Back in mid May Lewes had a visit from the students of the Hochrhein Gymnasium in Waldshut. They were here to tour the local area and spend a day with their counterparts at Priory School, where they learnt how the teaching of lessons here differ to Germany, plus they built up connections with English students.
On Saturday 22nd October, Lewes Twinning Association will be hosting the Three Town Summit, where members of Twinning Committees in Lewes, Blois (France) and Waldshut-Tiengen (Germany) meet to review the previous year’s events and discuss plans for the future.
The Summit is also an excellent opportunity for Lewes individuals, groups and organisations to make contact and discuss starting or strengthening links in the twin towns. At previous meetings, a number of links were made leading to one Lewes artist being commissioned to create sculptures which now stand in Waldshut and the surrounding area. Another artist has been to Tiengen and held an exhibition of his work. Lewes groups including orchestras and a youth band have also been invited to both Blois and Waldshut on a number of occasions to take part in concerts and local events. Groups from the twin towns have also come to Lewes to visit the town, hold concerts and take part in Bonfire Night. The Summit will be held in the “Lecture Room” of Lewes Town Hall (Fisher Street entrance), from 10.00am to 12:00pm. All are very welcome to attend. Contact us for more details Sadly, on Friday 8th January 2016, former Twinning Chairman, Jack Greenaway, passed away after suffering with dementia. He will be sadly missed by everyone who met or knew him.
We would like to congratulate Philipp Frank on becoming the new Oberbürgermeister of Waldshut.
Sadly, due to lack of interest, next Friday's SKITTLES NIGHT has been cancelled.
With so few members booking to come to the event we would have lost money on the evening, not least in paying the caterers. We hope to have another event soon. A good friend of Twinning from Waldshut-Tiengen was over in Lewes for a couple of weeks. Hardy Schoelch is well known to many Lewesians.
Hardy works in the Waldshut Council as and looks after cultural affairs. He was over here to get some experience working in Lewes Town Council and seeing if he could get meetings with local businesses, etc., with a view to offering work experience to young people from the German town. However, he also played a couple of gigs while here. |