Here is a video of Spire u3a's Onward discussion of 5th November 2021
Saturday, 6 November 2021
Friday, 22 October 2021
Friday, 8 October 2021
Saturday, 2 October 2021
Spire u3a Annual General Meeting 2021
Spire u3a Annual General Meeting 11th October 2021 10am
Our Monthly meetings in Harnham Memorial Hall have not yet resumed.
Following guidance from U3A head office, our meeting will take place on Zoom.
Members have received relevant information in advance by email/newsletter. Those who do not have internet access have been sent paper copies.
Agenda
Welcome
Apologies
Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting (August 2020)
Matters Arising
Adoption of a new constitution proposed by the chairman
Chairman’s Report
Thanks to officers who are leaving
Secretary’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Proposal to raise the membership fee to £15 per annum from April 2022
Confirmation of Accounts Examiner
Membership Secretary’s Report
Webmaster’s Report
Communication Officer’s Report
Election of the Committee 2021-22
Any other business
Reports from Group Leaders
Reports from our group leaders
Playing Simple Music: Malcolm Simmons
I hope this 'report' from the PSM group isn't too late for the AGM. With much regret I've now decided that I can't be group leader for that group as health matters have forced me to admit that I can't put in the energies needed. If someone else would take-up the baton, I would be very happy to give support as a player or scribe and give access to any material that we've accumulated since 2003. For me, I've had a lot of fun and made many friends as well as to gain motivation to dust off minor music skills dating from my school days.
Poetry Reading: Beryl Paton
During the last year the Poetry Reading group had several successful Zoom meetings and latterly several actual meetings - which were much appreciated by us all and hosted by Jo and Malcolm Simmons in their garden and on their verandah. Recent topics covered included "Gardens" and poems by John Clare and John Betjeman. We will be reading poems about Autumn and Harvest at our October meeting.
Canasta: Christine Hill
The Spire Canasta Group continues to go well. We meet every two weeks to do battle with melds and Canastas, with red threes and jokers. We have two sets of rules operating that gives a bit of a variety in playing.
Drawing Tuition Christopher Browne
This
group has under reported to Spire, please forgive: we are in many
ways rather a wild-card group, but do continue to function monthly
and have attenders both from Spire and from other Salisbury u3as. We
meet at the home of a group-member who has a large screen, which is
used to summon up images of various works of art (mainly but not only
paintings) which come into the discussion of the day. The other main
resource for our work is my own personal and accurate visual memory
of art-works, through having been an art-history teacher for many
years, including at Salisbury College of Art when it was in New
Street many years ago.
A
loose description of a session: the business starts with Homework,
set at the end of the previous session. Each person in turn shows
what they brought (often more than one piece, sometimes many). But
there is no judgment of the quality or talent of the drawings, and no
competition for praise. It is all a matter of what ideas the (very
different) homework contributions bring to the discussion of
the homework theme the were done in response to.
So,
yesterday's meeting (September 27th) the homework was to draw in
whatever medium or style a visual theme to be suitable for a really
big chalk-drawing on a hillside to be carried out in the manner of
the Wiltshire White Horses, or the Cerne Giant in Dorset. The results
were very varied and interesting, and led us on to further discussion
of iconic qualities in art works, and the importance of offering
clear memory-impressions with the image, rather than realistic
representation of a subject. And how iconic imagery works not only
for Greek orthodox church screens, but for computer screen desk-top
icons.
You
see our thoughts range quite widely: good exercise for the surviving
grey cells.
I
hope this gives you some idea of what we do and how we set about it.
I don't know if, in this form, you would think it useful to circulate
Around The Spire? Speaking of that phrase: has our Harnham Chapter of
u3a expressed any feeling of linking with the sculpture in the
northeast corner of The Square?
Monday, 26 July 2021
French
The Spire u3a French group is reduced in numbers due to age and infirmity and would like some new members.
We belong to the Spire conversation french group and we have continued to meet this year in our gardens. There are still four of us left!
Contact Martin Shalders, please. 01722 743083 and mametzwood@btinternet.com
Wednesday, 9 June 2021
u3a Science Network virtual meeting Wednesday 11 August 2021
u3a Science Network virtual meeting Wednesday 11 August 2021
10:30 AM to 3:00 PM
About this event
A science-based learning event with 3 presentations of 45 minutes followed by questions after each presentation, with a break for refreshments and for lunch. The meeting will start at approximately 10:30 (doors open at 10:00) and ending with a short plenary session at 3 o’clock.
To book a place on this Free event, click the following link or copy and paste in your browser:
If any of you have not registered for the event, please do so. Here's the link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
u3a Science Network meeting – Wednesday 11 August 2021
Session timings: 45 minutes for speaker presentations, 15 minutes for Questions sent and collected via Chat
10:00 – Meeting room open to allow people to arrive and check in
10:30 - Welcome and Introduction Mike Hollingsworth, Science Subject Adviser
10:35 – 11:35 Gunpowder Technology - Geoff Smith, Horndean & District u3a
10 minute break
11:45 – 12:45 Flint - Ros Mercer, Broomfield u3a
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – Leigh Edwards, Exeter u3a
10 minute break
14:40 – 15:00 Plenary session for those attending to suggest any changes and details of the October meeting.
Michaela Moody, Chair u3a Science Network organising team
If you have any queries, please send them to michaela.moody@u3a.org.uk
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