Arts & Creative Arts Articles

Moving On – Sometimes Love is Not Enough

Published 21st June 2024

The lastest novel from Dorothy Al-Khafaji, published 16 February 2024. Ageing Maggie Johnson relives past events, some happy, others funny or sad, in her dreams. As a teenager in the fifties, Maggie dreams of a fulfilling career, but it isn’t always easy with a demanding husband and two growing sons to care for. For a […]

We need your left over wool!

Published 20th March 2024

Amongst many on-going crafts, the Craft and Card-Making Group are making poppies towards a display for November 2024 at City URC. We would be grateful for any scraps of wool you may have, particularly but not exclusively red. Contact craft.card@cardiffu3a.org.uk if you have spare to share or would like to help (pattern provided).

The Shadow Fairy

Published 14th February 2024

At the begining of things there was only blackness and then vibration. The Shadow Fairy tells the charming story of how a kind fairy came to give colours and shadows to the waiting universe. The Shadow Fairy by David Hiscox is available from Amazon in paperback or for Kindle

First steps in tackling Photoshop

Published 24th January 2024

The group has agreed with me that we need to tackle the “elephant in the room” that is Adobe Photoshop. Most of us have subscribed to the Adobe Photography Plan that gives us access to use Photoshop alongside Lightroom (both Classic and Mobile), Bridge and other software, but we have shied away from learning Photoshop. […]

With Grave Consequences

Published 13th January 2024

The third D I Mandy Wilde novel by Jacqueline Harrett Published 5th December 2023 Diamond Books ISBN 1915649323 A dead teenager. A dying mother. A missing baby. DI Mandy Wilde and her team have a mystery to solve. With her pregnant twin sister, Joy, back in Cardiff the tension isn’t all work based. Life has […]

National U3A Short Story Competition

Published 1st October 2023

The results of the 2023 competition have been announced. There were over 400 entries across the UK. The top 13 finalists are available to read at https://www.u3a.org.uk/learning/short-story-competition-2023 Noelle Bryant from Writers Enjoying Words was delighted to be placed in the shortlist.

Connecting Who: Artificial Beings

Published 15th August 2023

The Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, the Daleks… the artificial beings of Doctor Who are some of the most iconic in science fiction. But what inspired them? Connecting Who traces their origins back to the myths, folktales and real events of history; the teachings of religion; not to mention the wealth of other sci-fi writing […]

TeaBag Folding and more!

Published 22nd April 2023

The Craft and Card-Making Group meet again on Friday 28th April at 11am in the old cafe at City URC. They hope to look at teabag folding (not what you might imagine-have a look at the picture). Maybe you would like to try or just bring along something to be getting on with your self […]

Panoramas

Published 11th March 2023

The Next meeting of the Practical Photography Group will be on Wednesday, 15th of March, when we will have a Show & Tell slideshow of our attempts at Panoramas. The meeting will be in Meeting Room 1 at the United Reformed Church, Windsor Place and will start at 2:00 pm.

Try your hand at some creative writing!

Published 8th March 2023

Our next meeting will be on Thursday the 9th of March from 11 am to 12:30 pm and will take place at our usual venue of the Monmouthshire Building Society. Suggested themes are Sowing/Sewing Machines, Buses, Books or Lockweiler or anything you want to write about as usual. Lockweiler is a construct of Lock and […]