3 events in 3 successive days!
Saturday 18th July - the Choir Summer Concert on the Bandstand in Jubilee Gardens from 12:00 pm with the Ukulele Group
Sunday 19th July - the Choir and the Ukulele Group perform again at Audley End House from 11:00 am
Monday 20th July - our next Open Meeting at the Bowls Club in Abbey Lane
Our u3a Choir and our u3a Ukulele Group, fresh from their appearances in Jubilee Gardens, appear next day at Audley End House. Choir on the front lawn at 11:30 am, Ukulele Group in the Courtyard at 1:30 pm. Entry is free to Friends of Audley End and English Heritage. Hopefully the weather will be kind to us, so bring a picnic and make a day of it - enjoy the gardens and the beautiful scenery. Other acts will be appearing.
Summer Concert - World in Union - Saturday 18th July 12 noon
Our Harmony Choir presents its Summer Concert 'WORLD IN UNION' at 12pm on Saturday 18th July on the Bandstand in Jubilee Gardens, also featuring our Ukulele Group.
This is the highlight of our Summer Season and our Harmony Choir have chosen a wonderful selection of songs for you which includes melodies from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, John Rutter, The Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, and Take That. Our Ukulele Group will also be performing a well-known selection from their vast repertoire - so a wonderful afternoon of entertainment is guaranteed.
Entry is free whilst donations are welcomed and will all go to EACH, the East Anglian Children's Hospices - a really worthwhile charity. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Next Open Meeting - Monday 20th July 2.30pm
At the Bowls Club, Abbey Lane, doors open 1:45 pm for a 2:30 pm start.
We welcome back Fran Sandham who will be giving one of his new talks - "African Animal Enounters".
Lecturer and freelance writer Fran Sandham is the author of the non-fiction book 'Traversa: A solo walk across Africa' (see www.traversa.co.uk), which was serialised in the Sunday Times. He has written for many newspapers, magazines and travel publications, including the Sunday Times, NBC News, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Financial Times, inflight magazines for KLM and Gulf Air, Adventure Travel, Traveller magazine, Travel Africa and Country Walking.
Free entry, free refreshments and free raffle - come along and enjoy an afternoon with your u3a friends and make some new ones. Click on the image on the left to enlarge.
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We are a self-help, self-managed, lifelong learning co-operative for those who are no longer in full-time employment, providing opportunities for our members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest groups and to pursue learning, not for qualifications, but for fun. Hence the u3a motto "Learn, laugh and live".
Most of our 850 plus members reside in and around Saffron Walden, but new members are always welcome, See our Membership page for details about joining.
We currently run about 46 classes and activities and these are listed on our Groups page. Term times are similar to school terms, running from September to July but a number of groups meet throughout the year. We always welcome ideas for new groups and activites.
We hold Open Meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month with a guest speaker, and our Theatre and Travel group arrange a number of outings and holidays each year. Please see our What’s On page for future dates.
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