Art Exhibition

Trymwood Studios - inspiring a love of art and nature

Birds of the Garden Paintings, Prints, Drawings & Sculptures

9th - 26th March 2023

Opening times

Thursday - Sunday

11am - 4pm or by appointment trymwoodstudios.co.uk

Trym Road BS9 3ET

HEARING

Impaired

SUPPORT SCHEME is looking for new volunteers. We are a charity maintaining hospital-provided hearing aids in people’s homes; we are not audiologists, but are trained in small repairs.

Please contact us by email info@ hissbristol.org.uk or on 0117 3361612 (leave message).

Staying in touch with life and friends when you are hard of hearing is really hard and tiring. Here are some tips for better communication:

• Ask how best to communicate.

• Don’t shout!

• Catch my attention: use my name or ask if you can touch my arm.

• Say WHAT TOPIC you are talking about first.

• Face me with full attention: we cannot hear round corners!

• Use gestures and facial expression.

• Speak slowly: give me time to work it out.

• Check that what you’re saying is being understood.

• Light on your face and not behind you: we ALL lip read to some extent.

• Quieter background: ask to turn music off and don’t clatter cutlery.

• Hearing aids help a lot.

• Get support and equipment from The Centre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing: cfd. org.uk www.hissbristol.org.uk

If you are involved in any local events that are of a charitable / “not-for-profit” nature, including social groups, support networks, fundraisers, school events, concerts, talks, clubs etc, and would like some free publicity do please get in touch. Listings of up to 60 words per month will be published free of charge. From now on if your event / club / choir etc is “for-profit”, rather than charitable in nature, then the total cost of a monthly 75-word listing will be £50 + VAT for six-months or £75 + VAT for 12 months. You may change your listing without further charge at any time. To be included, or for more details, please get in touch - andy@bcmagazines.co.uk, 0117 259 1964 / 07845 986650 or write to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY, and I will be more than happy to help. If you have a dated event that is in the first half of the month you are strongly advised to get it listed in the previous month’s magazine as no guarantee can be given that the magazine will be delivered by the date of your event.

• The Arts Society Bristol Would you like to join us for engaging lectures given by specialists in their own arts related field? New members are welcome. The lecture on 14 March is on Arts and Crafts in Cotswold Churches and on 11 April is on Jewellery in the Age of Victoria. Lectures are held at 8pm at Redmaids’ High School, Westburyon-Trym, BS9 3AW. See our website www. theartssociety-bristol.org.uk

• Blaise Community Garden, next to Blaise Museum, is open Wednesday and Saturday 10-2. Originally the walled kitchen garden to the house, it’s now a bustling volunteerled community garden. Free entry, so come and see the flowers, vegetables, trees and ponds. Plants always available on our Plant Table. Got some spare time? We’re always looking for new volunteers. No experience needed, all ages welcome. Our Café serving homemade cakes will be open 10-2 on 18 March and 8 April.

• Bristol A Cappella is an award-winning mixed barbershop chorus who love to sing close harmony a cappella. Rehearsals are every Tuesday at 7:30pm at Victoria Methodist Church on Whiteladies Road. Email membership@bristolacappella. co.uk to come along! For more info, visit our website at www.bristolacappella. co.uk/visit

• Bristol All Voices Allowed Choir are looking for new singers, men and women, beginners and more experienced singers, to join us. Rehearsals on Tuesdays, 6.30 –8.00pm at Holy Trinity Church, Hotwells. Contact Chris on 07866 456 776.

• Bristol Bach Choir is delighted to be performing at St Alban’s Church, Wetbury Park, for the first time on Saturday March 18th at 7.30pm. We start with Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Byrd’s popular Ave verum corpus, 5 Spirituals from A Child of our Time by Sir Michael Tippett, anthems by Stanford and W.H.Harris, and Herbert

Howells’ sublime setting of the Te Deum. Tickets: £24 (reserved), £15 (unreserved). Students and under 18s, free (see website for full details). Phone: Bristol Bach Choir Box Office 0117 214 0721 or visit www. bristolbach.org.uk

• Bristol Bridge Club (BBC) has been running free online supervised sessions with some teaching all through the pandemic on Zoom, and will continue to do so every Saturday morning from 10am to 12 noon. To take part, go to the bridge club website www.bristolbridgeclub.co.uk and follow the link “Learn and Play”.

