Events
Monthly meetings are held on the last Monday of the month at 2-3pm, at the Trinity Centre, Trinity Churchyard Guildford GU1 3RR. Please note change of venue from 2018-19 meetings. Help with putting out and returning chairs before and after the meetings would be greatly appreciated. Please note that there is an option to change the order of this listing from "Date Order" to "By Category". Some U3A events not organised by Guildford U3A are listed on the Other U3A sites and Events page
Picture credits:
*BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London
¹Huguenots of Spitalfields
²Dan Pianesi
| Dates for your Diary | ||
|---|---|---|
| November 2019 | ||
| Wed Nov 20th | Outing | Coach trip to Waddesdon Manor This trip is now full. An additional trip is being arranged for the following day, Thursday 21st November. |
| Thu Nov 21st | Outing | Coach trip to Waddesdon Manor See Waddesdon Manor publicity 21 Nov and Waddesdon Manor booking form 21 Nov for details |
| Mon Nov 25th | Meeting | AGM followed by Monthly Meeting: Some great fibs of the Crimean War. by Mike Hinton,Historian of Crimean War: PhD. entitled ‘Victory over Disease: Resolving the Medical Crisis in the Crimean War, 1854–1856’. A mini-crusade against the peddling of misinformation during and after the Crimean War. Venue Trinity Centre 2pm. |
| Thu Nov 28th | Outing | Concert trip to Barbican 7.30pm Balcony. LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda, Janine Jansen (violin)) Rimsky-Korsakov, Bruch, Tchaikovsky Concerts Autumn 2019 Booking Form |
| December 2019 | ||
| Mon Dec 2nd | Outing | Visit to the Houses of Parliament The trip is postponed. |
| Mon Dec 9th | Outing | Visit to the Houses of Parliament The trip is postponed. |
| Wed Dec 11th | Other | U3A Christmas Concert 2pm St Nicholas Church |
| January 2020 | ||
| Thu Jan 9th | Outing | Coach trip to the Mill at Sonning for Matinee performance of “Singin′ in the Rain” Please see Singing in the Rain application form for details. Note that Jackie has only been able to reserve the tickets for a short while, so the deadline for applications is 21st November. |
| Fri Jan 10th | Meeting | Group Leaders' Meeting Burpham Village Hall 10 am. |
| Mon Jan 13th | Outing | Visit to the Houses of Parliament. Please see Houses of Parliament form for further details and application form. |
| Thu Jan 16th | Outing | Coach trip to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir, popularly known as the Neasden Temple. See Hindu Temple publicity and Hindu Temple Application Form for details. |
| Mon Jan 27th | Meeting | Monthly Meeting: News from Berlin talk by Irene Black, local writer and speaker and our Guildford U3A newsletter editor. If only I had news from you. Venue Trinity Centre 2pm. |
| February 2020 | ||
| Mon Feb 3rd | Outing | Visit to the Houses of Parliament. Please see Houses of Parliament form for further details and application form. |
| Mon Feb 24th | Meeting | Monthly Meeting: From Arrow to Ebola talk by Pete Starling MA, DHMSA, FRHistS Former curator of the Army Medical Museum, Mychett. The Army Medical Services from the Civil War to the present. Venue Trinity Centre 2pm. |
| Tue Feb 25th | Outing | Coach trip to Methodist Central Halls and Westminster Abbey. See Westminster Abbey publicity and Westminster Abbey application form for details |
| March 2020 | ||
| Mon Mar 2nd | Outing | Rescheduled visit to the Houses of Parliament. Please see Houses of Parliament March trips form for further details and application form. |
| Mon Mar 9th | Outing | Rescheduled visit to the Houses of Parliament. Please see Houses of Parliament March trips form for further details and application form. |
| Sun Mar 15th | Outing | Concert trip to the Royal Festival Hall. PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA,Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andreas Haefliger (piano), Philharmonia Voices and Rodolfus Choir and soloists. Beethoven See Spring 2020 Concerts for further details and booking form. |
| Tue Mar 17th | Outing | Coach trip and river trip. Guided tours showing the history of London's sewer system. See The Great Stink publicity and The Great Stink application form for further details. |
| Mon Mar 23rd | Meeting | Monthly Meeting: Suffragettes in Surrey:1919 talk by Kathy Atherton A historian who specialises in the women's movement. To tie in with when women were first admitted as solicitors. Venue Trinity Centre 2pm. |
| Mon Mar 30th | Outing | Rescheduled visit to the Houses of Parliament. Please see Houses of Parliament March trips form for further details and application form. |
| April 2020 | ||
| Mon Apr 6th | Meeting | U3A Annual Lecture "Living is a risky business". Speaker: Professor Jennifer Rogers University of Surrey 2pm. |
| Tue Apr 7th | Other | U3A Easter choral presentation St Nicholas Church 2pm. |
| Sun Apr 19th | Outing | Concert trip to the Royal Festival Hall. PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA. Conductor: Paavo Jarvi, Zhang Zuo (piano) Liszt, Mahler See Spring 2020 Concerts for further details and booking form. |
| Mon Apr 27th | Meeting | Monthly Meeting: The Yehudi Menuhin School talk by a representative from the school Explaining the ethos of the school and bringing some students to play. Venue Trinity Centre 2pm. |
| Thu Apr 30th | Outing | Coach trip to Huguenot Footsteps Guided Walk and Spitalfields Market. Please see Huguenot Walk publicity and Huguenot Walk application form for details. |