Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
This time SA is dedicated to the topic of ageing – in conjunction with Silver Sunday. It will feature a talk by Dr. Chrystalina Antoniades about the joys and perils of cognitive ageing, our very own David Paterson (80) will give some tips based on his journey into this (ageing) territory. All accompanied by humorous sing-a longs. If you have friends or neighbours who are not normally out and about, invite them along. We will make suitable arrangements for those with wheelchairs or having difficulties. Just let us know in advance by leaving a note on our Facebook page.
Overture to the Oxford Ceramics Fair
With Janice Tchalenko, potter
Ashmolean Lecture Theatre
Fri 17 Oct, 2–3.30pm
Janice Tchalenko is an award-winning potter whose work has been exhibited internationally and commissioned for retail outlets such as John Lewis. In this lecture Janice talks about her work and inspiration.
Unlocking Archives is a series of lunchtime talks about current research in Balliol College’s special collections.
Anna Sander: ‘The Balliol Boys’ Club and WW1.’ Friday of 4th week (7 November) at 1pm
All welcome! Feel free to bring your lunch. The talk will last about half an hour, to allow time for questions and discussion afterwards and a closer look at some of the Balliol books and manuscripts discussed. All Unlocking Archives talks take place at Balliol’s Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church, Manor Road OX1 3UH (next door to Holywell Manor). Map & directions: http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Services/visit.asp#f
Medieval Scottish Gothic: Glory and Excess
With Tim Porter, lecturer
(ticket includes tea & cake!)
Friday 5 December, 2–4pm
Ashmolean Museum Lecture Theatre
With the 2014 referendum for Scottish independence, the historic relationship between Scotland and England has recently been a prevalent topic of political discussion. This year also marks the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn, a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. These lectures explore three key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship during the Middle Ages.
Tickets are £9/£8 concessions (includes tea & cake), and booking is recommended as places are limited.
Part of a Medieval Scotland Afternoon Tea Lecture Series.
http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132
Berwick to Bannockburn: Why England Went to War with Scotland
With Tim Porter, lecturer
Friday 30 January, 2–4pm, Ashmolean Lecture Theatre
Ticket includes tea & cake
With the 2014 referendum for Scottish independence, the historic relationship between Scotland and England has recently been a prevalent topic of political discussion. This year also marks the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn, a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. These lectures explore three key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship during the Middle Ages.
Tickets are £9/£8 concessions (includes tea & cake), and booking is recommended as places are limited. http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132
Independently organised and independently chaired. An opportunity to discuss the 2015 election with each of the candidates for Oxford West and Abingdon in an exploratory and non-adversarial way.
This week: Mike Foster, candidate for the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
Admission free. All welcome.
Inaugural Brookes Outside Broadcast – (talks in the community)
Social Scientist Richard Huggins will be giving an informal talk on his research into public order and disorder in Britain since the 1950s before opening up the topic for discussion
OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the doorstep of the Oxford public.
The festival, now in its fourth year, runs from 7-9 May and showcases cutting-edge research and expertise from across the university in a variety of stimulating and fun events for students, staff, and the local community, including installations, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and discussions for all ages.
In autumn last year Balliol College was pleased to acquire for its research collection the books and papers of a remarkable woman called Josephine Reid, relating to her employer, the writer Graham Greene (Balliol 1922). Josephine Reid was Greene’s secretary and literary typist from 1958 to 1992. Nicholas Dennys, bookseller and nephew of Graham Greene, will be in conversation with Naomi Tiley, Balliol’s Librarian, giving a personal insight into Graham Greene’s writing and Josephine Reid’s collection.
Join us as Tim Richardson offers a glimpse into the beautiful gardens of Oxford Colleges.
Hear stories about each college gardens own distinct styles, from the ancient mound in New College to the stunning side garden at Corpus Christi. Using photographs taken by Royal Horticultural Gold Medal Photographer Andrew Lawson, Tim Richardson will be taking us through each garden with their surprises and hidden corners. You will even be given an insight into the colleges most private gardens, normally closed to the public.
