** The participation of Bristol’s twinnings at this year’s Harbour Festival was masterminded by our Council Twinnings Officer, Zoe Gibbons, and her idea of artistic activities in the family area on College Green proved to be a great success!
The twinnings tent was presented showing huge letters of BRISTOL, with each letter signifying one of the seven twinnings, with an associated animal. The letters were allocated in order of the establishment of the twinnings, so Hannover was the letter R and our animal was the horse, to show off the Hanoverian horse breed.
The project was aimed at families and the children were invited to draw, copy or colour in, in our case, horses, and then stick their artistic endeavours on the appropriate letter on the stage.
Each twinning had a separate table, all colour-coded (in our case yellow), with lots of information about each twinning on laminated sheets. The crowds of enthusiastic children showed the success of the enterprise, and everyone learned quite a lot about our city’s twinnings at the same time.
The letters and other information will be on show again in the M-Shed on Tuesday August 6th, when we and Bristol-Bordeaux Partnership will be hosting another day of activities – do come and see us, and bring any colourful Hannover memorabilia which you may have.
Thanks to Zoe for all her hard work in setting up such a wonderful set of summer activities!