• Bristol Bridge Club weekly “Friendly Thursdays” for members and their guests. Join us for a relaxed pairs handicapped bridge session. Food is served from 6.30pm … followed by bridge around 7.15pm. The winning pair will receive a bottle of wine each. Just turn up on the night!

• Bristol Bridge Club are planning to run another beginners course starting February 27, 2023. It will be on Wednesday evening at 7pm. The cost will be £70 for ten lessons (£90 for ten lessons including a book BFA Beginning Bridge) or £8 a lesson. For further details, please email teaching@bristolbridgeclub.co.uk

• Bristol Brunel Probus Club. Retired? At a loose end? Looking for some friendship and entertainment? You’d be welcomed at our Bristol Brunel Probus Club. We meet every 2nd Tuesday of the month at BAWA [Filton] for lunch & a presentation / talk. Contact our Secretary D Waters on 0117914-5465 for more details.

• Bristol’s Flower Club meets on Thursday afternoons in Henleaze at the Bradbury Hall, 117 Waterford Road, BS9 4BT. Annual membership is great value at £52 with inspiring floral demonstrations, optional creative hands-on practice classes and special ‘flowery’ events and social trips plus

Digital Voice and the landline phone switch-off It’s arguably the biggest social project since analogue television was retired some 10 years ago: the UK’s telephone network is also going digital. The telecoms industry has even set a deadline that’s backed by the UK government –the old copper network will be switched off at the end of 2025.

If you weren’t aware of plans to switch off the PSTN (public switched telephone network), you aren’t alone. When telecare provider Taking Care did a survey they found that 91% were unaware that all phone lines would become digital by the end of 2025.

Digital Voice is the name BT, the UK’s biggest landline provider, uses for its digital voice service. You may also hear digital voice services referred to as ‘VoIP’, ‘IP voice’ and other branded versions such as ‘Sky Voice’ or ‘TalkTalk Voice’. Digital voice services are the future of landlines – they work using broadband connections rather than copper phone lines.

Your landline provider will get in touch with you when it’s coming to the time for you to migrate. They might call the new service Digital Voice, IP voice or a branded version such as ‘Sky Voice’.

BT has already migrated hundreds of thousands of customers to its Digital Voice service. It and other providers are currently focusing on offering digital phone services to customers when they switch broadband providers or upgrade to full fibre broadband. If you switch provider, you may also be offered the option to eschew a phone line altogether – previously something only offered by a handful of providers.

If you don’t want to change to a digital phone service, in many cases you won’t have to upgrade just yet: traditional phone services will continue to work for a couple of years. But from 2023, traditional phone services won’t be offered to new or recontracting customers, and by December 2025 they will be withdrawn entirely.

So what happens when you are switched over?

In most cases, the changeover will be simple. While some phones might require an adaptor, many will continue working (particularly DECT cordless phones) – you’ll just have to plug yours into your router or a new socket. Older phones might need to be replaced. It’s likely that providers will offer a new model, but it might come at a cost. Some people might need a new or upgraded router, supplied by their provider. You’ll be able to keep the same phone number and you’ll also still have to pay for calls in the same way.

10% discount off plants at Brackenwood Nursery. Check us out on the second Thursday of the month for a Floral Demonstration with doors opening 1.30 for a 2pm start, and the fourth Thursday for an optional hands-on practice session with doors opening 1.15 for a 1.30pm start (every month except Dec and Aug when we take a break). Visitors are very welcome, and entry is £8. Contact Jenny York, Chair HDFC Email yorkjenny2@ yahoo.com or text/call 07880 700270

• Bristol Community Gamelan play the music of Java every Monday at Cotham School from 6.30-8.30. We play by numbers –only 1-6, without the 4 ! So no audtions, no need to read music. If you fancy a different musical experience, contact us via email on keithripley27@gmail.com

• Bristol French Circle / Cercle français de Bristol. Our next session will be our annual Discussion littéraire at 8pm on 9 March at BAWA. We will be talking about Et si c’était vrai... by Marc Levy – these evenings are always a really interesting exchange of views. We will follow that with a hybrid Zoom talk by Brigitte Thibaut, on L’histoire du vignoble bordelais, on Thursday 23 March at 8pm. There will be a petit cours at 7pm at BAWA for those who would like to watch Brigitte’s talk together on the big screen; other members and visitors will watch her presentation from home. Please have a look at our website (www.cfbristol. org.uk) for the programme and updates, and do get in touch with Charlotte Taylor, the President, if you are interested in coming along – she will be delighted to chat with you! charlottejanetaylor10@ gmail.com / 07976 922636.

