Category: Groups -DO NOT USE
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160530 History Talk: Who Was Queen Sarah
Date: Monday 30th May 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Who Was Queen Sarah Lecturer: Dee Craig Queen Sarah was the name given to one Sarah Jennings. She must have been the most successful social climber not only in the 18thcentury but in history. She rose to…
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160509 9th May Art Talk: Celebrity Artists
Date: Monday 9th May 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Celebrity Artists Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic Many celebrities paint and sculpt. Some are indeed talented but the majority, as I see it, just ‘Dabble in ART’! Some dabble so well that their reproduced works can help them continue…
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160425 History Talk 25th April 2016: Mata Hari
Date: Monday 25th April 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Femme Fatale: the intriguing story behind the life and death of Mata Hari Lecturer: Angela Chantry Mata Hari (1876–1917) was known as Europe’s queen of unbridled eroticism, an exotic dancer, courtesan, harlot and…
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160411 11th Apr 2016 Art Talk: Parallel Lives: Lowry and Rockwell
Date: Monday 11th April 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Parallel Lives: L S Lowry and Norman Rockwell Lecturer: Peter Atkinson The painters L S Lowry (1887-1976) and Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) were close contemporaries from very different environments: Lancashire and New York/Massachusetts, respectively.…
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U3A Groups and Social Events: for Active Members Only
Participation in U3A groups and social functions is limited to U3A active members (who have renewed their current year’s membership.) Only active members will receive communications by email and access to closed groups on Facebook. If, exceptionally, you wish to invite a guest to a group, please contact the leader in advance. When contacting the group…
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160314 Art Talk 14th March 2016: Grandma Moses
Date: Monday 14th March 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Grandma Moses (1860-1961) Lecturer: Angela Chantry Anna Mary Robertson Moses, known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was a renowned American folk artist who started painting in her 70s. Her nostalgic depictions of rural American…
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160208 Art Talk 8th Feb: Picasso and His Muses
Date: Monday 8th February 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Picasso and His Muses Lecturer: Maureen Stanley During his long life Picasso attracted and loved dozens of women. He was a ‘womaniser’ of the first grade. Jealous, fickle, unfaithful and often morose and cruel, women…
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Golf
Frequency: Monthly, playing at a variety of courses in the Costa Blanca Group Leaders : Myers Logan, Brian Russell and Chris Witton share the leadership. Contact: (u3agolf.moraira@outlook.com) U3A Golf Moraira has been in existence for over 10 years. The majority of our games are Stableford competitions but we also have a few Scrambles and a…
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160125 History Talk 25th Jan 2016: Portuguese Maritime Explorers
Date: Monday 25th January 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Portuguese Maritime Explorers Lecturer: Alan Oliver Portuguese Maritime Explorers Portugal, as we know the country today, came into being in 1139 with the crowning of Henrique Alfonso in Braga, but the moors were not…
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160505 Art Talk 5th May: Celebrity Artists
Date: 5th May Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Celebrity Artists Lecturer: Ceda Panajotovic Many famous people are selling their ‘works of art’ for exorbitant sums of money. Are the buyers buying their ‘ART’ for the content or are they simply content to safely invest into the…
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160111 History Talk 11th Jan 2016: Alternative History
Date: Monday 11th January 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Alternative History Lecturer: Mike Granville What if Britain had stood aside in 1914? What if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed? What if Anne Boleyn had had a healthy baby boy? What if the Union…
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151214 History Talk 14th Dec: Valencia: the Biography of a City
Date: 14th December Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Valencia: the Biography of a City Lecturer: Peter Atkinson The lecture will cover the history (economic, cultural, architectural and morphological) of Spain’s third city, from its Roman origin as a planned, new town in 138 BC, through to…