
Victorian Seniors Festival | Card Making & Dried Floral Arrangement with Fay Marshall
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Three members met at the BMI on Thursday 29 September at 1.30 – 3.00 pm for the scheduled CAD session.
Several apologies received. Subject was the Ukraine situation.
Another stimulating discussion. It covered the centuries-old background to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, rooted as it is in break-up of past empires, various peace treaties, often contested and frequently shifting borders in Central Europe, ethnic and religious rivalries and struggles to retain or take-over fertile territory and strategic sea channels. ( Ballarat’s legacy district names like Sebastopol, Redan and many street names from the mid 1850s Crimean War were noted in this connection).
The claims and counter-claims for the current conflict to be seen as a Russian invasion, a defence against NATO encroachment, an economic war, a patriotic war, a nationalistic war and its potential to turn into a nuclear were discussed as were the conflict’s potential longer-term and wider effects on leadership, food supply, driving changes in reliance on fossil fuel energy as oil & gas supplies are used as bargaining chips, a retreat from globalisation as supply chains are threatened – all this and much more. You don’t know what you are missing!
1pm for 1.30pm start
Interested in current affairs? Welcome to a new initiative at the BMI designed for you.
Current Affairs Dialogue (CAD) at the BMI:
CAD will launch in The Reading Room 1-3 pm on Thursday 28 July 2022. CAD at the BMI is designed for members and friends who are interested in joining with similarly interested people as listeners and contributors in respectful, informed, analytic and interpretive conversations on issues of significant current public interest. The goal is to have all participants enjoy stimulating discussion and to leave CAD at the BMI sessions feeling their horizons have been extended and their understanding of current affairs deepened.
This event is a BMI Community Cultural Project – Ballarat’s Oldest Cultural Institution
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Rosemary’s Book of the Week Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies. Vicky Baudin steps onto the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. BUT
If you are having a spring clean and clearing your book shelves for your summer reading, then we would like to take delivery of them so that we can move them through the booklovers world and help the BMI raise all important funds on 2 – 8 October. Book Sale We can take delivery of
In this issue learn about: Rosemary’s Library New Releases and Recommendations | Spring Book Sale | BMI Events | Tours | Twilight Talks 2024 | BMI Snipits from Rex Bridges | From the Curator | Author Talks | Victorian Seniors Festival – BMI | Ballarat Film Society | BMI Fundraisers | Fashion Parade | Golf Day | Melbourne Food & Wine Festival | Awards nominations | Past Truths/Bright Futures | Conservation Prof. Barry Golding
An evening of history and hope with local historian Dr Marguerita Stephens and local documentary film-maker James Freemantle. More Event Listing The Years of Terror, Banbu-Deen: Kelin and Colonists at Prot Philip 1835-1851 | Marguerita Stephens with Fay Stewart-Muir Film-maker James Freemantle, with Narrator, Deborah Mailman. Views: 0