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The British Community Committee
Diary of Events
APRIL 2015
MARCH
Tuesday 31st
Tuesday 31st
APRIL 2015
Thursday 2nd
SJCP
SMCP
Friday 3rd
Friday 3rd
Saturday 4th
SJCP
SGACP
SJCP
SMV
SJCP
Saturday 4th
SMV
Sunday 5th
SMV
Sunday 5th
Tuesday 7th
Wednesday 8th
SJCP
AFGB
BSP
Wednesday 8th
Wednesday 8th
BCWA
SGACP
Friday 10th
AFGB
Penance Service at 20.00
The Bishop of Europe, the Rt Revd Robert Innes will preside at a special Holy
Week service of Holy Communion for all clergy and people of the Diocese of
Europe, followed by light luncheon. RSVP to Roberta Vellvé
(roberta@saintmichaelsparis.org)
Holy Thursday at 20.00
Full details of services for Holy Week and Easter on www.stgeorgesparis.com.
Good Friday Stations of the Cross at 12noon and Liturgy at 8:00pm
Good Friday evening service at 8pm at St.Mark’s.
Confessions Holy Saturday from 11:30am -12:30 & 5:00 - 6:00pm, or by
appointment. Easter Vigil at 21.00
Meditative Prayer Stations for Easter at St.Mark’s. 10am – 6pm. Children are also
welcome.
9am Book of Common Prayer communion service. 10.30am Easter Celebration
followed by Bring & Share Lunch.
Easter day 9:30am, 11:00am; 12:30pm & 6:30pm
Musée du Luxembourg : Visite-conférence of The Tudors at 14.30
The Annual Spring Concert at BSP , Croissy sur Seine, starting at 7.30. Themed
"Top of the Classical Pops" the orchestra and choirs and diverse small ensembles
will guide us through well known pieces from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and
Modern era. Interval refreshments, tombola, card sale. Free entry. Finish by 9.15.
Visit to Roland Garros (Members, family & friends)
CONCERT - Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang, with Adrian Shaw & Timothy End
(piano) at St George's Anglican Church, 7 rue Auguste Vacquerie,75116 Paris at
19.30. Admission free.
Brasserie Mollard, 115, rue St Lazare, 75008 Paris : AGM to be followed by the
presentation of Major Jolivet’s private collection of uniforms of the Royal Guards
and lunch from 11.00
Friday 10th to
Sunday12th
IP
« The Roaring 20’s » in the Salle de Fetes, 3 quai Voltaire, 78230 Le Pecq. Tickets
20€ or 15€. Reservations www.internationalplayers.co.uk
Saturday 11th
LP
Mendelssohn, Hymn of Praise Op. 52 (Lobgesang) with Lux Perpetua, the choir of
the American Church in Paris and the Association Symphonique de Paris at the
American Church in Paris at 19.30
Book Sale from 10 - 12:30pm on the parvis.
9am Prayer meeting. AGM after morning service at St.Mark’s.
09.15 - Traditional worship (Holy Communion or Morning Prayer)
11.00 - Morning worship with Holy Communion (and activities for children and
youth)
18.00 - Informal worship
“The World of the Paris Boogie Speakeasy” with Andrew Lyndon-Skegg, at the
Hotel le Manoir France-Ameriques, 9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt 75008 Paris.
Tickets 40€/25€/15€/5€
Sunday 12th
Sunday 12th
Sunday 12th
SJCP
SMV
SMCP
Monday 13th
ESU
Wednesday 15th
Wednesday 15th
FBCCI
AFE
Thursday 16th
CIMA
Thursday 16th
IMechE
‘Tour de Finance’ at the British Embassy from 18.30 to 20.30.
Collège des Écossais, 65 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris : Le Grand Tour :
artistes, architects, mécènes écossais dans l’Europe du XVIIIe siècle, a talk by
Clarisse Godard-Desmarets from 17.30.
