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Posted on: July 17th, 2009
Archive for July, 2009
Yang Style Tai Chi
| February 16, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| October 21, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| October 28, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 4, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 11, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 18, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| November 25, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| December 2, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
| December 9, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
Leader: Kim Chang
Wednesdays, 21 October-16 December
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Tai Chi, is a gentle exercise, good for mental and physical health. It involves controlled and free flowing movements while maintaining a disciplined and calm mind. It is suitable for people of all ages and levels of fitness.
Each hour session will first cover an initial relaxing work-out. This involves learning to maintain a calm mind and a correct body posture followed by exercising five basic movements of body toning.
The remainder of the session will involve step-by-step instructions on how to learn and perform a basic sequence of 37-step Yang style Tai chi. On an hour per week basis, it will take about 1 year to master the Tai Chi 37 steps.
Maximum Number: 10
Venue: Reg Murphy Activity Centre
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Literature Discussion Group
| July 31, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
| August 28, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
| September 26, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
| October 31, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
| November 28, 2009 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Convenor: Angela Wawn
Last Friday of the month – 31 July, 28 August, 26 September, 31 October, 28 November
10.30am – 12.30pm
Share your interest in novels with other readers. At each meeting, the group decides the next novel to be discussed, with the condition that it is readily available through the City of Sydney Library, or is a low-cost edition such as the orange cover Popular Penguins (currently $9.95 each).
The novel for discussion in July will be The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
Maximum Number: 12
Venue: Reg Murphy Activity Centre
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Improving your computer skills
| October 19, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
| October 26, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
| November 2, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
| November 9, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
| November 16, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
| November 23, 2009 | ||
| 1:30 am | to | 3:30 am |
Leader: Doris Shearman
Mondays 19 October – 23 November (6 classes)
1.30pm – 3.30pm
Participants of the term 3 course were delighted with the assistance they received from Doris, and a second course has been arranged for term 4. The course is aimed at those already familiar with a computer, and who wish to improve their skills, particularly with word-processing. Software – Microsoft Office 2003.
Assumed knowledge: elements of computer screens, knowledge of drop down menus, creating, printing and saving documents, sending and receiving email.
Doris is happy to respond to the needs of participants, and topics that could be covered include:
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Personalising the desktop
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Formatting documents
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Inserting pictures
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Templates and Styles
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Mail Merge
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Tables
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Email
Maximum number: 8
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Understanding and Practice of Feng Shui
| September 5, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Leader:Chan-Yong Koh
One-off Presentation: Saturday 5 September 10.00am – 12.00 noon
Feng Shui is a living skill. It is all about making your home or property a comfortable and joyous place to live in. There is now increasing interest in the West in this ancient Chinese system, once only accessible to Chinese societies. This short seminar is to introduce some basic practices of Feng Shui.
The course will explain the basic concept of Feng Shui and introduce the concept of Qi and how Qi flow affects your property. It will explain the different types of Qi, how the external environment affects Qi and how to get the right Qi (Sheng Qi) to your home.
We will learn about the “green dragon”, “white tiger”, “black tortoise” and “crimson phoenix” of your home and how they affect your living. The presentation will explain some simple rules of Feng Shui and why a lot of them are just common sense. It will give some simple guidelines for improving your home/office and what to do to avoid bad Qi (Sha Qi).
Maximum number: 15
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Celebrating The Origin of Species
| October 19, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
| October 26, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
| November 2, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
| November 9, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
| November 16, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
Leader: Dr Tony Larkum (Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney) and author of the just published A Natural Calling. The Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox, launched in Cambridge in July.
Mondays, 19 October-16 November (five classes) 9.30am – 11.30am
Charles Darwin had the idea for his theory of evolution soon after he returned from the Voyage of the Beagle in 1836. He wrote his ideas down in various notebooks at the time and in 1842 he wrote a sketch of his ideas, which shows that he had most of the essentials at that stage. However, he kept all this secret and published nothing in the interim.
