Please
note that unless otherwise stated, GENERAL MEETINGS will be held in
the HARROW ARTS CENTRE and
will start promptly at 10.30am.
There will be announcements and discussions after the speaker has finished.
Please contact Gerald Rickayzen if you have a question, either by email
to grickayzen@aol.com
or by telephone on 020 8866 5589 a week before each meeting.
S P E A K
E R S' M E E T I N G S 2 0 1 0
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Thursday 26 August 2010 10.30am |
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The Travellers’ Studio please note the venue
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Hugh
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Bletchley and the Enigma
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Hugh
Davies spent most of his career in IT with major multi-nationals in a variety
of roles. He has his own software company but is now retired and acts a guide
at Bletchley Park. He gives many talks all around the
country on WW2 Intelligence with an emphasis on the human factor. The Germans
considered their ciphers unbreakable; it would take 900 million years to break
them. So how was it done and what were the affects? It is easier to beat the
system than break the machine. Technology has changed, people have not.
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The illustrated Summer
newsletter is now available to be downloaded under the ‘NEWSLETTER’
tab on this website. This page contains also the Study
& Activity Group Diary. It has
been decided that Tours & Visits booking forms will no longer
be available for download since these pages are
available to non members. It is hoped to have a new website with a members area where these can
be available in the future.
Members should please consult group leaders if they have any
questions concerning venues, dates or times of their group meetings.
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Pictures and
Videos
I would like to put photographs or videos of U3A members activities on
the website. however they
should not just show people standing or sitting in groups but should
show members doing something active! Email me on this link mikeallen1948@yahoo.co.uk
with your photos or videos.
New Page on the Website
See the new Photos and Videos page. Click on
the button on the left under Management Committee.
Photos of the Ireland visit 1999, a painting of Chateau de Luynes 2003, slideshow of the Lake District visit 2008 and the Cinque ports visit 2009 now added to the Photos and Videos page.
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Interesting Events
For
details click on the link in blue.
Our Advanced German Conversation Group is
becoming sadly depleted owing to ill health. We have places for two or three
more German speakers. Our group is comprised of people who spoke German as
children and have spent the last 30-70 or so years in England. We do not study
grammar. Our meetings are slightly organized conversation followed, after a
coffee break, by reading and translating extracts from current German
newspapers. We meet in Kenton (Mount Stewart area) fortnightly on a Tuesday
morning from 10.15 to 12.00pm.
The Anglo-Italian Circle Of Barnet
are a small, friendly group based in Barnet and northwest London, established
for 28 years.
They meet in members’ homes on the last Sunday afternoon of
each month to enjoy varied programmes on aspects of Italian culture; and to
discuss short stories from bi-lingual books. Here is a link to a leaflet they sent us and this is a link to their website.
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National
Summer Schools 2010 - full
information and booking form from the National U3A website
(see events). Venue: The Royal Agricultural College Cirencester. Dates:
Monday 16th to Thursday 19th August and Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th
August.
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Important U3A Events 'Science, Technology and Society Network
– The Annual Seminar at Abergavenny' For more details of
these and other events, please go to the National U3A website on www.u3a.org.uk
MEMBERS AREA and click on Events.
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There are two Shared Learning Projects starting in September. They are with LAARC and the
British Postal Museum & Archive. Details of a third project with the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama will be available shortly.
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Bed
and Breakfast in Northern Italy
**€15 discount per room per night based on 2 sharing,
includes breakfast. (Offer
does not include August) Pleases see this link for more information.
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World Poverty
Benny Dembitzer, Director of Ethical Events writes
There is a global food famine looming round
the corner, which will bring anything up to 2 billion people seriously to the
bring of starvation. The catastrophe is likely to reach us in the next 18 to 24
months. There are various forces at play that will make this almost inevitable. Whilst more
food than ever before is being produced, it does not reach the poorest. He has written a book The Attack on
World Poverty author Benny Dembitzer
Click here for more details.
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SUSTAINABILITY GROUP
Harrow
U3A’s Sustainability Group meets on the first Monday of each month at HAC.
Sustainability means that humans should not use up renewable resources such as fish, soil, groundwater at a rate
faster than that at which they regenerate. Non-renewable
resources such as coal, oil, and minerals must be used no faster than renewable
substitutes can be put in place. Pollution
and waste
must be emitted no faster than natural systems can absorb them.
