Activities & Projects

Rosie McLay and Sledone, two of Bristol’s top young urban artists were chosen by UPFest and Hannover’s Kulturamt to take part in Hannover’s Urban Nature Festival last weekend. The artists were funded by Hannover City Council and spent several days in the city creating huge murals and then visiting some of the city’s well known urban art districts such as Linden and Nordstadt by bike.  They were able to network with other artists from Poznan, Hannover’s Polish twin city and local artists from the scene.  They also took part in a public talk with the artist ESKAER from Poznan and Tobi...

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Two years in the planning, finally 20 young people arrived from Hannover, with six youth workers and artists, to visit Bristol for a programme of different activities, but especially to take part in 2 days of graffiti workshops with a local graffiti artist. This culminated in an exhibition at The Station, where they also stayed at the YMCA hostel. The visit, led by Marco Leitschuh from Hannover City Council, was coordinated by Alix Hughes, twinnings supremo at the International Office of Bristol City Council, and the programme was organised by Faye Keane of Young Bristol and Emma Rigby of the Creative...

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The People of Note Community choir (PON) enjoyed a very memorable visit from the amazingly talented Hannover choir Canta Nova. The People of Note International Touring Association (PONITA) are the social/event organising arm of the main community choir and we have taken enormous pleasure in organising and making this weekend possible. The visit has brought together two cities and two performances of exceptional quality and diversity-some welcome bonuses have been the creation of significant international friendships, and the cementing of community ties, both within and across, the two choirs. On...

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A group of young people including our youth Mayor visited Hannover in early late May as part of the Youth Democracy project with partners Politik zum Anfassen. Funded by the EU Erasmus scheme the 19 young people and four youth workers spent three days in workshops in a school in Hannover looking at different elements of the democratic process in Hannover. They also enjoyed visiting the city using the trams and came away with an excellent impression of our twin city. The Hannover group will be in Bristol in October for a conference and a busy social programme as well as meeting some of our councillors...

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This month Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees met French and German Consul Generals during their visit to Bristol to look at how Bristol is supporting the delivery of Settlement Scheme for French and German citizens living in Bristol.               Left to right: Herr Loeffler (German Consul General) Mayor Rees, Mon. Bazard (French Consul General)                 Left to right: Tim Illston (Hon German Consul), Herr Loeffler, Mayor Rees, Mon. Bazard and Josette leBrat (Hon...

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Ten artists in response to the European legacy of Twinning met for the first time in July 2018 for an exhibition at the TURBA gallery in Hannover. Five Hannover artists then exhibited in Bristol for the first time in spring 2019. This was the second exhibition of new contemporary works diversely created in the twin cities of Hannover and Bristol. A group of Bristol Hannover members attended the opening of this exhibition at the Centrespace Gallery and met the artists from BV studios Bristol and their partners from TURBA in Hannover. The exhibition is a reflection on current times through,...

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We had a wonderful few days this summer with 15 of our Hannoverian friends, with a very intensive programme of visits, which our visitors seemed to thoroughly enjoy!  Highlights were visits to St Fagan's Open Air museum of Welsh History (and Chepstow Castle on the way back), the new Aerospace museum in Filton, the Blue Glass factory at Henbury (where the glass blower made a decorative tooth from blue glass (see below) for our Professor of Dentistry, Husa!), Blaise Castle, a walk round the centre of Bristol, with an entertaining commentary by our guide, member Roger Harper, a visit to the Impossible...

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Come and meet three of the artists taking part in UPFest 2018 and hear about their inspirations, the graffiti art scenes where they live and work and ask them questions about what makes them do what they do! Dr Love is from Tbilisi the capital of Georgia which has been officially twinned with Bristol since 1988. He and two of his colleagues are here to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the link.                     Lady JDay is from Bordeaux in South West France which was twinned with Bristol in 1947 as part...

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As part of the week-long 45th Hannover-Bristol Dental School Exchange, Chair Ann Kennard gave an illustrated presentation showing the history of the overall city partnership, in the context of the 71 years of Bristol-Hannover Council. The students of the Medizinische Hochschule in Hannover were involved in very practical experience at Bristol’s Dental School, learning about dentistry and how it is taught at Bristol, "having a go at things" hands-on (we will avoid the gory details!), learning clinical skills, as well as observing clinical practice in different settings. In addition students learned...

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In addition to the upcoming visit of our friends from the Hannover-Bristol Gesellschaft in August, the dental students from Hannover’s Leibniz University will be here in June, visiting their counterparts at Bristol University. They will have a reception with the new Lord Mayor, Councillor Cleo Lake, and BHC Chair Ann Kennard will give an illustrated presentation on the history – and present! – of the link between the two cities. And recently we have linked up with Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy here in Bristol, where German has been introduced, along with other languages, as part...

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