Austen on Staten Island, Grace Farms in New Canaan, Library in Memphis: Building Communities with Cultural Organizations, People and Places
- A Trip to SouthWest Germany’s Past Highlights UNESCO: Baden-Baden to LeCorbusier; Prehistoric Art to Medieval Monasteries
- The Phillips Collection, the Chinese-American Museum in D.C., South Beach and Norwalk, CT: Building Communities with Cultural Organizations, People and Places