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Monday, September 02, 2019
September's events
Saturday, June 15, 2019
A night at the Opera - in the Guildhall, City of London.
Saturday, June 01, 2019
House of Lords Reception with the Gay Professional Network - All welcome, LGBT and allies, friends & colleagues.
RSVP: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/2535/gpn-at-the-house-of-lords-tickets
Timings
6:30pm: Arrival, Food & Drinks
7:30pm: The Lord Scriven of Hunters Bar introduced by J-F Dor.
8:30pm: Tour of the House of Parliament conducted by Lord Scriven and his husband.
9:30pm: Carriages
If you are not yet a member, join now on www.gpn.one (it is only £20 a year and gives you many advantages).
Please spread the word about the Gay Professional Network. Sharing it with friends, colleagues and the wider world helps us to grow and expand.
Share this event on Facebook and Twitter.
GPN is a non for profit membership organisation operating since 2010.
I very much look forward to seeing you again soon and if we have not met yet, to welcome you in the Network.
Yours sincerely,
J-F.
Jean-François Dor
Founder
Gay Professional Network
jf@gpn.one
www.gpn.one
The Gay Professional Network is privileged to be able to meet at the House of Lords with grateful thanks to our Patron, The Rt Hon The Lord Scriven of Hunters Bar
for his very generous sponsorship.
As last year Lord Scriven will say a few words and with his husband take us all for a tour of the Houses of Parliament after our reception.
Lord Scriven is an openly gay man married to his partner Dr David Black, he advocates human rights and helps the LGBT community in many ways.
Check his twitter feed on https://twitter.com/Paulscriven.
We are a group of Gay Professionals who like their comfort, good wine and food, comfortable surrounding and great people and we are meeting in a different room this year, so we are going around!
House of Lords fine wines and foods will be served: you will not be thirsty or hungry.
Join us and celebrate our diversity and invite your friends and family.
It is an unique opportunity to attend and be dazzled by the architecture and luxury of the interiors of The Palace of Westminster, The Houses of Parliament.
Grateful thanks to our member Mark Weeks of Mark Weeks Photography for sponsoring the event's photography
and congratulations to him for running the London marathon in well under 4 hours for the MS Society in honour of his Dad and Friend.
All welcome, LGBT and allies, friends & colleagues.
for his very generous sponsorship.
As last year Lord Scriven will say a few words and with his husband take us all for a tour of the Houses of Parliament after our reception.
Lord Scriven is an openly gay man married to his partner Dr David Black, he advocates human rights and helps the LGBT community in many ways.
Check his twitter feed on https://twitter.com/Paulscriven.
We are a group of Gay Professionals who like their comfort, good wine and food, comfortable surrounding and great people and we are meeting in a different room this year, so we are going around!
House of Lords fine wines and foods will be served: you will not be thirsty or hungry.
Join us and celebrate our diversity and invite your friends and family.
It is an unique opportunity to attend and be dazzled by the architecture and luxury of the interiors of The Palace of Westminster, The Houses of Parliament.
Grateful thanks to our member Mark Weeks of Mark Weeks Photography for sponsoring the event's photography
and congratulations to him for running the London marathon in well under 4 hours for the MS Society in honour of his Dad and Friend.
All welcome, LGBT and allies, friends & colleagues.
Timings
6:30pm: Arrival, Food & Drinks
7:30pm: The Lord Scriven of Hunters Bar introduced by J-F Dor.
8:30pm: Tour of the House of Parliament conducted by Lord Scriven and his husband.
9:30pm: Carriages
If you are not yet a member, join now on www.gpn.one (it is only £20 a year and gives you many advantages).
Please spread the word about the Gay Professional Network. Sharing it with friends, colleagues and the wider world helps us to grow and expand.
Share this event on Facebook and Twitter.
GPN is a non for profit membership organisation operating since 2010.
I very much look forward to seeing you again soon and if we have not met yet, to welcome you in the Network.
Yours sincerely,
J-F.
Jean-François Dor
Founder
Gay Professional Network
jf@gpn.one
www.gpn.one
website change
Well, my websites (jeanfrancoisdor.com & jfdor.co.uk) seem to be defunct due to too many people managing it
and lost in the cyberworld together with their content!
I have set a new one
myself, so please let me know what you think and onward and upward!
Friday, November 09, 2018
2018 is drawing to a close, all best wishes!
I get people to reconnect sometimes even after a break of five years and we take it from there as it was yesterday. Life is like that sometimes.
This year started with some good news, two of my nieces announced they were pregnant and some bad news, some friends died, other friends celebrated in style their significant birthdays through the year.
Travelling to and fro Belgium, Wales and London with the little escapes to ski in Les Gets and the sea in Thassos, GPN and The Whitefriars Club continue to thrive and I am delighted to have welcomed many people and speakers to both of them.
