All the Kingston Monthly Meetings since August have been held on Zoom with members being emailed a link so they can join in. This has met with great support nearly reaching the 100 maximum on our Zoom licence in most months. We weren’t completely sure if a few extra might creep in should we hit the magic one hundred well in January we found out it was 100 and no more so several members couldn’t join us. Consequently at the next Committee meeting after some research we have upped the licence to the next level and unless over 500 of you join us which of course would be magnificent we should be fine! So see you on 1st Feb to hear Imogen Cunningham speak on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Drawing and Painting Group 2 meet in the United Reform Church Kingston on a Tuesday afternoon. We are a happy group of sixteen, mixed ability, mixed gender, but who all have a real love of putting, pen, pencil, brush, or whatever to paper. We are lucky enough to have an excellent tutor in Charles Penny, who since joining us some 18 months ago, has breathed new life into our perceptions and given us the enthusiasm to try new things. We were lucky enough to be able to show our work recently at the CornerHOUSE Theatre in Tolworth and during the course of the exhibition a total of 12 paintings were sold, which was very gratifying.
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| January 2021 | ||
| Mon Jan 25th | Jonathan Lipitch: How to Control Stress in a Stressful World On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 | |
| February 2021 | ||
| Mon Feb 8th | Other | Camila Nichol: A two hundred-year Antarctic adventure: a short History of Humans in Antarctica On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 |
| Mon Feb 15th | Other | Alan Freeland: Chinese Art – Insight to the Soul of a Nation, Part 1 Part 1 Monday 15th February and Part 2 Monday 22nd February. On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 |
| Mon Feb 22nd | Other | Alan Freeland: Chinese Art – Insight to the Soul of a Nation, Part 2 Part 1 Monday 15th February and Part 2 Monday 22nd February. On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 |
| March 2021 | ||
| Mon Mar 8th | Other | Geoff Pick: Realms of Gold – John Keats, his Story, and his Poetry On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 |
| Mon Mar 22nd | Other | Tony Dayan: I Can’t Believe We Still get Medicines from Plants On Zoom. 17.00 – 18.00, Log on from 16.30. Click here for details and registration: Winter Talks 2021 |
| June 2021 | ||
| Wed Jun 2nd | Other | National U3A Day: further information on national website: U3A Day |
| July 2021 | ||
| Tue Jul 27th →Thu Jul 29th |
Summer School | LRU3A Summer School: provisional dates. More information to follow in due course. |
Online talks by the U3A Subject specialists and some bodies such as The National Gallery and the National Trust where their have been previous links.
These and many other talks can be booked whether free or paid on The Third Age Trust website https://www.u3a.org.uk/events/educational-events
Jan 22nd The Unification of the British Isles: a lesson in Geology
A Taste of Japan takes place monthly over January, February and March. There are 3 separate event dates you can book or you can book all three.
Feb 25th or March 11th Join Susan Collini, Subject Adviser for Wellbeing with Nature, for this interactive talk and discussion on spending time in nature.
Jan 25th A six week course that will teach you how to solve cryptic crosswords.
Watercolour tutorials
Tony Burke, Huddersfield U3A, has run a watercolour class for many years but in March it was cut short. He undertook to complete the course, for those that were interested, via YouTube and has just posted lesson number 26. Tony is really happy to share these with U3A members across the movement.
They are really great tutorials to follow, watch them here.