Category: Bristol

Come to the Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade next Saturday !
This year there will be lanterns specially designed to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Bristol Bordeaux twinning, and the city’s link with Oporto in Portugal.
As part of the pre-Parade entertainment, you will discover Cecile, French-born singer and songwriter living in Bristol.
She will sing on the North St/Raleigh Rd junction from 16.00.
See you next Saturday !!

“Un équipage de 8 rameurs seniors s’est rendu à Bristol, où ils ont été formidablement bien accueillis. Ils ont pu découvrir la ville, s’entraîner en plein cœur de la cité le samedi et affronter un équipage local le dimanche matin, sous la forme de courses sprint. Mais ce fut avant tout une occasion de tisser des liens d’amitié avec le City of Bristol Rowing Club, dans le but d’organiser d’autres rencontres dans le futur, peut-être avec des rameurs plus jeunes.”

“A team of eight senior rowers made its way to Bristol where they were all warmly welcomed. They were given the opportunity to look around Bristol, train right in the heart of the city on the Saturday and go up against a local team on the Sunday morning for sprint style races. This was above all a way of creating a bond of friendship with the City of Bristol Rowing Club with a view to organising other events in the future, possibly even with younger rowers.”

“Are you interested in the development of the Bristol City Region ?”

“The challenge of growing the economy, whilst ensuring that all our citizens are included in a prosperous future, is one we face today. This could be a further challenge with Brexit on the horizon. One of the ways we can contribute to the development of our city in a post-Brexit world is to work with other forward-looking cities in Europe with similar high tech and creative industries. Our long-term relationships with our twin cities of Hanover and Bordeaux offer us the opportunity to build on a great platform of friendship and understanding, to develop deeper collaboration and trade growth.
We can also learn from each other and improve the quality of life, social economy and cultural experience in our cities.

Attend the Three Cities Conference to discuss developing our cities through ‘Inclusive Growth’ on the 19th October at The Bristol Hotel.

Please visit our website at www.3citiessummit.com and follow instructions to reserve your place on the Bookings page“.

Alastair Watson
Chair of Organising Committee
Three Cities Summit 2017
Bristol – Hannover – Bordeaux

Lovely to have the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Lady Mayoress and Honorary Consul for France (Bristol & Bath) down at the Harbourside to watch the racing and meet the crews. The Lord Mayor also presented the certificates and tee shirts to City of Bristol juniors who have passed their initial ‘start to row’ programme.

On Thursday the 21st July 2016 the Lord Mayor of Bristol unveiled a cabinet in the Central Library to commemorate the twinnings that Bristol has with cities across the world. The cabinet is set to remain in the library next to the Twin Cities Reference Section and will be changed every three months. It contains objects that were gifted by our twinned towns to represent the culture of their city, such as a sculpture from Hannover.

Many people who have played key roles within these partnerships were  present, and it was great to hear from them about how these links between cities have benefited Bristol.

Text and photos courtesy Emily Brown (BITA work experience student)