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Professor Rolf Nobel of the Technical University in Hannover brought a team of 15 photographers to Bristol in July 2013, to photograph ‘Life in Bristol’ as part of their ongoing LANDMARKER project.  The group have put on several exhibitions of their pictures around the world, the last city to be photographed in this way being Bangkok.  BHC Chair Ann Kennard went to Hannover in January to attend the official opening by the new Oberbürgermeister of Hannover, Stefan Schostok, of an exhibition of around 100 of the best photographs of Bristol.  In his opening address, Herr Schostok paid tribute...

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Christmas is coming and for their Christmas celebration, the Bristol Hannover Council took to the streets of a rainy central Bristol to gather for lunch at the German Christmas market. They were honoured to be joined by Cllr Peter Main (Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol, 2013 – 2014) and enjoyed a wonderfully Germanic lunch of Bratwurst, Sauerkraut and Beer/Glühwein in truly Germanic setting. See you in the New Year!

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KlimaKunstStädte, Künstlerhaus Hannover Carolyn Hassan, Director of Knowle West Media Centre, and Mark Leach from Bristol City Council's Sustainability Team, were invited to attend the Climate Culture Cities symposium in Hannover this September by Janika Millan (Twining Officer within Städtepartnerschaften der Kulturbüro-Landeshauptstadt, City of Hannover. The event started with the representatives from Hannover's twin cities meeting up for a tour of the city. Led by Cathérine Bartholomé, a freelance events organiser newly specialising in environmental events, we saw the City Hall (including...

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From Dr John Veale About 20 pupils of Year Nine from the Hannover Goetheschule have been exchanging every year with pupils from Cotham School, originally led by Dietrich Doelitzsch and his wife. The latest group were here again this year (1st October) and were received by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. BHC is very happy that Cotham continues with this exchange and was pleased to be represented at one of this year’s twinning social events. One of our main objectives is to promote and support links with young people of our two cities.

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Hannover photo-journalism project photographers took part in the 24 Hours in Bristol competition and have succeeded in getting 5 of their images into the top 70 photographs out of over 1000 submitted. They also managed to save a man from suffocating in the river mud when they went to take photos of the Flower Market at 4am. Full story from the Bristol Evening Post here: http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Appeal-identify-mud-man-pulled-river-bank-Bristol/story-20072253-detail/story.html      

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Bristol Hannover Council held their Annual General Meeting on Thursday 31st October. They were pleased to welcome the Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Peter Main and Robin McDowell, Economy, Enterprise and Inclusion Team Manager at Bristol City Council as well as Association members and friends. Following the opening remarks from Cllr Main, Bristol Hannover Council Chair, Dr Ann Kennard reminded everyone of what had been a busy year for the Bristol Hannover Council and how a bigger and busier year lay ahead in 2014, with the celebrations of the 300th Anniversary of the Accession of the Elector...

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The 2013 Bristol Harbour Festival was held from 26-28th July and it was in the leafy, tranquil Cathedral Walk (between Bristol Cathedral and Cafe Gusto by the river Avon) that Bristol Hannover Council set up their stall alongside fellow Twinning Associations and charities on Saturday July 27th. Throughout the day, Bristol Hannover Council challenged passers-by to find Hannover on a giant map of Germany and test their German vocab with their now well-known “How’s your German...? word game, where participants try to match German words to their English counterparts. With sweet German additions...

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In mid-July we had a bevy of visitors from Hannover: first to arrive were a group of 15 photo-journalists led by Prof. Rolf Nobel of the Technical University in Hannover. Bristol was the latest subject of their project 'Lumix' which takes them to a different city every two years, where they photograph many aspects of life there, and then show a selection of 100+ images in an exhibition back in Hannover. A recent city so exhibited was Bangkok. The group had a briefing here at City Hall, attended the Gay Pride rally in Queen Square, were received by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, attended...

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BHC Chair, Ann Kennard, partnered Ursula Lindenberg, translator and text editor for Ecology and Social Science, in giving a combined presentation recently on Twinning and Social Learning at a conference hosted by the Schumacher Institute. Part of Bristol's Big Green Week from 15-23rd June, the conference was entitled "A New Social Contract for Sustainability" and took place on 20-21st June at the Arnolfini. About 50 delegates heard presentations and took part in workshops on various aspects of sustainability, such as the Challenges and Strategies of a Post-Growth Society, The Implications of Sustainable...

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Bristol Hannover Council Chair Ann Kennard, Honorary Secretary Gerard Owen and BITA Coordinator Alix Hughes attended the “Doing Business in Germany” Conference at Leigh Court Bristol on 18th June 2013. Organised by UK Trade & Investment, this Conference was well attended by representatives from all kinds of local businesses, all of them eager to find out how they could forge trade links with Germany. The recent establishment of a direct flight between Bristol and its twin-city Hannover will certainly facilitate greater travel and greater cooperation between British and German businesses....

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