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Spanish Conversation
Spanish Conversation
The Spanish Conversation Group meets every Thursday at 6.0pm until 7.30pm. The cost is still £3 per meeting. A new arrival is not expected to pay on the first evening. We continue to welcome new members. The standard is very fluid. As long as you...
Thursday Talk The Geordie Appeaser – Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
Thursday Talk The Geordie Appeaser – Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
Mike has not delivered this talk in about 12 years so why revisit it now? It initially occurred to him when he recognised that Putin spoke of the Russian speakers in Ukraine similarly to how Hitler spoke of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. The decision...
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4 events,
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Philosophy for a Flourishing Life: Emotions, Suffering & Peace of Mind (downstairs)
Philosophy for a Flourishing Life: Emotions, Suffering & Peace of Mind (downstairs)
Can philosophy help us navigate emotional pain and cultivate inner peace? This half-day course explores how Stoic and Buddhist thought address suffering and resilience. Participants learn practical strategies for emotional well-being—like letting go, perspective-shifting, and practicing compassion. A guided loving-kindness medi- tation offers a gentle...
Spanish Conversation
Spanish Conversation
The Spanish Conversation Group meets every Thursday at 6.0pm until 7.30pm. The cost is still £3 per meeting. A new arrival is not expected to pay on the first evening. We continue to welcome new members. The standard is very fluid. As long as you...
Thursday Talk – Homeshare North East: A New Chapter in Independent Living
Thursday Talk – Homeshare North East: A New Chapter in Independent Living
Discover how Homeshare North East is helping older people live independently for longer with safety, companionship and support, through a simple but powerful shared living model. Carefully matching people to share their lives for mutual benefit
4 events,
4 events,
10 events,
7 events,
Spanish Conversation
Spanish Conversation
The Spanish Conversation Group meets every Thursday at 6.0pm until 7.30pm. The cost is still £3 per meeting. A new arrival is not expected to pay on the first evening. We continue to welcome new members. The standard is very fluid. As long as you...
Thursday Talk – One of the Last NE Shipowners
Thursday Talk – One of the Last NE Shipowners
Jesmond resident, Christopher Souter, recalls the varied history of his and his family's business through two World Wars to the 1970s and its cessation of trading then.
6 events,
6 events,
10 events,
8 events,
Spanish Conversation
Spanish Conversation
The Spanish Conversation Group meets every Thursday at 6.0pm until 7.30pm. The cost is still £3 per meeting. A new arrival is not expected to pay on the first evening. We continue to welcome new members. The standard is very fluid. As long as you...
Thursday Talk The Brothers Grossmith
Thursday Talk The Brothers Grossmith
Charles Linaker tells teh story of George and Weedon Grossmith, best known as the authors of "Diary of a Nobody". Both were celebrated actors - George creating many of the leading comic roles in the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Author Event – Zoe Richards in conversation with Vic Watson
Author Event – Zoe Richards in conversation with Vic Watson
Bestselling author Zoë Richards will be holding a launch event for her new novel, Tell it to the Bees. The book came out in August. Vic Watson of Bay Tales will be chairing
4 events,
7 events,
7 events,
Spanish Conversation
Spanish Conversation
The Spanish Conversation Group meets every Thursday at 6.0pm until 7.30pm. The cost is still £3 per meeting. A new arrival is not expected to pay on the first evening. We continue to welcome new members. The standard is very fluid. As long as you...
Thursday Talk – Dracula
Thursday Talk – Dracula
We know about the cobwebbed coffins in the castle, the shape-shifting bat, and the be-fanged and blood-thirsty vampire. These have all become cliched tropes of the Gothic imagination. Helena Habibi returns to explore the Gothic anxieties lurking within the mass of typewritten documents that comprise...
