THE popular U3A Hobart Summer Lecture Series – A Kaleidoscope of Knowledge – starts on January 9 with a field trip to Chauncy Vale at Bagdad led by Heather Chauncy.
The site is a favourite daytrip destination and the location for the 1962 classic Tasmanian film They Found a Cave, an adaptation of the book written by Heather’s mother, children’s author Nan Chauncy.
Other lectures will examine arts, music, shopping and the sciences, including a look at issues surrounding Antarctic tourism entitled Would you like ice with that?
Dean Barker from the Australian Red Cross will speak about working with asylum seekers and refugees, while the University of Tasmania’s Dr Stephan Petrow has called his lecture Town Planners and Planning in Hobart 1915-1945.
The finale of the 10-lecture series is the annual Roy and Maureen Davis Memorial Lecture, which will be presented by art curator Dr Jane Deeth on the subject Cons, Cliches and Conundrums: why bother with contemporary art?
The series runs January 8-February 15. Entry by gold coin donation. Morning tea included.
- Lectures will be held at the Phillip Smith Centre, Glebe. Phone 0431-860-086 or visit www.u3ahobart.org.au from January 1.
