Arts & Creative Arts Articles

NEWS – We now hold Workshops every Tuesday ! These are mostly at the URC. Please see the schedule below.

Published 5th November 2025

Places are limited to group members so that we can plan events properly. If you wish to attend then it is best to join our group and avoid any disappointment. 1st Tuesday of the month – URC Cafe 12:00 2nd Tuesday of the month – As arranged 12:00 3rd Tuesday of the month – URC […]

Writers Enjoying Words

Published 14th October 2025

Another new book from David Hiscox: American Peckers American Peckers is an unusual, genre-bending philosophical mystery set in the afterlife, where the boundaries between truth and legacy blur. When a mortal visitor is mysteriously wronged in paradise, the celestial order is shaken. Enter Confucius, the ancient sage and moral compass of paradise, who turns celestial […]

Published 14th October 2025

A new book from David Hiscox: A Journey to the East: On the Hippy Trail. In the early 1970s, with a backpack and a thirst for discovery, the author boards a bus in London bound for Kathmandu, tracing the legendary Hippy Trail through Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. This evocative travel memoir chronicles […]

Poppies, Cards and a Sari

Published 26th September 2025

What a lot of variety; getting the poppy display ready for November, designing cards and making and trying out a sari. All in a morning’s meeting!

Seeing Double?

Published 28th June 2025

The Photography Group last week reviewed the images that some of them had two weeks previously taken at Llantrisant where in addition to enjoying each others company and wondering at the activities of William Price – an interesting read if you don’t know anything about him – they had embarked upon trying to create images […]

Another Selection of Work

Published 9th May 2025

Have a look at some more of the work prepared and read in meetings recently. Our next meeting is on Thursday 19th June at 10.30am in the Monmouthshire Building Society on Queen St ; why not come along and join in! Themes so far suggested are Spoonerisms, Malapropisms or anything else you like. My House […]

Birds, Beasts and Barnes

Published 29th April 2025

We’re truly blessed to have an absolutely brilliant award winning Natural History photographer in the Practical Photography Group. Michel Barnes showed these photographs in his recent General Meeting talk, but the technology didn’t do them justice, so I persuaded him to let me publish them on the Group page. You are encouraged to scroll through […]

Photographers at work!

Published 11th April 2025

Michael gave a presentation to the General Meeting this week, and was unable (due to time issues caused by equipment difficulties) to show the first half of what he had prepared – a slideshow of some of the images taken by members of the two Photography groups, that had been exhibited at UHW Llandough last […]

A Selected Piece of Writing

Published 10th April 2025

As one of our optional meeting themes, Wendy gives ‘three words’. This piece, ‘Blurred Lines’, was inspired by itch, monocle, perseverance and was written by Margaret Richards. https://cardiffu3a.org/wp-content/uploads/Blurred-Lines.pdf

Park Life

Published 7th April 2025

The Morning group’s trip in March was to the Victoria and Thompson Parks, with the theme of High Key/Low Key. Then at our monthly meeting in the URC our convenor, Jonathan, showed the photos we had each chosen as out ‘top twos’. Later “an esteemed panel of experts” (from Jonathan’s family) chose as our Pick […]