Cambridge Humanist Group Programme of events 2010

Monthly meetings
Monthly meetings are held in and around Cambridge, sometimes at the Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane, sometimes in members' homes, usually in the evening. Typically there's an invited speaker and always an opportunity for conversation and discussion.

Visitors are welcome at meetings. Please enquire about time and location from the appropriate contact.

Informal social gatherings
Informal gatherings, are currently at held at the Free Press pub in Prospect Row at 8 pm, (currently the first Tuesday of the month)

Other social events
As well as the monthly informal gatherings, two or three social events are held each year. Recently these have been picnics, garden parties and winter weekend country walks and lunches in a pub.

Here are the events so far organized for 2010

(Other pages show previous events for years 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000)

Month	Day, time & venue	Title, topic or activity	Speaker or organizer	More about the speaker, organizer or event
Every week from 4 April	Every Sunday from 11.00 am CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Cappuccino Club
Every month	First Tuesday of each month 7.45 for 8.00 pm Free Press pub, Prospect Row (behind Cambridge main police station)	Informal gathering
January	Sat, 9^th, 2.15 pm Mayfield Primary School Warwick Road Cambridge CB4 3HN	AGM		We've a change of venue for our AGM. It will still be on Saturday, 9^th January, but at the Mayfield Primary School*, ie, NOT The Punter pub as previously advertised. This means we won't be holding a lunch beforehand, so please don't send Gavin £12.50. Instead tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at the AGM. *The Mayfield School, Warwick Road, Cambridge CB4 3HN (just off the Histon Road/Gilbert Road junction) is easy enough to get to by car or by the Stagecoach Citi 7 bus. For the more energetic, it's in bike/walking distance from the City Centre. For car users there's plenty of free parking at the venue.
January	Tue, 19^th, 7.45 for 8.00 pm CB2 Cafe, 5/7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LD	Discussion Group meeting	Introduced by John Harris	The discussion topic is "Should Humanists proselytize?"
February	Sat, 13^th, 12.30 pm	Pub lunch with Suffolk Humanists		Meet up with members of Suffolk Humanists for lunch at pub in Bury St Edmunds. For details see: <http://www.suffolkhands.org.uk/node/1157>
February	Tue, 16^th, 7.45 pm CB2 Cafe, 5/7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LD	Discussion Group meeting	Introduced by Chris Davies	Chris will introduce the discussion topic: "A Rational Humanist Objective"
March	10^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm	Discussion Group meeting	Introduced by Anna Crown	Building a Humanist community
March	Sun, 21^st 2.30 pm the Community Hall at Mayfield School, Warwick Road, Cambridge CB4 3HN	Special General Meeting		The meeting is called for the following purposes, to: · consider and vote on the constitution produced by the Interim Committee set up at the AGM · to elect a new committee for the following year.
April	Sun, 4^th 11.00 am CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Cappuccino Club		This is the first of what is hoped to be a regular event for member of the CHG.
April	Wed, 14^th 7.45 for 8.00 CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Programme planning	Chaired by Anna Crown	Please bring diaries and lots of ideas!
April	Sun 25^th 2.30 pm Christine Bondi's house (see Newsletter)	Reading Group Meeting		The book to be discussed is Primo Levi's If this is a man/The, poem & novel
April	Wed, 28^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm Ann Docwra Room, Friends' Meeting House, Jesus Lane.	A vision of eye strain	Talk by Prof Arnold Wilkins	Images that are uncomfortable to look at have particular characteristics that are rarely found in images from nature. Text is an unnatural image that has aversive properties, and reading can be stressful in consequence. I will describe ways of reducing the stress and improving reading fluency using coloured filters. The reduction in stress is associated with neurological changes in anterior visual areas of the brain that may offer hope for migraine sufferers. Arnold Wilkins is Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex, England and Director of the Visual Perception Unit there. He spent his early career at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, where for many years he studied photosensitive epilepsy. His study later broadened to an investigation of visual stress, described in his books, Visual Stress (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Reading through Colour (Wiley, 2003). The list of his publications up to 2009 shows the wide range of situations and conditions to which his work on visual strain is relevant, from artificial lighting to wind turbines, from dyslexia and headaches to epilepsy, from art to nature, and from causes to treatments. Some members may remember Arnold's late father, Prof Leslie Wilkins, who was a member of our CHG after he retired to Cambridge, following a distinguished career in criminology at first in the UK and then in the USA.
May	Wed, 12^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm Ann Docwra Room, Friends' Meeting House, Jesus Lane	Uganda Schools Humanist Trust	Talk by Steve Hurd
May	Wed, 19^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Discussion Group meeting	Led by Chris Davies & Denby Liddlelow	The topic for discussion is "Are we hardwired for religion or is it cultural?"
May	Thu, 27^th 12.30	Lunch Club	Julia Ewans & Penny Peoples	Please see weekly Bulletin for details of venue or contact Julia or Penny.
May	Sun, 30^th 2.30 pm Paul and Julia's house (See newsletter)	Reading Group meeting	Led by Paul & Julia Ewans	"Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre: ISBN978-0-00-728487-0
May	Mon, 31st (Bank Holiday) 10.45 am Meet in The Dolphin car park	Bank Holiday Walk ("The Thicket Walk")	Organized by Anna Crown	Circular walk St. Ives to Houghton and back (with pub lunch stop) Meet in the Dolphin car park (costs £1 without time restriction) in St. Ives for 10.45 a.m. Followed by lunch at the Dolphin at 1.30. If you want to join those lunching, let Anna know by midday on 30^th May. Halfway round, Houghton has two pubs and a National Trust Mill, which provides an opportunity to stop for a hot or cold drink, ice-cream and probably to see flour being milled.
June	Wed, 9^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm Ann Docwra Room, Friends' Meeting House, Jesus Lane	A talk on Alzheimer's disease	Speaker: Dr Marie Janson	Dr Marie Janson is Director of Development at the Alzheimer's Research Trust, the UK's leading research charity for dementia
June	Wed 16^th 7.45 for 8.00 pm CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Discussion Group meeting	Led by Mike Boyle	The topic for discussion is "What are the psychological benefits of group membership?"
July	Sat 3^rd at Cam Sailing Club	14^th Annual riverside picnic at Cam Sailing Club & short sailing trip (weather permitting)	Organized by John Harris	John is a member of both the CHG & Cam SC. Members receive an information sheet about this event. If you'd like to come and don't receive one with the May or June newsletter, please contact John Harris. If you are intending to come, please let John know.
July	21^st 7.45 for 8.00 pm CB2 Cafe, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge CB1 2LD	Discussion Group meeting	Led by Paul Ewans	The topic for discussion is "Atheism or Agnosticism?"

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