All members are invited to attend to hear from the Committee and ask any questions or raise topics of interest.
Doors open 10.30am, Meeting starts 10.45am and the presentation is from 11 am to 12 pm
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Highlights and Anecdotes: My Twenty Years of Giving Presentations to U3A Members by Peter Atkinson
Throughout the last 20 years, an important feature of the Jávea U3A has been a group of members settling down to be entertained, informed or bored by a speaker giving a lecture, talk or presentation. I have been involved from the get-go (my membership number is 87) and I have given more than 50 presentations at monthly General Meetings, to the History Group, and to the Traveller’s Tales Group. Angela may have given more but I believe that no-one else comes close.
At the General meeting on May 30, I shall look back at the pleasures of speaking to U3A members, and the pitfalls, the things that can go wrong and sometimes do. A constant feature is that U3A audiences are always friendly and supportive; I have never been heckled (yet). And they are generally attentive; I have seen some sleeping, but I have never heard any snoring.
I shall reprise several minutes of highlights from each of about half a dozen of the talks that I have given at monthly General Meetings over the years. By “highlights”, I mean segments that I found to be particularly interesting or entertaining when doing the research. I hope you’ll agree.
I shall talk about public entertainment in Roman Spain; tour the Alhambra in Granada; explore the symbolism in Picasso’s Guernica; dip into the history of Anglo-French relations; and take a bike ride across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.