This is an précised version of the article by Bryan Tyers in the
current newsletter page 10. The latest minutes of the Sustainability
Group are now on the 'Download' page together with questions and answers about the environmental impact of Harrow council's plans
for Harrow Transport.
A talk on An Introduction to Materials, Energy and
Carbon Footprint
has been added July 18th 2010.
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Greater London Forum
The GLF do not have their own website so it has been agreed that their
minutes and reports will be put on this website on our 'Downloads'
page. There are their latest minutes, a report from their
Trustees and a Report about Reaching Out.
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Resources for Group Leaders
The
Group Leaders Handbook and a leaflet about the national U3A Resources
Centre has been put on the downloads page. A flyer "This is the U3A" from National U3A has been added which may be used for promotional purposes.
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ATTENTION ALL
LOVERS OF MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE! There are still places
available on this event:
Please note corrected date Visit to
Finchcocks Musical Museum on Tuesday August 24th, Private viewing of the
celebrated collection of historical keyboard instruments,housed in a beautiful Georgian Manor in
Kent.The visit includes an introductory talk, a guided
tour, a musical recital
and a demonstration of some of the instruments.Morning coffee and cream
tea included in the cost of £26. Contact Jack Kushner
- 020 8954 8671
Full details are in the Newsletter.
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International Conference
2010
The
next IAUTA Conference and General Assembly will be held in
COSTA RICA
in November 2010. It will take place at
the University of Costa Rica in San
José on November 15th/16th 2010 under the title “OLDER PEOPLE, EXPERIENCE and SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT” with contributions from international speakers of repute,
seminars and workshops led by IAUTA members and other experts.
Further
details regarding conference programme, bookings, travel, accommodation and
associated tourist packages will be made available shortly. For further information go to the national
website www.u3a.org.uk or http://www.aiuta.org
Special Savings on your Freedom Pass - here is a flyer with more details
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London Blitz
Please find below details of an interesting opportunity for people aged over 75 who have memories/experiences of the Blitz, in particular the 7 September 1940,
and who would be willing to share them with the historians compiling a
programme upon this first night of the Blitz (and also other
Blitz-related programmes to be made later).
The programme is looking especially for people from the South East/East
End/Docklands area as well as anyone who was involved in the services,
forces or various support services, protecting the city and helping
people affected by the bombing.
If you know anyone who would like to participate, please do give them the Testimony Films contact details:
Lizi Coslett
0117 925 8589
lizi.coslett@testimonyfilms.com
Blitz Appeal, Testimony Films, 12 Great George Street Bristol, BS1 5RH and assure them of the confidentiality of their information which will only be used for research purposes.
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Harrow
Arts Centre is looking for volunteers in various areas
1) To help
run proposed Coffee Shop in Travellers Bar. This will initially be open two days
a week Tuesdays and Saturdays 9.30am-4pm. If there is a demand it is hoped it
will eventually open five days a week.
2) To act
as Stewards for various events.
3) For some
help with Office Work.
Interviews
will commence quite soon. If you are interested in volunteering or would like
more information please contact Kerry Blackburn at kerry.blackburn@harrow.gov.uk
As the Arts
Centre is our main home Georgina Butcher hopes some of you will be happy to offer your services.
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Pianomania
More2Screen
is a film distribution company that is working with the U3A Trust to create
opera cinema screening events exclusively for U3A members.
A central
theme to the film is the year spent by Pierre-Laurent Aimard preparing for the
recording of Bach’s ‘Art of Fugue’ and how he works with Stefan Knüpfer to
identify the right piano and then achieve that elusive perfect tone. It gives a fascinating insight into the world
of the concert pianist.
We are
launching the film with a special event at the Curzon Mayfair cinema on 1
August where, after the film has screened, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will take part
in a Question & Answer session with the film’s director Robert Cibis and
the Editor of Pianist Magazine, Erica Worth.
The nationwide release will follow on 20 August.
Here is an e-flyer about the film and the launch event which we hope might be
of interest to your members. If you would like to discuss this further or need
any additional information contact 07876 124010.
Screening
5.45pm followed by Q&A 7.30pm.
Book now on
0871 7033 989 or online at www.curzoncinema.com/mayfair
Tickets are
£12.50.
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Join the Harrow U3A Yahoo E-mail communication list:
please
click on Harrow
U3A Yahoo E-mail group list flyer for
full information of how to subscribe to
our important E-mail communication list.
Please note - The notice board at the
Arts Centre
is once more accessible.
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