Nevertheless in 1855, Darwin did set about publishing his ideas in a “Big Book” which was going to run to three volumes. When he received the bombshell letter from Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858 and an outline explaining a nearly identical theory of evolution, Darwin was nudged into publishing a short abstract of his ideas, which was published in November 1859 as “On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life”.
In 2009 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this book that set Victorian life abuzz at the time and has continued to fire the public imagination to the present time. This book has been translated into nearly every language and its ideas are as important today as they were then.
The course will discuss the book chapter by chapter and the various forms of evidence adduced by Darwin in support of his theory of natural selection – the theory we now refer to as the evolution of organic life. It will also review this evidence in the light of what has been discovered since.
Maximum number: 22
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Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy: The Universe, yours to discover
| November 4, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
| November 11, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
| November 18, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
| November 25, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
| December 2, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 11:00 am |
Leaders: Dr John O’Byrne, Director of Academic Programs in Physics, University of Sydney and Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia; and Dr Helen Johnston, currently undertaking research into neutron stars/black holes at the University.
Wednesdays 4 November-2 December (five classes), 9.30am – 11.00am
Cosmology is the ‘big picture’ view of the universe – how it is built and our place within it. Every civilization and period of history has had its preferred view and our own times are no exception. The difference is our ability to test our modern cosmology with observations spanning space and time. This course will trace the evolution of the science of cosmology from ancient times to our current view of an expanding universe created in the Big Bang.
The course will cover ancient cosmologies and then move on to the advent of scientific approach to cosmology with Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Modern cosmology will also be described in an approachable, non-mathematical way, beginning with Einstein and his contemporaries and leading to our modern view of the Big Bang.
Maximum number: 22
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
Oral History
| July 29, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| August 5, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| August 12, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| August 19, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| August 26, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| September 2, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Leader: Glebe Wireless House Project Manager
Wednesdays 29 July-2 September (6 sessions) with continuing involvement with the broader project.
Time: 1.00 – 4.00 pm
City U3A members are invited to join in this project, supported by the City of Sydney Council. You will learn the techniques of digital recording and editing of oral history, and will take part in an innovative project to record oral history in the Glebe area. You will also learn how to upload audio, text, and photo-based content to a website – ABC Radio National’s social media website, Pool.
Learn more at the website: http://www.pool.org.au/users/wireless_house.
This oral history project is a part of innovative approach to re-activating the Wireless House in Glebe’s Foley Park. The Wireless House is a unique part of Sydney’s history, a tiny building where many people gathered to listen to a wireless radio, donated by Grace Bros to the Glebe Council in 1934. The artist, Dr Nigel Helyer, is working with the City of Sydney to ‘sonically re-activate’ the Wireless House and bring it back to life with a sculptural and interactive audio installation and website.
You will need to have internet and computer access at home, and will be invited to continue to be involved in the Wireless House project. Of course, your skills can also be used for family and community projects of your own. You will find that older family members become inspired by the opportunity to produce oral memoirs.
Maximum number: 10
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
The Emergence of Jazz
| July 28, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
| August 4, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
| August 11, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
| August 18, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
| August 25, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
Leader:Anton Crouch
Tuesdays 28 July-25 August 2.00pm – 3.30pm
These classes cover the history of early jazz, considered not from the point of view of post-event oral history but from the point of view of contemporaneous evidence – recordings in particular.
We will attempt to answer the perennial question “what is jazz?” and examine the relationships of ragtime and blues to jazz; the “out of New Orleans” vs the “multi region” issue; the “jazz explosion” of the early 1920s; the influence of great soloists; and the art and craft of the Classic Era.
The course includes listening to records but does not assume any knowledge of music theory or music performance. The meetings will be interactive and the expression of diverse opinions by participants will be welcome.
Maximum number: 15
Posted on: July 12th, 2009
St Helen’s Community Centre, Glebe
184 Glebe Point Road, Glebe.
Next to Glebe Library, corner of Glebe Point Road and Wigram Road.
Bus: 431 (City to Glebe Point), 433 (City to Balmain) and 370 (Coogee to Leichhardt via Newtown). All stop outside St Helen’s.
Parking: Street parking, especially north of Wigram Road
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Posted on: July 12th, 2009
