Kingston U3A Singer’s Christmas Concert on Saturday 14th December will again be held at the New Malden Methodist Church, High St. opposite corner to Tudor Williams, beginning at 7.30 pm. Tickets can be obtained from Pat Young Tel: 8337 8326, at U3A monthly meetings or from any member of the choir. Come along and enjoy a varied programme and join in with many old favourites and carols. Put the date in your diary now.
The Dresden Music Festival
6 days from £949 Departing 4th June 2014
CONCERTS
4 June – Category 1 tickets at the Semperoper:
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi, soloist Hilary Hahn (violin):
• Brahms – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D-Major Op. 77
• Bruckner – Symphony No. 3 in D-Minor WAB 103
6 June – Category 2 tickets at the Palais im Großen Garten:
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center:
• Schubert – Fantasy in F-Minor for Piano Four Hands D. 940
• Schubert – Quintet for two Violins, Viola, and two Celli D. 956
• Mendelssohn – Sextet for Piano, Violin, two Violas, Cello and Double Bass Op. 110
8 June – Category 1 tickets at the Semperoper: Dresden Festival Orchestra & Balthasar
Neumann Chorus: • Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
NB: All concerts start at 8.00pm
FEATURES
• All concerts included
• Full programme of included excursions & guided tours
• Central Dresden hotel
• Direct scheduled flights from London Gatwick to Berlin & transfers to Dresden
• Professional local guide for all excursions (but not to or from our evening concerts)
• Executive coach in Germany (including to & from our evening concerts)
WHAT WE WILL SEE
• Dresden – guided city tour • Leipzig – guided city tour • Meißen Porcelain Museum – guided tour
OPTIONAL
• Pillnitz Castle & Gardens & River Elbe Paddle Steamer cruise through the Saxon Alps
ACCOMMODATION
We stay five nights on bed and breakfast at the Ibis Hotels Dresden (www.hotelterrassenufer.de) or similar in central Dresden. Located near the Prager Strasse, Dresden’s main shopping street, facilities at the hotel include a restaurant and bar. All rooms are en suite and feature air conditioning, a television and telephone.
EXTRAS TO YOUR TOUR
• Insurance £36
• Single room supplement £99
• Entrance fees to places visited as part of this itinerary
• Optional excursion on Day 3 • Gratuities, meals & refreshments
Flight details may be subject to change. Price based on twin share. Minimum numbers required. Normal booking conditions apply.
For more information on this tour contact your Group Organiser
Don Moore
Tel: 020 8946 3264
Email: don.moore@blueyonder.co.uk
31 Lanherne House, 9 The Downs Wimbledon SW20 8JG
Any air holidays and flights in this brochure are ATOL protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Tailored Travel’s ATOL number is 5605
Frauenkirche
There are many ‘starts’ to a new year – 1 January comes to mind as a natural New Year, 1 April is the NEC start to a new financial year, but it is September that, for me, feels like the start of a new U3A year. And with the start of a new year the anticipation and excitement of new adventures, new possibilities.
The kick-off to this September ‘new year’ was our National Conference and AGM from 13-16 September in Nottingham. We look to this event to be a platform, a showcase for what your NEC will be working on during the coming year. For the first time, our Standing Committee for Education (SCE), Development Sub-Committee (DSC) and Communications Committee had displays to explain their aims, activities and the resources available to support U3As. Online Learning, Research, the Resource Centre and the National Office all presented valuable up-to-date information for delegates to take away. Also capturing attention were our new website, U3A authors’ table, ‘Talking Justice’ and intergenerational debate projects. Around every corner something beckoned!
Meanwhile there were workshops which tackled such perennial challenges as:
- Encouraging a Culture of Participation
- Talking to the Outside World
- Communications – where is your weakest link?
- Crisis, What Crisis? (growth)
- Study Groups’ Co-ordinators, the hub of your U3A?
