On-Line Event of the Week -  Cheltenham Science Festival  2nd to 7th June

 

 

 Full schedule and how to "attend" events here.

A Guide to highlights of the festival available in this article.

 

 Tue 2 Jun 7:00pm - 8:00pm  YouTube; live show only

.Join physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw on a monumental journey, exploring the importance of black holes and discovering how their often quite astonishing, counter-intuitive behaviour turns our knowledge of physics on its head.

 

 

 

 

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 Following events, originally transmitted on 8th May, are still available:-

• Royal British Legion’s (RBL) VE Day 75 Livestream. The programme features stories from those who served and sacrificed, as well as recognising the difficulties people are experiencing today.
• Concert from Royal Albert Hall featuring Katherine Jenkins. Available via this link.  Katherine sings wartime classics by Dame Vera Lynn, including The White Cliffs Of Dover and We'll Meet Again.

 

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Learn A Language with Cornwall Libraries

 You can access over 80 free online language courses with your Cornwall Library card:  Details here

 Cornwall Library also provides members with free access to a wide range of online resources. These include electronic books, eAudiobooks, online newspapers and magazines, More details here.

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Mr Motivator 

 Mr Motivator workout exercises still available to view on National U3A YouTube Channel 

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Free Plays, Musicals, Classical Concerts and Operas

  A daily guide to events available via this link

 

   Links to other theatres and Concert Halls

• Barbican Theatre - Read, Watch & Listen
• Glyndebourne Festival
• Sadler’s Wells
• National Theatre
• Royal Albert Hall at Home  Free streaming with artists sharing their work from their homes to yours.
• Royal Opera House
• Shakespeare's Globe
• Wigmore Hall
• Jermyn Street Theatre
• Concerts from Royal Scottish National Orchestra
• The Metropolitan Opera New York offers a different free "live" performance every day.
• More Opera from around Europe available via this website

• Cornwall's Miracle Theatre is showing following plays on-line:-

  - Monday 6 April  The stage production of ‘Tin’
  - Monday 4th May ‘The Case of the Frightened Lady’ filmed in May 2014 at The Minack Theatre.
  - Monday 1st June: The Importance of Being Earnest, summer 2012
  - Monday 6th July, The Magnificent Three, summer 2015

  Each show will available to view for 30 days on Miracle Theatre’s YouTube channel from 7pm on its release date.  More details of the plays available via Visit Cornwall Website

• An extensive guide to free stage shows from WhatsOnStage.com
• Live-streamed and archive classical concerts available online.  (provided by Classic FM)

•  Another comprehensive list of (mostly free) Theatre, Dance, Opera, Music, Visual arts, Museums and galleries to view at home from Cultural Digital

• The online version of The Stage Newspaper regularly updates this page with details of plays being streamed on-line. These tend to include provincial theatres as well as West End productions.
• BBC Arts  Culture in Quarantine - Bringing arts and culture into your home.  Frequent updates available on twitter.
• Creative Challenges from Kneehigh Theatre

 

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Museums and Galleries

Links to Virtual Tours

 

 

• Andy Warhol at Tate Modern – Exhibition Tour
• Tate St Ives
• More from Tate Gallery
• Explore the British Museum from home.
• Collections from Museum of London
• Natural History Museum -  11 ways to explore from home
• National Portrait Gallery - Virtual Rooms
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington DC. Very impressive site including a Virtual Tour of the museum

•  Visit 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites via Google Earth

• Virtual tours of museums around the world compiled by Time Out Magazine

• Arts and Culture around the World selected by Google
• Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK and represents a collaboration between over 3,200 British institutions.
• The Arts Society have a CV-19 site where they want to "connect people through a shared love for the arts".

 

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Free Films

 

 

A selection of websites offering free films

• Archive Films from British Film Institute
• Watch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films from Open Culture.
• Free films from UK Film Channel available here
• The Internet Archive has a vast number of films, generally at least 50 years old. See here
• The BFI’s Britain on Film showcases thousands of preserved films taken from the last 120 years of British life.
• TED Talks -  influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity,
• Lectures from The Royal Archaeological Institute

 

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  YouTube Videos

Links to Live Events, Sports, Cooking, Study, Workouts,  Music and much more.  Visit YouTube Spotlight Page 

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Family History Resources

 

 

• Free access to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland available from  15th May  and continuing for a week, until 21 May. The Dictionary can be accessed here.
• TheGenealogist​ is offering a free package of their most useful record sets, their image archiveand digital magazines for beginners to use for 3 months. No card details, no subscription.  Details here.
• A large number of documents held in the British Library can currently be accessed for free. Suggest  you start here to explore.
• Access The National Archives for free

