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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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The first week of June 2013 was sunny spells and sunny times for Bristol-Hannover Council. We were visited by members of the Hannover-Bristol Gesellschaft (our counterpart association in Hannover), who enjoyed not only beautiful weather, but also a “new look” tour of the city some of them know very well. When planning the visit, we had resolved to take them to places they were unlikely to have seen before in order to show them different parts of our city. The visit began with a journey to the past as we ventured down to the Bristol Record Office for a tour. There we were given exclusive...

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Members of Bristol-Hannover Council committee had tea on June 1st with a group of Hannover Seniors who meet regularly to read English books under the leadership of Tricia Martin, an English woman who used to work for the British Army and now lives permanently in Hannover. They visit different cities in the UK every couple of years, and were delighted to get to know Hannover's partner city. They are keen to take part in our visit to Hannover in May 2014, the year of the 300th anniversary of the Hannoverian accession to the English throne. We look forward to meeting them again!

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On May 14th 2013, BHC Chair Dr Ann Kennard and BITA Co-ordinator Alix Hughes spent an hour with Hannover’s Green Party Mayor Frau Regine Kramarek. All three were invited to the Mansion House for discussions with the Lord Mayor Councillor Peter Main and Bristol City Council’s International Officer Stephen Brown. Mayor Kramarek was in Bristol as part of Hannover City Council’s official delegation on board the inaugural flight between the two twin cities. She was keen to develop further exchanges and collaborative projects between the two cities, particularly around culture and the green...

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