Lectures 2024 - 2025

Thursdays at 2.00pm in St Barnabas Church Hall, Main Street, Swanland. Click on image for directions

Lecture meetings are held at 2.00pm on the first and third Thursdays in each month from September to July, afterwards there is tea/coffee and biscuits and a chance to catchup with our members.

To read a Speakers Biography please click on Speakers Name if link available. We have a few recordings of the Lectures done during the covid crisis, you can check 2020 / 2021 lecture pages for them by going on the menu and clicking the Lectures Tab.

Date:	Speaker:	Subject:	About:

05^th September 2.00pm	John Wilson	Bread	John’s topic is ‘Bread’, something that we are all familiar with, but probably do not think much about. For many years John has searched for the perfect loaf, have you found yours?
19^th September 2.00pm	Dr Richard Hodgskinson	Uncomplicating Mental Health	Uncomplicating Mental Health: Insights from Socrates, Our Apes Ancestors, and Recovering Addicts. Richard will take us on a whistle stop tour of our fascinating evolution as human beings and what part our emotions have played in our development. The experiences of recovering addicts offer insights into enhancing mental health and why being a recovering alcoholic might not be as bad as it sounds.
03^rd October 2.00pm	Jan & Grahame Shelley	Hearing Dogs for the Deaf	Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. Beck’s role is to attend events to show how Hearing Dogs are trained and what they can do for a deaf or hearing-impaired partner. Beck became an ambassador in 2018, since when he has travelled thousands of miles spreading the word about Hearing Dogs.
17^th October 2.00pm	Nigel Willoughby & Julian Savory	From Coreli to Cowboys.	Music from Corelli to Cowboys, to set your emotions soaring and feet tapping.
07^th November 2.00pm	A representative of Mary’s Meals. Fran Lawson	Mary’s Meals	“Mary’s Meals” is a UK based Charity providing life-changing school meals to some of the world’s poorest children to attract them into the classroom where they can gain an education and a brighter future. An opportunity to learn more about this charity and its work.
21^st November 2.00pm	Paul Chambers	The Rent's on the table	- experiences of a trainee housing manager.
05^th December 2.00pm	Dr Kevin Byron	What Inspires Art	What Inspires Art? This presentation will first explore the nature and nurture of creativity, and then show some commonly occuring patterns of creative ideas that appear across a broad spectrum of activity from art to science. Awareness of these patterns can enhance our own creativity and help with finding novel ideas in virtually any human activity. The second half of the presentation will focus more on creativity in everyday life in the contexts of art and stories, and discuss a variety of sources of inspiration described by over a hundred artists, sculptors and photographers. .
19^th December 2.00pm	Choir	Christmas Concert
02^nd January 2025 2.00pm	Kevin Sherman	Eggs, Embryos and Origami	The journey we all undertake pre-birth