Meeting: Tues 1st December 2020 Guest Speaker was Prof Penelope (Pene) Mathew more info >
Next Main Meeting 2nd February 2021 with details coming soon.
"The Origins of London" View the talk >
While U3A stands for University of the Third age. We are not in modern sense a University.
No qualifications, No exams. Finding fellowship and common interests.
Guest Speakers > 2000 - 2020
December 2020 Christmas Festivities - Images >
Peter organised the Christmas hall seating.
Talk on "SLEEP, DREAMS and NIGHTMARES
Images Mar 2019 >
Next Main meeting will be on the 2nd February 2021.
U3A members who would like to keep their brains working in your spare time FutureLearn.com >
It is an online education platform set up by a group of top British Universities, offering a variety of free courses.
Murray with a work life in the Printing Industry talked about its history.
Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg introduced the metal movable-type printing press in Europe and the first printed Bibles. Christmas Images >
Those of us who met for a Pot-Luck Christmas Lunch had not bargained on playing a game with 7 sets of two tennis balls at the ends of a piece of rope and a 3 bar ladder to thow them at to gain the most points. Game also known as ladder ball, monkey ball, ladder golf, ball rope, goofy balls, cowboy golf, and hillbilly golf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_toss
For this groups last Christmas meeting for the year, 9th November, it involved an outing to the Historic Long Bay Vaughan Homestead.
All of us at Browns Bay U3A play our part during the year – we may be Committee members, Convenors, or Special Interest Group members, and we all play our part in making sure that our monthly meetings go smoothly. We all take our turn serving morning tea, moving seating, greeting newcomers and enjoying fellowship and mental stimulation. Want to have fun and keep the grey matter working? You are most welcome to join us.
U3A Browns Bay Inc North Shore Members Come From Okura, Glenfield, Wairau, Torbay, Albany, Paremoremo Valley, Murrays Bay, Mairangi Bay, Takapuna, Hibiscus Coast, Devonport, Northcote, Coatesville and Birkenhead. There are many U3A’s across Auckland and throughout New Zealand. The U3A New Zealand > website has the complete U3A list of over 80 if you are outside our area.