Newtown and District Twinning Association will be holding the 2025 Annual Dinner.  To be held at Themes College Restaurant Newtown Tuesday 10th June 2025.https://www.nptcgroup.ac.uk/locations-facilities/themes-training-restaurant/

Newtown Twinning Association is very pleased about our exciting new partnership with Hafan Yr Afon for all our future Film Evenings. The exhibition of 25 years of Newtown Twinning will be held before viewing our first French film of 24-25 series.
Please see below the photographs of all the amazing gifts we have received over the years from Les Herbiers which are normally kept at the Town Council offices. And the power point displaying all our recent activities.

Presentation to Newtown Civic Society

On our 25th Anniversary we were also were asked by Newtown Civic Society to give a talk about the 25 years of Newtown Twinning.  Jane Napier is seen thanking Andrew Gentle secretary of NTA for the talk.

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Join us from 6.00 pm in Hafan yr Afon, £10.00 pp for our Twinning social including a glass of organic French wine or soft drink and Tapas platter, meet other Twinning followers to enjoy an exhibition of our recent Music exchange with a short viewing of performances by Monty Folk and Ffonic folk group, Newtown Silver Band and  Gloria’s Gang Welsh Girls Choir from our April visit to Les Herbiers, followed by a viewing of our Second French film of 24-25 series on the first floor of Hafan at 7.30pm.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.  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 and enjoy our exhibition of our recent Music Exchange visit to Les Herbiers in April this year. https://newtowntwinning.co.uk/

The evening is open to all. We would love to have your company so please join us for our social and enjoy the 1996 Éric Rohmer film, Conte d’été ( A Summer’s Tale ),  a French romantic comedy-drama.
“As a reserved young graduate vacations in a seaside town, he hopes his girlfriend will join him. But he ends up bonding with a local young woman whose female friend is also smitten with him”.

The film will be shown with English subtitles 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 also pay cash at the door for this event if you prefer.
https://www.hafanyrafon.com/what-s-on

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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 Welsh Montgomeryshire 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.  We are keen to support our local breweries and we hope the visit will be useful to the Brewers both financially and in an exchange of craftsmanship and ideas.

We are currently looking at leaving Newtown on Wednesday the 2nd of April 2025 and returning on the Tuesday 8th 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 from Portsmouth St Malo overnight crossing on the outward journey and an overnight crossing again on the return from Caen both with cabins.  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.

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