This weekend Rotondes hosts the PicElectroNic a festival for headbanging kids and grooving parents. Festival programmers Marc Hauser and Joelle Linden. joined Tom on the Breakfast Show this morning to talk about everything that the festival has in store.
Domestic violence: The Red Cross' service "Riicht eraus"
The Luxembourg Red Cross offers a service for perpetrators of domestic violence. The aim of the service Riicht eraus is to prevent people from using violence again. In our interview on Local Matters, Laurence Bouquet, the director of the service, explains how this works and why it is necessary.
Delano Top Of The Week
Delano's Top of the Week returned today after a bank holiday break last week. Joining Tom on the show was Cordula Schnuer who came in to talk about the review to Luxembourg's national energy and climate plan which the government will be presenting this afternoon (Monday 17th April).
Interview with Rethink Your Your Clothes
Ana-Luisa Teixeira an Joy Hellers from Rethink Your Clothes joined Tom on the Breakfast show to talk about the work that their organization does to promote sustainable fashion in Luxembourg ahead of the 2nd edition of their upcycled fashion show that takes place on the 26th of April at Abbey Neumunster in Luxembourg City.
Rethink Your Clothes is a collaboration between Caritas and Fairtrade Luxembourg. Two organisations that work in different ways to promote sustainability in Luxembourg. Joy reminds us that as well as fair trade coffee and chocolate, there is fair trade cotton and that buying clothes with the fair trade certificate can ensure that there haven't been human rights abuses in the supply chain of our clothes. Under the Caritas banner, Ana-Luisa operates the Letz refashion centre in Luxembourg city, a hub for everything to do with upcycling and giving new life to used clothes which can often be a sustaianbable alternative to buying new clothes.
On the 26th of April Rethink your clothes will hold the 2nd edition of their upcycled fashion fashion show at the Abbey Neumunster. The show will feature clothes made by fashion desginers from Luxembourg, France, germany, belgium and Ghana who work in a sustainable manner using second hand and upcycled fabric.
More information can be found at www.rethink.lu
City Scenes - San Francisco
San Francisco is a city of roughly 800,000 people located on the west coast of the USA in California famous for its spectacular golden gate bridge, large China town district and vibrant LGBTQI+ community. These days it is known as a commercial hub for large tech companies and a homebase to tech workers, just a stones through away from Silicon Valley but back in the 1960s the city became known worldwide for very different reasons.
Register to VOTE: The ZPB's Super-Wal-Kiermes
Four days left - the last chance to get registered as a voter for the municipal elections. During the past months, the Zentrum fir politesch Bildung (ZPB) has been informing about the upcoming elections. On Local Matters, Annaïk Garin tells about their Super-Wal-Kiermes, an election fun fair stand.
Register to VOTE: Asti's project Letz vote
Less than one week is left for foreign nationals to register as voters in the municipal elections. On Local Matters this week, we focus once more on the right to vote and why to use it. For our first interview, we've invited Marc Piron in the studio. tells us about Asti's project Let's vote.
Interview from Claire Schadeck from CID Fraen an Gender
Claire Schadeck from CID Fraen an Gender was Tom's guest on the breakfast show this morning. The CID Fraen an Gender is a women’s rights NGO that campaign to promote gender equality here in luxembourg. They recently released a report that included a list of measures that they want national political parties to introduce into their policies in the run up to the national elections here in October.
City Scenes - Rio De Janeiro
For this week's City Scenes twe’ve landed in a city that is a goldmine when it comes to amazing music. This is a city that lives and breathes music, located in south America, with a population of more than 6 million people, famous for its beaches, its carnival and of course its music. This week we are in Rio De Janeiro
Conduits: Paintings From the 1980s - Interview With Peter Halley
A new Exhibition ‘Conduits: Paintings From the 1980s’ by American Artist Peter Halley opened last week at MUDAM. Tom went down on opening night to check out the exhibition and got a chance to talk to Peter about his work.
Participatory Democracy: The Anna Lindh Foundation
On Local Matters, Benjamin George Coles interviews Karine Bouton, the Head of the Luxembourg network of the Anna Lindh Foundation. This is the third part of this week's Local Matters on participatory democracy.
Participatory Democracy: The EU Democracy Rally
The EU Democracy Rally is a participatory democracy bootcamp that had its first week-long edition in Luxembourg last summer. For the second of this week's Local Matters episodes on participatory democracy, Benjamin spoke to TeeKay Kreissig, Karolina Mazetyte and Philipe Ternes, three of the organisers.
Mouvement écologique's Road Map
The publication “A roadmap for the legislative period 2023-2028: Social – Ecological – Fair” from the Ecological Movement is 152 pages of concrete proposals for politicians in Luxembourg to take with them into the next national elections in Luxembourg.
Participatory democracy: At the Project Design Forum
Citizens' involvement is the main component of participatory democracy. To discover how this can look like, Benjamin George Coles talked to a few participants at the Project Design Forum. This is the first episode in this week's Local Matters series on participatory democracy.
Voices Matter: Teacher in a welcome class
How to teach kids if you don't speak the same language? How to cope with a large variety of backgrounds and cultures in one school class. On Voices Matter, Rila Berta Reis interviews Dayana Culibrk, a teacher in a welcome class in a lycée in Differdange.
Julia Zhang about the Chinese women's club
The Chinese women's club celebrates their 5th anniversary this spring. In our interview, president Julia Zhang explains why the need for such a community exists.
Delano Top of the Week
The Emaischen is a pottery market traditionally hosted on Easter Monday. The oldest written records show that this market was celebrated already in 1827 but there is evidence indicating that it dates even further back.
Inclusion at the workplace: Pierre Bohnert about his autism at work
Pierre Bohnert is 44 years old, 1,5 years ago, he was diagnosed with autism, the Asperger's syndrome to be precise. On Local Matters, Pierre tells us how this diagnosis has changed his work life and how he coped before the diagnosis.
Interview With Ice Hockey Luxembourg
The National Ice Hockey Championships Semi Finals and Finals take place this weekend in Luxembourg. Head of communication for Ice Hocky Luxembourg Liam McEvoy and Ice Hockey player Mara Wagner joined Tom in the studio this morning to talk us through what you can expect from the tournament.
Interview with Bear Dukes
Thibauld Milan President of Bear Dukes joined Tom on the radio this morning to talk about the events that they organise in Luxembourg and their work in the Luxembourg LBTQI+ community.