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Open Meeting April 9th 10-12:00

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This session explores the complex emotional responses that feature films evoked in young cinema-goers, especially those in their teens and twenties, in the 1930s and 1940s. Young people were amongst the most frequent cinema-goers in the 1930s and 1940s and the cinema played a significant role in their leisure lives. Often bewildered by the social and physical changes in their lives, they thirsted for information about human relationships and how to understand the world and themselves. They found in feature films a rich source of informal learning and emotional education which challenged older attitudes and behaviour, introduced exciting, modernising influences into their lives and encouraged them to become more self-conscious about how they looked and how they felt about themselves.

Professor Melanie Tebbutt our speaker and also a member of Dunsu3 says,

“I am a specialist in British social and cultural history whose published books range from the history of pawnbroking and working-class credit, to gossip and social relationships in working-class neighbourhoods and the leisure identities of youth in the 1920s and 1930s. University/AHRC research leave in 2009/10 enabled me to complete Being Boys: Youth Leisure and Identity in the Inter-war Years (Manchester University Press, 2012). Since then I have been involved in several history-based community engagement projects with local communities in North West England, all of which have been defined by the importance of young people telling their own stories. AHRC Follow-on Funding, The Passions of Youth, 2014-15, allowed me to apply some of the findings of Being Boys work, by working with local artists, youth work practitioners and educationalists to explore changes and continuities of working-class boys and young men over the past sixty years. Other projects, such as the film, Forever Young, have explored childhood and the teen years from the perspective of older participants. Returning Home, another film-based project, with the North West Film Archive, is researching the repercussions and emotional implications of ‘delicate’ children’s recuperative holidays with foster families in Switzerland after the Second World War and placing this research within the context of the broader international context of similar humanitarian initiatives.”

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Welcome to Duns & District u3a

u3a members come from all walks of life. We are busy staying active, making new friends and learning together. There is no upper age limit – and no lower limit either, although our members are likely to be retired or semi-retired.

• Come to a monthly open meeting in the Volunteer Hall on the second Tuesday of each month to socialise with other members and hear speakers on a wide range of interesting topics
• Join as many of our interest groups as you like – ranging from tap dancing to modern languages, to arts and crafts, book groups and opera appreciation – to name just a few

There is so much to do – and if you can’t find what you are looking for in our programme, why not see if there are other people with a similar interest who would like to join you in a new group. All our group leaders and committee members are volunteers – sharing a love of learning and a zest for life!

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