The thing about Community Choirs is they’re a great way to bring people together and break down cultural barriers. Even better probably than the football trips we do where players of different nations kick seven […]
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2013 10 Days in the Caledonian Sun
The heatwave that had swept England had come to an end and the birth of the Royal baby had coincided with a lightning strike on Manchester railway station. What better time to get away […]
Read more2013 Bridgwater On Display at the UH Wine Festival
In June 1992 Bridgwater and Uherske Hradiste became the first British and Czech towns to twin in the wake of the Velvet Revolution. Since then we’ve had 21 years of happy twinning together. And […]
Read more2013 ‘Hat Trick Hero’ Turns the Tables on Top Czech Opposition as ‘Football Comes Home’ to Bridgwater
It was like a scene from a Biblical epic. Or at least one of the better performances by the great Leeds United squad of the 1960’s. After 5 years of defeat after defeat at […]
Read more2013 Autumn in Prague with Harmony 303
For many years we’ve taken singers from Somerset to far flung destinations to sing with people of many Nations. This autumn we took a group of singers from several choirs scattered along the A303 […]
Read more2013 All Change in Priverno-But Bridgwater Links to continue
A few years back we made contact with the Italian town of Priverno in the Lazio region just South of Rome when we met their people in Uherske Hradiste, their and our Czech twin […]
Read more2013 Somerset ‘Ambassadors of Song’ Sing out across the Danube
A few years back, natural voice practitioner Yvette Staelens founded the Voice of the People Choir at the Bridgwater Arts Centre to help people find the singing voice that she believes everyone has inside […]
Read more2013 Sedgemoor & Uherske Hradiste – The Planners Compare Notes
Early in 2013 Bridgwater’s twin town of Uherske Hradiste gained European funding to help it’s workforce investigate Local Government practices in their EU Partner towns. From Mayen in Germany they chose to study the […]
Read more2013 Eastover Akropolis Projekt
Our second major EU funded project of the year saw 13 Family Centre and related workers from our Czech twin town Uherske Hradiste and it’s environs spend 2 weeks in Bridgwater to study social […]
Read more2012 Jolly Boating Weather
It’s the 4th time we’ve taken people on a jolly canal trip . Same canal, mainly different people. For Katka and Zdenek from Prague this was their first time. There was a bit of […]
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