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Neville Osborne Lecture
Florian Seitz, Deputy Head of Culture at the German Embassy in London, was the guest speaker at this year’s Neville Osborne memorial lecture on November 7th. His inspiring talk was entitled: "Why learn German today?" Over 120 students and staff from Bristol Grammar School (BGS) attended and the event was introduced by Dr Ann Kennard, Chair of Bristol Hannover Council (BHC). Neville, who died in 2002 aged 92, had been Head of Languages at BGS, and was a founder member of Bristol-Hannover Council. He first went to Germany in 1929 and retained his love of Germany in spite of the dreadful...
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Radio Bristol live in Hannover!
We are currently discussing a possible visit to Hannover of a Radio Bristol presenter, to present a major event there live for the citizens of Bristol. Watch this space!
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Football fixture with Hannover 96!
We have had two meetings so far to discuss the possibility of a fixture between Bristol City Football Club and Hannover 96. This would probably start at Academy level, with possible exchanges of coaches also. We would hope that the new Stadium might be an occasion to celebrate the twinning. Further meetings will take place once the situation with the new BCFC stadium is clarified. Cooperation with Bristol Rovers has also been discussed.
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Visit of Hannover Citizens
From 28th July to the 2nd August, BHC hosted a group of six Hannoverian citizens, members of the Hannover-Bristol Gesellschaft, who were invited at that time in order to enjoy the Bristol Harbour Festival! Our guests stayed in the homes of members of BHC in and around Bristol, and had a great time at the Festival, including a visit to the new Museum for Bristol, ‘M’ Shed, which they had last seen before it closed as the Industrial Museum.
During their stay, they also visited Stourhead, and were welcomed to a reception with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress at the Mansion House,...
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Watershed Digital Storytelling Workshop
Between 6th and 10th June 2011, two members of the Hannover-Bristol Gesellschaft took part in the second EU-funded international workshop at Watershed, designed to train people over 50 to use their own personal stories to digitise images and sound, to learn the intricacies of video and audio-editing. The Oberbürgermeister’s group were very interested visitors to the workshop. In 2010 when the first such workshop took place, the Hannoverians were also represented, along with people from other cities twinned with Bristol, and the Gesellschaft plans to send other citizens to future workshops.
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