Philately
Does anyone fancy starting a new ‘Stamp Collecting’ group? Please contact Ian Lyster in the first instance on phone 01695 578348.
Techie Advice
The Monday morning Computer Advice Group will open for the last time on 29th January 2024.
Bill S and Alan S, thereafter, will continue to be present at their usual table in the Aughton Room during most Horizons coffee mornings , for any general Computer and Photography advice. And as usual at Horizons Meetings, Alan N and Joyce N will also usually be around and about in the Scout & Guide HQ (often lurking in the Computer Room and available to provide techie-type advice as required).
Ageing Better December Workshop
Following the success of Ageing Better with an Active Mind, run through the Wellbeing Group in conjunction with Edge Hill University last winter, the project continued this year at the beginning of November.
The first session (Workshop 4) was on Friday 3rd November at 11 am in St Michael’s Church Hall, with a talk on the topic of ‘The Sense of Touch’.
Even if you missed this one, you can still come along to Workshop 5 on 1st December at the same venue, where we will have ‘Dance Contact Improvisation’ delivered by a dance lecturer.
If you are interested in attending, please contact the Coordinator of the Health & Wellbeing Group, Julia, via:
wellbeing@aughton-ormskirk-u3a.co.uk or 01744 883086
For further info, click or tap on the Edge Hill poster below.
Southport University Extension Society
Aughton & Ormskirk u3a are planning a new, collaborative venture with Southport University Extension Society (SUES), whereby members of our respective organisations will be able to take advantage of each other’s talks and other events. If you are interested in attending any of the following, please contact Pam Ball in the first instance on 07974 749362.
Forthcoming SUES learning opportunities include:
Lectures
Friday 26th January 2024
Robert Eden – Bugs Everywhere – From Stinky Ponds to cracked North Sea Pipelines
Fri 23rd February 2024
Julia Clayton – The Fiction of Forgery: Art and Authenticity in the English Novel
Friday 22nd March 2024
Stephen Lloyd – Shakespeare, the Earls of Derby and the North West
Friday 26th April 2024
Alan Crosby – ‘The great and terrible wilderness, peopled by untutored savages’: providing elementary education in Victorian Lancashire
Short Courses
Roger Mitchell on Colonial and Post Colonial America – History, Art and Architecture
2024: January 8, 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 26, March 4 (Eight sessions: Course Fee £40)
Alan Potter on Technology – Understanding just how things work!
2024: April 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 29 (Six sessions: Course fee £30)
Peter Firth on The History of the University Extension Movement in Southport
2024: May 13, 20 June 3, 10 (Four sessions: No fee – open to non-members)
u3a Christmas Lunch
Tickets for this event are still available at Horizons.
Local History Outdoor Visits 2023
The British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
Saturday 13th May 2023
The history of commercial vehicles in the home town of truck and bus making. An indoor museum with over 50 well maintained vehicles on display, from an 1895 horse drawn steam fire appliance to the Popemobile.
Musical Theatre
The Musical Theatre Group presents ‘Once upon a Time’ at Ormskirk Civic Hall’ in November.
The show – set in an apartment building called ‘Falling Stars’ – is for retired thespians. Next to the building is a meeting hall called ‘Stage Door’ – which is the residents meeting place. The residents lack lustre and are depressed – until – a new resident called Penny joins them. She will take you on a journey to meet all the residents and what they did with their lives.
With witty tales and upbeat music, we go on the roller coaster ride as they fight to save their hall from becoming the next car park!!!
Tickets are on sale from September at Horizons:
Adult £8.50 – Children £5.00
See Musical Theatre Group for other methods of procuring tickets and for more information about the Show.
Last Updated on October 15, 2022