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Our events for 2024-2025 in outline

Our events for 2024-2025:  In outline

  • Due to the success and popularity of last year, we are once again arranging our Annual Dinner at Themes College restaurant.  The date to note in your diary is Tuesday 11th June 2024.  The menu will have a French theme as previously.  Details of the Menu, price and booking method will soon appear on our website homepage.
  • We are also planning our Annual Social Picnic in the park for 2024, hopefully to be held during July or August 2024.  Details will be made available later in the year.
  • Unfortunately as a result of  the work load of the Comite de Jumelage du Pay des Herbiers (Please note that they are also twinned with Coria in central Spain and Liebertwolkwitz in Eastern Germany) our French friends are unable to join us for the 2024 Newtown Food Festival this year.  They have visited Newtown annually for our Food Festival since 2016 with the exception of the Covid years and we hope they can return with their products for the 2025 Food Festival.
  • Film evenings 2024-25 season: (October / November 2024 and January / February 25) please see below in our homepage for more details as they are posted.  We are also planning a social evening with food and wine along with short films and photos of our recent visit to Les Herbiers for the Music exchange.
  • We are currently looking at the possibility of a concert to be held in Newtown to repeat the experiences we enjoyed in Les Herbiers for the benefit of those who were unable to join us in April this year! More to follow.
  • We are currently in the process of planning for an International Beer Festival to be held in Les Herbiers in the spring of 2025 which will involve French, German and Spanish beers along with our local Welsh beers which we are hoping to take to promote and sell.  More information to follow soon.  There will also be an opportunity for Newtown people to join us on this visit with a far less arduous journey and an overnight crossing to Normandy or Brittany with sightseeing stops en route.
  • We have also just received notification of a possible Music Festival in Les Herbiers involving all 4 twin towns, Les Herbiers, Coria in Spain, Liebertwolkwitz in Germany and Newtown!  It could be a little while hence but . . . .  watch this space!

Please note that if you are on our mailing list then you will receive notification of all our events well in advance.  If you wish to be added to our mailing list then please contact us at: newtowntwinning@gmail.com

Download: Welsh Translation

Ein digwyddiadau ar gyfer 2024-2025

 

Download: Chairpersons report April 2024

Chairpersons Report: April 2024
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Film Evening and Social Friday 25th October 2024

“Newtown Twinning Association is excited to announce that we will be running our first film and social event in the 2024-25 programme on Friday, 25th of October 2024. We are very pleased about our exciting new partnership with Hafan Yr Afon for all our future Film Evenings. Tickets are £10.00 pp, which will include a glass of French wine or a soft drink accompanied by a tapas platter supplied by Hafan. https://www.hafanyrafon.com/

The cafe AND BAR at Hafan will also be open at 6.00 pm FOR YOU TO BUY FOOD OR DRINK from the Hafan menu such as coffee and cakes, larger meals, and other drinks prior to the film showing on the first floor at 7.30pm. Newtown Twinning will also be selling additional glasses of white or red organic wine from the region of our twin town at £3.00 per glass.

This is also an opportunity to meet and discuss our future events, view slides and films from our recent very successful Music Exchange visit in April this year and enjoy an exhibition of our twinning with Les Herbiers.
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The evening is open to all. We would love to have your company so please join us for our social and enjoy the 1977 French film comedy/ drama: Peppermint Soda which will be shown with English subtitles on the first floor at Hafan yr Afon from 7.30pm” https://www.facebook.com/hafanyrafon/

If you would like to pre-book and pay for this evening in advance then please visit the Hafan website at the address below. You can pay cash at the door for this event if you prefer.

https://www.hafanyrafon.com/what-s-on

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Beer Festival Les Herbiers 2025

We have been invited to visit Les Herbiers in 2025 for an International Beer Festival.  We have just received confirmation of the Beer festival date from Les Herbiers as Saturday 5th April 2025.

The event will be held in the Herbauges exhibition hall in Les Herbiers with Brewers attending from the other Twin Towns with Les Herbiers.  Coria in southern central Spain, Liebertwolkwitz near Liepzig Germany, Les Herbiers / Nantes and Newtown Brewers.
It’s Obviously difficult for Les Herbiers Twinning to arrange such an event with other towns from different countries involved, so we have to run with the date they have given of the 5th of April.

We already have two local Breweries showing interest and keen to join us, Monty’s and Bragdy Tanat and the possibly of Wilderness Newtown yet to be established.  We are keen to support our local breweries and we hope the visit will be useful to the Brewers both financially and an exchange of crafts and ideas.

We are currently looking at leaving Newtown on the 2nd or 3rd of April 2025 and returning on the Monday 7th April, however the exact times and dates will depend on a number of factors such as Ferry crossings and any further information we receive from Les Herbiers.

As the Beer Festival is only to be held on the Saturday, we would like to take a leisurely sightseeing journey through France and a more relaxing ferry crossing possibly the Portsmouth St Malo overnight crossing on the outward journey and a day cruise on the return.  This also gives us time in Les Herbiers to visit other nearby attractions such as La Rochelle or one of the local Islands such as Noirmoutier.

Unfortunately, the dates of this visit will be during school term times making it difficult for those working and anybody involved in education.
If you are interested in joining us on this visit, please keep these dates free.
More details regarding this 2025 visit will follow and we will keep you informed of all updates.