U3A Dunedin
| News and coming eventsSummer Learning at Otago - Continuing EducationThrough a poet's eyes: Dunedin, City of LiteratureSue Wootton 21 -25 January Three days of inspirational fieldwork are followed by two days poetry workshop. This course will nurture your muse and exercise your writing muscles, combining workshop sessions with inspirational fieldwork tracing Dunedin poets through the city and environs. Course fee: $300 Dear Essayist, I Like Your StyleDr Lynn Jenner 21 -25 January This intensive reading and writing opportunity can jumpstart or extend your essay writing with practical support. Essays can be personal, theoretical, political, satirical or light-hearted, and about something you know a lot about or want to understand. You will make links between aesthetics and technique, and experiment in a workshop setting. Course fee: $280 Wordsmith: Radio WritingCaroline Lark 28 January –1 February Create or adapt a play, monologue, poem, short fiction or memoir for radio or other audio forms. The sessions provide examples and exercises as learning tools plus time to workshop ideas, helping you bring plot to life, convey context, build tension, and more. Otago Access Radio will consider completed drafts for production and broadcast. Course fee: $280 Click here for enrolment details Parkinson Diagnostic Tool - Research Volunteers NeededPlease click here for fuller details 2018 McKinlay Oration available on lineProfessor Ken Brown's address from 28th November 2018 Please click here for fuller details Medical MarvelsExhibition at Special Collections - de Beer Gallery from 14th December Please click here for fuller details Seven Myths of Memory - Seminar - All WelcomeMoot Court - Friday 25th January 2019 Please click here for fuller details Otago Future Fuels workshop7th and 8th February 2019 Registration has opened for the workshop which Prof Sally Brooker (Chemistry) is organising. Please click here for fuller details
Christmas Cracker Jokes (found in a free Tauranga newspaper)Who is a Christmas Tree’s favourite singer? Spruce Springsteen How is the alphabet different on Christmas Dad than any other day? On Christmas Day it has Noel How did the ornament get addicted to Christmas? He was hooked on trees his whole life What do you call and elf that sings? A wrapper What do you call a kid who doesn’t believe in Santa? A rebel without a Claus Why was Santa’s little helper feeling depressed? Because he had low elf-esteem What do the elves call Santa when he goes to the beach? Sandy Claus Where does Santa stay when he is on holiday? At a ho-ho-ho-tel Who says oh, oh, oh? Santa walking backwards Which of Santa’s reindeer has to mind his manners? Rude-olph Who hides in the bakery at Christmas? A mince-spy What do angry mice send at Christmas? Cross mouse cards What type of car do elves drive? Toy-otas Why is everyone so thirsty at the north pole? No well, no well What is every parent’s favourite Christmas Carol Silent Night What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations? Tinsel-it is Why did no-one bid for Rudolph and Blitzen on TradeMe? They were two deer What’s red, white and blue at Christmas time? A sad candy cane What does Rudolph want for Christmas? A pony sleigh station What did Santa say to Mrs Claus when he looked out the window? It looks like rain, dear What do you call a blind reindeer? No eye deer What do you get when you cross a Christmas tree and an iPad? A pine apple What do the royal family play at Christmas instead of musical chairs? Game of Thrones What do you give a dog for Christmas? A mobile bone Volunteers Wanted - Brain Blood Flow ResearchPlease click here for more details 2019 UK Universities TourPlease click here for fuller details University of Otago - Alumni EventsPlease click here for the link University of Otago - MagazinePlease click here for the link to the latest issue University of Otago - Continuing EducationPlease click here for the link University of Otago - Foundation TrustThe Foundation Trust receives and administers donations and bequests made to help advance the interests of the University, its staff and its students. Please click here for the link University of Otago - Open LecturesPlease click here for the link Dunedin Public Art GalleryPlease click here for the link Otago MuseumPlease click here for the link Toitu Otago Settlers MuseumPlease click here for the link Otago Decorative & Fine Arts Society | Golf club car parkPLEASE be very careful when driving through the car parks at the Golf Club and follow the arrows to avoid head-on confrontations. ParkingLeith Valley is a popular parking spot for people who used to park on the road now taken over by the cycle way. That doesn’t leave a lot of spaces for U3A — especially for our big courses. You can help the situation by car pooling. People who park on the clearway, opposite the Bowling Club, will likely be ticketed by DCC. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
