THE latest community news from Aberystwyth.

Parkinson's UK

THE Aberystwyth Parkinson group met at the rugby club on Monday.The chairman reported that Vincent Roberts from Machynlleth had passed away, and the group stood for a minutes’ silence in his memory. Names were taken for the visit to Newcastle Emlyn rugby club on Tuesday, 16 May, to listen to Clare Bale from the research department of head office. A bus will leave the rugby club at 9.45am.

Names were also taken for the visit to Nanteos Mansion on Monday, 22 May, at 2.30pm.

The afternoon teas will cost £14.95. The sub committee had met, but Dawn McGuiness wanted to come along to discuss certain items with us. This has been arranged for Tuesday, 28 March.Names were collected for two collections which had been arranged, one on Friday, 21 April at Matalan, and the second one at Morrisons on Friday, 23 June.

The coffee morning will be held on Saturday, 22 April, at the Waunfawr community hall, and it will be opened by our AM Elin Jones.

Entrance will be by donations. There will be raffle, cake, plants, bric a brac and tombola stalls.The opening times are 10am till noon. At the AGM Liz Morgan had suggested holding an afternoon visit to a cafe for tea or coffee, so they’ve arranged a visit to Starling Cloud on the second Wednesday of the month so meet there between 3pm and 4pm. At the last meeting was Geraint Roberts and Will Smith, who have worked for many years on the Vale of Rheidol railway to Devils Bridge. Liz Nicol thanked them for a very informative and interesting afternoon for tea that day, were had a special diamond wedding cake which Raymond Parry and his wife Eluned had celebrated last week. Liz Nicol, whose daughter Ruth was marrying John.On the day of the coffee morning on 24 April they will have some-body from Care and Repair with them.

Plascrug Bridge Club

28 MARCH: 1, Margaret James and Pamela Woodhouse; 2, Margaret Ellis and Elenid Thomas; 3, John Holmes and Alan Stein; joint 4, Sue Sherman and Anne Edwards/Betty Brookes and Mike Jones. 4 April: 1, Jeff Thomas and Gwynant Edwards; 2, John Holmes and Alan Stein; 3, Joyce Blair and Jean Harrison; 4, Doreen Anthony and Sue Sherman.

Choral Society

SIR Michael Tippet’s A Child of Our Time is a very challenging work for Choral Societies, and indeed is very disturbing in today’s troubled times, inspired as it was by events that affected Tippett profoundly: the assassination in 1938 of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee, and the Nazi government’s reaction in the form of a violent pogrom against its Jewish population. Tippet’s oratorio deals with these incidents in the context of the experiences of oppressed people generally, and carries a strongly pacifist message of ultimate understanding and reconciliation. Very noticeable and appropriate posters , based on Moira Vincentelli’s painting of a group of refugees Struggling On, have been going up throughout the area as the Society’s performance of Sir Michael Tippet’s A Child of Our Time, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams‘s setting for Chorus and Orchestra of the Walt Whitman text Toward the Unknown Region, gets ever closer. The four soloists joining the choir and full orchestra for the performance of A Child of Our Time are the Soprano, Stacey Wheeler; the Mezzo-Soprano, Gaynor Keeble; the Tenor, Robyn Lyn; and the Bass, Njabbula Madlala. The conductor is David Russell Hulme. The performance will be in the Great Hall of the Arts Centre at 8pm on Saturday, 22 April, and tickets are now available the Box Office at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.