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Welcome to the latest newsletter from the Bristol Bordeaux Partnership (BBP) for October 2026. Today we reflect on a month of further twinning activities underway, and some planned. And of course our thoughts were with our friends and colleagues in Bordeaux whilst they recover from the summer fires. |
Opera live from Bordeaux - a free open air concert
An exciting new collaboration sees Opéra National de Bordeaux streaming a live show to the giant We The Curious screen on Millennium Square of September 11th.
Bordeaux approached Bristol City Council via the council counterparts in Bordeaux who contacted We The Curious.
September 11th at 19.00 see the live broadcast of a selection of show tunes by Leonard Bernstein. The broadcast in Millennium Square is free. Just bring along a chair and some refreshments. for more information read the Bordeaux Opera Live Screening | We The Curious site.
BBP and the City Council are also investigating the possibility of much closer links in future between We The Curious and similar family oriented Science museums in Bordeaux. |
French film nightThe next of our periodic showing of French films will be on Thursday October 8th. We'll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film Amelie. Once again we wil be at Audley Redwood in Failland. tickets will cost £10 on the day which will include a snack. Doors and the bar will open fro 18.30 for a start at 19.00. Please let Gill Hood know if you plan to come - using gannahd1@outlook.com - so we can plan for the refreshments. |
Lunchtime concert
We will once again be gathering for a lunchtime concert of French classical music at St George's Concert Hall.
Thursday October 1st at 13.00 with a Programme including Faure's Elegie Op24 and Debussy's sonata for cello and Piano, together with Dvorak's Silent Wood Op 68 and Chopin's sonata for cello & piano.
Tickets are £10.36 with a booking fee. Everyone should buy their own tickets but we'll meet at St George's and also in the cafe afterwards for a light lunch. |
Wine Tasting - the Rhone
We will once again be running one of our successful wine tasting evenings i the Autumn.
Friday November 20th at the Bristol Commonwealth Society, Whiteladies Road. The evening will be a wine tasting and talk, again led by wine expert Ian Abrahams, featuring wines from the Rhone Valley.
Door open at 18.30 for a 19.00 start with tickets at £27.00 to include not just the wines but also a good platter of breads and cheeses provided by the Commonwealth Society, as per last year.
For full details and to register please contact Gill Hood using gannahd1@outlook.com |
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We hope that these updates on the recent activities of BBP are of interest and may even prompt you to want to become more involved and to help us with some of these initiatives. If you want to know more, please reply to this email. We'd love to be able to spread the message re twinning in general and Bristol's links with Bordeaux in particular.
And finally, as always we hope to see many of you in 2026 and to hear of your ideas for how to increase twinning activities between Bristol and Bordeaux..
A bientôt!
Mark Atherton (Secretary) BBP
On behalf of Mike Healey (Chair of BBP) for Bristol Bordeaux Partnership www.bristolbordeaux.org |