BRLSI: 16 QUEEN SQUARE, BATH, BA1 2HN WEB:www.brlsi.org
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EXHIBITION
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Daily (Exc. Sundays) 10-4
John Mitchell – Paintings
Lancashire-born but now resident in Frome, John Mitchell is a trained
Gestalt Psychotherapist as well as an artist. Since 2000 he has worked
intensively At drawing and painting, with emphasis on the human figure, working
from life And other sources including his own photographs, the work of other
artists, and images from magazines, newspapers, film, TV and books. Components
are selected to provide a point of departure rather than a destination,
withholding interpretation and allowing the painting to unfold. John has
recently been exhibiting at the Hay Hill Gallery in Cork Street, London.
MONDAY JULY 19th
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Two events:
BRIDGE SCHOOL OF BATH:
14.00 Intermediate
19.00 Beginners
WORLD AFFAIRS GROUP: 7.30pm
Members/students £2, Visitors £4
“Routes to sustainable consumption – ‘better’ ways from nature’s library”
T.Richard Poynton CEnv, MIEMA Consultant, Speaker & Writer
The need for humanity to adopt sustainable consumption may slowly be gaining
acceptance. But, what this means in terms of everyday practice, for policy
makers, suppliers and consumers in the developed world and for materials supply
from the developing world remains fogged by uncertainties and tacit fears of
undesirablility.
Using the ‘better’ ways from nature’s library as his ‘how to’ guide, Richard
Poynton will take a positive view, revealing the opportunities for business,
human fulfilment and fun, which line the routes to sustainable consumption.
TUESDAY JULY 20th, 7.30pm
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LITERATURE & HUMANITIES GROUP; Members/Students £2, Visitors £4
“Robert Schumann – His life & work to 1840-41”
Dr Robert Blackburn
Former Principal Lecturer in Music, Bath Spa University
The bicentenary of Schumann’s birth gives us an opportunity to celebrate his
music, and look again at his place in European Romanticism in the first half of
the nineteenth century. There will be plentiful illustrations from his works at
the piano
WEDNESDAY JULY 20th: 7.00pm
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BRIDGE SCHOOL OF BATH
Bridge & Games
SATURDAY JULY 24th
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Coffee Morning: 11.00-12.30
COMING SOON:
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Our offerings are going to be a bit slim over the next few weeks as we have to
home our Moore Room tenants, Touch Productions, in the Elwin Room while the
roof to their building across the courtyard is repaired.
Wed 28 Poetry W B Yeats A Life in Poetry
John Chambers
Meeting cancellation: Please note that the talk: “Cognitive Bias, Intution &
Science” which was due to take place on Friday 30th June has been cancelled.
We will let you know as soon as a new date has been arranged.
OTHER NEWS
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It is with great regret that we have to announce the death John Coates, who
died last weekend. John Coates was the dependable rock on which the Institution
built its foundations. Where others were vague, John added necessary detail. He
was the person who put the flesh on our Articles of Association and gave us
administrative structure and was Hon. Sec. for many years. He was also a
Convenor for the Design and Architecture Group. Having left the Navy, where he
worked on County Class Destroyers, he turned his attention to older ships –
the Greek Trireme – and was
instrumental in the building of a replica:
http://science.discovery.com/videos/what-the-ancients-knew-olympias-the-trireme
-replica.html
http://science.discovery.com/videos/what-the-ancients-knew-the-battering-ram.ht
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He also worked on the archaeological remains of Bronze Age sea-going ships in
Northern Europe, ‘The Ferriby Boats’.
http://www.ferribyboats.co.uk/
Your editor remembers a talk he gave to the Design Group at a time when the
building was being renovated and we were having monthly (we’ve come a long
way since!) meetings in the Bath & County Club just up the road. He was
talking about the occasional inadequacy of design. This he demonstrated with an
upmarket teapot which produced two perfectly formed streams of the amber nectar
– no good if you only wanted one cup of tea!.
There is an obituary from the Telegraph here with a good picture of John seated
in a cross-section the Trireme, which he had constructed in grounds of Sabinal,
his home in Weston:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries
/7895377/John-Coates.html
Please forward this Bulletin on to any of your colleagues who might be
interested.
Bob Draper
