Marion Dubois from Passerell joined Tom on the Breakfast show this morning to talk about the organisation as they search for new volunteers to assist in their work supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Luxembourg.
Inside Ara: Our Community shows
On Local Matters this week, we have a look behind the scenes of the Ara cosmos, starting today with the community shows on Ara City Radio.
Interview with Jess Bauldry From Festrogen
Festrogen is returning to Luxembourg on 8-9 October for a quick 'n' dirty fix of giggles. Jess Bauldry joined Tom on the breakfast show to let listeners know what the 2nd edition of the festival has in store.
Festrogen festival spotlights female identifying comedians and provides training for aspiring comedians through workshops.
The festival kicks off with an advanced workshop on the 8 October hosted at the Cid Fraen an gender women's library. This will be followed by an open to-the-public open mic at Le Croque Bedaine. At 9pm the hosts of the festival will perform in a Comedy Gala.
The following day Festrogen does brunch and laughs as Funny Women finalist Anshita Koul performs her hilarious solo show A Little Too Much at Le Mirador, Monte de Clausen.
More information about the festival can be found at: www.facebook.com/festrogen/
Delano Top Of The Week
Duncan Roberts joined Tom on the Breakfast Show this morning to discuss the recent illegal annexation of Eastern Ukrainian territories by Russia.
Atlántico Festival: Interview with Pedro Alexandre Torres from Philharmonie
From the 1st till the 9th of Octobert, Philharmonie will present Atlántico Festival. Lisa spoke with Pedro Torres from the venue to talk about the programme.
Scams in housing: Interview with the ULC
On Local Matters, Navid Poushanchi, legal advisor for ULC, explains the rights of tenants and landlords in rental contracts.
Scams in housing: Lily's experiences
In our interview on Local Matters, Lily Zorich told us about the experiences she made with scammers during her search for a flat in Luxembourg.
Interview With The British Luxembourg Society
Jacqui Spence and Darren Robinson from the British Luxembourg Society joined Tom on the Breakfast Show to talk about the organization and their upcoming events.
Interview With Luxembourg Ballet
Victoria Tvardovskaya of Luxembourg Ballet joined Tom on the Breakfast Show today to talk about their new production of Don Juan which is showing this weekend as the opening performance of the new season at CAPE Ettelbruck.
Interview With The Chinese Film Festival Of Luxembourg
Geoff Thompson and Zhang Jing from the China Cultural Centre of Luxembourg were in the studio this morning to talk about the upcoming Chinese Film Festival which will be taking place between the 30th of September and 3rd October.
Delano Top of the week
Duncan Roberts from Delano came in to the studio this morning to talk with Simon about the ongoing troubles at Luxair and picked three events happening soon:
28 September: The Japanese embassy screening of "In this Corner of the World", an animation film about Hiroshima
29 September-1 October: BGT theatre puts on Di and Viv and Rose, a play about female friendship of the three characters from university days into their 40s
1 October: Euro Birdwatch Day in in Remerschen
.Finally, Duncan`s music pick for this week is Tim Burgess: Here Comes The Weekend from new album Typical Music
Interview with Astrid Scharpantgen from Europa Donna
Simon was joined on the Breakfast Show by Astrid Scharpantgen, cofounder of Europa Donna Luxembourg, the breast cancer coalition.
Astrid spoke about the invaluable work Europa Donna Luxembourg does to improve supportive care to help patients better manage the side effects of treatment.
Astrid also talked about the forthcoming Broschtkriibslaf, a 4km solidarity race taking place on Saturday, October 1st in the park of Hesperange.
Women, men and children, in teams, with family or friends run and walk to show their solidarity to those who are fighting or have fought against breast cancer.
The funds raised are used to improve supportive care to help patients better manage the side effects of treatment.
Interview with Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro touch down in Luxembourg this weekend to headline the Rockhal. Ahead of the gig, Tom caught up with Ben from the band to chat about what it’s like headlining festivals next to your heroes, being between albums and the bands future plans.
Biffy Clyro are in a great place right now. After releasing two albums during the pandemic and finally being able to tour again without restrictions it seems like the world is their oyster. This summer they headlined download festival in the U.K. alongside Metallica and iron maiden.
Without the pressure to release new music imminently, the band are relishing being able to get back on the road and play gigs that have by now been postponed and rescheduled up to three times.
With all that in mind, their show on the 25th of September at the Rockhal is sure to be an electric gig.
Tickets are still available from www.rockhal.lu
Interview with Lalu
Simon was joined this morning on the Breakfast Show by Lalu, one of the most promising fresh indie-pop singers from UK.
Lalu chatted about her career to date and performed her melodic new single Circles of Nostalgia live on the show.
The song is inspired by the memories that we carry with us from past romances and serves as an end-of-summer anthem.
Interview with Philippe Schockweiler from Géisskan
Simon was joined this morning on the Breakfast Show by Philippe Schockweiler, one of the organisers of Géisskan (watering can) poetry slam collective.
Philippe gave a brief history of the collective’s history and talked about the forthcoming second national poetry slam championships ( or “Slampionships”) taking place this Friday at the Kulturhaus in Niederanven.
Local Matters: Study on children in foster care
Interview with Pascale Engel de Abreu (Uni Luxembourg) on mental health of children in social care.
Local Matters: The children's home in Grevenmacher
Local Matters is all about children this week, those children who don’t have the chance to grow up in a regular family environment, but in alternative care. A visit in the children's home in Grevenmacher.
Oekofest 2022 Interview
Cèdric from Mouvement Ecologique joined Simon on ARA City Radio this morning to talk about the upcoming Oekofest 2022.
This coming friday, 23rd September, the beautiful Pfaffental is the backdrop for the Oekofest. Visitors can expect concerts, guided tours, a reading by the crime writer Tom Hillenbrand (in german), a puppet theater (in luxembourgish) and many culinary delights. The focus is on the cozy get-together and having friendly conversations..
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Delano Top of the Week
Tracy from Delano talked with Simon about the ongoing tripartite negotiations.
Interview With Serve The City For World Cleanup Day
Nicholas Duprey from Serve the City joined Tom on the Breakfast Show today to talk about World Clean Up Day which is taking place this Saturday 17th of September.