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Category: Home – Highlights (Comms Officer only)
Cinderella – live from the Royal Opera House – now booking tickets
The Royal Ballet, live stream from the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London. Showing at the IMF Cinema at the Portal de la Marina (Ondara shopping centre). You shall go to the Ball Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when…
Focus on the Spanish Lessons Group – New Beginners Class
Many members would love to speak Spanish. Perhaps they’re competent listeners, perhaps able to read a little Spanish or even complete novices. That’s where the U3A Jávea Spanish Lessons Group can help you. Starting on 14th October, there is now a Beginners Class and everyone is welcome to join. The Group is run by Heidi…
Focus on Steve Young – Communications Officer
Steve Young was born in Derby in 1960. His entire career was spent in banking and financial services where he learned a little bit about marketing, communications and technology. Steve manages the U3A Jávea website and writes most of the stories that you see there. He’s also our unofficial photographer and is 100% to blame…
Focus on – Jim Short – Membership Secretary
Jim Short was born James Gerard Short in Ireland in 1949. Following an academic path, he qualified as a mechanical engineer in 1972. With this qualification, he became a nomad and worked on every continent except the Arctic and Antarctica, which were a bit cold for him. Over the years, he has developed a belief system based on the Value Principles of Freedom, Equality, and Humanity. It is the…
Focus on Mike Frost – Groups Coordinator
Mike Frost is one of the most familiar faces in the U3A Jávea. As well as being Member #3, Mike was the founder of the U3A Jávea. Mike is currently our Groups Coordinator. Which is a complicated title which means that, when necessary, he helps and advises our Group Leaders on the best way to…
Focus on the Hybrid Canasta Group
The history of most classic card games is fragmented and full of holes. They typically developed over a span of several decades or even centuries, going through many changes and branching in lots of different variants. However, the history of Canasta is young and well documented. Canasta was only developed in 1939 in Montevideo, Uruguay.…