In safe hands: crèches in Grenoble

May 4th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features, Life & Culture

Grenoble Life editor James Dalrymple blogs on his experience with French childcare in Grenoble and the difficulties getting that all-important place at a crèche.

Trudi Penkler – adaptation counselling in Grenoble. Part II

March 23rd, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews, Work & Study

Trudi Penkler is a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in Grenoble. In the second of a two-part interview, she talks to Grenoble Life about the experiences families can have adapting to life in France.

Trudi Penkler – adaptation counselling in Grenoble. Part I

March 16th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews, Work & Study

Trudi Penkler is a psychologist, psychotherapist and ‘Intercultural Consultant’ with her own practice, Active Adaptation Counselling, in Grenoble. In the first of a two-part interview, she talks to Grenoble Life about helping foreigners adapt to life in a new culture, going professional in France, and being a Ghostbuster!

English Talk Radio – March 10

March 12th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews

The March 10 English Talk Radio show was recorded at the Cité Scolaire Internationale de Grenoble, and includes an interview with the director, the cast and the crew of Upstage, which is putting on two plays: Loot by Joe Orton and Mountain Language by Harold Pinter, performing March 22–27 at 7:30 pm at the Théâtre Ste-Marie-d’en-Bas.

Anglophone Grenoble, a rough guide

March 10th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Info & Advice

Just landed in Grenoble? Grenoble Life editor James Dalrymple gives his rough guide to Grenoble’s expat clubs and Anglophone businesses and services.

My fruitless efforts to change national education

March 4th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features

Gregg West is an American history and geography teacher at Cité Scolaire Internationale. In this explosive article for Grenoble Life, he describes his career-long efforts to change the education system in France.

Calling all cinephiles: film festivals & art house cinemas in Grenoble

February 18th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Info & Advice, Life & Culture

Are you a film buff? Know your Nouvelle Vague from your Cinéma Vérité? Grenoble has a wealth of cinemas and film festivals to cater for all movie tastes. Grenoble Life’s Camille Bromley investigates.

English Talk Radio – February 7

February 12th, 2010  |  by  |  published in Comment, Interviews, Life & Culture

English Talk Radio is a talk show in English on 90.8 Radio Campus Grenoble. We talk about film, theatre, finance, restaurants, travel, and have a variety of topical guests. Every Sunday at 12.30pm, and every Wednesday at 7pm on 90.8, Radio Campus Grenoble and also live on www.campusgrenoble.org – and here at Grenoble Life.

English Talk Radio talks to theFrenchPaper

January 21st, 2010  |  by  |  published in Features, Interviews, Life & Culture

Michael Streeter, Editor of theFrenchPaper, talks to Vivian Draper of English Talk Radio, 90.8 Radio Campus Grenoble. Read the full interview here.

Chaissac at the Musée de Grenoble

December 18th, 2009  |  by  |  published in Comment, Features, Life & Culture

The colors of Gaston Chaissac are brightening up the winter season here in Grenoble with the current exhibition at the Musée de Grenoble, Gaston Chaissac: poète rustique et peintre moderne. Camille Bromley of Grenoble Life explains.