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SAVE THE DATES
COFFEES Monday 2 February Area Coffee: Lausanne (LSN) Friday 6 February Area Coffee: Lavaux/Riviera (LR) Wednesday 11 February Meet & Greet Coffee at Clubhouse Wednesday 18 February Area Coffee: La Cote (LC) Area Coffee: West Riviera (WR)
APÉRO: Wednesday 25 February Wine Wednesday LSN: Yatus Wine Bar
FEBRUARY EVENTS: Saturday 7 February Kids Club Family OuGng-‐ Indoor Play @ Jayland Wednesday 11 February Kids Club ValenGnes Day Wednesday 18 February Music Box Museum OuGng-‐ Geneva Wednesday 25 February Share the Wealth-‐ Clubhouse
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IWC – MONTHLY MEETINGS Friday, 13 February 2015 9:30 – 11:30 Restaurant du Prieuré Av. du Prieuré 2a 1009 Pully
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend! Come along and hear a representative from the Horlogerie-Joaillerie & Galerie Lionel Meylan in Vevey talking about the qualities and characteristics of precious stones including diamonds, Chinese and South Sea pearls. Restaurant Prieuré is easily accessible and only a short walk from Pully Gare. Take bus numbers 4 & 25 to Pully Gare or bus numbers 9, 47, 48 or 49 to Pully Clergière. Parking is available at the Coop, Migros and Pully Gare. After the meeting stay for lunch. Just tick the appropriate box on the Doodle sign-up https://doodle.com/73a7zufc2bgwb78q or contact [email protected]. Entrance and refreshments are provided free of charge.
Everyone is welcome!
Online PDF Version Check out our online color version of the IWC ConnecQons newsleSer! Go green and stop
receiving the paper version. Contact membership@iwc-‐lausanne.org.
Topic: Using Social Media Wednesday, 25 February, 9:30
Beginning in February we are re-introducing a monthly Share the Wealth series. Building on the LIL theme of providing valuable information, LIL Share the Wealth is an informal gathering where IWC members share their knowledge, expertise, and experiences to benefit other members. On Wednesday, 25 February at 9:30 we will meet at the clubhouse to share our knowledge of Social Media. If you want to sign up for the IWC website but haven’t done so yet, this is the workshop for you. Curious about Facebook? Come and see what the club’s Facebook page looks like and learn about the privacy settings. Want to join the Twittersphere? Eager to share your photos and videos via Instagram or Flickr? We will help each other get comfortable using social media.
Please register using the Doodle link, https://doodle.com/nnibzpkmpc8nigyc, or email [email protected].
LIL - SHARE THE WEALTH
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEI would like to wish you all a very belated Happy New Year in the first Connections of 2015. I’m writing this on a wonderful “spring” day at the beginning of January when the sun is shining, temperatures have reached 15°C and I have seen wild violas and forget-me-nots blooming. By the time you read this we could be in the middle of snow storms and Arctic conditions. Or not!!!! That is just how unpredictable the weather can be right now.
What is not unpredictable is that we will continue to have a lot to occupy and interest you throughout the coming month. As you can see, this month’s Newsletter is full of information about activities. The latest new group is LIL Share the Wealth where we will be asking members to share their knowledge and areas of interest with other members at a
monthly get-together. This will replace the LIL Seminar for newcomers to the region which has traditionally taken place at the start of each club year. We feel that we should concentrate on offering regular information to our existing membership instead.
We are continuing with the very successful Monthly Meetings which take place in the centre of Pully. The idea of putting aside one morning a month to come and drink coffee, chat and meet up with old and new friends and then listen to a stimulating and thought-provoking speaker is proving very popular. Staying on to join us for a delicious lunch puts the finishing touch to a great morning. I hope to see many more of you at the next meeting on 13 February.
Finally we are looking for somebody to coordinate our charitable giving. This is an organisational role where we would like the coordinator to look into, check out and then propose some options for next year’s charity which will finally be decided on by the members. If you are interested and would like to know more, then contact me at [email protected].
Please enjoy all we that have to offer for the month of February whilst waiting for the real arrival of Spring!
Susan Alloun
IWC CLUBHOUSE La Maison de la Femme Avenue Eglantine 6 1006 Lausanne (second floor) Tel: 021 320 26 88 Email: [email protected]
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Condolences: The IWC is sorry to learn of the deaths of founding member Erika Yesalavich who died on 27 November, 2014 at the age of 95 and Helen Von Krannichfeldt who died on 6 January, 2015 at the age of 90. We would like to offer our sincerest condolences to both their families.