Tim Richardson was the garden editor for Country Life, going on to be the founding editor of Country Life Gardens magazine and the award winning New Eden. He has written a range of garden books, including ‘The New English Garden’, ‘Arcadian Friends’ and ‘The Garden Book’.
Theme: Healthy Living, Green Spaces and the Environment.
Sir Muir Gray will be the main speaker, he is well known for his work in the field of public health.
We’re really excited about this one – it is sure to be a very interesting meeting. Please invite your friends along and feel free to use the poster to let people know about the meeting. The more the merrier!
Time: 7.30pm start.
Location: The Baptist Church, Woodstock road, OX2 7NQ.
What is a Neighbourhood (Development) Plan?
Neighbourhood Forums can establish general planning policies for the development and use of land in their neighbourhood. These are described legally as Neighbourhood Development Plans. They need to be in accordance with local and national planning policies but once in place need to be respected by the local planning authority.
At this meeting, local residents are welcome to drop in and discuss draft policies and leave comments, express their opinions, engage in the debate about the future of North Oxford.
The Localism Act of 2011 enables local communities to create Neighbourhood Forums the main aim of which is to strengthen the ability of the community to influence the planning process. If 21 or more local people agree they can approach the local planning authority to have a Forum. The planning authority, on our case Oxford City Council, has to approve the boundaries of the Neighbourhood and its constitution.
WE would like to invite you to celebrate the WEP policy launch and the launch of the Oxford branch of the Women’s Equality Party.
What is the policy launch?
On Tuesday 20th October, at 11am, WE are launching our first policy document in London and are asking all of our members to support this launch. This event will be streamed live from the official press event at Mary Ward House in London, and all local branches are celebrating on this day.
What is the Oxford launch event?
The WE Oxford launch event will take place in All Bar One, High St, Oxford from 6:30pm on Tuesday 20th October.
The main focus of the evening will be a panel interview with four fascinating Oxford people who feel passionately about the objectives of WE, with opportunity for questions and discussion afterwards. There will also be plenty of time to meet members of the Oxford branch and find out what WE are all about.
In today’s publishing world, it has become the norm for publishers to only receive submissions that come via a literary agent, but what does it really take to excel in this oft’ overlooked role? What do literary agents look for? How do they connect authors to publishers? And what about those complicated discussions about rights and money? In the Society of Young Publishers’ next event we’ll be hearing from industry experts about how they got into agenting and what their job entails.
Join us at The Wig and Pen, 6.30pm on 28th October to hear from Peter Buckman from The Ampersand Agency and Caroline Wood from Felicity Bryan Associates about literary agents and why they’re more than just middle men.
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and how it can be re-organized to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We put academics on the cutting edge of global urban scholarship face-to-face with established innovative practitioners—architects, activists, policy makers, and artists.
Through a series of rigorous yet accessible public dialogues they will grapple with the intellectual and everyday implications of their theories and practices on cities to produce visionary but grounded research and intervention strategies for the future of city life.
Each debate will be preceded by a small panel of academics and practitioners presenting papers that speak to the same key issues. Building on the long-standing Oxford tradition of public debate, we hope to encourage productive engagement between intellectuals and practitioners that is too often missing from discussions of the city.
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and how it can be re-organized to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We put academics on the cutting edge of global urban scholarship face-to-face with established innovative practitioners—architects, activists, policy makers, and artists.
Through a series of rigorous yet accessible public dialogues they will grapple with the intellectual and everyday implications of their theories and practices on cities to produce visionary but grounded research and intervention strategies for the future of city life.
Each debate will be preceded by a small panel of academics and practitioners presenting papers that speak to the same key issues. Building on the long-standing Oxford tradition of public debate, we hope to encourage productive engagement between intellectuals and practitioners that is too often missing from discussions of the city.
Come and join in the discussion on the housing crisis in Oxford, share experiences and help develop a local campaign for housing justice.
Chaired by Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Officer for Local Government.
Organised as part of the Oxford International Women’s Festival 2016.
Check out http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/oxford-science-fair.html for a full list of stalls. This is a FREE, drop in event with something for the whole family. Saturday 25 June 12-5pm, Sunday 26 June 1-5pm.