• Bristol Friends of WNO invite you to enjoy a variety of talks with glorious music at our new venue, The Apostle Room, Clifton Cathedral (Worcester Road entrance). Visitors always welcome. Wednesday 15th March 2023 - Some Surprising Fachs. Donald Maxwell looks back on the last forty five years and shares some thoughts and illustrations from favourite roles in his very varied career. 6.45 for 7.15 pm Refreshments available Easy parking. WNO Friends £8, visitors £10. Further information about this and occasional coach trips from Melanie David - Tel: 01934 842014 melaniejdavid@btinternet.com

• Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society’s next meeting will take place on Monday 27 March 2023 at the Apostle Room, Clifton Cathedral BS8 3BX at 7.45 pm (refreshments available from 7.15). Dr Jim Pimpernell will speak on “The Berkeley Estate in the Eighteenth Century”. Offstreet parking available; no 8 bus runs close by. For further information contact johnregstevens@outlook.com (01179 681326 or 07835 846485).

• Bristol Harmony West Gallery Choir & Band sing and play lively church and village music from the 18th century. We meet at St Edyth’s Church Hall in Sea Mills on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. No auditions but ability to read music is helpful. Ring Fritjof on 0117 924 3440 for more information, or see www. bristolharmony.wordpress.com. Please contact before attending so we can have music ready.

• Bristol Languages Tutor: French, Spanish & English Tuition. Qualified teacher with 12+ years tutoring experience. Lessons at home or online. Children, students, adults. Complete beginners, after-school clubs, conversation practice and exam preparation (GCSE, A Level, Common Entrance etc.). Email: BristolLanguagesTutor@gmail.com or Tel. 07825 600 402.

• Bristol Male Voice Choir invite new and returning singers to join us at our weekly rehearsals, every Thursday from 7pm -9pm at St Andrew’s Methodist Church, Elm Park, Filton, Bristol BS34 7PS. We are a sociable and friendly group, singing a wide range of musical styles in our repertoire, and we look forward to seeing you - you don’t have to be a reader of music. Ffi see our website www.bristolmvc.org.uk or us on 07587 143 220.

• Bristol Morris Men practice on Thursday evenings from 8:15pm - 9:45pm in the Sports Hall at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital (QEH), Berkely Place, Clifton BS8 1JX. New members are very welcome, whether you have any experience of dancing or none. Call Grant on (0117) 9442165.

• Bristol Phoenix Choir If you love singing we would love to hear from you! We are a friendly choir and we enjoy rehearsing and performing great choral works as well as shorter more intimate pieces. If you would like to sing with us please contact Jackie our membership secretary jackie. blackwell410@gmail.com.

• Bristol Phoenix Choir, Saturday 4th March, Clifton Cathedral 7.30pm, will be performing Brahms ‘Ein deutsches Requiem’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Five Mystical Songs’. Tickets through

Charity Quiz Night

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THE CHARITIES LISTED BELOW

FRIDAY 17th MARCH 2023

7.00pm for 7.30pm start

Charity Quiz Night

PROCEEDS TO BE SHARED AMONGST

ST MONICA TRUST, OATLEY HALL, COTE LANE, WESTBURY-ON-TRYM, BS9 3UN

THE CHARITIES LISTED BELOW

MAX 6 PEOPLE PER TEAM

PRIZES, RAFFLE, BAR

FRIDAY 17th MARCH 2023

7.00pm for 7.30pm start

£15 PER PERSON (INC AN EXCELLENT LIGHT SUPPER!)

ST MONICA TRUST, OATLEY HALL, COTE LANE, WESTBURY-ON-TRYM, BS9 3UN

(card payments accepted)

MAX 6 PEOPLE PER TEAM

PRIZES, RAFFLE, BAR

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£15 PER PERSON (INC AN EXCELLENT LIGHT SUPPER!)

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FOR TICKETS CONTACT: or KAREN HOLLEY 07540 458119

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Organised by Bradley Stoke Rotary Club or KAREN HOLLEY 07540 458119

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Eventbrite, from choir members or at the door - £18, under 25s £5, under 16s free.

• Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group offers meditation on Thursday evenings at the Friends’ Meeting House in Hampton Road from 7.15pm until 8.45pm and a qualified Meditation Instructor is available to talk you through the practice if this is required. In addition to meditation practice there is usually a reading, a discussion and a mindfulness of body exercise. Further information at bristol. shambhala.info

• Brunel Sinfonia Spring Concert - come and join the Brunel Sinfonia on Saturday 18th March at 7:30pm at Redland Hall, Redmaids’ High School. We’ll be performing Holst’s The Planets, joined by Bristol Cathedral Choir School. The choir will also perform Music of Stillness by Elaine Hagenberg. Other programme items include Night Ride and Sunrise by Sibelius, and The Space Between Stars by Ella Macens, Tickets available on the door, or in advance from https://www. brunelsinfonia.org.uk/purchase-ticket £15 adults, £12 concessions, £6 NUS and £3 U18s. There’s also a £6 First-timer ticket option if it’s your first time at a Brunel Sinfonia concert.

• Clifton Women’s Institute - we’re a friendly bunch who meet on the last Wednesday of the month at Alma Church, Alma Road, Clifton BS8 2ES from 7.30. Anyone interested in coming to a meeting as a visitor is most welcome (£5). It’s not all jam and Jerusalem, and we’re particularly keen to welcome younger members who would like to meet like minded women, mingle with a glass of wine and enjoy some varied and interested talks.It would be good to see you, no obligation to join - just come along and see what we get up to. Our speaker on Wednesday 29th March is Reginald King who will be sharing The History of Keeping Warm in Bed which sounds intriguing! We keep our blog cliftonwi.blogspot.com updated with our forthcoming events. For more information about Clifton WI, please contact thecliftonwi@gmail.com org.uk and at Opus 13 music shop, Park Row (0117 923 0164).

• City of Bristol Choir warmly invites you to a concert, ‘That Friday Feeling’, comprising 70 minutes of choral music to invigorate, refresh and soothe the soul. The concert is on Friday 24th March 2023 at 7.45pm in All Saints’ Church, Clifton. Tickets include refreshments, served from 7.15pm, £15 for adults, £5 for students and under 18s, available online at www.cityofbristolchoir.

• City Voices Bristol rehearse on Monday nights at Red Maids High School, from 7.15-9.15pm. We are keen to welcome new members who would like to join a friendly and sociable group of people who love to sing! Our repertoire extends from rock and pop to choral and musicals. If you would like more information, look at our website www.cityvoicesbristol.org or pop along on a Monday night to the Performing Arts Centre at Redmaids.

• Harold Stephens have organised a ‘Cuppa 4 a Cure’ event to raise money for BRACE Dementia Research charity on Tuesday 21st March 1pm – 2.30pm at Golden Hill Sports Ground. We will be selling refreshments and cake and also holding a raffle. Contact Amy community@ haroldstephens.co.uk or call 0117 3636 212 to book your free spot.

• Drawing for well-being: an opportunity to step back from the madness of life and engage with nature through drawing. All materials and coffee provided! No experience necessary. Come and find quiet, beauty and space at Trymwood Studios, Mondays and Fridays 11am12.30pm during term-time, registration essential. For more information please email Hannah and Lucy - info@ trymwoodstudios.co.uk

• Free Bridge tuition for Beginners. Why not come and learn the basics of playing Bridge with us? All completely free and no previous knowledge needed. We are a very friendly group and meet in the Bristol 9 area. For further details please contact Terry Stygall on 07837300073 or on my landline on 9091714.

• Friends of the Downs & Avon Gorge (FOD+AG) - www.friendsofthedowns.org

• Happy Days Memory Café - Tony on 0117 968 1002.

• Healing For Wellbeing. Feel more relaxed, peaceful, calmer. Drop-In sessions at Redland Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road. Thursdays 3.00 - 4.15 pm from 8th September. Donation basis. COVID safety: please wear a face mask if possible and do not attend if you have symptoms or have tested positive for COVID. Contact: Selina 0117 9466434 or selinanewton@yahoo. co.uk.

• Henleaze Choral Society meets at the Henleaze Bowling Club in Grange Court Road, on Wednesdays from 7.30 to 9pm. We are a small, friendly, unauditioned

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