Thursday 19th March 2020

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Goolwa Community Garden

presenter ~ Sue Gelade

 

Community gardens grow in a number of small and large towns, even cities across Australia and in many other countries around the world. Often they are started via a Council or local health organisation’s incentive. Other times when a small community group expresses a need that will bring residents together. In Goolwa though, it started because of a barrow. That barrow has long gone, but the Community Garden continues to thrive. This is its story.

Thursday 26th March 2020

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Right Royal Music

presenter ~ Colin Macdonald

 

What a wealth of magnificent music has been written for royal occasions -coronations, weddings, birthdays and funerals. Colin will share with you just some of those works, including compositions by Handel, William Walton, Haydn, Johann Strauss II, Purcell and Mendelssohn. He will, as usual, offer lots of interesting background by way of introduction to each work.

 

Tuesday 31st March 2020

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Recycling

presenter ~ Joanne McPhee

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A journey of what happens to the contents of our kerbside bins, especially the recycling and green organics bins. We will look at what items go into each bin, diverting food waste from landfill, soft plastics recycling and tricky waste item disposal.

Tuesday 7th April 2020

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Film ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’

Presenter ~ Elizabeth Caldicott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, this is one of the most popular westerns ever made. This Academy Award winner blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West’s most likeable outlaws. When these two bungling bank and train robbers tire of running from the law they set out for Bolivia.

Tuesday 14th April 2020

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The WCTU team et al

Presenter ~ Maryanne McGill

 

 

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union. More than a group of wowsers, these women were at the forefront of change for women.

Thursday 16th April 2020

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Ted Hughes

Presenter ~ Richard Kleinig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Hughes was one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century. He was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. His life was attended by tragedy and controversy. His relationship with Sylvia Plath dogged his whole life following her suicide in 1963. In this presentation, Hughes will be heard reading some of his best-known works.

Tuesday 21st April 2020

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Dolls

presenter ~  Jesse Lathlean

 

A brief history of dolls, from Mother made to the rare creations of the French and German dollmakers of C19. Hear their many and various uses covering from C19 to today.   We will look briefly at how they were made from French factories, the cottage labour of German peasant families to American mass production and our Australian doll manufacturing firms.

 

Tuesday 12th May 2020

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Byron ~ X rated

presenter ~ Anna Kiernan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was one of England’s greatest poets.

Anna will concentrate on the man himself ~ ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’. Members are warned of adult content.

 

Tuesday 9th June 2020

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Robert Owen

presenter ~Terry Tooth

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Robert Owen was born in 1771 and became one of the most influential figures in the industrial revolution in Britain. This talk will examine his remarkable achievements as a pioneer in the development of the cotton industry, and the impact he made as a life-long advocate for social reform. His life was devoted to improving the lives of his fellow citizens, and his vision for fairness and social progress remains a source of inspiration today.

 

Tuesday 28th April 2020

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Three Remarkable Queens

presenter ~ Colin Macdonald

 

Mary Queen of Scots became Queen of Scotland when just one week old; and married the King of France at age 16; Elizabeth I, officially declared a bastard by her father Henry VIII; became one of England's greatest monarchs.
Catherine The Great, an obscure German Princess who married the heir to the Russian throne in 1745 and had him murdered so that she might rule Russia in her own right. Three women whose lives defied all the conventions about ‘weak women’.

 

Tuesday 5th May 2020

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Film ‘To Catch a Thief’

presenter ~Elizabeth Caldicott

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Hitchcock thriller. Cary Grant plays a reformed jewel thief who was known as “The Cat.”  Robie is suspected of a new rash of jewel thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera and he sets out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly) he sees his chance to set a trap for the thief.

 

Thursday 21st May 2020

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East African Safari

presenter ~ Elizabeth Caldicott

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Elizabeth will share her memories and images of a lifetime, travelling with a small group through Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In five weeks they experienced an amazing array of wildlife and scenery in the many remote national parks.

 

Tuesday 2nd June 2020

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Film ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’

presenter ~ Elizabeth Caldicott

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Stars Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, set in New York with the theme music “Moon River.” This romantic comedy based, on the book by Truman Capote’s novella, follows the madcap world of carefree playgirl Holly Golightly a struggling young writer.