By publicity officer Barbara Cranfield
U3A Northern Illawarra, based in the Thirroul District Community Centre, is a community organisation that provides its members with a wonderful variety of special interest groups in addition to a weekly Wednesday Talks program of interesting and thought-provoking topics.
The groups include yoga, drawing and painting, Australian/Pacific studies, gentle exercise, choir, brain games, current affairs, film appreciation and drama. Members join to learn something new in a friendly and supportive environment, to enhance their physical and mental health and, of course, to have fun and socialise. Members pay $50 a year and can join as many classes as they wish.
Thinking of joining? U3A invites you to visit our groups in the first two weeks of Term 1 before enrolling. The Term 1 newsletter will be online after January 18. We hope to see you soon.
Visit www.northernillawarra.u3anet.org.au
What’s On at U3A, Term 1, 2025
U3A Northern Illawarra Film Appreciation Group
29 January, The General, USA, 1926, starring Buster Keaton
5 February, To Be or Not to Be, USA, 1942, starring Carole Lombard & Jack Benny
12 February, Yojimbo (Bodyguard), Japan, 1961, a samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa
19 February, Out of the Past, USA, 1947, film noir starring Robert Mitchum & Kirk Douglas
26 February, The Magician Bergman (Ansiktet), Sweden, 1958, starring Max Von Syndow
5 March, Les Visiteurs du Soir (The Devil’s Envoys), France, 1942, directed by Marcel Carne
12 March, Rome, Open City, Italy, 1945, directed by Roberto Rossellini
19 March, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, France, 1972, directed by Luis Bunuel
26 March, Sunrise, USA, 1927, starring George O’Brien & Janet Gaynor
2 April, The Adventures of Robin Hood, USA, 1938, starring Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland
Wednesday Talks Program at Thirroul
5 February, Stuart Traynor, My Christmas in Darwin with a bitch called Tracy
12 February, Jenny McConchie, Television History particularly pertaining to Wollongong
19 February, Joseph Lyons, Gambling
26 February, Prof Kathy Eager, All you have wanted to know about Aged Care
5 March, Aileen Harland, Sex, Drugs, and Queen Victoria
12 March, Denise Aubourg, Electrify 2515 Community Pilot
19 March, Lorraine Neate, Misfortune or Fraud? Illawarra and the 1840s Depression
26 March, Peter Moran (TBC), Worst Road Trip- Ever
2 April, Debate: Bulli High School v U3A
