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FLYBE LANDS FROM MCR
Clare Jordan and Thomas Flammant from the British embassy in Luxembourg were joined by Lux-Airport boss Johan Vanneste to welcome the inaugural Flybe flight from Manchester to Luxembourg on 1 September. The route now operates twice on weekdays and once a day on weekends. A route to Birmingham, operating once a day, has also been launched. icon_website www.flybe.com
RYANAIR ANNOUNCES NEW DESTINATIONS Even before it started operations from Luxembourg, budget airline Ryanair announced it would add new routes to its schedule starting in March 2017. Milan, Lisbon and Madrid have now been added to the London and Porto routes that begin operating this month. icon_website www.ryanair.com
SAMSA AT TIFF
Samsa Film was at the Toronto International Film Festival in September to take part in the International Finance Forum. The Luxembourg production company was invited to the IFF event to present its Dead Noon project, the first feature film by Jeff Desom. The forum is an opportunity to meet and do business with international sales agents, distributors, funders, and executive producers. icon_website www.samsa.lu
October 2016
LUXEMBOURG’S OSCAR SHOT
Pol Cruchten’s Voices from Chernobyl has been selected to represent Luxembourg in the best foreign language film category at next year’s Academy Awards. The film, adapted from the novel by Nobel Prize winning author Svetlana Aleksievitch, was screened at the Luxembourg Film Festival earlier this year. It has already won a slew of international awards and industry insiders say it may be the best chance yet Luxembourg has to make it to the final selection stage for next year’s Oscars. icon_website www.redlionlux.com
KIDS TAKE TO MUSIC WITH OPL
The Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and its musical director Gustavo Gimeno hosted an Orchestramania open house at the Philharmonie on 24 September. Some 3,500 guests heard performances and took part in workshops that allowed children and adults to pick up an instrument. icon_website www.opl.lu
Ouni, the first packaging-free organic grocery store in Luxembourg, has announced that it will open its retail outlet in November in rue Glesener in the Gare neighbourhood of the capital city. The cooperative business has attracted 560 members. It plans to have three employees, supported by 250 volunteers from its active member list, to man the store. Meanwhile, the cooperative was awarded the Innovatiounspräis 2016 at the Oekofoire in September. icon_website www.ouni.lu
ROMANIAN PRODUCE
Romanian produce store Épicerie Fine Dracula has opened in the rue de Bonnevoie in the Gare neighbourhood. It stocks Matisbrand cold meats and cheeses, organic jams, preservatives and a range of Romanian and Moldovan wines. icon_facebook Épicerie Fine Dracula
KIDS SHOES
Children’s shoe store Le Marquis de Lily has opened on avenue Monterey. It stocks brands including Babybotte, Igor and Bana Line. icon_website www.lemarquisdelily.lu
Local artists have been busy making and releasing new music over the summer. Coming up is a 7” single release by American-born, Luxembourg-based singer Georgio “the Dove” Valentino. ‘Satyros Ironykos’ is moody and slightly unsettling, yet also mesmerising and not without a touch of humour. It is the result of a long-distance songwriting experiment between Valentino and Scottish post-punk legend David McClymont, an original member of Orange Juice. The single was recorded with another post-punk legend, Mick Harvey from The Birthday Party (who has also played with PJ Harvey), alongside Dave Graney and Clare Moore. The release show happens on 20 October at Rockhal--entrance is free. icon_website www.georgiothedovevalentino.com Go By Brooks, fronted by Laetitia Koener, released a new EP. A followup to debut release Rivers, Oceans is a seven-track EP that includes lead single ‘Phoenix’, which features a fine contribution from Luxembourg cellist Lisa Berg. icon_website www.gobybrooks.com Singer-songwriter Lata Gouveia released his new single, ‘Today’, a reggae-inspired track from his Radio Cuts EP, which was released last autumn. The single received heavy rotation airplay on Radio Ara’s Bistro and Tuesday with Ron shows. icon_website www.lata-gouveia.com