Lady Colin Campbell attended the first GPN of the year and Jerry Hayes the first Whitefriars Dinner both at the Savile Club. I visited the Supreme Court and attended the Civic Luncheon in the Crypt of the Guildhall and dined in the Judge's Chambers at the Old Bayley with the Sherif of London with the Bishopsgate Ward Club.
Other speakers at the Whitefriars Club were The Rt Rev and Rt Hon the Lord Chartres KCVO ChStJ PC FSA at the Palace of Westminster in February to celebrate its 150th anniversary, Geoffrey Mub, Dele Ogun, Jeff Anderson, Lord Lisvane and A.N. Wilson.
GPN celebrated diversity and inclusion at the House of Lords in July with The Lord Scriven of Hunters Bar who subsequently became our Patron. Other speakers were Abel Rubinstein, the director, Dan de la Motte who took us around Soho, Gary Henshaw, Robert S J Lucas when we went to see his musical at "The Other Palace" and Niall Cunniffe.
I attended a fundraising dinner at the The Belgian Ambassador Residence for the Torch Kindling Ceremony who just happened this November, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the end of the first World War, so called the Great War but really there is nothing great about a war, it is just awful to see what humanity can let itself so down, let's never forget!
Filming wise, I was fortunate to work with Renee Zelwegger who I think will land an oscar for her rendition of this film, it is sadly to early to let you know what I have been up to with the other films as they are not out yet but look at your screens big and small for some adverts and wonderful films that I was delighted to be in. This year you probably seen me already in Vanity Fair, Ready Player One, The Crown, Film Stars don't die in Liverpool, The Children Act, Darkest Hour, Johnny English and Fantastic Beasts. I also did my first narration for a French Film in May
Lunches and dinner were spent in the usual haunts of the Savile, Turf, Civil Service, Boodle and National Liberal Club were we seen this year's start on the terrace and there were parties also at The Inner Temple and the Chelsea Arts Club.
Two of my nieces celebrate their 40th birthday, one in January, yet the party was in May, and the other in December, guess the party is next year.
I worn for the first time a kilt for the wedding celebration at the House of Lords of Roland and David and will again for Burns Night next year.
There is probably too much to remember and forgive me if I do, there are much more that I attended, some that I cannot talk about but it has been a very enjoyable year surrounded by the love and friendship of family and friends.
I very much look forward to seeing you again soon and wish you and yours all the very best for Hanukkah, Saturnalia, Christmas and the New Years.
Love, Peace and Light to you all.
Yours truly,
Jean-François.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Byron: Angel & Outcast
http://www.cadoganhall.com/e…/byron-angel-and-outcast-181011 to raise funds for research into late stage prostate cancer, led by Dr. Vincent Koo, at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital in Chelsea: Cadogan Hall, THURSDAY 11th OCTOBER 7.30PM @rob_heaps @DinaDuisen @SimonRBeale #prostatecancer
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018
RA 250th Summer Exhibition, The Great Spectacle: 250 years of the Summer Exhibition & RA Schools Show 2018
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| https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra250 |
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| Michelangelo Tondo in all its splendour, part of the permanent exhibition. |
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Satan summoning his Legions, 1796-1797
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769 - 1830)
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| Linking the two buildings, to the right the RA Schools studios |
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| From the RA Schools Show |
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| From the RA Schools Show |
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| From the Summer Exhibition, unicorns... |
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| And presenting the Summer Exhibition, none other than Grayson Perry RA in a very clownesque customised outfit to his image (on his back), Grayson is really his biggest creation. It was fabulous to hear how fast he went to customise the hanging by specifying colours of the paintings regardless of the subjects or artists, to him it was a big collage. Here is under a portrait of Mosley after he told us how he loved the portrait of Farrage on the other wall. |
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Celebrating Christo at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Too late now for you to go and see it and it was fully booked as
soon as it was sent. I had the privilege yesterday to assist at a private
screening yesterday of "Bridge to Christo" and "The Frontier of
our dreams"
One depicts
his biggest and latest project of a floating bridge or pier in Italy and the other the relationship with his
brother who remained in Bulgaria
Fascinating
talk ensued after the screenings and directors and screenwriters were answering
a Q&A session.
Everyone
remembers the huge works and the economic impact but what of the environmental
impact? This was not addressed.
The
presentation by Phillip Bergson was without fail despite some technical
problems in the projection.
Audience
reacted with emotion as to the relationship between brothers living in very
different circumstances in communism and capatalism. The artist both glorified
in each systems.
Did the
wrapping stem from the fact that their father was an industrialist who was accused
and subsequently arrested as a saboteur. Huge wads of fabrics were burned down.
It is uncanny that Christo chose to wrap
monumental projects all of which were self financed through the sale of his
work of art.
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