NOTICES
A Reminder
Our U3A Annual General Meeting starts at 10am Monday 11th March in Room 2.21.
From Amalia
To coordinators who would prefer a flipchart to a whiteboard. There is a new one upstairs in the small room at the back of room 2.21 – probably not the most useful place for it! Please let the Office know if you would like to make use of it and we will decide where it can kept to be of most convenience to your class
From Gail, Office Coordinator
“Many thanks to the members and coordinators who are looking after the Common Room. I will not mention any names but you know who you are as I thank you personally when I can. Cleaning, filling urn, asking for supplies, you are a dream team, but the prize goes to the person who cleaned the fridge! Seriously, we are very busy in the office and do not have time to look after the Common Room so your help is invaluable. Keep up the good work and if you want to do more, volunteer for the office.”
The timetables for the week
The full timetable, the Town Hall room timetable and the Zoom timetable are available in the Office and on our website.
From the U3A London Office
Another Mystery Payment. We have had a payment of £5 direct to our bank from ANNALOU OAKLAND RIDLEY A. If anyone knows about this, would they please inform the Office. The last mystery was solved so we hope this one will be too.
INFORMATION ABOUT CLASSES
Classes cancelled for week beginning 11th March:
Pilates at Monday 11 March at 12.00 (This class is also cancelled for Monday 18th March).
Shakespeare Study Group on Tuesday 12th March at 10.30
Yoga on Friday 15th of March at 12.10
From Ken Baldry: European History
Wed March 13th 11.40 – 12.40 (Room 2.21)
Next week’s is Talk 132. From 1740: France & Prussia. The War of the Austrian Succession, with 89 slides. The following week is Talk 133.The Enlightenment – from the 17th into the 19th Century, with 74 slides
The full programme to the Summer break next year is on:-
http://www.art-science.com/history-talks.html
From Rachel Tyndall – Walking by Water
Wednesday 13th March. “A 6 mile walk from Kew to Richmond. We will meet at Kew Bridge Railway Station. The 12.22 from Waterloo (which also stops at Vauxhall and Clapham Junction and other places too) arrives at 12.50. Alternatively you could get the Overground or Underground to Gunnersbury Station and walk to Kew Bridge Station which will take about 15 minutes. Don’t go to Kew Gardens Station. We will return from Richmond Underground, Overground and Railway Station.
Please let me know (email or text) by the evening of Tuesday 12th March if you intend to join me. Walks will be cancelled if the weather is bad: persistent rain, snow or ice.
From Wally Howard: The Film Class
on Wednesday 13th March at 2.00pm in Room 1.22. Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington star in a Jonathan Demme film PHILADELPHIA. The film is notable for being one of the first mainstream Hollywood movies not only to explicitly discuss HIV/Aids but also to portray gay people in a positive light. Winner of Academy Award for Best Actor – Tom Hanks.
From Yvonne Dove
Secular and Mythological Art: Room 2.26 at 11.40 on Thursday 14thMarch. “This week we are examining the life and works of 2 female painters of the Dutch Golden age, Clara Peeters and Judith Leyster. These works include Peeters’ Vanitas Self-portrait and Still Life with Fish and Cat and Leyster’s The Proposition and Jolly Companions.”
From Maxine Jason: Masterpieces from Art Practical A
Two collages on the theme of how we imagine space to be.
From the Third Age Trust:
TAT is launching a new summer programme of guided walks, visits and tours between 21/5-23/7. Booking begins Fri 22 March when the programme will be on Events page of the London Region website.
Also from the Third Age Trust: Free Zoom Talks
Exploring Women’s Faiths Monday 11/3, 10am.
Influencing & Social Change 13/3, 10am
A1 and climate change Tues 19/3, 10am.
Mindfulness Thursday 21/3, 10am.
Laughter Yoga Tues 26/3, 3.30pm
Secrets of the Human Brain Wed 27/3, 2pm
Cryptic Crosswords, Thu 28/3, 10am
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Thu 28/3, 2pm
From Valerie Wilson Trower
The Design History and Critical Studies groups at the Somerset House Cute exhibition.
To make you smile
I have just bought a pair of shoes with memory foam insoles. That should be the end of going upstairs and forgetting what I went up for.
Advice to research scientists: If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor? “Make me one with everything.”
Good wishes from
