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2009 Summer Vacation Programme
Light Summer Reading and Translation German/French
Summer Bird Watching Course
Shakespeare on Stage
A Recital of Lancashire Rhymes
A Jonathan Miller Fest
Do You Want To Save the World? The Unsustainable Planet – Workshop
Light Summer Reading and Translation German/French
Tutor: Jill Tatham Tel: 01223 426414
Tuesdays: 10 – 11.00 French
11 – 12.00 German
Number of places: 12
Venue: Bridge Street
Starting Tuesday 16 June, here in Bridge Street. Each session will be self-contained, so that members can turn up or not, as they choose on the day. Members can bring interesting/amusing/light texts if they wish (in advance for duplicating.) All levels are welcome.
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Summer Bird Watching Course
Leader: Jeremy Clare
A programme for those who wish to learn about identifying birds, suitable for beginners and those who want to move beyond the garden. It will consist of a series of lecture sessions and field trips. Members sign up for individual sessions. Details of field trips will be sent to those taking part.
Lectures will be from 10.15-1.00pm.
Sign up for each event, limited to 20 places. Contact the office
Tues 7 July Lecture - Divers to Wildfowl (Bridge Street room 3)
Tues 14 July Trip to Fen Drayton (Morning)
Tues 21 July Lecture - Raptors to Woodpeckers including Waders (Bridge Street Room 3)
Tues 28 July Trip to Hockwold Washes (Lakenheath) (Morning)
Wed 5 August Lecture - Larks to Warblers (Bridge Stree Room 3t)
Wed 12 August Trip to Paxton Pits (Morning)
Wed 19 August Lecture -Tits to Buntings (Bridge Street Room 3)
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Shakespeare on Stage
Tutor: Stephen Siddall
Day and time: Wednesday 29 July 10.00 – 12.45 (break 11.15 - 11.35)
Venue: Room 3, 33 Bridge Street
No of places: 20
The two linked sessions will examine Shakespeare’s texts as scripts for performance and the decisions that directors, designers and actors have to make. It will be helpful if students have a basic working knowledge of King Lear and As You Like It. Reference will also be made to some of Shakespeare’s other frequently performed plays.
About the tutor: From 1988-2005 each year Stephen directed Shakespeare and Renaissance plays for the Cambridge Arts Theatre. He has also directed improvisation work for BBC2 and 8 plays for the Pendley (open air) Shakespeare Festival. In all his 25 productions of Shakespeare he has directed 17 different plays.
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A Recital of Lancashire Rhymes
Narrator: Miles Dodd
Day and time: Monday 17 August 2.00 – 3.00 pm
Venue: Room 3, 33 Bridge Street
Have you ever wondered why the Lion ate Albert; why the Chancellor was upset about the English Channel; how the price of Bird’s Eye Maple remained stable despite Noah’s flood; how Jonah found the accommodation inside the Grampus; or how the Magna Carta came to be signed? These and other mysteries will be revealed in the rhymes to be narrated.
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A Jonathan Miller Fest
Day and time: Tuesdays 11 August – 29 September 10.30 - 12.30 pm
Venue: Room 3, Bridge Street
A series of texts, audio tapes and DVD documentaries, surveying the life and times of Jonathan Miller. Anyone who would like to contribute further items, such as documentation, anecdotes, interviews, excerpts from radio, television or internet etc. please telephone 01223 357861.
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Do You Want To Save the World? The Unsustainable Planet – Workshop,
Day and Time: Thurs 30 July, 10.30 am - Room 3, Bridge St.
A day to examine and discuss two critical factors which impact on climate change, but which are frequently overlooked in the debates, namely overpopulation and over-consumption. What are the facts about population growth, what strategies are needed to cope with it, and how are such strategies to be adopted? What are the links between consumption and climate change, what is over-consumption and what can be done about it?
The morning will have a couple of presentations on popular trends and consumption, a short lunch break, then open discussion and working together we will see if we can suggest workable solutions.
Names to the office please. 20 places only.
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