At 19.30 Andrew Miskin FCMA CGMA MIET CEng, Vice President CIMA, will
speak at the St James Club, 75116 Paris. Non-CIMA 27€ Please contact:
CIMAFrance@cimaglobal.com
The British Engineering Institutions in Paris hold a joint Institutions Social Event
on the third Thursday of every month in Carr’s Bar and Restaurant in Paris from
Thursday 16th
PADFAS
Sunday 19th
SMV
Monday 20th to
Friday 24th
Tuesday 21st
Thursday 23rd
Thursday 23rd
Thursday 23rd
Wednesday 24th
Thursday 25th
SAC
BCC
ABRSM
BCWA
BCiP
IMechE
DCTG
Monday 27th to
Thursday 30th
MAY
Monday 11th
FBCCI
Sunday 17th
SMCP
Monday 18th
Tuesday 19th
ESU
RAFA
Thursday 21st
IMechE
Thursday 21st
PADFAS
Sunday 24th
SMCP
Sunday 24th
LP
SAC
JUNE
Wednesday 3rd
RSSG
Saturday 6th
Thursday 11th
SGCP
FBC
Monday 15th
Thursday 18th
BCC
IMechE
Tuesday 30th
CIMA
JULY
Thursday 9th
AUGUST
Sunday 30th
19:00 onwards.
Contemporary Art and the Old Masters; Lessons Learned and Rejected by Ben
Street at the Theatre du Ranelagh at 14.00
Third Sunday Service at St.Mark’s with Mike Taylor of the London School of
Theology/Resonance France.
Week 1 - Easter Holiday Tennis Camp
The AGM and April Quarterly Meeting will take place at the British Embassy.
Deadline for entry to June Theory exams.
Walk through the 3rd rrondissement (Members, family & friends)
A dinner with guest speaker Richard Ashworth, MEP for South-East England.
A joint visit to the ONERA Wind Tunnel.
25th April at 14h30 DC's first annual Fund raising Matinée Théâtrale. Théâtre de
Nesle. for info call me or mail dearconjunction@wanadoo.fr
Week 2 – Easter Holiday Tennis Camp
COBCOE Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony at Chartered Accountants Hall,
Moorgate Place, London EC2. Reception 6.45, dinner 7.30, Carriages 11pm
09.15 - Traditional worship (Holy Communion or Morning Prayer)
11.00 - Morning worship with Holy Communion (and activities for children and
youth)
18.00 -Informal worship
Alastair Lack, “The English Country House” in the Salon of the Mairie du 7ème
“Wings Appeal” concert at 20h30 at Notre Dame du Liban church 17, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris. Tickets: 20€ - 10€ (Students, children). Full details on programme and
transport on http://rafa-nd-liban.blog4ever.com/ Programme: Mendelssohn:
“Fingal's Cave” and Symphony No.5 “Reformation” Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
for Violin and Alto. The concert will also mark the presence on his 93rd birthday of
RAFA-Ile de France's Vice-Chairman, Bernard de LECLUSE, one of the few
remaining Forces Français Libres (FFL) Spitfire pilots who fought in World War II
and still an active member of RAFA Ile de France.
The British Engineering Institutions in Paris hold a joint Institutions Social Event
on the third Thursday of every month in Carr’s Bar and Restaurant in Paris from
19:00 onwards.
Paris Boogie Speakeasy and the Jazz Age in France. By Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs,
at the Theatre du Ranelagh at 14.00
09.15 - Traditional worship (Holy Communion or Morning Prayer)
11.00 - Morning worship with Holy Communion (and activities for children and
youth)
18.00 -Informal worship
Dvorak, Mass in D major Opus 86 with Lux Perpetua and the Brighton Chamber
Choir at the American Church in Paris at 17h.
AGM and Summer Cocktail Party at the British Embassy
The 200th Anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo
Book Sale. Further details TBA.
A conference involving students, lawyers, academics and others on The Magna
Carta and the declaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen : past and present
and future in London.
Magna Carta Cocktail Party at the Ecole Militare, everyone is most welcome.
The British Engineering Institutions in Paris hold a joint Institutions Social Event
on the third Thursday of every month in Carr’s Bar and Restaurant in Paris from
19:00 onwards.
19.15h, Club St James, 43 ave Bugeaud, 75116 Paris: Alan Thomson, Chairman
Hays, will make a presentation on Risk management. Cost (non CIMA) 27€.
Further details contact CIMAFrance@cimaglobal.com
RSSG
Golf at St Germain en Laye. PWS
Summer Picnic in the Tuileries. Find us on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pariswelshsociety/
or visit our website: http://www.pariswelshsociety.org
SEPTEMBER
Thursday 3rd to
Monday 7th
th
Friday 25 and
Saturday 26th
DECEMBER
Saturday 12th
RBL
The Pedal to Paris
FBC
ABAF
Bike ride from London to Paris
Biennial Conference.
