2:30 pm

Speaker: Christine Green worked as a graphic designer at the BBC for 13 years creating opening title sequences for many popular TV programmes including the Queen’s Speech, ‘Our Friends in the North’, ‘Island Race’ and ‘Foyles  War’. Her talk includes many show reels, story boards and art work. She is both a designer and maker, passionate about textiles, graphics, typography, moving image, paper cutting, etc. Christine has received several international awards including a BAFTA nomination.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:15 pm

We are holding our AGM just prior to this Month's Open Meeting. It will take about 20 minutes.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Our AGM, about 20 mins, then Speaker: Roger Browne on Fats Waller who was a superb entertainer with his fabulous piano playing, wonderful songs and his larger-than-life personality. He led a riotous life, some hilarious, some shocking, some Mafia related and some moving. Hear his story and his awesome music through Roger Browne who we are delighted to welcome back to entertain us.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Amelia Perkins, The British Divers Marine Life Rescue provide specialist help to marine mammals, 24/7, whether it be a full-blown environmental disaster or a single seal needing help. As a marine mammal medic, she explains how the charity helps whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals, whether they are stranded or in need of urgent medical help.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Martin Lloyd. Three passports have played an influential role in the course of history: an attempted assassination, which altered the regulations for issuing passports; the capture of a spy that caused a worldwide modification to the design of the document; and for one person, the passport itself that turned into a killer. Author and former immigration officer Martin Lloyd has made the study of passports his passion and reveals their role in the course of history in this talk.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Ray Sturdy. The 60s... …a defining decade with flourishing art, music and fashion. In 10 years much of Britain was transformed from the bleak 1950s into a time full of freedom, hope and promise with new cars, motorways, miniskirts, the Twist, Twiggy and Concorde plus scandals, a royal wedding, a moon walk and nearly a nuclear war! Join us, as Ray Sturdy takes back to a time when petrol was only five shillings a gallon!

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Kenilworth u3a member Clive Sutton who tells the story of how as a boy he dreamed of piloting his own aircraft. Following a long career in aviation and automotive engineering, including seven years in the RAF, he eventually did so

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Alan Cutler. An Edwardian murder trial from over 100 years ago dramatised by our speaker who plays judge, prosecuting and defence counsels using transcriptions of the trial. The Audience – The Jury - will hear the evidence. What will you decide in weighing the arguments presented by the prosecuting and defending counsels?

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Alex Harvey. Two brothers, Alex and Jon Harvey co-founders and creative directors at a local virtual reality studio, decided to look deeper into the legend. Join us to hear the story of how the tunnels were found and see the images of the tunnels discovered by Alex, Jon and their team. Learn what historians now think they were for!

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

Speaker: Martin Woolston. Unexplained aerial phenomena, flying saucers and ball lightning, is not a jolly subject but a down to earth description of vehicles, beings and some of the unpleasant happenings. Also countering the conventional view that UFOs come from other worlds, when the evidence is that they have always been here, but may have connections with other worlds or realms

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker: Steve Dimmer. Why are so many of the most memorable comedy characters the grumpy ones? There is a direct line from Pa Glum, Tony Hancock, Albert Steptoe, Alf Garnet, Rigsby, Basil Fawlty and Victor Meldrew among many others… the list goes on and on of the bad tempered and irritable. Steve Dimmer takes a hilarious journey examining the thread, with lots of clips, laughs and grumbles along the way. Prepare to be rocking in your seat…

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:40 pm

Speaker: Max Keen. Alfred the Great was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. How much did Alfred owe his 'Greatness' to ‘lads luck’… And did he burn his cakes or is that merely a myth? In full costume, Max will attempt to answer this and other important questions, complete with chain mail, helmet, spear, shield, sword and the most fearsome double handed axe!

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to u3a members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1

2:30 pm

Speaker Fran Sandham. Critically acclaimed author and public speaker Fran Sandham took on the challenge of a lifetime by walking coast-to-coast across Africa, from the Atlantic on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar This was the first time on record anyone has crossed Africa solo entirely on foot by this route - or at least solo apart from a disastrous donkey! He undertook this 3,500-mile journey with no backup, no support team, no sponsors, no film crew, and no strings attached.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members. Non-members are welcome for a nominal charge of £1.

2:30 pm

Speaker: Roger Browne. raconteur, historian and musician entertains us brilliantly once again, with live music… …on the history of jazz… how it came to UK from the United States in the 1920s and its impact on British Society… Life was never the same again drugs, drink, scantily dressed women, wild behaviour and much more!

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

2:30 pm

Speaker: Sheila Robinson. Warwickshire is steeped in the supernatural with castles, houses, churches, theatres, inns and many other places having mind numbing tales of ghostly presences. Come and be chilled by tales of haunted places, eerie happenings and shadowy presences

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

Speaker: Alan Deeley. Alan is a keen part time Beekeeper who lives locally in Burton Green. His talk is about the fascinating world of Bees, their lives , hives, and their honey production

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

Speaker Adrian James. Adrian has previously given a talk at our Open Meeting – ‘Gardens of Paradise’. It was very well received so we are delighted he has agreed to join us again. He will takes us through the year with stories & folklore associated with plants and trees, the turning of the seasons, seasonal festivities & celebrations etc.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

2:30 pm

Speaker: Dr. Gillian White This talk examines the portraiture of ‘Good Queen Bess’ and traces the development of an English icon from tentative beginnings to the triumph of royal propaganda. […]

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

Graham Sutherland, author of Warwick - Bloody British History sheds light on some of the less savoury aspects of the town’s history. Hundreds of dark and scandalous events have happened in Warwick over the centuries, from the murder of Piers Gaveston, the king's lover to the incredible histories of the Earls of Warwick. The Gunpowder Plot started here and the castle's horses stolen when the plotters tried to escape. Come and hear about martyrs, murderers and corrupt officials, crimes, ghosts, prize-fighters and eccentrics, you'll never see the town in the same way again!

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

Speaker: Max Keen has previously entertained us with his lively and animated talks in full period costume. Max likes to be controversial at times to stimulate historical thought and debate.

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

Cost: Entry is free to members (non-members welcome for a £1 donation)

A.G.M. (Annual General Meeting) is being held at 2.15pm and should take about 15 mins. Please do support us by email, post or in person so that we are quorate. - followed by The History of Jazz Piano - Speaker: Roger Browne

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

A Talk by Graham Short The subject of this talk was one of the most bizarre we have ever booked. It may have been a strange topic but Graham Short […]

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

A talk by Fran Sandham Most people know about the meeting in Africa in 1871 between the explorer Doctor David Livingstone and the journalist Henry Morton Stanley and the famous […]

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

A talk by Dr Gillian White Most people have, or have had, a Teddy Bear, so it was of considerable interest for our speaker, Dr Gillian White, to enlighten us […]

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church

A Talk by Georgie Hale Georgie Hale gave us a masterclass in presenting a dramatic sea rescue with no notes or visual aids. It was in 2001 that Georgie’s husband, […]

Venue: Kenilworth Methodist Church