WHAT'S ON

Online Exercise Classes: looking for some local lead exercise classes? Then have a look at the programme offered by Healthy Generations here. Some of these are paying classes (they are not run by iU3A).
 
Monday 08 June — Online 'Pub' Quiz (starting at 7.00pm): after the success of our recent Zoom online quiz we thought we'd do another. But this time due to an offer from a member (thanks Jayne) to be our Quiz Master we will hold it ourselves. Reserve the date in your diary. More details to follow.

Thursday 11 June — extra 'Monthly Meeting' (starting at 2.00pm): with Zoom we aren't reliant on room bookings so we've scheduled an extra speaker this month. See details below.

Thursday 25 June — our regular Monthly Meeting. See details below.

Friday 17 July — Computer/Tablet/Smartphone Help Sessions: these drop in events have been suspended due to Covid19. In the meantime until these resume you can contact our Help Team at any time by dropping an email with your query or problem to:  computerhelp.iu3a@gmail.com 

Thursday 01 October 2020 — National U3A Day & iU3A's Open Day: re-scheduled to this date. Details to be confirmed.

Friday 09 or Sunday 11 October (exact dates to be fixed) — Clues Trails: another of these events. Area to be selected yet. If you've participated in previous years you'll know the drill; if you haven't then come alone and find out. They are great fun — learn about an area you may not know, observe things you may have walked right passed previously. Full details to follow. Just get the date in your diary now. Details to follow.

November — Pub Quiz: another repeat of these popular events, with our regular professional quizmaster. Exact date to be fixed yet and other details will be published nearer the time.

Future iU3A Outings
Unfortunately our programme of Outings for 2020 is currently suspened due to Covid19. We hope to be able to resume these later in the year.
Like all iU3A activities the number of Outings we can support will depend on whether people are willing to organise Outings. If you are willing to organise an Outing or just have some ideas for Outings, please send them to our Outings Coordinator here.
  
Courses
In the iU3A year of 2019/20 we are looking to start a new intiatitive — short courses. We'll trial one and see how that works and then if popular will add some further ones. Watch the Bulletins for further details.  Details are on the Groups listing page here.

Monthly Meetings, Speakers Programme
Our physical Monthly Meetings have been suspended due to Covid-19 but instead we have created a programme of speakers who will present to us online using Zoom. How long the programme will run like this will depend on the unwinding rate of lockdown.

They will generally start at 10.00am and run to 11.00 but there are some exceptions — see the details below. It's suggested you log in and join the meeting at least five minutes before the scheduled start time. There will only be the one topic, the main speaker. Details as below. The Zoom invitation to these meetings will be sent by email to all members.

DATE	MONTHLY MEETING PROGRAMME — TALKS & 2nd SUBJECTS:
11 June	Yes, Thursday 11 June, 2.00pm, The Politics of Food — an extra speaker: Erik Millstone is an Emeritus Professor of Science Policy at the University of Sussex. He has been researching the causes and consequences of innovation and technological change in the agricultural and food sectors since the mid-1970s. He has also analysed the structures and operations of the institutions responsible for setting agricultural and food policies, including safety standards. As a public intellectual, he has argued in favour of reforming those institutions and their policies to better protect public and environmental health.
25 June	Gill Hopkins, Inquisitive Travels with Friends: how twelve Islingtonians explored the world harmoniously over 20 years. Gill will talk about how the travels began, how they developed  and why they were successful, with a few highlights (also some ‘low lights’) of the eight long journeys. They included the Silk Route, Iran, Latin America and Spain, and eight much shorter visits to European cities.
09 July	Philip Leech on Sutton Hoo. 2.00pm start, on Zoom
23 July	Martin Plaut: Ethiopia — Born in South Africa in May 1950, Martin Plaut is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. He received degrees from the Universities of  Cape Town (1975) the University of the Witwatersrand (1977) and an MA at the University of Warwick (1978). He worked for a year as an Industrial Relations officer with Mobil Oil before joining the British Labour Party as Secretary on Africa and the Middle East in 1979. In 1984 he joined the BBC, working primarily on Africa. He has reported from many parts of the continent but specialised in the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa. He was Africa editor, BBC World Service News for ten years before retiring in October 2013. Martin Plaut has advised the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the US State Department and the European Parliament. He has published a number of books on Africa.
06 Aug	Jo Livingston on Face Blindness: I’ve been face blind all my life but had never heard of it until I was sixty. I was a founder member of Face Blind UK which is a support group for the surprising number of people who have the condition. I’m a member of Bexley U3A and the London Region committee.
27 Aug	Anna Byrne on Alzheimer's Research
10 Sept	to be defined yet
24 Sept	Roger Mead on Pioneers of Photography

Additional Dates of Future Monthly Meetings/Speakers for 2020:
  22 October, 26 November, December: none.

You can see information about past monthly meetings on the following webpage: Past Meetings

Our iU3A coffee mornings are a popular way of getting to know other members. They take place around the borough, are always at 11.00 on varying days of the week and are free to iU3A members. In order to provide opportunities for all our members to attend, we limit attendance to a maximum of three coffee mornings per member per year (1st January to 31st December). See the latest Bulletin for date of next coffee morning.

Our coffee mornings are now organised by Sally Fox. To book up for any of the above coffee mornings please email Sally here. She will then advise you that you are booked, or if there are no spaces that you have been put on a reserve list. If you can't attend a coffee morning you've booked for, please let us know by emailing Sally (same link as above) to say you can't now make it.
 

iU3A's pub lunches provide an opportunity for members to meet each other in a social atmosphere. They take place monthly, around Islington. If you are buying a lunch the cost is around £10 to £12 with drinks being extra. If you'd like to come along to one of these please email Howard Stone here for more information or to reserve your place.