PWS
Christmas Party at the Royal British Legion, 28 rue des Acacias, 75017 Paris. Find
us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pariswelshsociety/
or visit our website: http://www.pariswelshsociety.org
AQUITAINE +
DORDOGNE +
GIRONDE +
LOT ET GARONNE
APRIL
Sunday Services
Thursday 2nd
Sunday 5th
CdA
SSAFA
CdA
There will be services in English in many churches around the Chaplaincy. Please
see the services page of the website for more information:
Leeds University Swing Band, Salle de la Fontaine, 47330 Castillonnès, Lot et
Garonne. Contact : lesley.blake@sfr.fr
Easter Day services in English throughout Aquitaine in Dordogne, Gironde, et Lot
et Garonne. Please see the Chaplaincy of Aquitaine website for more details:
www.churchinaquitaine.org
Friday 17th
Ox Uni SWFB
The Oxford University Society, South West France Branch. A wine-tasting in the
Lot-et-Garonne. Enquiries to marion@ousswfrance.com
BRITTANY,
NORMANDY and
PAYS DE LA
LOIRE
APRIL
Thursday 16th
France Nord RNA Lunch at La Bretagne, 10 place Carnot, 35300, Fougeres
Details from raymond.yeowell@neuf.fr
AUGUST
2nd,4th,6th, 8th
OdB
5th and 7th
OdB
‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ by W.A. Mozart reservations www.operadebauge.co.uk
‘The Bear’ and ‘Facade’ by Sir William Walton. Reservations
www.operadebauge.co.uk
BORDEAUX
APRIL
Wednesday 8th
Friday 10th
Wednesday 15th
Friday 17th
BBC
BBC
BBC
Ox Uni S WFB
Golf at Margaux
Jazz and dinner Bordeaux
Visit to Smurfit paper mill Biganos
Wine-tasting on Friday 17th April in the Lot-et-Garonne. Enquiries to
marion@ousswfrance.com
Saturday 18th
Thursday 23rd
MAY
Saturday 9th and
Sunday 10th
MAY
Saturday 9th and
Sunday 10th
APRIL
BBC
BBC
Bowling Gujan Mestras
St George’s Day Lunch
Cancer Support Open Day and Plant Sales at Le Mas, 46330 BLARS. For further details please
France
phone 05 65 30 53 99
CHARENTE +
LIMOUSIN +
LANGUEDOC +
CORREZE
Cancer Support Open Day and Plant Sales at Le Mas, 46330 BLARS. For further details please
France
phone 05 65 30 53 99
NORD – PAS DE
CALAIS
Friday 3rd
Good Friday
Sunday 5th
Easter Day
Sunday 12th
Thursday 16th
Sunday 19thl
Sunday 26th
Christ Church Lille
Christ Church Lille
Christ Church Lille
France Nord RNA
Christ Church Lille
Christ Church Lille
12noon – 15.00 Watch with Christ
20.00hrs - Meditations round the Cross
10.30 - All Age Worship & Family Communion Service. Followed by Easter Egg
Hunt & Bring & Share Lunch
18.30 Evening Prayer & Praise with Holy Communion followed by supper after
service
10.30 - Holy Communion
18.30 - Evening Prayer & Praise
Lunch at La Bretagne, 10 place Carnot, 35300, Fougeres
Details from raymond.yeowell@neuf.fr
09.15 Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
10.30 Morning Prayer
18.30 Evening Prayer & Praise - followed by a supper after service
10.30 Holy Communion
18.30 Evening Prayer & Praise with holy Communion followed by supper
JUNE
Saturday 6th
RBL
71st Anniversary of the landings. Bayeux Commonwealth cemetery at 14.00
PROVENCE –
COTE D’AZUR
RHONE-ALPES
APRIL
Tuesday 2nd
Thursday 2nd
Friday 3rd
GV-Aix-les-B
ACL
ACL
Monthly meeting
Maunday Thursday - 20.30 service at church venue
Good Friday Walk near Rontolon, with prayer and meditation at three crosses en
route
Easter Sunday Family Communion Service
Business lunch : guest speaker Dr Roger Barker, Institute of Directors head of
corporate governance ; subject: Direction and Control of the Modern organisation
Poets’ Corner
Monthly meeting
Morning Prayer
Holy Communion
Morning Prayer
Sunday 5th
Wednesday 8th
ACL
FIBA-Lyon
Wednesday 8th
Thursday 9th
Sunday 12th
Sunday 19th
Sunday 26th
Wednesday 29th
AFGB-Lyon
WPNG-Lyon
ACL
ACL
ACL
AFGB-Lyon
Wednesday 29th
AFGB-Lyon
Talk in English by Brian Page : Jacquard and the computer
Thursday 30th
AFGB-Lyon
Book Circle : Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Thursday 7th
GV-Aix-les-B
Monthly meeting : Patchwork
Thursday 7th
WPNG-Lyon
Monthly meeting
Saturday 23rd
GV-Aix-les-B
Tree planting ceremony at Queen Victoria statue
RSCDS Lyon
A demonstration of Scottish Dancing will take place at St Galmier in the afternoon.
