Author: u3aportfairy

When?  1st and 3rd Thursday of each month for 1 semester 10.00 am

Reading poetry aloud for pleasure and discussion.  Focussing on the power of language to amaze us; to have a deep impact on our senses and emotions.

For example

• Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass …  A huge metaphor in just two lines
• William Carols Williams: Dedication for a Plot of Ground …ANGER!
• Walter de la Mare: The Listeners …. for the haunting imagery
• Banjo Patterson: The Man from Snowy River … Raw Energy
• W B Yeats: When you are Old … unrequited love

And more contemporary poets like

• Lucille Clifton: Homage to My Hips .. power and symbolism

We’ll also explore YOUR passion for poetry, and look at poems about life, death, nature and the human experience.

 

 

 

When? Wednesdays 2pm for 6 weeks

This course is for artists and those who have never painted but want to.

We will be using the IPAD as our canvas and using painting techniques to create a range of paintings — landscape, abstract, still life, portrait, seascape — all on the ipad without paints, tins, brushes or mess!

We will start off with the free App called BRUSHES REDUX

Here are a couple of examples… you might guess I like colour

Thanks for joining us!