Courses

Coupled with reading an article about an Acoustic Engineer checking our New Town Hall makeover plus my long involvement with music in various forms prompted me to offer to organise this Music Pot-pourri. The speakers are going to present wide ranging aspects around this topic that I could not even anticipate: a feast!

This course tells us about the sterling work that is being done to create living and working
conditions that keep New Zealanders well. We go behind the scenes to hear from experts
in stopping diseases spreading, improving environments such as housing, urban planning
and transport as well as how moving to a wellbeing budget will improve the health of our
nation.

These five lectures will offer enticing glimpses of the proud history of Scotland from Skara Brae to Nicola Sturgeon. This is a land of antiquity in the north of Britain. To Gaelic speakers, it is Alba. The Scots came from Ireland and created Dál Riata, but ultimately, like the Angles and Franks they gave their name to the land they had conquered and the Picts disappeared from history. In solidarity against England, for 250 years the Scots joined forces with France, and border warfare was endemic. The Calvinistic reforms of John Knox, transformed Sacotland and in 1603 the crowns of Scotland and England descended to James VI and I, a dynastic union made political in 1707. The Scots have contributed in every field of education and endeavour and the spirit of Scottish national identity has been nurtured throughout the centuries.