For further information www.rscds-lyon.fr
Scrabble in English
MAY
JUNE
Sunday 21st
b.terrell@terrellgroup.net
29/03/2015
With thanks to Mme Beryl Jones, MBE by whom this Diary was originally created
British Community Committee Diary: Abbreviations
ABAF
Association of British Accountants in France
www.abaf.asso.fr
ABRSM
ACC
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music www.abrsm.org
Anglican Chaplaincy in Caen www.anglican-chaplaincy-caen.blogspot.com
ACE-Normandy
Amicale Culturelle Européenne
ronald.dinsdale@orange.fr
AFE
Association Franco-Ecossaise
www.franco-ecossaise.asso.fr
AFGB-Paris
Association France – Grande-Bretagne
www.france-grandebretagne.fr
AFGB-Lyon
ALSE
AUEF
BAAM
BA-Monaco
BBC
BC
BCC
BCF
BCiP
Association France – Grande-Bretagne : Lyon & Rhône www.fgb-lyon.org
Alumni of LSE in France www.lsefrance.org
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh in France www.dev.ed.ac.uk/club/france
British Association of the Alpes-Maritimes www.britishassociation.info
British Association of Monaco www.bam-monaco.org
Bordeaux British Community www.bordeaux.british.com
British Council www.britishcouncil.fr
British Community Committee of France www.britishinfrance.com
The British Charitable Fund britishcharitablefund@orange.fr
British Conservatives in Paris www.conservatives-paris.org and
www.votes-for-expat-brits.com
BCWA
B Emb
BFF
BGiFC
British & Commonwealth Women’s Association www.bcwa.org
British Embassy www.gov.uk/world/france
British Freemasons in France brit.fms@gmail.com
British Guides in Foreign Countries www.beneluxandfrance.bgifc.org.uk/fr
www.girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved/register your_interest.aspx
BSLISGL
British Section of the Lycées International de St-Germain-en-Laye
www.britishsection.fr
BL (1916)
BRFC
BSPS
BSO
CCB Lille
CCC
CLE
The British Luncheon (1916)
British Rugby Football Club www.brfcparis.com
British School of Paris Society www.britishschool.fr
British Scouting Overseas gillian.barratt@sfr.fr
Centre Culturel Britannique www.ccb-lille.com
Chantilly Cricket Club www.chantillycricket.com
Charente-Limousine-Exchange.com
CC-Lille
Chap-Aq
CIMA
CMSF
CS
Christ Church Lille www.christchurchlille.com
Anglican Chaplaincy of Aquitaine www.churchinaquitaine.org
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants www.cimaglobal.com
The Clan Macleod Society of France www.clanmacleod.org
Cancer Support France www.csf-forum.org
CSF
CSOP
CTCC
DCTC
ECCP
EFC
The Caledonian Society of France www.caledonian-society-france.org
Cambridge Society of Paris www.camsocparis.org
Chateau de Thoiry Cricket Club www.thoirycc.com
Dear Conjunction Theatre Company dearconjunction@wanadoo.fr
English Cathedral Choir of Paris www.ecc-paris.org
Elizabeth Finn Care www.elizabethfinncare.org.uk
ELIC La Souterraine
ENVOL
ESMG-Lyon
ESU
English Library and Information Centre www.frenchweb.eu/biblio
E.N.VOL (Equipes Nouvelles de Volontaires) Envol2009@gmail.com
English-Speaking Mothers’ Group, Lyon www.english-mums.com
The English-Speaking Union, France www.esufrance.org/index.html
FBCCI
Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry
FIBA-Lyon
FOG
GVALB
HBH
HTCML
ICE
IET
Franco-British International Business Association, Lyon www.fibalyon.org
Friends of British Guiding in Ile de France Brownowl78600@hotmail.com
