U3A Grahamstown
Learning for fun
May General Meeting
On Thursday 31 May 2012 Dr Ashley Westaway of GADRA Education will address us. Meet in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep at 10.00 am.
April General Meeting
On Thursday 26 April Tim Huisamen will give a lecture on the writer Louis Leipoldt entitled “C Louis Leipoldt and his Diaries (1909-1944): the Man of War”. Meet in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep at 10.00 am.
March General Meeting
On Thursday 29 March 2012 Jeanette Eve will talk on ‘The Floral and Horticultural in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels’. Meet in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep at 10.00 am.
February General Meeting
On Thursday 23 February 2012 our guest speaker is Mr Harry Owen who came to South Africa from England and has lived in Grahamstown for about 5 years. Harry is a poet and has three published collections in print. He was instrumental in starting the monthly Reddits Poetry evenings at 6 pm on the last Friday of each month at the Cafe DiVine in New Street where anyone who wants to can read or recite their own or other people’s poems. Meet at 10.00 am in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep.
‘The Upstart Experience’ – Mrs Shireen Badat
On Thursday 16 February 2012 Mrs Shireen Badat, wife of the Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University will talk to us about “The Upstart experience: the realities of young people in Grahamstown East”. Shireen will share some of her experiences working with young people in the area. Meet at 10.00 am in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep.
Annual General Meeting – 9 February 2012
On 9 February 2012 at 10.00am in the Mullins Room, St Andrew’s Prep. Malcolm Hacksley will give a brief talk on limericks illustrated with some interesting examples. This will be followed by the Annual General Meeting. Subscriptions of R30 are due at this meeting.
The Arts Festival
On Thursday 2 February 2012 Ismail Mohammed, the Director of the National Arts Festival, will give a talk entitled ‘The Seven Big P’s: Behind the Scenes at the Arts Festival’. Meet at 10.00 am in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep.
January 2012 General Meeting
We have lots of interesting speakers lined up for 2012 and our first will be Wouter Holleman who will give us a talk entitled “A brief trip to East New Britain to find some really small fishes”. East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea. The date is the 26 January, the venue is, as usual, the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep and the time is 10.00 am.
May General Meeting
On 26 May 2011 at 10.00 am Marguerite Poland will talk to us about Nguni Cattle. The meeting will be held in the Mullins Room at St Andrew’s Prep.
May Outing
On 11 May Nic Stavrakis will take us on a 2 hour geological tour along the Port Elizabeth/East London road.
