{"id":40931,"date":"2025-05-21T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/?p=40931"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:01:07","slug":"general-meeting-friday-30th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/general-meeting-friday-30th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"General Meeting – Friday 30th May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All members are invited to attend to hear from the Committee and ask any questions or raise topics of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doors open 10.30am, Meeting starts 10.45am and the presentation is from 11 am to 12 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highlights and Anecdotes: My Twenty Years of Giving Presentations to U3A Members by Peter Atkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Throughout the last 20 years, an important feature of the J\u00e1vea 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\u2019s Tales Group.  Angela may have given more but I believe that no-one else comes close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201chighlights\u201d, I mean segments that I found to be particularly interesting or entertaining when doing the research.  I hope you\u2019ll agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shall talk about public entertainment in Roman Spain; tour the Alhambra in Granada; explore the symbolism in Picasso\u2019s Guernica; dip into the history of Anglo-French relations; and take a bike ride across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \n <\/iframe>\n