Wednesday Luncheon #5031 with Denis Bernard, Rotary Exchange Student 1986

This week lunch meeting will be held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the... Adelaide Oval MG Suite One, L3 Riverbank Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide

Web booking closes Monday January 6 12 noon!

Payment on the day at the Welcome Desk by Card only. 

Includes Main Course, shared Cheese platter and Tea/Coffee, good company, great speaker and all done by 2pm!

 Guest Speaker Denis Bernard, Rotary Exchange Student 1986

 Denis arrived in Adelaide in 1986 as a Rotary Exchange Student with the Rotary Club of Adelaide and was hosted by the Motteram, Bevan and Thorpe families. He started school at Pulteney Grammer School but after a short time transferred to the School for Performing Arts.

After a year in Australia, he returned to Belgium and started studying drama in Brussels, he lived in Portugal for ten year teaching drama at Porto Drama School. Back in 2007, in Belgium, he has been mainly clowning in social projects with his own association “Empathiclown”. Since 2010, they have been developing projects with clowns who encounter vulnerable people, in nursing homes, in special education schools with autistic and multiple disabled children, or in hospitals, but also homeless people and isolated patients at their homes.

Denis has been married to Florence for more than 30 years. He lives in the west of Belgium, near the French town of Lille. Florence is teaching French to future preschool teachers. She loves dancing and singing. They have two children, Billie (28) and Tomás (26). Billie is a speech therapist and lives in the same city as Denis. Max and she are very happy in the house they bought in Tournai. Tomás works at a socio-cultural centre in Brussels called "La Boutique Culturelle." He organizes various activities there: workshops, concerts, and exhibitions. He lives with his girlfriend, Clementine.

 (In the picture from the left Clementine, Max, Tomás, Billie, Denis and Florence)

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Please note the venue - MG Suite One, Adelaide Oval, L3 Riverbank Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide