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ST BEUNO’S CHURCH: 1st & 3rd Sunday Morning Prayer service at 10am. 2nd Sunday, November 11, Remembrance service at 10am followed by a service at the Cenotaph at 11am. 4th Sunday Eucharist harpist service at 10am. ABERFFRAW VILLAGE HALL: Yoga for Beginners with Claire Mace. On Thursdays. Come join us to improve your health and well being and to have fun. Starts at 7.30pm. later. Admission £2 to include refreshments and towards the church funds’. Phone 01407 840531. BANGOR CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH: Established in 1947 and affiliated to the Greater World Spiritual Centre, London. Services at 7pm every Thurs at the Quaker Meeting House, Dean St with free refreshments after the Divine Service. No admission fee, only a free-will collection taken during the Service. There is a different guest speaker every week. Everyone is most welcome to attend. BANGOR & MENAI BAHA’IS: The Baha’i Community of Bangor and Menai invite you to join in activities here. The Baha’i Faith is a world religion whose purpose is to unite all mankind in one universal cause, one common faith. Contact bangorbahais@ gmail.com or 07577 777392. GLASINFRYN COMMUNITY CENTRE: Tai Chi Qigong class every Tuesday 6.307.30pm. Gentle energising exercises suitable for all. Beginners welcome. First class free. Jill Turner 01248 351672 YOGA: Mondays 10–11.30am, Garth Rd Community Centre, (road to Bangor pier, left up hill at red post box) Call Katie 07717 661717. BANGOR COMMUNITY CHURCH: Meet every Sunday 10.30am and 6.30pm at Coed Mawr Community Centre, (behind Mcdonalds). ASSEMBLIES OF GOD: Pentecostal church. Prince’s Rd, (off College Rd) Upper Bangor. Meeting every Sunday 10.30am and 6.30pm. Warm welcome to all. BUDDHISM: Weekly meditation classes at Coleg Menai, Friddoedd Rd, on Tuesdays from 7-8.15pm. The sessions give an introduction to meditation and also explore some of Buddha’s practical teachings, both of which can help to reduce stress and increase happiness. For details phone 01492 878778 or see website meditatenorthwales.com. RED CROSS: is looking for volunteer drivers and helpers to assist at Ysbyty Gwynedd and in people’s homes – contact Corinna on 01248 351103 BALLROOM AND LATIN AMERICAN DANCE CLASSES: At Canolfan Penrhosgarnedd. Tuesdays. Improvers Class 7.15-8pm. Advanced Class 8-8.45pm Practice Dance/Social Night 1st Tuesday of every month 7.15-9.15. Sunday Evenings, Beginners Class 7-8pm. Private Lessons, Wedding Dance Tuition and Party Bookings by arrangement. IDTA Member and Qualified Teacher. DBS certificate Holder. Contact Kerstina for further details 07920446976. WIDOWERS AND WIDOWS: Social group covering Anglesey, Bangor, Caernarfon and Llyn, set up for widowed people to enjoy life again in the company of other widowed people who understand. As a guide it is suggested people aged 50-70 will get the most from membership, as it aims to be active, out and about. At the moment it meets regularly in Bangor, Menai Bridge and Caernarfon and also meet up weekly for walks, and go to opera, ballet, gigs, cinema, meals, pub quiz and weekends away. If you are an internet user go to www.meetup.com and enter “Anglesey&Gwynedd Widowed” (without the quotes) then apply to join. Or Call Dilwyn on 01248-601599, email dilwyn198@gmail.com, or Lyn on 01286-678252, email lyn2910@yahoo.co.uk Please note: this is not a dating group. PILATES: Pilates Classes at the Garth Community Centre. Run by Angie Masterson, who has been teaching many forms of exercise for over 35 years. Contact Angie Masterson 01407 831 348 or 07740 902 125 or Les Day on 01248 355180 for further details. ZUMBA DANCE-FITNESS: Weds & Thurs 6.30-7.30pm, Academi, Deiniol Rd. Salsa Tues 8.30pm. Swing Jive Weds 8.15pm. Burlesque Tues 7.30pm. Helen 07751017157 BANGOR U3A: Meet 10.30am Thursday mornings in Capel Berea Newydd, Bangor (between Ffordd Penrhos & St David’s Retail Park). For people who are retired from work or parenting. Develop interests and activities with others and share in organising them. New members welcome. Come early after 9.30am for a chat and stay for the event. Further information from www bangoru3a.org.uk and www u3a.org. uk. On November 8, Marian Gwyn will talk about “Women in the 18th Century Carribean” STROKE SUPPORT: Had a Stroke? Need some support? Then come to our local Stroke Cafés or Stroke Groups to meet other Stroke survivors, families and carers in a friendly supportive environment at: Kyffin Café, High Street, Bangor – Every other Friday 10am-noon. For more info contact Dave Smith 01248 421356 / 07397 279897 or e-mail nantygors@gmail.com PLAYFORD DANCING: Do you love dancing? Are you secretly oldfashioned? Did you know there is the opportunity to learn Playford dancing in Bangor? This is 17th/ 18th century social dance (think Jane Austen) with informal sessions approx monthly on Tuesday evenings. Beginners welcome to learn. No partner needed. Fantastic live music! Next Tues session on Nov 13. For more info, phone Nicki on 07960 371620 or find on facebook - https:// www.facebook.com/dr.nicki.h HEROES’ MEMORIAL: 1914 – 1918 The Bangor cathedral display of poppies commemorating the end of the First world war will close on Remembrance Sunday, November 11 in an unique way. At a date on or around Armistice day (the time and date to be announced later) a group of young people from Bangor of the same age as those who died in the First world, 1914-1918 will read out the biographies of the city’s heroes who gave their lives in the conflict and who are commemorated (most accompanied by a photograph), in Cofeb Y Dewrion (Heroes’Memorial) compiled by the Rev W J Owen (Afallon) soon after the war. An appealis going out to relatives of the fallen to view the names compiled in the book on the Bangor cathedral Facebook page and to contact if they would like a biography (of a family member perhaps) read out to all present at this unique event. They and members of the public are then most welcome to attend at a time and date to be announced nearer the time. AGE WELL: Activities for the over 50s At the “The Youth Centre” Maesgeirchen, Bangor. Starting from November 7, Every Wednesday, 1pm until 2.30pm Keep Fit classes. £2.50 per person to attend per session. For more info aled@acgm.co.uk or 01286 685 921 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: Bangor University is taking part in the Economic & Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Sciences, and invites the public to take part in a wide variety of events. Welfare reforms come under the spotlight on 9 November in an event which will bring together local authority workers, Department for Work and Pension representatives, advisers from the Citizens Advice Bureau, members of the public and academics to discuss Universal Credit: The challenge of welfare reform. Local people are being invited in to sample some activities brought to use via other cultures: an Adopted Cultures Day is taking place in Pontio between 10.30am and 4.30pm on Saturday, November 10, with demonstrations, a talk and discussion and taster sessions of non-Western practices such as yoga, capoeira and salsa. LIBRARY: 01248 353479. Mon: Story and Crafts, 10.30-11.30am, Nov 12, 19, 26. Tues: Breastfeeding Support Group: 10.30am-noon, Nov 20. Family Games (board games for all ages), 3.30-6pm, November 13, 20, 27. Wednesday: Calm colouring (relaxing activity for adults, 10am-11.30am, Nov 7, 14, 21, 28. Thurs: Family History Club, 1.30-3.30pm, Nov 8, 15, 22, 29. Fri: Get On Line (one to one support, prior booking required, half hour slots), 10am-noon, 1.30-3.30pm, November 9, 23, 30. Make Friends with a Book (reading group), 10.45am-12.45pm. Nov 9, 23, 30. Welsh story and rhyme, 1-2.30pm, November 9, 16, 30. Autism Aware information stand, 10am-noon, Nov 9. BANGOR BIRD GROUP: The next talk will be on Wednesday, November 14 when Marc Hughes, a local birder, will talk on “Champs of the Fly-way. Update - Israel “. The meetings start promptly at 7.30 pm in the ground floor lecture room of the University’s Brambell Building of the University on Deiniol Road. Cost - £2 to non-members. Membership subscription: £15, concessions £12 Bangor Uni students free. For further details ring 01248 714678 ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY: North Wales Group will be meeting in Clwb Hirael, Ambrose St, on Wed Nov 14 at 7.30pm. Speaker will be Razvan Chisu, talking about Romanian Alpine Plants. Everybody will be most welcome .Cost £2 (including tea and a raffle ticket}