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Regular and One-off Events
PIZZA AND QUIZ EVENING 21 JANUARY 2025
Hexham Town Twinning Association is meeting in Vercelli's on Priestpopple on the evening of Tuesday 21st January 2025 at 7pm for a social event with prizes for the winning quiz team.
Cost: £12 per person.
Book via our contact form: www.hexhamtowntwinning.co.uk/contact
Image credit: © igorovsyannikov and © PADonalek from Creative Commons Wikimedia
GERMAN CONVERSATION
Face-to-face conversation: fortnightly at 12pm in Caffè Nero, Fore Street, Hexham, with a German native-speaker, Edith, at a table on the first floor. Please buy a drink downstairs and join us on the first floor. The next session is on 31st January 2025, please write to Penny through the contact page.
Our German conversation group on Zoom has members from both Hexham and Metzingen. The usually fortnightly meeting is on Thursday evenings at 7pm UK time, next one on 23rd January 2025, to chat in both German and in English. If you’d be interested in joining in, please contact Penny as above.
All standards of German and English are welcome – everyone is an expert in at least one of them. There are no set topics – this is informal chat and is an ideal way to keep in touch with people whom we know and to meet others.
Composite image, upper left, Hexham Gaol © Mike Quinn; lower left, Hadrian's Wall © Michael Hanselmann; upper right, Metzingen - Seldnerhaus © JohnMz; lower right, Weinbaumuseum. *Images via Wikimedia Creative Commons
FRENCH CONVERSATION
Face-to-face conversation: fortnightly at 12pm in Caffè Nero, Fore Street, Hexham. The next session is Friday 24th January 2025. Just buy a drink downstairs and join us on the first floor. Please write to Stephen through the contact page.
The discussion group is very informal and is more of a chat. We may cover films, the weather, holidays, and much more.
The level of French spoken is varied, with some speaking little, if any, but happy to contribute in English.
Image credits: Musée Jean Calvin © Dguendel; cloister of the Cathedral of Noyon © Office de Tourisme, Noyon; Hexham - West Front of the Abbey © Bob Castle; Hexham signal box © Sadgrovem . Images via Wikimedia Creative Commons
FILM: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (12A)
Sponsored by Hexham Town Twinning Association as part of the Tyne Valley Film Festival 2025.
Sunday 23rd March 2025 at 3pm in the Forum Cinema, Hexham. Duration 188 minutes. Booking details to be announced.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2024 French period adventure-drama film based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. Written and directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, the film stars Pierre Niney in the role of Edmond Dantès.
The classic story involves an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately, imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him.
Image source: https://www.pathefilms.com/film/lecomtedemontecristo