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** Addition to Term 3 Program (11 September -16 November)
Facts, Faiths and Fallacies: an introduction to the New Testament gospels – David Clarke – 10 am Monday – Lecture Room

 Newsletter no 151, August 2023
** Government  House Reception
The Government House Reception on 24 July in honour of U3A Hobart and in particular to celebrate the magnificent thirty year contribution of our retiring Academic Coordinator, Leone Scrivener, was a very happy occasion attended by 150 members.
          

 

** Frances Thé – Music and Emotion in the ‘Rhetorical’ Age
On 25 July Hobart-born professional violinist Frances Thé  gave members a fascinating talk/performance featuring the baroque violin and showing its close affinity with the human voice.Music and the art of rhetorical speech were closely linked in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Frances currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She wrote her Masters thesis on rhetoric and baroque violin music and now teaches on this subject at the Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands.

** Ken Chilcott delivered the 2023 Roy and Maureen Davies Memorial Lecture on 9 February 2023 in the Town Hall. Watch Ken’s piano recital.

**  Protect yourself from Cybercrime!
IDCARE – Identify Theft & Cyber Support www.idcare.org  provides helpful fact sheets, videos, apps and other useful tools.

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