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Spring Programme 2012
Please note our next English language theatre event on
After most meetings we have tables reserved at a nearby restaurant, so that those who wish to can continue to talk in English over a meal and/or a drink.
Upcoming events
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Acting Shakespeare
Julius D’Silva, an experienced Shakespeare actor at the London Globe and for the RSC, talks about preparing for the great plays and gives us a chance to practise some acting techniques.
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Rewards or threats of new technologies
All of us will be challenged to rediscover what being human means in a world that is constantly changed by new technologies that we cannot really control.
Futurist Arjen Kamphuis discusses our options. For more info see: gendo.ch/circle
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The Duchess in the nightdress
Art historian Rosemary Clegg takes us in light-hearted vein through the mysterious world of art (with help from Jadwiga Bobrowska and Sally Lamm).
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Heathen and outlaw
Bob Muscutt talks about the remarkable life of the great Victorian novelist, George Eliot, from her early life in the English Midlands to her daring personal decisions until the publication of her first full-length and bestselling novel ‘Adam Bede’.
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Cycling the Altiplano – Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina
Andy Ganner takes you on a two-month bicycle trip from La Paz, Bolivia. The remote villages of Lake Titicaca, hidden Inca Ruins of southern Peru, the Pacific Ocean coast, the high and dry Atacama Desert, up to 5000 metres with a loaded bike, free-camping on remote salt-lakes ... Andy has travelled over 70 countries by bicycle with no sponsorship.
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Theatre Evening: The taming of the shrew
A play by William Shakespeare, shortened, simplified, and performed by White Horse Theatre Company.
Can Petruchio turn the wildcat Katherina into an obedient wife? This rattling comedy sets wild macho wit against wild female wilfulness. This was the basis for Cole Porter’s Kiss me Kate.
In cooperation with the International Education Centre of the VHS ‘Die Brücke’ -
Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper
Four very ordinary condiments - but what about their history? How long have they been in use? How have they been used? And what are they good for? Martina Jones has been finding out.
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Bridge for beginners
Martin Bartholomew will introduce this famous card game and we’ll have a go at playing it.