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The Unity Foundation is a Luxembourg-based NGO that is committed to the empowerment of communities through education. With projects around the world as well as in Luxembourg, they support local partners to build capacity for education and training development. This May, they will launch a new initiative called the Unity Run 42 which will be taking palce as part of the ING Luxembourg night marathon. Fernand Schaber and Anne Cuvilier from the organisation joined Tom on the Breakfast Show this morning to talk about it. The Unity Run 42 is an intiative started by the Unity Centre to encourage increased physical activity in children and adolescents in Luxembourg in the wake of the pandemic. Participating schools will have 42 students present at the ING Night marathon that will run 1 km of the entire course each in a relay run. This first edition will feature 3 secondary schools and the hope is that more schools will participate in the run each year. Find out more information about the unity foundation at https

A few months ago, Pascale Zaourou published her second book. "Les bleus invisibles" (Invisible bruises) is a collection of poems about psychological domestic violence. Pascale talks about her book and about her experience. The interview is part of this week's Local Matters on domestic violence.

Out Of The Crowd Festival is back in Kulturfabrik on the 29th of April for the 19th Edition of the festival. Programmer Nicolas Przeor joined Tom on the Breakfast Show this morning to talk through the line up and everything else that the festival has in store. The Out of The Crowd festival brings a line up of Indie, alternative and post punk bands offering impressive and well known headline sets alongside the best of exciting up and coming artists from around the world. Since its first edition in 2004 it has played host to names like Battles, Iceage, And So I Watch You From Afar and many more as well as giving a stage to some of the best that Luxembourg's alternative music scene has to offer. This Year's line up includes Kakumori (LU), Sheebaba (LU), Dives (AT), Ada Oda (B), joe & The Shit Boys(UK), JW Francis (USA), Fat Dog (UK), O (UK), Folly Group(UK), La Jungle (B) Dan Deacon (USA) and Beak> (UK) Tickets and Further Info Can be found at www.ootc.com

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. On Saturday and Sunday, the whole family can come down and enjoy live concerts, theatrical performances, interactive installations, workshops, DJ sets, a silent disco, and musical cinema. The festival has a bit of something for everyone to keep the whole family entertained. Tickets can be purchased as day passes or for the whole weekend with children under the age of 3 years old entering free of charge. For more information head to www.rotondes.lu

The Luxembourg Red Cross offers a service for perpetrators of domestic violence. The aim of the service Riicht eraus is to prevent people from becoming violent again. In our interview on Local Matters today, Laurence Bouquet, the director of the service Riicht eraus at the Luxembourg Red Cross, explains how this works and why it is necessary.

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). All EU countries had to submit such a plan to the European Commission in 2019. They set out how they will achieve the EU’s goal to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2050. That also includes targets to increase the share of renewable energies from 11% in 2020 to 25% by 2030 and to increase energy efficiency resulting in a reduction of demand between 40 to 44%, for example by improving insulation of homes. It’s mandatory under the EU strategy for each member country to submit an updated version of the plan by 30 June this year. That is meant to give countries an opportunity to set more ambitious targets, take into account the latest research and findings, for example from the UN’s Intergovernmental Pan

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 hol

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. In the late 1960s hundreds of thousands of young people descended on the haight-ashbury neighbourhood in San Francisco at the intersection of the streets with the same names in a pilgrimage that became known as the summer of love. This was the birth of the hippie movement that would see the birth of flower power, anti-war protests, free love and acceptance of the consumption of psychedelic drugs popularised for a whole generation. This was a movement that opened the doors for creativity and popularised a number of influential bands from the period such as the grateful dead, jeffers

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 and encouraging people to be an active citizen and vote. On Local Matters, Annaik Garin tells us about their Super-Wal-Kiermes, an election fun fair stand.

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 imterview, we've invited Marc Piron in the studio. tells us about Asti's project Let's vote.

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. The report calls for things like a reduction in the pension gap , improved data gathering on inequality and increased considerations for women's experiences navigating things like public transport and poorly lit street areas. As Claire explains, people are encouraged to read the report and to encourage their governmental representatives to take the report to heart in their policies. Find out more about CID Fraen an Gender and read the report at https://cid-fg.lu/en/

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 The breathtaking city of Rio De Janeiro or Cidade Maravilhoso as it is known, is the 2nd biggest city in Brazil after Sao Paulo and a cultural and artistic hub. It is also a popular tourist spot and for many people when they think of Rio De Janeiro they think of one thing - And that is Carnival. Every year millions of people take to the streets in Rio De Janeiro for the spectacle of the carnival parades, a huge celebration of brazillian culture soundtracked by the sound of a music style known as samba. Samba is a form of brazilian music that brings together a wide variety of percussion instruments and portuguese brazilian singing. The origins of samba has routes in the traditional music of

A new Exhibition called 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. Peter Halley is an artist that began his career in the 1980s when he developed a highly personal style of painting that gained him international recognition as one of the leading artists in a movement called neo-conceptualism. His paintings are made up of a series of brightly colored squares, rectangles and straight line "conduits" that connect different areas of the canvas. Looking at them you get a sense of things like circuit boards, electrical connections or even abstracted urban architecture and buildings connected by roads and paths. Halley’s paintings deal with subjects like communication, urban life and our increasing interaction with electronic and even digital worlds. And given that he developed this style of painting at a time before the dawn of the cell phone or even t

The Anna Lindh Foundation is an international network of civil society associations that aims to improve collaboration between the central European countries, North Africa and Middle East. In several countries, associations create national networks within this umbrella. In Luxembourg, the Anna Lindh Foundation has 31 member associations. 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.

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 Philippe Ternes, three of the organisers.

Citizens' involment 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Ice Hockey is a growing sport in Luxembourg with 8 teams in the national league. This weekend all 8 of them will battle it out at the kockelscheuer ice rink for the title of national champions. The tournament looks set to be an exciting event and will feature guest appearances from Luxembourgish Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and ex NHL player and Canadian national team coach Marc Habscheid. Tickets and information can be found at www.icehockey.lu