We are holding an Evening Concert at 7.0pm, on Friday 17th September, given by ‘The Monday Choir’ in St Mary’s Church, Hay. This is a fundraising event for Hay & District Community Support to help fund our projects (Luncheon Club and Friendly Club). Details of time and ticket price will be advertised on posters nearer the date. We do hope you will come along and enjoy yourselves

Hay Travellers Club: 51 members joined the trip to Tenby on 10th August. The day started cloudy but improved with a lovely sunny afternoon, encouraging some hardy souls to have a swim in the sea! Our next day trip is on Tuesday 19th October to Malmesbury and then on to Twigworth, where we will visit ‘Nature in Art’, the world’s only museum and art gallery dedicated exclusively to art inspired by nature in all its diversity. It is highly recommended.

Sandra Havard: Hay & District Community Support, Oxford Road, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BP. 01497 821031(email:info@vbxhay2.wanadoo.co.uk)

U3A Hay – September Meeting

The next meeting of U3A Hay to be held at Summerhill Golf Club on the 21st September will be an all day event starting at 10.30am with a talk on The Medicis – God’s Bankers by Roger Baggs, a mature Masters in Art History and reviewer of books, who will share with us his 40-year passion for Italian Renaissance Art.

The afternoon session starting at 1.30pm will feature fashion historian Rodney Mace who asks, ‘Why Are Men’s Clothes So Dull’? Rodney is a historian with an interest in how things come to be made and for the last few years this thing has been a man’s suit. Trained originally as an architect he switched to history while teaching Architects at University College in the early 1970s. Since then he has lectured and written on architectural history, imperialism, oral history, trade unionism, and more recently, environmental issues associated with clothing production. For 7 years he chaired the NGO Platform that campaigns around the activities of oil multinationals in developing countries. Since moving to Hay in May 2008 he has continued to write on the wool and clothing industries and presently co-ordinates Hay’s Festival of British Cinema.

Summerhill will provide a bar snack for those who wish to attend both the morning and afternoon talks.

Members pay £2 and non-members £5 for either session but if you come for the morning talk the afternoon talk is free. Further information can be obtained from our website, www.u3ahay.org.uk or bettymchay@hotmail.com, the Honorary Secretary, on 01497 821023.