This years IAGM and Open Forum are on Zoom 10am Sat 29th May 2021 Email TARSIAGM@gmail.com for the link. Sat 22nd MAY for last booking.
Date for your diary – Aug 2022 for the real thing. Full details in Jan 2021 Despatches in Signals. See Next IAGM in Members site for early description.
https://feel.construction/arthurransomesociety/members/event/1060/
I am putting this up for Iain, so details may be a bit wrong, check with him when booking.
A weekend of sailing, kayaking and so on. The site is on a peninsular, so is safe for free range children.
Bring your own boat, don’t forget to get a licence for the harbour, or get a ride in someone else’s. Camping is basic and no electricity.
Usually we have a camp fire and barbecue on the Saturday night.
Finishes, unusually, at 2pm Sunday.
The Falkirk Wheel is a fantastic day out with a difference and accessible to everyone! With boat trips, cafe and outdoor catering, visitor centre and gift shop, the splash zone, waterwalkerz, canoeing, bike hire and segway safaris; there really is something for everyone! The Falkirk Wheel | Scottish Canals
Saturday 4 September, Falkirk Wheel, any time from 11.00. No need to book. Details – Kirstie Taylor: 0131 664 3947
Saturday 16 October, Literary Day at Moat Brae, Dumfries, doors open at 11.00.
Speaker: Carol Hogarth, on her love of Ransome’s books in childhood, and her subsequent life in sailing and writing.
Since Signals went to press, some details have inevitably changed, the main one being that there are now no guided tours of Moat Brae, and therefore there is no need to book for them.
HOWEVER, if you are intending to come, please let Winifred Wilson know as soon as possible, and leave an e-mail address or phone number in case of unforeseen circumstances, such as cases of Covid causing closure of the house.
We need to have names and contact details for ‘track and trace’ purposes, so please let Winifred know by Friday 8 October.
In addition, rather than us all crowding into the café, with the social distancing required, we are to meet and have a buffet lunch provided for us in the Garden Room. This has its own entrance door by the disabled parking spaces at the extreme right of the building, as you look at it from the front; is all on a level with its own toilets, including those for the disabled; and access to the garden at the back.
Please enter by this glass door, and not by the main entrance to the house. You will then be given a name sticker, so that staff can easily identify us as part of TARS group, as we have been offered an inclusive price for access to the house and garden, and of course the Library, plus a cold buffet lunch. Please don’t wander round the house or garden without the sticker. There is a lift to all floors of the house.
The cost per person is £10, including lunch, a very good bargain! If you don’t want the lunch for any reason, you can of course go elsewhere in the town, and pay just £5.
The house now opens at 11.00, not 10.00 as in Signals, and closes at 16.00. Lunch will be at 12.30, and the talk from Carol Hogarth at 14.00 in the Garden Room. TARS Library will be open for attendees until 12.30, and after the end of the talk until 16.00.
Winifred’s contact details: e-mail: winwilson2003@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 01387 252696
Mobile: 07768 806267
Please check the Moat Brae website: www.moatbrae.org or phone 01387 255549 for house visits.
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Hawes Inn: Birthday Lunch and AGM – Saturday 15 January 2022
Further details of this event later.
We were hoping that TARS Northern Region would be meeting at the Queen’s Hall Hexham for Karen Babayan’s Swallows and Armenians exhibition on October 2nd. Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled as work on the venue will not be finished.
However, the exhibition will be going ahead from October 23rd to November 20th and Karen is inviting TARS members to join her then for the opening.
On Saturday 23 October she will be doing an illustrated talk at 3pm, followed by a book signing and then Shakeh Major Tchilingirian will lead the Circle of Life, a circle dance in honour of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide who were helped by the Altounyan and Collingwood families at around 4.15pm. This will be followed by drinks.
Of course you may want to see the exhibition on another day.
If you would like to attend you will need to book through the box office number tel:01434 652477 once it has been advertised in the next couple of weeks.
TARS Book Group
goes Zoom!
The first online meeting of the new TARS Book Group is scheduled on Zoom for
Saturday October 23 at 6pm
Any TARS members welcome Discussion topics: Our three Summer books:
Spylark, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk and Lark, plus your suggestions for winter reading
Join Zoom Meeting hOps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86729682678?
pwd=ZDhEL2ZhRlE0N3dOc3kzNE1tckdnUT09
Meeting ID: 867 2968 2678
Passcode: 603330
More details, including copy-and-paste address, international contact details for the Zoom meeting on our
TARS website page: Members Area > Society Information >Book Group
Visit to Seven Stories archive , Newcastle Saturday 20th November
We meet at the Common Room (formerly the Mining Institute) café, next to the Central Station at around 10.30. Hopefully I can arrange a short tour after coffee. It is an amazing building. Then on to Newcastle Lit and Phil (adjoining) to look at this equally interesting building with a superb book collection. I’m trying to organise a short tour here too.
Then on to lunch, possibly at the Laing Art Gallery café, or wherever you want.
Meet at 1.15 at the Central Library for a look at some of the Arthur Ransome related material, particularly
- The David Wood (speaking at the 2022 Literary Weekend) archive, which has scripts, treatments and correspondence not only for the 1974 Swallows and Amazons film, but also unseen work on Great Northern, Winter Holiday and other work which was never filmed
- The complete Pamela Whitlock correspondence from Arthur Ransome, which is very moving. Hazel Sheeky Bird spoke about this at the last Literary Weekend
Hazel will be with us there, and in the morning. We may well want to choose particular material that we’d like digitised on the Seven Stories website for people interested in Ransome to see the sort of material Seven Stories have in their archive.
Afterwards, you may want a 25 minute walk to the Seven Stories exhibition and / or The Biscuit Factory art gallery, or look around the Laing.
**** N.B. Due to Covid restrictions we can only have 12 people, including Hazel and myself, in the room in the Central library, so contact me straight away if you want to reserve a place on this part of the day. Lots to see even if you don’t want to do this*****
Please contact me, Elizabeth Williams, on 0191 3844759 email elizabeth.williams10@aol.com if you want to come and I’ll send the final arrangements when it’s all organised (with maps) and final timings for different parts of the day.
Regards
Elizabeth Williams
We are leaving these details as we are hoping to run a similar event in October 2022
Sorry, Covid bites again and we have cancelled this event for now.
Overlooking the sea and prom, this beautiful setting has drawn us back. The lunch will be a sit-down meal followed by a talk, with cake to round off the day.
We will be joined by members of the public to hear the popular speaker, Viv Wilson who will be speaking on Teignmouth Waterside Tales, a film show, embracing the significance of this resort’s coastal location during the past century. This will include footage of a 1930s Shaldon sailing regatta and J Class yachts at Babbacombe.
Please contact Barbara for ticket.