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New Year Reveals New Female Artists
Our programme on the history of Female Artists with Jennifer resumed on 10 January 2025 with a quick recap of what we had seen in the previous lectures. We were then straight into 6 new female artists, 4 from Italy and 2 from the Iberian Peninsular. We started with Suor Eufrasia Burlamacchi who had provided…
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Bonne année tout le monde
Our French Conversation Group got the year off to a good start on Tuesday 07 January 2025 with a selection of stories and commentaries presented by the members of the Group. There were two songs from Georges Brassens (1921-1981), an extremely popular singer of songs who accompanied himself on guitar. One song told the story…
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Female History of Art Continues
Our programme on the role of women in the history of art continued on Friday 29 November 2024 with our group leader Jennifer. Picking up from the previous session, we started with the Anguissola family, and the work of Sofanisba and the work of Lucia, the two daughters who had become professional artists. They had…
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What to do about Leaves on the Lawn
Our Gardening Group met on Wednesday 27 November 2024 for a meeting concentrating on the tasks that need to be done during November. There were Videos and Articles. There was lots of advice on what to do with the leaves on the lawn. After a long discussion and a video we concluded that the leaves…
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Variety Mixed into Creative Writing!
On Wednesday 06 November 2024, our Creative Writing Group met with a new purpose. Our Annual Showcase is set for Wednesday 27 November, at our u3a’s regular Monthly Meeting, and there was much discussion about the running order and the content of what would be presented. As well as planning for the event, there was…
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Female Artists – Tudors and Stuarts
Our course on Female Artists before 1800 with Jennifer continued on Friday 01 November 2024. After a quick recap of the previous session, Jennifer launched into the movement of artists from Europe into the United Kingdom, sometimes at the request of the monarch and sometimes speculatively in the hopes of finding a profitable position at…
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The Rivals to the Beatles Revisited
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 25 September 2024 featured a trip down memory lane guided by the knowledgeable and entertaining Martin Orkin, a published author on the subject of the bands in the 1950s, 1960s, and later. Martin started with the origins of the music that turned the page on the ballads and melodies of…
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A Knightly Comeback for English Lit.
Tuesday 10 September 2024 saw the return of our English Literature Group under their leader David Harris, who will be working on the medieval poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”. The poem, written in the late 14th Century in Middle English, is not accessible for many so a ‘translation’ from Middle English to modern…
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Creative Writers Produce New Stories
Our Creative Writing Group has been hard at work once again, telling some interesting stories on the choice of themes provided by their Group Leader. This time the choice was Planning for a Journey, an Escape, or any other story that takes the author’s fancy! Amongst the stories provided to the group were The History…
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Analysing the Housing Crisis Problem
At our Monthly Meeting on 23 August 2023, our speaker was Barrister, Broadcaster and Author Hashi Mohamed, talking on the causes of the current housing crisis, and where solutions may be found. Hashi Mohamed had previously spoken to us on the subject of “People Like Us”, his first published book. It was therefore no surprise…