Barcelona Women's Network

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Where to Meet Us

Café Castellano

Mon, 21.05.12 11:00 - 13:00

Where?

Practice your Castellano with some of our native speaker members.

Cost

Pay-your-own.

Contact

Wendy Dick
wendydick@shaw.ca

Outing to Fundación MONA

Sat, 26.05.12 11:30

Where?

ease join us on 26 May for a visit to the Mona Foundation. The Mona
Foundation is a rescue center for primates (chimpanzees and macaques)
located in Girona. More information regarding the center, their primates
and activities is available on their website:
http://www.fundacionmona.org/en/

Depending on how many people join us, we can vote on which of the following
options we are most interested in:

-A guided tour for groups of 10 or more. The tour will last about 1,5 hours
and costs €6 per person.
-A guided tour with workshop for children 3 and up. The tour plus workshop
lasts approximately 2 hours and costs €9 per person.

MONA Foundation is located in Riudellots de la Selva, Carreterra de la
Selva, Km 4, only 10 km from Girona. Directions to the center can be found
at http://www.fundacionmona.org/en/ElCentro/comollegar.html

Please note that the MONA Foundation is most easily accessed by car.

If you are interested in joining us, please contact Francesca Facchini at
francesca@facchini.net no later than 16 MAY. Please let her know in which
of the two tours you are interested and also if you would be willing to
carpool or in need of a ride. Depending on the numbers and preference, we
will decide on the type of visit as we get closer to the date and organize
carpools.

Cost

Contact

Francesca Facchini
francesca@facchini.net

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Olga Arderiu is a founding partner of MDA Advocats (http://www.mda-advocats.com). She is a lawyer dedicated exclusively to criminal law and has been practicing since 1998. She has been the Vice President of the Criminal Law Section of the Bar Association of Barcelona (2007 - 2010) and is also a Professor of Criminal Law at the Bar Association of Barcelona since 2008. She has been teaching several courses by specialized college centers and was a speaker at the International Congress of Women Lawyers (2008). Since 2003, she has been coordinating and presenting courses and events organized by the Criminal Law Section and the Women Lawyers Committee at the Bar Association of Barcelona. She was designated “Master in Law” by the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economia de Barcelona (I.S.D.E) (1997- 1998) and in 1997 obtained a grant to conduct research at the Department of Criminal Law at Pompeu Fabra University. As a criminal lawyer, she is the author of articles published in the trade press and a regular speaker in the media at the regional and state level. She has provided an overview of a new law regarding contracting household help that may affect many of our members.

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Valerie Collins has lived in Barcelona for 39 years and is co- author of the popular book In The Garlic: Your Informative, Fun Guide to Spain. She has also written more than 50 Speak Up movie guides and numerous magazine articles as well as several published short stories. She will be writing a monthly contribution for BWN blog about various cultural aspects of expat life in Spain and sharing her personal stories behind the excerpts from the book. To learn more about her and her work, please visit her website.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Lezanne Swart is a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Arts Australia (RYT 200). She has been practicing yoga since 1998 and given the opportunity will happily extoll the benefits that this holistic system will bring into your life, on a physical, mental and spiritual level. Lezanne teaches various styles of yoga, including Hatha, Astanga, Vinyasa Flow and Prenatal Yoga in both group classes and private sessions in Barcelona. She will be contributing a mini-sequence of simple yoga postures you can easily incorporate into your daily life to help alleviate some common aches and pains or simply to bring a little bit more freedom, flexibility, energy and ease of movement into your body. Please visit http://www.ujuyoga.com for more information.

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Nadine Kazerounian trained as an Image Consultant 15 years ago and since then has helped many women (and some men!) to look and feel more confident and stylish. Her clients have included Goldman Sachs, Camelot and the Institute of Directors. She is the published author of “Stepping Up: Women’s Guide to Career Development”, and has spoken at conferences across Europe on the topic of personal image and career management.

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