CongratulaQons: The IWC would like to extend their congratulaGons to Mehernaaz Dugast Rouillé on the birth of her
son, Edgar. Edgar was welcomed by Meher and her husband on 11 December, 2014!
Parlez-vous français? Sprechen sie Deutsch? Parla italiano? Habla español? Are you a native speaker of French, German, Italian or Spanish? Would you like to help other members to improve their
language skills? Can you spare an hour or so every other week? If you answer yes to the above please contact Maija at [email protected] and we can start some much
requested beginner's conversation groups.
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OUTINGS
ART APPRECIATION OUTING The Art Appreciation Group will be going to the Odeon cinema in Morges on Sunday, 1 February at 11:00 to see Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis, from David Bickerstaff, a film about Vermeer and other Dutch painters from the Maurithuis in The Hague. This film is in English.
We will be booking a table for lunch at the adjoining Italian restaurant for 12:30 for those who would like to come. Partners are very welcome to join this activity.
If you wish to take part, please contact [email protected]. Write up on film: http://www.exhibitiononscreen.com/girl-with-a-pearl-earring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCsH1zq0L8 http://vimeo.com/105988725
Please refer to the IWC Kids Facebook page for updates!! hgps://www.facebook.com/groups/AIWC.Kids/ hgp://iwc-‐lausanne.org
February 7 @ 10 Family OuGng -‐ Indoor Play at Jayland We will meet at Jayland and play for a few hours hgp://www.jayland.ch/index.php REMEMBER please RSVP to me or via the club calendar so we can make appropriate plans
February 11 @ 1530 Wednesday Meetup -‐ ValenGnes Day Crai We will share a moment with the kids and have a crai for the season. REMEMBER please RSVP via the club calendar so we can make appropriate plans.
IWC KIDS
ANNUAL SNOWSHOE EVENTS Tête-de-Ran, (Neuchâtel): 14 February, 16:30 to 21:30 St Cergue, (Vaud) on 28 February, 16:30 to 21:30 The Fit & Fun walkers are getting a group together, with spouses, for both of these events and invite other IWC members to join in the fun. If you are interested, please look at all of the details on the Raquette Aventure web site (in French) and register ASAP. Cost: CHF 40 per person. Material is included. Mulled wine and tea will be served along the way and a delicious fondue prepared at the end. The outing begins at 16:30.
Register online at http://www.raquette-aventure.ch, “Etapes” page. Contact Jewell Pahl for more info and to let her know which event you’ve signed up for, [email protected]. There’s a penalty of CHF 20 for no-shows. Cancellations are accepted up until 10:00 the Friday before the registered event.
FREE SPIRITS OUTING Wednesday 18 February Music Box Museum, Sainte-Croix www.musees.ch (Musée du CIMA) In 1976 Geneva-based watchmaker Antoine Favre invented the first music box. From 1811 until the end of the 19th century, Sainte-Croix grew to become the centre for music box manufactures. Today, the CIMA music box museum displays these melodious handcrafted items, each of them a masterpiece of engineering and marquetry. Full details and sign-up on IWC website or contact [email protected].
