yn gives Powerpoint presentations featuring history, literature and music, on cruise ships as well as to groups ashore, like Probus and View Clubs.
Cost: Travel expenses
and opportunity for book display
Contacts:Email –
lynhurry@bigpond.com
Phone – 0466 393 341
Book now for your 2017/2019 presentation
LITERATURE TOPICS
1-6. THE STORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
A six-part
series on the fascinating development of the global
language (can be
presented individually)
Lecture 1. Introduction
and overview of the difficult global language
Lecture 2. From Cunieform
to Caxton and Chapbooks
Lecture 3. The
Elizabethan Age and first American settlers
Lecture 4. Scots Tongue
and Irish Brogue
Lecture 5. American
Pioneers, Plantations and Immigrants
Lecture 6. The Colonies:
Aussie Lingo and the New Englishes
7-8
AUSTRALIAN ARTS AND LITERATURE
Lecture 7. POPULAR RHYMED
VERSE: The authors
and their works, both serious and funny.
Lecture 8. AUSTRALIAN
THEATRE: Outlining
significant events and personalities of LIVE national
theatre.
9.
BEHIND THE RHYMES
The truths and
terrors behind some favourite Nursery Rhymes.
10. WHY ARE THEY FAMOUS?
Memorable
characters of twentieth-century fiction
11. STAND UP, SPEAK UP and SHUT UP
Basic elements
of public speaking, with aspects of humour and examples
of famous speeches.
12-13.
THE SEVEN STAGES: A POETICAL
INTERPRETATION OF LIFE inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘Seven
Ages’ from As You
Like It
Lecture 12. The Infant;
the Schoolboy; the Lover
Lecture 13. The Soldier;
the Justice; the Old Man; the End
14.
FROM FANTASY TO BLOCKBUSTERS
J. R. R.
Tolkien’s fantasy stories and their transformation by
Peter Jackson to million-dollar movies
16.
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
We laugh, but is it the telling, the timing or just plain
English?
HISTORY/CULTURE TOPICS
1-3.
SEAFARING SECRETS
Lecture 1.
NAUTICAL TERMS, TRICKS and TUNES:
Origins and use of seafarers’ jargon, jingles and jollity
Lecture 2.
SUPERSTITIONS AT SEA: Stories, myths, sayings and habits
Lecture 3.
MUCH ADO, PASSENGERS AND CREW:
A light-hearted focus on seafarers past and
present.
4-7. OUTLAWS OF THE OCEANS
Lecture 4:
GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY:
Secrets and Scandals of Privateers, Buccaneers and
Corsairs.
Lecture 5:
LARRIKINS OF SOUTHERN SEAS:
Exploits of William Dampier, ‘Bully’ Hayes and others who
preyed on ships/communities
Lecture 6.
MOST FAMOUS MUTINY: What really happened on The Bounty
before, during and after the event
Lecture 7:
LEGACY OF THE BLACKBIRDERS: Impact of indentured labour
on both Pacific Islands and Australian society
8-10.
FAMOUS PEOPLE INTRIGUED WITH OCEANS and ISLANDS
Lecture 8.
Artist Paul Gauguin; Anthropologist Margaret Mead
Lecture 9.
WRITERS: R.L.S. Stevenson; Hall and Nordhoff; James
Michener
Lecture
10.
OBSESSED WITH OCEANS
–
a).
The life and legacy of
Jacques Cousteau; b). Protectors of the Great Barrier
Reef
11.
‘SOUTH PACIFIC’
Behind the scenes with stars and stories of Rodgers and
Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical.
12-13.
AUSTRALIA’S CONVICT YEARS
Lecture 12.
RELUCTANT PIONEERS: Behind the First Fleet and convict
settlement in N.S.W., Tasmania and Western Australia
Lecture 13.
NOTEWORTHY CONTRIBUTORS to Australian society
14.
MATTHEW FLINDERS
Life and achievements of the first circumnavigator of the
Great South Land
15.
TASMANIA’S GREAT CULTURAL LOSS
The tragic story of the traditional landowners
16.
AUSTRALIA’S GOLDEN YEARS
Impact of gold rushes and lifestyle of the diggers
17.
A TOAST TO YOU!
The traditions and etiquette of toasting around the world
18.
COLONIES, CULTS and CANNIBALS
The curious amalgamation of European and Pacific cultures
19.
MAORI HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
Highlighting the traditions of a unique culture
20.
NEW ZEALAND CELEBRITIES
Lives and achievements of Sir Edmund Hillary and Dame
Kiri Te Kanawa
21-22.
SEASONS AND FESTIVALS
Lecture 21.
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD:
Symbols, traditions and celebrations of a happy season
for young and old.
Lecture 22.
LEST WE FORGET
Highlighting traditions, stories and verse associated
with ANZAC Day