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Yang Style Tai Chi

February 3, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
February 10, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
February 17, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
February 24, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
March 3, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
March 10, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
March 17, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
March 24, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
April 21, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
April 28, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
May 5, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
May 12, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
May 19, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
May 26, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
June 2, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm
June 9, 2010
2:00 pmto3:00 pm

Leader: Kim Chang

Wednesdays, 3 Feb-24 Mar (Term 1); 21 April-
9 June (Term 2) 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 one year to master Tai Chi’s 37 steps.
Maximum Number: 20
Venue: Reg Murphy Centre, Potts Point

 

Posted on: January 13th, 2010

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Yonder Come the Blues

February 3, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 10, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 17, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
February 24, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
March 3, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm
March 10, 2010
2:00 pmto4:00 pm

Leader: Anton Crouch

Wednesdays 3 February – 10 March (six weeks)
2.00 – 4.00pm
A companion course to our 2009 history of early jazz, ie the subject is considered not from the point of view of post-event oral history but from the point of view of contemporaneous evidence – recordings in particular. As with the jazz course, the focus will be on the early period, up to the mid 1930s.
The classes will cover: the antiquity of the word ‘blues’; form and content; the ‘rural’ vs ‘urbandistinction; antecedents, including work songs, spirituals and sanctified singing; the vaudeville influence; humour in the blues; instrumental blues; Anglo-European blues; feminist interpretation of blues lyrics; the first recordings; great performers, including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
Maximum number: 15
Venue: Upstairs room, Toxteth Hotel

 

Posted on: January 13th, 2010

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