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Income from Operations Advertising Income NL Advertisements 1,759.30 Total Advertising Income 1,759.30
Dues - Membership 43,685.00 Program Income Community Services 5,257.00 LIL Book Sales 665.00 Living in Lausanne 7,231.75 Programs 2,080.00 Total Program Income 15,233.75 Total Income from Operations 60,678.05 Other Income 10.00 Total Income 60,688.05
Expense Office Expense Insurance 847.30 Kitchen Supplies 493.15 Office Supplies 509.69 Photocopies 193.65 Postage 138.00 Printed Materials 115.55 Rent 18,180.00 Utilities 3,771.60 Office Expense - Other 20.00 Total Office Expense 24,268.94
Operations Ads and Marketing 545.40 Bank Fees 453.47 Board 112.55 Computer & Office Equipment Exp. 1552.49 Donations 5208.00 Gifts & Flowers (Non-program) 959.60 Hospitality 240.90 Kitchen Equipment 179.40 LIL Workshop 8,512.95 Membership 90.95 Membership Directory 2,257.20 Newsletter NL Envelopes 455.70 NL Postage 2,411.95 NL Printing 3,020.85 Total Newsletter 5,888.50 Outside Contract Services 4,758.78 President 149.32 Programs 9,437.10 Vice President 444.79 Total Operations 40,791.40 Salary and Fringe Benefits 1,542.90
Total Expense 66,603.24
Net Income -5,915.19
ASSETS Current Assets Checking/Savings Operating Fund 55,625.74 Savings 42.035.65 Total Checking/Savings 97,661.39 Total Current Assets 97,661.39 TOTAL ASSETS 97,661.39
LIABILITES & EQUITY Liabilities Current Liabilities Other Current Liabilities Deferred Membership Dues 34,265.00 Total Other Current Liabilities 34,265.00 Total Current Liabilities 34,265.00 Total Liabilities 34,265.00 Equity Net Change in Funds -35,873.43 Opening Balance 105,185.01 Net Income -5,915.19 Totally Equity 63,396.39 TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY 97,661.39
International Women's Club of Lausanne Income and Expense Summary
June 2013 - June 2014
International Women's Club of Lausanne Balance Sheet
As of June 30, 2014
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Kelly Barneche My husband and I moved to Lausanne in October 2013 from New York City. My professional background is in internaGonal social work; I’ve primarily worked with refugee communiGes and survivors of torture and trafficking. I currently volunteer with two local NGOs and am in the process of looking for a job here. My interests are social jusGce issues, parGcularly as they pertain to forced migraGon, reading novels set in different parts of the world, and trying new healthy recipes (making the most of the fresh and high-‐quality food available in Switzerland!)
Amanda MarQn I am originally from Portland, Oregon, USA, but I have not lived there for many years. I moved to Switzerland in May 2014 from SanGago, Chile where we lived for almost 4 years. Before that I was in Mexico City. I have a two-‐year old daughter named Eva. My husband works for Nestlé which explains the moves! I work as a markeGng and brand consultant with a Brazilian company. I like to hike, bike, walk, dance, ski and also enjoy great food, wine and chocolate!
Bhuvana Nandakumar I am originally from India, and I recently moved to Lausanne from Minneapolis, USA with my husband and two boys (aged 12 & 8). Having worked as a high school science teacher, I am now a consultant to an NGO and conGnue to tutor high school students in mathemaGcs and science. I have always been an acGve volunteer in my childrens’ schools and the various communiGes we have lived in around the world. I hope to conGnue to do that in Lausanne too. I am very happy to discover the IWC and look forward to meeGng many more wonderful women through the club. I love volunteering, traveling and reading
Anna Assef Vaziri Originally from Sweden I've been living in Switzerland, Pully, since 1972 with my Iranian husband and our two sons who are now grown-‐up and have moved out. Besides my pracGce as an independent cogniGve/behavioural psychologist and psychotherapist in the centre of Lausanne, I enjoy painGng, biking for fun, reading, Nordic walking (or simply walking), horse riding, downhill skiing, traveling, discovering new places and new people, theater and cinema.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Where Do Your Dues Go? Rent & Utilities The cost of running our clubhouse, including rent, utilities, insurance and other office costs. The clubhouse is available to all members and is well used throughout the week for activity group and club meetings and other events. Programs In 2013-14 we launched our Monthly Meetings, open to all members, which have been a great success, as well as events such as the Welcome Back coffee, Wine Tasting, Christmas Tea and the Living-in-Lausanne seminar. Newsletter & Membership Books The Communications Team worked hard to produce informative monthly newsletters, and a mid-monthly email for Announcements and Forthcoming Events. The cost to print and send the newsletter out by post is expensive and we ask members to let us know if they are happy to receive a PDF copy instead. IT & Website 2014 saw the new, easier to use, IWC website go live, with features such as the events calendar and a separate blog, the result of much hard work from our Website Team and external contractors. Hospitality & Welfare Enabling us to welcome new members at Meet and Greet coffees, as well as show support for members in need. Ads & Marketing: Always important to keep our profile up and membership growing, we attended the Léman Expat Fair.
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Join us for a coffee/wine and meet your neighbors! Your region is listed next to your name in the directory: Lausanne (LSN), West Riviera (WR), Lavaux Riviera (LR), La Cote (LC). We aim to create a relaxed and open environment for members and nonmembers to meet old friends and make new ones. Please help make everyone feel welcome. If you see someone standing alone, introduce yourself and if possible introduce them to others; this way we all contribute to a culture of friendship and support within the IWC.
