Pocklington & District
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Proposed New Groups Our U3A branch now has over 300 members with more than 30 established special interest groups with a further groups currently in the process of forming. An indication that we are steadily creating an interesting and varied programme. To maintain this energy we would like to hear of suggestions and ideas for new groups. Could you co-ordinate a new group? You don’t necessarily have to have expert knowledge but just to organise members with similar interests to get together. It might be for just a few meetings to explore the subject or visiting places of interest. Without participation from you we cease to exist – as the whole ethos of U3A is self help. We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in our midst – why not share it with others? Please forward any ideas to a member of the Committee. For more information contact: Professor Peter Dale. Family History Group: Many people have shown an interest in learning more about their family ancestry. As a result we are hoping to start a group in the U3A. This will be a discussion group with guest speakers and possible trips to various archives in this country. If you are interested then please contact Group Leaders: Pauline Atkinson or Beverley Austin. Garden History: This is a subject that has interested me for some time and I wonder if it does anyone else? I would be happy to set a programme to work through from the earliest gardens to the present day. There is a lot of information easily available and it would be a fascinating route to take. Ideally I would like to think that anyone wishing to join would be willing to take gardens of a chosen century looking at how they developed and, after some research, bring their findings back to the group. It could be done at a leisurely pace meeting once a month over the next year with illustrations, for instance, by video, power-point and general discussion. It would be fun to try and visit some examples next year. Anyone interested contact Freda Snelson on email: freda@snelson1.plus.com Instrumental Players Group: In the last Newsletter we enquired if any member had an instrument languishing in the loft. The idea was to get a group together to play for fun. We did get two or three of you who were interested and mention this again to see if there are any other members who would be interested please contact: Brian Snelson For more information about any of the above possible new groups please call the Group Co-ordinator. New Literature Group: Peter Thomas has agreed to lead this new group. Peter suggests a group which embraces both English literature and play-reading. This would give members the opportunity to look at performance literature of various sorts as well as to study a variety of other works and texts. He suggests a focus on the twentieth century. It is amazing to consider that at the start of the century Hardy, Henry James and Kipling were still hard at work, Hilaire Belloc was a young poet of 30 and T S Eliot was a 12 year old boy. This is the century that introduced the war poets. , the novels of Hemingway, Iris Murdoch and Steinbeck, "The Wasteland", "Look back in Anger", the urbanity of Coward and the drama of the absurd, "Brideshead" and Betjeman, P D James, V S Naipaul and so much more. It is envisaged that the group will read, revisit and discover a wide variety of writing, not just from British sources, but from many other countries where English is alive and well with everyone contributing in some way, especially in terms of ideas and suggestions. The Literature Group meets monthly on the 1st Monday 10 am - 12 noon. Contact Co-ordinator Peter Thomas for further details and venue. Page updated 27 March 2009 ©2009 Pocklington & District U3A
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