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After an artistically rich summer with the recording and concerts of Benjamin Brittens works for strings given by the set European Camerata, the Master Class and concerts given by Venance Fortunat, the Centre of European Culture participation in the "festival Nuis Romanes" and the photographer Suzanne Hetzels residence, we are entering into an academically promising year.
The CEC network holds the place of honour: last week saw the end to the third encounter of culture and citizenship of the CEC Europolis de Calarasi (Romania). It is next with the Baden-Baden CEC tha we will share our teams for the sixth encounter in November. In march we will hold the first encounter of the Centre de Culture Euroméditerranéen in Marrakech before visiting our Italien friends in Fidenza (Italy), this will be the CEC Sigeric third encounter.
There are still possibilities to participate in the encounters within the network or in the Saint-Jean d'Angély Centre. (calendar - enrol)

Just after the return home from Romania, we will get down to another chapter of our activities with the second edition of the Automn University "Parler du patrimoine roman: médiation et interprétation", an important part of the Plan Régional Art Roman. At this occasion we have published with L'Harmattan the works of the inaugural University in October 2005.

Thank you to all those who via their expression of gratitude and their enthousiasm allow us to pursue our adventure.

The third encounter of culture and citizenship on the Black sea of Romania has just finished. Since the 23rd September, the youngsters from La Rochelle and Calarasi have exchanged on the theme "The Danube encounters the Black sea". Conferences on Europe and the environment, excursions to Histria, Eforie, Constanta and Bucarest, video, dance, decoration and theatre workshops composed, amongst other activities, the program of this encounter which lasted two weeks.

Launched by the Région Poitou-Charentes in May 2005, the Plan Régional Art Roman aims to allow to see and understand heritage in a dynamic and modern way. All this contributes to make heritage accessible to all and to participate in the cultural development of the different territories.

To make known to a larger public the understanding of heritage, a vast reflexion was iniciated during the first edition of the Automn University which was held in October 2005 at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Jean d'Angély. This event was organised by the Region Poitou-Charentes.

This first encounter was the occasion to hold an interprofessional confrontation which was particullarly rich: conferences and workshops with varied themes allowed the participants to cross their pedagogical approaches, their needs, their objectives and to work on the didactic of cultural mediation. The idea being to build a base for an innovative program for heritage education.

The second edition of the Automn University for heritage mediation professionals will be held form the 16th-18th October 2006. This year a European note will be given to the University: the notion of a European Romanesque heritage and it's perception within different European countries will be the heart of the presentations.

The site Classicnews reflects upon the recording European Cameratas CD which was carried out in the Royal Abbey.

Within the framework of the Grundtvig project "Let's Communicate" the Centre of European Culture is going to offer new service to all migrants who move to Saint-Jean d'Angély in order to help them integrate as best as possible.
This service will be available from the 6th November every monday and friday afternoon and functions on an open door policy. You will find there Jennifer Frost and Samatha Bottomley who will help you through the maze of setting up a new life in France.
The most important part of integration is learning the language, french classes and english for businesses will equally be set up.

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The calendar of the encounters organised for the 2006-2007 season has been published! Do not hesitate to consul the dates... and don't loose any time to enroll!

- Calendar of the encounters (html version - pdf version)

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Director of publication : Alain Ohnenwald - Edited by David Chauveau
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