Everyone is welcome to agend any area’s coffee/apéro. Beverages are at each member’s expense.
LA COTE (LC) Wednesday, 18 February, 10:00 -‐ La Longeraie, Morges. Area Contacts: Anne Cappin, Carole Gaqker, Jewell Pahl, Debbie Cepla and Carol Barry. lc.area@iwc-‐lausanne.org
LAUSANNE (LSN) Monday, 2 February, 14:00-‐15:30 -‐ Lausanne Palace Hotel, Rue du Grand-‐Chêne 7, 1003 Lausanne Area Contacts: Cynthia Clark, Krista Chavez, Diana Stone, Aminia Brueggemann & Deb Delau. lsn.area@iwc-‐lausanne.org
LAVAUX/RIVIERA (LR) Friday, 6 February, 9:30 -‐ 11:00 -‐ Manor Cafe/Restaurant, Manor (top floor), St. Antoine Shopping Center, Vevey
Area Contacts: Margaret Ellison, Maggie Fern, Janet Greenwood, and Philippa Stanley. lr.area@iwc-‐lausanne.org
WEST RIVIERA (WR) Wednesday,18 February, 9:30 -‐ Hotel de Ville Le Rivage, Port de Lutry. Area Contacts: Françoise André, Bronwen Coyne, Jane Miners, Tanis Vollmann and Karen Wilson. wr.area@iwc-‐lausanne.org
MEET & GREET COFFEES Wednesday, 11 February, 9:30-‐11:30 -‐ IWC Clubhouse, Avenue EglanGne 6, 1006 Lausanne. Members and non-‐members welcome. membership@iwc-‐lausanne.org
AREA COFFEES
IWC APÉRO: WINE WEDNESDAY On the last Wednesday of each month, we take a ligle Gme out to share a glass of wine with new and old friends at a local wine bar. Everyone is welcome, and it gives our working ladies an opportunity to come along for an ouGng. We share laughs, good conversaGon, and some nice wine! Yatus Wine Bar,
Rue du PeGt Chêne 11, 1003 Lausanne from 17:30-‐19:30 or whenever we get finished chaqng.
Wednesday, 25 February 17:30-‐19:30 Yatus Wine Bar, Lausanne www.yatus.ch
winewed@iwc-‐lausanne.org Contacts: Briana Steele-‐Zerbini, Krista Chavez, and Maija Remlinger
ACTIVITY GROUP SPOTLIGHT: Hands On!
Leader: Jeanine T. Riband
handson@iwc-‐lausanne.org
It’s all about creaGng! This is a new group to give you a chance to exercise your creaGvity, share ideas and experGse and explore different art forms. The idea is to meet once a month to explore a new art/crai technique. Fabric painGng, prinGng, sculpture, textures, plaster, decoupage, gold leaf, collage, mosaic … the possibiliGes are endless. It is up to the group members to decide what they want to try. We will meet the third Monday of each month from 13:30 to 16:00 at the Imagine CreaGvity Workshops studio in Lutry. Cost will cover expenses and will vary depending on what we do. InformaGon on the next art project will be posted each month. Please sign up on the club website before each session, as space is limited to 8. No experience is needed, just a desire to explore and have fun! Contact Jeanine if you would like to join and get on the mailing list.
Wearable Art – 16 February
Our first session will be Monday, 16 February. For our first project we will try fabric painGng/prinGng and go home with a beauGful scarf. We will talk about and experiment with different ways to decorate fabric and types of paints that can be used. The rest is up to you!
Cost will be between CHF 20-‐30 (as this is a new acGvity). Once I know how many sign up, a more exact figure will be given closer to the date.
Next dates:
16 March, 20 April, 18 May, 15 June
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Classifieds SCS CATERING SERVICES AND PARTY ORGANIZER, For
all occasions, according to your budget. Visit www.scscatering.ch or contact Sabine Shabetai on
022 361 89 71 or [email protected]
The members of the IWC Lausanne Members Only Facebook group love it!
They use it to ask questions of other members about where to find English-speaking doctors, dentists, lawyers. They recommend massage, beauty, fitness centres to each other. They advertise household goods for sale and make
suggestions of restaurants, museums, exhibitions, theaters and all manner of cultural and sporting events. It is the present-day equivalent of the local market place where gossip and goods were exchanged among neighbors. If you are not yet a member then do sign up and see the wealth of news and information on the page. Do not worry that your personal information will be made available to the general public. This is a group reserved for Members Only and the administrators are very strict as to whom they allow to join. Our Facebook Members Only group page is https://www.facebook.com/groups/130964900381520/.*
If you have any questions about Facebook or our group, please contact the Facebook administrator on [email protected]. *You must have a Facebook account to join.