 

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  Virtual Garden Visits

 

 

• Chelsea Flower Show from 18 to 23 May available on-line from RHS website 
• Central Park New York
• Eden Project at Home
• Virtual tours of National Trust properties
• National Garden Scheme Virtual Visits
• Kew Gardens and Wakehurst
• Looking for more gardens to visit? Try this list from TheEnglishGarden.co.uk

 

Real Garden Visits

29th May - Lanhydrock House Grounds Now Open

Lanhydrock House 29th May 2020.
   Image Credit:  Lindsay Southgate

Lanhydrock National Trust Grounds are now open. However, you must pre-book a timed car park space in advance. Details here.

 

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  Other U3A Group Webpages 

• Members of Newquay U3A have set up a very comprehensive Virtual U3A
• Bristol Group has also set up a Virtual U3A
• National U3A Website offering "guidance and advice on coronavirus plus some great ideas to keep learning together"
• National U3A Keep Learning Pages
• Bicester U3A has a Coronoavirus Page on their website. A lot of details relate to local activities, but they also have good  What's On and Things to Do sections.
• Arts in the time of Covid-19 ( April 2020) from Woodley and District U3A
• Ilkley U3A  has a Coronavirus Support Zone including a section on Making Good Use of Spare Time and a Quiz page.
• The Virtual U3A based in UK
  
• U3A Online A Virtual U3A based in Australia
• U3A Learning Resources  (Registration needed to use some sections)
• A U3A National Creative Writing Competition is now taking place. The deadline for submission is 12 noon on 19th June 2020.  Details here.

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Lostwithiel U3A Groups with recent updates to their webpages

Several of our groups have added extra information to their webpages;

 For Example:-

•  Ukulele Workshop page has videos of several performances plus photos from recent events.
• The Strummers Ukulele homepage features some painting by group member Jenny and a homemade Ukulele built from beer containers by Clive;
•  Members of the Photography Group have started a  Wildlife corner,  a Gallery page,  and a Virtual travel page.  Also group member Jenny has started a blog detailing the progress of her wildflower meadow.
• Our Cycling Group has been posting details of their solo, and in some cases couples, bike rides around the area

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Connecting with others

• National U3A website has a page with instructions for Keeping in Touch and staying connected with each other. see here
  
  
• Video Calling advice sheet from BBC Radio Cornwall available via this link.

During April BT partnered with ITV  to run a series of daily tech lessons to help you and your family stay connected. Topics covered include:

Getting your business online with Jake Humphry
Digital wellbeing with Fearne Cotton
Working from home with Clare Balding
Family time online with David Walliams
Learning at home with David Walliams
Online banking with Angelica Bell
Safety online with Rochelle & Marvin Humes

  Episodes are available on-line via  Top Tips on Tech. 

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On-Line Courses

 

 

A vast number of on-line courses are available. Try searching these links to find a topic of interest:-.

• https://www.futurelearn.com/courses
• https://www.coursera.org/
• https://www.edx.org/
• https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/fr...rning.page
• https://www.york.ac.uk/study/moocs/
• https://www.open.edu/openlearn/  (Open University)

 

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Local Links

• Cornwall Council Information about Coronavirus (webpage)
• Cornwall Council Information about Coronavirus (pdf document)
• CV-19 Advice from Devon and Cornwall Police
• BBC Cornwall news stream
• Lostwithiel Town Council facebook page
• Lostwithiel Business Group COVID-19 pages  
• CV-19 Support Group for Lostwithiel   (Local facebook support group with over 400 members)
• Lostwithiel Newsletter for May
• Lostwithiel's Virtual High street (facebook page with news from local traders)
• The IntoBodmin Group issued a newsletter on 18th May with lots of activities to keep you occupied during lockdown

 

 

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Royal Voluntary Service

 

The RVS has set up a Virtual Village Hall with lots of information including:-

• Creative, Arts & Crafts,
• Recipes & Baking
• Health, Wellbeing & Exercise
• Something Different
• Technology Skills

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Other Links

• Amazon is making books, video, music and more available for free.  Details here.   
• Claire Ryan, who runs ChatterPack, has produced an enormous list of free "boredom-busting" resources
• How to enjoy heritage from home as suggested by Heritage Lottery Fund
• Extensive COVID-19 Information and resource site from Google
• Beware of internet scams,  Here is some good advice from Google