Events
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| Covid19 Response |
Please scroll down the page to see events which have been entered on our calendar.
A few groups are taking tentative steps to restart face-to-face meetings and it is worth looking at the individual Group page to see the latest position. Members of other groups are keeping in touch via the use of Zoom, WhatsApp, telephone, email etc. While government restrictions apply you can find additional details of group activity by clicking on current activities.
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| When normal conditions return... |
Monthly Meetings are held in Southgate Methodist Church, 45 The Bourne, Southgate N14 6RS. The meetings start at 2.30 pm, doors open at 1.45 pm. Refreshments are available before the meeting.
Members will need to show their membership cards at the monthly meetings.
Visitors are welcome to attend two monthly meetings free of charge. Attendance thereafter will require a membership fee to be paid. Visitors are also welcome to attend a ‘taster’ session at any of our available interest groups, subject to there being a vacancy, and no fee will be charged. However, those who wish to attend further sessions will need to become members of Palmers Green & Southgate U3A before joining the group and, in addition, pay any fees required by the group.
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| October 2020 | ||||
| Wed Oct 28th | Meeting | Members' Monthly Meeting
You can join the meeting by clicking on the link given in the bulletin emailed to all members on 5th October 20202pm Log on to Zoom before 2.30 - Latecomers will not be admitted. Neither New nor a River!A presentation by Richard Thomas - 28th October 2020 Richard Thomas will follow the building, over 400 years ago, of the 40-mile long New River, from Chadwell Spring in Hertfordshire to the Round Pond in Islington. It was created to supply Jacobean London with fresh drinking water, when many of the population were having to consume untreated River Thames water. Richard continually researches his subjects to keep his talks up-to-date. | ||
| November 2020 | ||||
| Mon Nov 16th | Poetry | John Dryden A selection of Dryden’s verse, including extracts from “MacFlecknoe” and “Absalom and Achitophel” Contact: Stephen Wells 020 8882 8561 | ||
| Thu Nov 19th | Science, Nature,Technology | A Zoom meeting starting at 14.00. A Presentation: Lessons from the Eruption of Mount Tembora. | ||
| December 2020 | ||||
| Thu Dec 17th | Science, Nature,Technology | At the moment the topic for this meeting is undecided. | ||
| Mon Dec 21st | Poetry | Poems set to Music “A Shropshire Lad”, Schubert Lieder, Benjamin Britten’s “Cabaret Songs”, set to poems by W.H.Auden. More ideas welcome. Contact: Stephen Wells 020 8882 8561 | ||
| January 2021 | ||||
| Thu Jan 21st | Science, Nature,Technology | A Zoom Presentation, starting at 14.00 How were medicines (morphine, aspirin and penicillin) discovered’. Given by Michael Hollingsworth (U3A Subject Advisor for Science and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Manchester). | ||
| February 2021 | ||||
| Thu Feb 18th | Science, Nature,Technology | A Zoom Presentation, starting at 14.00. Living longer: measurement, trends and implications for the future - given by Steve Haberman (Professor of Actuarial Science, Cass Business School). | ||
| July 2021 | ||||
| Fri Jul 2nd →Tue Jul 6th | Travel | Wiltshire, Wells Cathedral and Bishops Palace £499.00 S.S. £98 PLEASE DO NOT SEND BALANCE There is 1 twin or 1 double or 2 single rooms available. Contact Shirley for details or for further information please e mail secretary@pg&su3a.org.uk Organiser Shirley | ||
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