Editorial

It's the end of the year, traditional wishes are to be made. So I extend mine whole heartedly to you.
But for us it is above all the occasion to thank all those who support us, for their political decisions but also for their individual gestures, words pronounced, emotions shared. These are the sources of our energy.
Two events during 2007's last summer: the simultanious organisation of two encounters bring together over 120 young Europeans in Sibiou, Romania and Saint-Jean d'Angély, France. Then, in partnership with the Poitiers Rectorat and the academic delegation for cultural actions, an intercultural encounter of young French and French-Canadiens.
2008 will commence on a strong note with a new residency of the ensemble European Camerata of whom we defend the excellence since 2004. Also the meeting for all the bearers of the Centre of European Cultures network in order to decide upon our action plan up until our 20th anniversary which will be celebrated in 2009.
I believe that 2008 will be, for the European Comission, the year of "intercultural dialogue". We have not waited 18 years for 2008!
Who knows, perhaps they will require our savoir-faire. It's Christmas, we are allowed to dream.

Alain Ohnenwald,
director of Centre of European Culture

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Summary

Centres activities

- ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: chamber music ensemble "EUROPEAN CAMERATA"

January 2008 : launch of the CD with Fuga Libera (distributed by Harmonia Mundi) of string works by Benjamin Britten, recorded during the summer 2006 at the Centre of European Culture with support of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council.

Be amongst the first to share these emotions! Buy the CD directly in our online shop.

 

Concerts :

- Poitiers (86) : Thursday 10th January 2008
- Press conference at the "Hôtel de Région" (00 33 5 49 55 77 00)

- 8.30 pm - Notre-Dame-la-Grande Church
Tickets 18/15 € available at FNAC, Carrefour, 00 33 892 68 36 22 (0,34€/min), www.fnac.com

- Saint-Jean d'Angély (17) : Friday 11th January - Free public rehersal
Iinformation available from the Centre of European Culture

- Ruelle-sur-Touvre (16) : Saturday 12th January - 8.30pm - Theatre
Tickets 10/5 € : Information/réservations 00 33 5 45 65 89 37 (Tuesdays and Thursdays)

Find out more about the Ensemble:
http://europeancamerata.free.fr/about%20us.html

 

- ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE DURING 2008

Concerned by the developement of artists residencies at the Royal Abbey, the Centre of European Culture would like to host artists during 2007 - 2008. In order to offer artists the means and a place for thought and creation we give them all the liberty to produce works of their chioce rather than focusing only on property, aqcuisition and value, but on the echange that his creation will bring to the people who live in Saint-Jean-d'Angély..

The Royal Abbey and the municipality of Saint-Jean d'Angély have transformed themselves, for the period of the residencies, into a production "Centre", where the population, the visitors and the young Europeans find themselves implied and share a real interaction during the course of the works creation.

During 2008 we will be hosting two residences.
Alexis Pandellé and Annette Wendt.
To find out more about Alexis Pandellé,click here
To find out more about Annette Wendt, click here

 

 

 

- RELOCATE ICI

The association Relocate ici whoes aime is to help British expats integrate is facing a new challenge!
After meetings with the "Urgences" departement of the Saint-Jean d'Angély, Saint Louis hospital, we are collaborating together in order to create a bilingual questionnaire.
This questionnaire, like all our work, is not in order to encourage expats not to learn French but to help the medical staff offer a quality service.
This questionnaire is in the first stages of creation and we hope that it will be available in the hospital early 2008.
Relocate ici celebrated its first anniversary on the 6th November 2007 and we are thrilled with our success. We take this occasion to thank our members and to wish you all a very merry Christmas and new year...

Contac us:
www.relocateici.com
contact@relocateici.com

 

 

News

- Myspace et Facebook

To those of you who have participated in an international encounter in one of the Centres of European Culture, get in touch!

Prepare with us the 20th birthday of the Centres of European Culture in 2009!!! The Saint-Jean d'Angély's Centre of European Culture has opened two meeting spaces.

One on myspace
The other on facebook

You have to be registered with these sites in order to make contact with us and with each other! These services are completly free.

We hope to hear from you all very soon.

 

European youth encounters

The 2007-2008 calendar is online! Take a look at the dates and enroll in one of our unique encounters either in France or within our network of Centres.

- Calendar
html version
pdf version

 

 

European news

 

Find all the latest European cultural news on our partner site
European Institute of Cultural Itineraries

 

 

Sites of the day

- http://www.expo-europe.be/fr.html

- http://www.fede.org/fr/

- http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb68/eb68_first_fr.pdf

- http://www.nonfiction.fr/home.htm

- http://www.encatc.org/about_encatc/encatc_board.lasso

- http://culture-europe-international.org/

 

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This quarterly newsletter has been sent to you by the Centre of European Culture
Director of publication : Alain Ohnenwald - Edited by David Chauveau
Translation : Jennifer Frost