U3A University of the Third
Age
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Things that are happening:
Regular Groups:
Unless otherwise stated, the venue for
all meetings is REAP House, 340 Queen Street, Masterton.
The contact person is given for each group, or you can
contact Margot at REAP on 06 377 1379 (leave a message for
her if she’s not at work on the day you call).
Philosophy
Group
Convenor: Ross McCrostie, ph 377 1058 or
e-mail rossmxt@gmail.com
This group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month (except where this
clashes with a U3A lecture), at REAP House.
Next meeting: Thursday 4 September at 10.30am. This meeting
will follow on from last month’s meeting and will
continue with the discussion paper entitled “A sketch
of worldviews in relation to history.”
New members are always welcome.
Lunch
Group
Convenor: Mike Cooper ph 06 306 8596 or
e-mail mike.cooper@paradise.net.nz
A small group of ten or so who meet every second Wednesday
in the month at a different café or restaurant within the
Wairarapa to discuss good food and virtually any other
topic of the day. Food and beverages are purchased at your
own expense.
The next meeting is at 12.30 pm on Wednesday
10th
September at Café Cecille in
Queen Elizabeth Park, Masterton. Café Cecille has four
times been voted the best café in the Wairarapa. Come and
join us! Contact Mike Cooper on (email) verdale@xtra.co.nz
or phone 06 306 8596.
Opera – History
& Appreciation
Convenor: Duncan Roper, ph (06) 306 9646
or e-mail dsroper@xtra.co.nz
This group meets on the 2nd Friday of each month, from 11 am to 3 pm
(with a lunch break in the middle – bring your own).
Friday 12th
September – Richard
Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. This is an early opera
of Wagner’s and was first performed in 1841.
Focussing on this opera will serve as an introduction to
our major event of the year – The Ring Cycle –
on 24-27 October. The Flying Dutchman plays for 140
minutes, so we will begin at 11 am, and, allowing for
lunch, introduction to the opera and discussion for October
programme, will finish at approximately 3 pm.
New members always welcome – contact Duncan for more
details. Please contact Duncan for a brochure detailing the
programme of Wagner Opera which will be held in
Martinborough over Labour Weekend.
Please also have a look at Upcoming Opera
Events as per below:
‘THE
RING CYCLE’
by Richard
Wagner
It will be a 1990
DVD from the METROPOLITAN OPERA, New York.
To be shown at
CIRCUS THEATRE,
MARTINBOUROUGH.
LABOUR WEEKEND, 24 - 27 OCTOBER 2008
The Rhinegold Friday 24 October
The Valkyrie Saturday 25 October
Siegfried Sunday 26 October
The Twilight of the Gods Monday 27
October
Poster
Brochure
Autobiography and
Journalling
Convenor: Margot MacGillivray, ph 06
304 7166 or e-mail margotmacg@yahoo.co.nz
This group meets on the third Monday of the month at 1.30
pm in the Rangitumau Room at REAP House. Next meeting is
Monday 15 September.
This fourth session is called ‘Memory Joggers’.
At this meeting, techniques for capturing memories will be
discussed. It’s not too late for new people to join
the course—but they will have to do a bit of reading
(and writing!) to catch up. Each session lasts for about an
hour.
Book
Group
Convenor: Jan Veitch, ph 370 9261 or
e-mail veitch@wise.net.nz
This group meets on the 4th Monday of each month, and the venue
varies between REAP House and the homes of some of the
members. Each month the group decides on a genre of book
for the next month. Participants read their choice of book
in that genre, and bring it along to share at the meeting.
At the meeting people give a brief review plus whether or
not they recommend it. Books are often from the library but
if owned privately are usually available for loan to other
members. In August we focussed on a recent visitor to New
Zealand, the American writer Jodi Picoult.
Next meeting: Monday 22 September, 1.30 pm, at REAP House,
340 Queen Street, Masterton
Topic: To be advised.
The topic for October’s meeting will be decided at
this meeting.
Proposed
Photography Group
Convenor: Mike
Engel, ph 379 5572 or email mykee_vaughan@yahoo.com.au
If enough members are interested in starting a photography
group as a companion group to Journalling, please get in
touch with Mike Engel: phone 379 5572. Mike has had several
enquiries and is keen for this group to go ahead. If you
want to compile memories of your family for future
generations, this group could be for you!
Groups
Resuming:
Italian Language and
Culture.
Convenor: Mary Rishworth, phone 377 5929
or email: rishworths@xtra.co.nz
This group started up again on 20 August, and is keen and
raring to go!
At present, times of meetings are each Thursday at 1 pm, at
the homes of members. However, time and place may change.
For people wishing to join the group, please ring Mary
Rishworth on 377 5929.
Spanish
Language
Convenor: Duncan Roper, ph (06) 306 9646
or e-mail dsroper@xtra.co.nz
If you wish to know more about this exciting and vibrant
language, and the culture of Columbia, this is for you! We
are fortunate to have Ilse Potes-Morales (Duncan &
Sonya’s daughter-in-law), from Colombia. Ilse is now
able to recommence this group. Interested people please
contact Duncan on 06 306 9646 and he will advise you when
the group resumes.
Groups In
Recess:
Travel
Raconteurs
Convenor: Mike Engel, ph 379 5572 or
email mykee_vaughan@yahoo.com.au
This group is in recess until October; the resumption date
will be advised in the next newsletter. The speaker will be
a native New Yorker (now relocated to Masterton) who will
talk about the Big Apple.
Future Lectures:
Term 4, No
1:
23 October. Mike Engel. He was adopted as
a baby and met his birth mother and her family at 47 years
old.
Term 4, No
2:
4 December. Speaker to be advised.
JOINING
U3A
For More information about U3A or if you would like to
become a member, please contact Wairarapa REAP.
Ph: 06 377 1379 or Email: reception@waireap.org.nz
Alternatively you can CLICK HERE to download a Membership Form, fill it out and post it back to us
at
the following address:
U3A
C/- Wairarapa REAP
P O Box 442
MASTERTON.
