Didsbury Towns Womens Guild
Meets first Tuesday of every month.
7.30pm until 9.30pm
Meeting Room at Hilton Hall
School Lane
Didsbury

£12.00 per year membership
£1.00 per session

Call Pat for further information on 0161 434 0346

Didsbury Civic Society
Contact Steve Parle 0161 434 4682

The West Didsbury Society of Writers

The West Didsbury Society of Writers will be holding their next meeting on October 8th 7-9pm at the Fielden Centre in West Didsbury.

Maruf Khwaja, a retired journalist with a degree in communications will our guest speaker for the night.

Maruf Khwaja is a Pakistani journalist and writer. A political activist in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a speechwriter for President Bhutto. In exile after Zia-ul-Haq seized power, he edited The Khaleej Times in Dubai. He is now writing his memoirs.

During the meetings we usually do a couple of writing activities, such as writing poetry on a particular topic, exploring descriptive words or reading your work to music. Members are welcome to read anything they have written and the group will give feedback on it. We have a monthly newsletter which everyone can contribute to. We try and have a bit of fun with it all and try not to take ourselves too seriously.

Please contact Jane Woolley on 0161 957 1663 if you would like to join the group, annual subscription £20.

Heaton Chapel Literary and Philosophical Society

All meetings are held at St Paul's Church Hall
St Paul's Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport
Commencing 8pm promptly

Members subscription for 2003/2004 £18.00
Casual visitors £3.50 per meeting

More info: Call Mrs. G Taylor on 0161 442 0780

Distance from Didsbury approx. 3 miles

Remaining meetings for 2003

29th September 2003
The Culture Carriers
Nazism, refugees and their influence on popular culture.

13th October
Chatsworth 1950 - 2003
A celebration of the longest serving Duke and Duchess in the history of the Cavendish family and Chatsworth House.

27th October
The Hills and Valleys of Central Asia
Talk by Peter Cunnington of Ness Gardens.

10th November
Down the Niger to Timbucto
An account of John Harrison's 250 mile trip by dug-out canoe.

24th November
Wheels without Frontiers - Part 2
Hallam Murray's account about his bike ride through Bolivia, Argentina, Chile to Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands

8th December
Flanders with Swans
Bruges. The Venice of the North across the Flander Plain. Talk by Eric Layland.