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Stained glass windows from the Eglise Jeanne d'Arc
NEWS and EVENTS
Beccles Twinning Association is celebrating its town twinning with Petit-Couronne through the collaborative Beer at Beccles Food Festival on Saturday 25 May.
Members from Petit-Couronne will be coming to Beccles in July to join in the 'Big Channel Swim' and the Beccles Twinning Association wants its members to join in!
Details and application form here. To sponsor the channel swim team please visit: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/BTAChannelSwim
Members from Petit-Couronne will be coming to Beccles in July to join in the 'Big Channel Swim' and the Beccles Twinning Association wants its members to join in!
Details and application form here. To sponsor the channel swim team please visit: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/BTAChannelSwim
NNRFA trip to Rouen and Rouen-Norwich-Club trip to Norwich
Arrangements are now being finalised. We travel to Rouen from 7 - 11 June to enjoy the Armada festivities and celebrate 60 years of twinning between our cities. There will be an outing to Giverney, Monet's garden, with lunch, and a visit to the Northmaen brewery and Viking festival.
Thirty members of the Rouen-Norwich-Club are coming to Norwich from 5 - 9 July. Four of them will officially join the Lord Mayor's procession.
Arrangements are now being finalised. We travel to Rouen from 7 - 11 June to enjoy the Armada festivities and celebrate 60 years of twinning between our cities. There will be an outing to Giverney, Monet's garden, with lunch, and a visit to the Northmaen brewery and Viking festival.
Thirty members of the Rouen-Norwich-Club are coming to Norwich from 5 - 9 July. Four of them will officially join the Lord Mayor's procession.
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La Route de Thor
The itinerary for boats from Rouen bringing ale from the Northmaen brewery to the City of Ale festival in Norwich is now finalised. They leave Rouen on 18 May and will be in Norwich by 23 May when there will be a welcome party at the Waterfront on King Street. You can buy a ticket here for this for £10. The French boats will now be entering the Broads via Yarmouth (not Lowestoft) and moor up at Coldham Hall on 22 May. Following a press reception on 23 which we are invited to, the beer destined for the City of Ale in Norwich will be transported to the Waterfront in Norwich by the Countess of Light (a Beccles-based Broads cruiser) and an escort of little boats. The beer destined for Beccles will then be taken back to Beccles on Friday 24 May and it would be great to have an escort of little boats to join her as she makes her way up the Waveney to a reception in town at about 3.30 pm, and it is hoped that those standing by to provide transport will still be able to take part. Incidentally, anyone with sea legs and a spare 900 euros can join the whole trip! Read about it here (25 pages in French): dossier_routedethor2019_bd.pdf (2.8 MB) |
Pétanque in Eaton Park, Norwich
Norwich's new pétanque terrain in Eaton Park was inaugurated by the Lord Mayor Martin Schmierer last September - see article in the Eastern Evening News. There are three pistes, so plenty of room for competition. Boules are available from the café for a deposit of £10 or you can take your own. The terrain is near the tennis courts and ping-pong tables.
Norwich's new pétanque terrain in Eaton Park was inaugurated by the Lord Mayor Martin Schmierer last September - see article in the Eastern Evening News. There are three pistes, so plenty of room for competition. Boules are available from the café for a deposit of £10 or you can take your own. The terrain is near the tennis courts and ping-pong tables.
Amitié IPA
Norfolk Brewhouse's new brew, Amitié IPA, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of our twinning in 2019, was launched at the Norwich City of Ale festival in 2018 with the 'twin' brewers from Normandy present. Here's an article about it by beer writer Roger Prozt: http://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2018/05/28/viking-beer-cements-norfolk-rouen-link
Norfolk Brewhouse's new brew, Amitié IPA, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of our twinning in 2019, was launched at the Norwich City of Ale festival in 2018 with the 'twin' brewers from Normandy present. Here's an article about it by beer writer Roger Prozt: http://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2018/05/28/viking-beer-cements-norfolk-rouen-link
Chris Rowe (left) and Ann Rowe (centre) meet brewers from The Norfolk Brewhouse and the Northmaen Brewery in Normandy
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A tale of two ales
A special beer has been brewed by The Norfolk Brewhouse in collaboration with Northmaen Brewery near Rouen. The new beer is the brainchild of David Holliday of The Norfolk Brewhouse who explains: “The City of Ale Festival is always a great celebration of Norfolk breweries and Norwich pubs. The twinning with cities is also important to Norwich and I felt that creating a beer which could complement the strengths of both regions would be a fitting tribute.” Rouen is home to a craft beer pub – La Taverne de Thor which is owned by Northmaen Brewery – a farm and brewery 20 miles from Rouen. “The fact that we found not only a brewery with a city and county base was fantastic but to then learn that they grow their own barley was the icing on the cake. We are such advocates of Norfolk Maris Otter barley that to find someone who was equally proud of their malt was just fabulous.” said David. As part of the planning to ‘twin’ the two malts, Thomas Renaux and Dominique Camus of Northmaen Brewery came to Norwich to create the recipe and bring over a sample of their grain in order that a test brew can be created by The Norfolk Brewhouse. Thomas is excited and proud to be presenting a taste of France at the Festival: “It is an honour to be part of the Festival and we are excited about what the combination of the malts will bring. It is great to see how much shared heritage that there is between our two cities and, if through our beer we can create yet another connection between Rouen and Norwich for now and the future that will make us very proud.” The plan is for Norfolk beers to be part of the Viking festival in Normandy in June. |
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Report: This is England, festival of short films, 13 - 18 November 2017
The sixth festival of British short films, This is England, was the culmination of months of preparation by a team of Rouen-Norwich-Club organisers and was a huge success. Thirty shortlisted films from some 1000 received were shown to students and members of the public. The jury, usually drawn from the French film industry, were this year all British: Norwich-based Guy Myhill, director of The Goob, Steve Bell, The Guardian's political cartoonist, and film producer Millie Marsh. The films showed a wealth of talent and imagination and ranged from documentaries to animation and fiction, some funny, some thought-provoking, some touching. Some 5500 school students from the collège and lycée age groups attended to see a selection and each group chose their winning film. Some film-makers were present and available for Q&As after the showings. At the end of the week, the awards were announced. Also in Rouen was an exhibition in the city hall of 51 of Steve Bell's cartoons, many based on famous paintings and figuring British politicians and sometimes French presidents. An explanation of the cartoon with a photograph of the original painting where relevant was shown to help visitors who didn't recognise the characters. Details of the festival at www.thisisengland-festival.com/ |
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