Grapevine - Aix-les-Bains http://sites.google.com/site/grapevineassociation
Hertford British Hospital Corporation – The Charity www.british-hospital.org
Holy Trinity Church, Maisons Lafitte www.htcml.com
Institution of Civil Engineers – French Local Association www.icenet.fr
Institution of Engineering & Technology
I Mech E
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
www.charente-llimousine-exchange.com
www.cancersupportfrance.org
www.turn2us.org.uk
www.francobritishchamber.com
www.theiet.org/local/emea/europe/france
IOD
IP
IS-Lille
LPiF
LRC
LAC-Lyon
LC-Lille
LP
OG
OUS
OUS SW
PADFAS
PWS
RAD
RAFA
RAFA-Lyon
RBL
RBL-Lyon
RLT
RNA Nord
RNVA
RSCDS-Paris
RSCDS-Lyon
RSCMF
RSSG
SA
SB
SAC
SDM
SGACP
SJRCC
SKP
SLL
SLCF
SMCV
SMC
SOS HELP
SPACC
SPRINT
SSAFA
http://nearyou.imeche.org/near-you/Europe/france
The Institute of Directors, France www.iod.com/france
International Players www.internationalplayers.co.uk
International Singers, Lille Métropole www.international-singers.eu
The Labour Party in France lwww.labourinternationalistparis.com
Les Rosbifs et Crêpes
Lyon Anglican Church www.lyonchurch.org
Lille Cricket www.lille-cricket.org
Lux Perpetua http://www.choirwebsite.wix.com/lux-perpetua
Open Gardens. www.opengardens.eu
The Oxford University Society www.oxfordinparis.com
Oxford University Society South West France
Paris Decorative & Fine Arts Society www.padfas.com
Paris Welsh Society www.pariswelshsociety.org
Royal Academy of Dance www.rad.lu
Royal Air Forces Association grahScot@aol.com
Royal Air Forces Association, Lyon Jubilee branch brian.rosen@orange.fr
Royal British Legion www.rblfrance.org
Royal British Legion , Lyon Liberation branch HKGordon37@aol.com
Riviera Life TV www.rivieralife.tv
Royal Naval Association – France Nord Branch
www.royal-naval-association.co.uk
Royal Naval Volunteer Association mjzhunt@gmail.com
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Paris branch www.rscdsparis.org
RSCDS Lyon Branch/Scottish Chanterelle www.rscds-lyon.fr
The Royal School of Church Music in France www.rscmfrance.org
The Royal Society of St George www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com
The Salvation Army www.armeedusalut.fr
Sunny Bank Association and Charity, Cannes www.sunny-bank.org
Standard Athletic Club www.saclub.org
Scottish Dance Group of Monaco www.scottishdance.monaco.free.fr
St George’s Anglican Church, Paris www.stgeorgesparis.com
St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church www.stjoeparis.org
The Scots Kirk, Paris www.scotskirkparis.com
Sète-Lorient-Londres White Horses Charity www.sllassoc.com
St Luke’s Church, Fontainebleau www.saintlukesfontainebleau.org
St Mark’s Church, Versailles www.stmarksversailles.org
St Michael’s Church, Paris www.saintmichaelsparis.org
SOS HELP www.soshelpline.org
St Peter’s Anglican Church, Chantilly www.stpeters.fr
S.P.R.I.N.T. www.sprint.france.free.fr
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association Help
www.ssafa.org.uk/ssafa-near-you/france
TBP
Tower Bridge Paris www.towerbridge.fr
TEL (Quillan, Aude) The English Library www.network-news.com/eng_lib/librarynews.asp
Toc H
UCL
ULIP
WLP
WPNG
Toc H Association
UCL France Alumni http://www.ucl.ac.uk/alumni/groups/europe/france
The University of London Institute in Paris www.ulip.lon.ac.uk
What Larks Production www.whatlarks.org
Women’s Professional Networking Group.Lyon info@wpng.org