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| Welcome
to new members: Eliza Bates and James Escombe |
| Welcome
to new members: Eliza Bates and James Escombe |
| NEW
PLAYHOUSE GROUP. |
Brenda Wade has kindly agreed to coordinate and
host a group to discuss Salisbury Playhouse productions previously attended by members at their convenience. Please ring her if you would like to join the group. |
| PROPOSED
FILM GROUP |
We
could start a similar group to discuss films previously viewed by
members. If
you are interested, ring me. A volunteer will also be needed to
coordinate the group. |
| LOCAL
HISTORY THROUGH THE MUSEUM GROUP |
The
next meeting will be on Monday 27 October, beginning in the
Salisbury
Museum Coffee Shop at 2.30 p.m. |
| FLOWER
ARRANGING / XMAS DECS. |
On Wednesday
10 December at 2p.m. Jan Truckle will give a half-day course at 40
Bellview Road, Salisbury. Please phone her if you would like to
attend. |
| Vacancies
in Salisbury U3A groups will be displayed at our monthly
Coffee Mornings. Ring Group Leaders directly. |
Jean
Lunnon. |
| U3A
CHOIRS |
Members
of all three U3As came together at 2p.m. on a Monday afternoon
in Wilton
Community Centre to enjoy singing a variety of music. New members of
the
choir, particularly men, will be very welcome. For further details
please
phone me. Peter Tee |
| SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY FORUM |
Monday
27th October
Visit
Porton Down New Museum. Meet there at 10a.m. |
| ACTIVITIES |
OUTINGS
|
| Do not forget to enter lots of photographs in
our Sarum Photo competition. Please put your name and address on each
and deliver to Jim Hopkinson by 1st
November. Prize Giving and Exhibition will be at the November Coffee
Morning. |
Outing to Miss Saigon is full, and Peter Tee's
London trip is cancelled. Wednesday 10 December LONDON exhibition "Saved" at the Hayward Gallery still has 10 spaces. Cost:£14.50 or coach only £8.50. Pick up Tescos 8.15a.m. and Coach Station at 8.30a.m. Please note: the coach is NOT stopping at Harrods. Depart London at 4.30p.m. Wednesday 14 January 04 Hampshire Living Museum Milestone at Basingstoke. This is a 'look back in time' museum with the complete AA vehicle collection and early shops. There is a restaurant. Pick up Tesco 10.a.m. and Coach St. 10.15a.m. Depart Basingstoke 3.30p.m. |
U3A STUDY DAY AT SOUTHAMPTON ART GALLERY
Sixty members from the numerous U3As in the South Central Region came with an open mind, prepared to meet the challenge of Modern Art at a Study Day at Southampton Art Gallery.
The morning began with an account by Ester Mion-Jones, Exhibition Marketing Manager, of the acquisition of the gallery's collection. She paid tribute to the benefactors who, in the past, had bequeathed their private collections, and to successive Curators who have maintained the policy of buying paintings of recognisable merit, often by unknown artists. The resulting collection is now of great value and a significant teaching aid as it reflects virtually the whole history of western art.
Adrian Hunt, her Assistant, invited us to share his enjoyment of Modern Art by describing a travelling exhibition of 'Beck's Futures' which he helped set up in the gallery. It includes Videos which demonstrate that art may be a sequence of events, for example of a man attempting to climb a wall. Having watched many examples from wandering around Beck's Futures some of us found it too great a leap of faith!
We then toured the main galleries, appreciating with greater understanding the superb collection of paintings and sculpture.
Art on view changes every nine months as reserve items are displayed and paintings on loan from other galleries are returned. We will look forward to further visits now that we have attained a better understanding and some insight into the knotty problem of Modern Art.
Phyl Mullins
Wednesday 19 November Coffee Morning Alan Brown will talk on "Airfields in the New Forest in the War".
Tuesday 25 November 2.30 - 4.30p.m.FREE
The National Institute for Medical Research is giving three lectures for the U3A on the latest medical research: on the human genome, infectious disease, and refurbishing the damaged body. Full details available from the Phylls.
To get your free tickets please send your name and address to Lin Jonas at the National Office.
| ARTICLES
FOR SALE Some diaries which were ordered through the Secretary are still not claimed. |