- 10 Things your Members Should Know,
- Diversity/Social Inclusion
- Shared Learning Projects
- U3A-ery and Education
- Not in my Subject
- Making Your U3A Welcoming and Friendly
- Inter-generational activity.
And in the spirit of our Conference theme of ‘Learn, Laugh and Live’ we added
- Get More Fun out of your Ukulele
- Break into Song
- Practical Drama.
While not everyone can come to Conference, we want to make sure that everyone is included and no one misses out! So, all the handouts and mini-surveys can be found on our website: www.u3a.org.uk. Go to the Conference 2013 icon on the home page. And while the handouts will give us all much to consider this year, we also recorded The Right Honourable John Bercow MP’s keynote speech ‘The Modern House of Commons’- his erudition still has me running to the dictionary! Be sure to catch it on our website.
And, and, and – we are also producing a DVD for you to get the overall flavour, camaraderie, and fun that Conference gives to U3Aers from all parts of the UK . We ‘Learned, Laughed and Lived’ – not a bad way to start this new U3A year. If we did not see you this year at Conference, I hope you will put 9/10 September 2014 in your diary NOW. We will build on this year’s success and I look forward to seeing you at Cirencester next year.
Barbara Lewis, NEC Chairman
October 2013
U3A SLP at the British Postal Museu
British Postal Museum & Archive, Fenton House and Bethlem Hospital
The BPMA is opening a new museum in 2016. In this exciting venue we want to tell the fascinating stories of the hidden heroes and heroines who worked for the postal service.
The aim of this project is to conduct research to find out real people’s stories. Your research will help the BPMA and visitors to understand the remarkable contribution made by individual workers to the Post Office. The research will also be used by costumed actors to bring these people to life in the new museum.
Project:
Fenton House is a 17th-century merchant’s house in Hampstead in North London which belongs to the National Trust, bequeathed to them in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last resident. Since then other collectors have made significant donations to the house. The project will research the history of 4 connoisseurs (George Salting and his niece Lady Binning, as well as Major George Henry George Benton Fletcher and Peter Barkworth) who in the late 19th & 20th century donated their collections of ceramics, musical instruments and pictures to the house. In particular Fenton House would like to know more about what led these connoisseurs to start collecting and how they made decisions when refining their collections. In some cases we know the collections were split and bequeathed to different organisations, so we would like to know more about why National Trust and Fenton House were chosen, what expectation the donor had of the National Trust and what happened to their other items.
Bethlem Flyer – Table formatfinal
| Bethlem Royal Hospital, the original Bedlam, has its own archives and museum telling the stories of the staff and patients who have been associated with the hospital over its 750 year history. We hold the archive of the hospital, with documents going back to the 12th century. It includes patient and staff records, photographs and administrative records. We also have an extensive art collection of nearly 1000 pieces. Much of our collections can be viewed online at www.bethlemheritage.org.uk Bethlem Archives and Museum is situated within the grounds of Bethlem Royal Hospital and is moving to a brand new display area on site next year. |
| We have an extensive collection of items and have already chosen a long list of artefacts for likely inclusion in the new museum. We need your help to make further progress. U3A members will be able to select various items for research in order to produce captions and guides. The information we display in the museum should come from verifiable sources. Detective skills will be useful. |
To find out more and apply to take part click on the links above
Computer classes across Kingston Libraries for the older and in some cases more nervous user! Not free but not to expensive.
computer sessions across the branches Oct 13
swishing 4 HOOK Library – Nov 7th
Bring along an item of clothing and swap it for another one to gain a new item for your wardrobe! Come on your own or bring a group of friends!
UPCYCLING2 HOOK Library Nov 21st £13.00
Fancy breathing life into an old garment? Perhaps you’ve purchased something that doesn’t quite have the ‘wow’ factor? Fear not! Help is at hand at Hook Library’s clothes upcycling workshop in partnership with ThinkMakeDo. These talented ladies will help you revamp that garment and turn it from drab to fab!