IWC Fundraising October was the first fundraising month for the
IWC and we did fantastically well. In addition to the money raised by the 10/10 walk and the mois de petits sous, we were able to include money raised from the LIL course and the Christmas Gift Fair. The grand total raised was CHF 8,137.40 and this year it will all go to Terre des Hommes. Terre des Hommes has already been sent CHF 1,366.54 for the purchase of school equipment. The balance of CHF 6,770.86 will be sent to their general fund.
On 12 December, 2014, the IWC Community Services had the pleasure of visiting Terre des Hommes Valais to deliver school supplies. Three of our members, Sandra Govea, Judy Lister, and Veerle Roseeuw, were welcomed by Pauline Weber, a nurse, and Caroline Ingignoli, responsible for fundraising and communications. We started our visit with a guided tour of la maison, a place where around sixty pre- and post-operative children stay for an average of three months before returning to their own country. 80% of the children are recovering from heart surgery. We interrupted the older children in their class on nutrition to deliver our school supplies to them, and we were very touched by all these smiley thankful faces. We were lucky to talk with Philippe Gex, the director, and learn more about the amount of money needed for the house to function and the effort they put into reaching their goal. We are very grateful to everyone who was a part of this effort. A WARM and BIG THANK YOU!!!
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NATURE MATTERS BY WAINWRIGHT
WHAT THE IWC IS READING…
READERS 1
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
Ten years in the wriGng, Anthony Doer’s All the Light We Cannot See is an epic work of historical ficGon. With richly detailed language and characters who are both brave and heartbreaking, Doerr weaves together the stories of a French girl named Marie-‐Laure who has lost her eyesight and
a German orphan named Werner. As Hitler’s occupied territory grows, Marie-‐Laure and Werner’s lives and families are torn apart by the war, yet this novel is the story of people who, against the odds, find good in one another.
ORIGINAL READERS
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
This 2003 Pulitzer Prize-‐winning, semi-‐autobiographical, cleverly-‐wrigen, well-‐researched novel about immigraGon, integraGon in the U.S, namely Detroit, as well as a study of gender-‐idenGty is sGll up-‐to-‐date. Its rich historical background and compassionate understanding provided our group with a most interesGng and lively discussion.
READERS 2
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
With effortless grace, celebrated author Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history, Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgegable
characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-‐year-‐old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revoluGonary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beauGful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with
Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
EVENING READERS
Hotel on the Corner of Bi<er and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
A ficGonal novel based on historical events, it explores the Japanese/Chinese/American experience surrounding the incarceraGon of American ciGzens in the US during World War II.
If you've been lucky enough to walk in the woods these past few weeks (we've had wonderful bright, sparkling mornings), then you'll have seen the bare trees, no flowers and few birds, but the woods are still full of life. It’s time to keep your eyes peeled for paw and hoof prints: what creatures have passed by before you? For those who ski and sit on chairlifts, look below you. Away from the pistes, you may be able to spot some tracks in the snow. Look carefully! Are they deer prints? Perhaps a mountain hare has passed by. It's fun to try and identify them and think of the animals going about their lives after the skiers have gone home.
Dog tracks are easy to spot in the parks and woods after a snowfall.
We may think of leafless trees in the winter as less attractive, but the catkins on many variety of trees in February have color and interest. Catkins, a loan word from old Dutch, (Katteken means kitten, hence the kitten tails) have evolved to dangle so they can catch even the slightest breeze and drift their pollen onto neighboring trees as they seek out a catkin of the opposite sex. The corkscrew hazel, seen all along the lakeside in Ouchy, Vevey and Montreux, has prolific catkins - a wonderful showy shrub.
On 5 January we saw a full moon in the beautiful clear skies. Have you ever wondered why the moon looks so much larger when it is rising than when higher in the sky? For centuries many theories abounded as to why that was the case. One commonly held theory was that the Earth’s atmosphere had some magnifying effect. Now it is generally accepted that this is simply an optical illusion created by the surroundings of the moon. BUT, until everyone is totally convinced, you might say the question of moon illusion remains in the air!