Ian Shipsey, Particle Physicist and Professor of Physics, Oxford University, has been profoundly deaf since 1989. In 2002 he heard the voice of his daughter for the first time thanks to a cochlear implant. These implants have instigated a popular but controversial revolution in the treatment of deafness. Learn the physiology of natural hearing, the function of cochlear implants, and experience speech and music heard through a cochlear implant. Ian Shipsey was one of the leaders of the experiments that discovered the Higgs particle in 2012.
Nicola Blackwood, local MP, is Chair of the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons. Science and technology are central for the development of the region, and fundamental for the country: boosting innovation and enterprise,
developing employment, advancing health and promoting knowledge. Engage in a conversation chaired by Hannah Devlin, science correspondent for the Guardian. Get insights from your local MP and take part in a reflection about the future of science and technology in the UK.
Colette Morgan works for SAFE! as the Child on Parent Violence Project Development Manager. Sadly, Child-on-Parent violence is on the rise and this fascinating talk will show us how SAFE! tackles this problem and works with families to cultivate respectful family relationships, for the benefit of all society.
We will even provide you with a free sandwich and a cuppa.
A free afternoon of artist talks.
3-5pm at OVADA Warehouse, Osney Lane.
Our guest speakers will be independent publishing house Hurst Street Press and fine artist Tommy Watkins.
This event is part of the exhibition ‘Blue Fades into the Invisible’ by Klick Oxford-Leiden.
Dr Brenda Boardman will speak at the Neighbourhood Forum AGM on ‘How we can deliver a low carbon future for Summertown and St Margaret’s’.
Please come along. All welcome. Entry free.
Mary Keen, Paradise and Plenty – the How and Wow of Lord Rothschild’s private garden on the Waddesdon Estate
Mary Keen is a writer, lecturer and renowned garden designer and will talk about the garden, its dedicated gardeners, past and present, and her book, which celebrates the tradition of excellence at Eythrope.
Katherine Stoessel has worked in the field of restorative practice for over 20 years in the UK, the USA, West Africa, the Balkans and Eastern Europe and she is a regular facilitator and trainer for the Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service. She is privileged to work with these powerful and meaningful processes and they underpin her deep commitment to restorative approaches and the profound difference they can make to people’s lives.
Peter Newbold will give an introduction to the Mammals of Oxfordshire and an overview of how to identify and record this illusive taxon.
After studying Environmental Science at Southampton University, Peter has been a professional ecologist for over ten years, working for Natural England, the RSPB and more recently as a private consultant with BSG Ecology (a local consultancy). He was one of the founding members of the Oxfordshire Mammal Group and is their Survey and Data officer.
The talk will cover: identification of Swifts and differences between them, House Martins and Swallows; causes of recent population decline; what is being to to help; how local people can assist; and an outline of the Oxford project.
Dr Jocelyne Hughes is Director of Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques at the Department of Continuing Education in Oxford. Chris Mason is Coordinator of the Cherwell Swifts Conservation Project. Both are project partners in the RSPB-led Oxford Swift City Project.
Swift experts Jocelyne Hughes and Chris Mason will lead an evening stroll around Wolvercote, with plenty of stops to watch swifts and talk, in between searching for swift nests.
Dr Jocelyne Hughes is Director of Postgraduate Certificate in Ecological Survey Techniques at the Department of Continuing Education in Oxford. Chris Mason is Coordinator of the Cherwell Swifts Conservation Project. Both are project partners in the RSPB-led Oxford Swift City Project.
John Leighfield, OW, has had a passion for maps since his schooldays and will discuss, in a highly illustrated talk, how the maps of Oxford have developed from the 14th century until the present – with a small diversion to meet the Russians.
This lecture is part of the Oxford Festival of the Arts.Now in its ninth year, the Festival is a two-week celebration of culture and creativity in venues throughout Oxford and runs to 8 July 2017.
Aiming to offer opportunities in the arts for Oxford’s diverse communities, the Festival programme presents an exciting array of events, with a colourful mix of music, literature, theatre, art, speaker events, tours, comedy, workshops and much more.
Further information can be found on our website at http://www.artsfestivaloxford.org/