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Welcome to our Autumn / Winter Season 2013/14 !
Dear Member or Prospective Member, dear Colleague, dear Friend.
We have now moved to spacious new premises at the
Handelsakademie (HAK), Karl-Schönherr-Str. 2, Saggen, Innsbruck.
Highlights this Season include
Special Events |
| Tues Oct 22 |
Official Opening of our new Society Rooms
by the British Ambassador to Austria |
| Wed Oct 30 |
Performance of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey,
hot from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. |
| Thurs Dec 5 |
Performance of Clive Duncan’s Pretty Shrewd by Vienna’s English Theatre |
| Sun Jan 26 |
Burns Night |
| October 2013 |
Graham Greene(1904 – 1991), a standing exhibition of the man and his work, in 16 panels along the corridor leading to the Society Rooms and 40 years of the Austro-British Society, a standing exhibition |
Regular Events |
20th c British Music
with Andrew Milne-Skinner, Mondays 19.00 – 20.40, starting Oct 7,
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uni.com (please register with VHS)
University, Innrain 52e, 1st floor, Room SR 50105/2 |
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Tuesday Club, from 16.00, starting Oct 1 (weekly), Society Rooms
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Coffee and Conversation with Lynne |
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Hazel will take us around Britain: 1,000 years of "How we built Britain“ |
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Talking Topics with Heinz |
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Starting Oct 10 fortnightly in the Society Rooms with
Andrew Milne-Skinner
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Oct 10 |
Oct 24 |
Nov 7 |
Nov 21 |
Dec 5 |
Jan 9 |
Jan
23 |
Reading Circle for Advanced Pupils
15.00-16.00
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Topics to be negotiated with participants |
Teachers’ Forum
16.00-17.00
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Topics to be negotiated with participants |
Poetry Café
18.00-19.00
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Seamus Heaney |
Poems of Autumn |
Poems of
World War I |
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Robert Burns |
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Tuesdays now continue as the Tuesday Club, with Hazel, Heinz and Lynne in a rota, each with their own very different ideas.
In addition to the regular Tuesday Club, we are offering A Reading Circle for Advanced Pupils, a Teachers’ Forum, and Poetry Café on alternate Thursdays. Do join us for any of these sessions!
May we kindly remind you that membership subscriptions are now due? We have managed to keep the fees the same: Individual Members €25, Joint Members €40, Students €15.
Pupils are also now invited to join for €10. Our bank details are as follows:
| Sparkasse Innsbruck |
| IBAN |
AT78 2050 3000 0007 0714 |
| BIC |
SPIHAT22XXX |
We look forward to welcoming you to our various events! We thank you for your support.
Andrew Milne-Skinner (President), along with the Austro-British Society Committee
Programme from September 2013 to January 2014
| September |
| Tues 24 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00-18.00 |
Yasmin’s Farewell Conversation Session |
| Mon 30 |
Cinematograph Museumstr. 3 |
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19.00-21.00 |
The Look of Love (dir. Michael Winterbottom) |
| October |
| Tues 01 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Talking Topics with Heinz
"To write in plain, vigorous language": George Orwell |
| Tues 08 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Coffee and Conversation with Lynne |
| Thur 10 |
Society Rooms |
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18.00 - 19.00 |
Poetry Café, with Andrew Milne-Skinner
Seamus Heaney |
| Tues 15 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Around Britain with Hazel
1,000 years of „How we built Britain“ |
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19.00-20.30 |
The Enduring Appeal of Jane Austen.
An illustrated talk by Sandra Milne-Skinner |
| Sun 20 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00-18.30 |
University of St.Andrews 1413 – 2013 (film) |
| Tues 22 |
Society Rooms |
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19.00 |
Official Opening of the Society’s new premises by British Ambassador, together with representatives from City of Innsbruck, Region of Tyrol, University, schools and cultural organizations |
| Thurs 24 |
Society Rooms |
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19.30-21.00 |
How good a teacher was D.H. Lawrence?
What does make a ‘good’ teacher?
An illustrated talk by Andrew Milne-Skinner |
| Tues 29 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Talking Topics with Heinz |
| Wed 30 |
Ursulinensäle Innsbruck, Innrain 7 |
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15.00 and 19.00 |
Northanger Abbey
(two performances of this dramatized version of Jane Austen’s novel from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe)
(preceded in the weeks beforehand by Workshops on the play for Oberstufe AHS & BHS classes) |
| November |
| Tues 5 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Coffee and Conversation with Lynne |
| Mon 11 |
Society Rooms |
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19.00-21.00 |
War Requiem. Film by Derek Jarman,
based on Benjamin Britten’s work |
| Tues 12 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Around Britain with Hazel |
| Wed 13 |
Society Rooms |
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18.30 |
The Candle of Hope:
The Symbol of Amnesty International. The London lawyer Peter Benenson founded Amnesty International in 1961
The talk follows how Human Rights violations have affected both Peter Benenson’s as well as Hazel’s lives
A talk by Hazel Zeiner |
| Tues 19 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Talking Topics with Heinz |
| Tues 26 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Coffee and Conversation with Lynne |
| December |
| Tues 3 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Around Britain with Hazel |
| Thurs 5 |
Kongress Haus (Saal Brüssel) |
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19.00-21.00 |
Pretty Shrewd (play by Clive Duncan),
Vienna’s English Theatre (preceded in the weeks beforehand by Workshops on the play for Oberstufe AHS & BHS classes) |
| Tues 10 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Talking Topics with Heinz |
| Tues 17 |
Society Rooms |
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19.00 |
Our Traditional Christmas Party |
| January |
| Tues 7 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Around Britain with Hazel |
| Tues 14 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Talking Topics with Heinz |
| Wed 15 |
Society Rooms |
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19.00-21.00 |
Raffles, Tasman and Cook:
Travels in the English Speaking World.
An illustrated talk by Heinz Payr |
| Tues 21 |
Society Rooms |
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17.00 |
Coffee and Conversation with Lynne |
| Sun 26 |
Diana Bar, Gasthof zum Goldenen Löwen, Oberer Stadtplatz, Hall in Tirol |
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19.00-22.00 |
Burns Night, the traditional celebration of Scotland’s national poet, with readings, recitals, haggis – neeps, tatties, and whisky |
| Tues 28 |
Society Rooms |
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Around Britain with Hazel |
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