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We usually have an event on most 2nd Tuesdays in the month at 7.00 p.m., at the Riverside Centre, Newport, PO30 2QR, (or recently, more likely on Zoom) for discussion group or speaker.
Branch Meeting
Saturday 2nd March 2024 Details to be confirmed but we are booking for attendance of 30+ More details to follow. Contact Simon 01983 872514 or use contact form below Meeting postponed - probably indefinitely. |
All and Past Events:October 2023 meeting - Sunday Social
10:30-12:30, 22 October, 2023 The Correo Lounge, Newport, September 2023 meeting, Tuesday 12th,
7.00 pm, Riverside Centre, Newport, IW. Madeleine Goodall's talk draws on research carried out as part of the Humanist Heritage project. For more information see IW County Press promotion here or view poster here. July 2023 meeting, Tuesday 11th, 7.00 pm.
Avril Lucas talking about humanist celebrants and funerals. Riverside Centre, Newport, IW. June 2023 meeting, Sunday 11th,11.00 am.
A convivial chat with refreshments, at Correo Lounge, Newport, IW. May 2023 meeting, Tuesday 9th, 7.00 pm, Peter Marchant talked about "How Jesus the Myth became Jesus the Man". Full description here.
April 2023 meeting, Tuesday 11th, 7.00 pm, a social gathering in the Bargeman’s Rest, Newport, IW, for a drink and a chat.
It was decided that Peter will do his talk on 9th May at the Riverside Centre and that there will be a meeting in (probably) Simon's home in June.
Our March 2023 meeting was a ‘Community Planning Meeting’ at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 14th March. The venue was the Riverside Centre, Newport and was open to all. We were seeking ideas and committee volunteers for our Isle of Wight Branch.
In the year ahead, we'd like to provide you with a wider range of events, community activities, links to humanist services such as celebrants and school speakers, and the opportunity to support campaigns on the issues you care about. But to do this we need your input, ideas, and support. Whether you’ve previously been involved with the branch or not, you are most welcome at this friendly and informal conversation. Our February Meeting 2023 was a themed discussion on the topic of ‘God and money’. This was hosted at a member’s house.
Tuesday 10th January 2023 7.00 pm
General New Year Committee Meeting This was a committee meeting to launch activities for 2023. Our Yuletide social gathering 2022 was at a member’s home on Tuesday 13th December at 7pm.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7:00 PM
A message from Kat Reynolds, Chair of Brighton Humanists - welcoming Stephen Law to speak on the topic of “Believing Bullshit”. Charles Bradlaugh - a talk by Keith Hayward
7.30 pm, Zoom, Tuesday 8th June 2021. Click here for more details. Humanist Heritage talk "Well-doing and Well-being" by Madeleine Goodall
7.30 pm, Zoom, Tuesday 13th April 2021 Humanists' 125th Birthday Talk January 12th 2021 (Zoom) - Dr Oliver Scott Curry,
Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology University of Oxford. "How to be Good: The new science of right and wrong" Check Dr Curry'sTEDx talk here. ---- COVID gap most of 2020 ----- February 11th 2020 - "Life Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses" by Ray Metcalfe. January 14th 2020 - "Talk Yourself Better" by Ariane Sherine - cancelled due to bad weather. December 10th December 2019 Midwinter Gathering Extra meeting - Tuesday 26th November 2019 Book Group discussion November 12th 2019 - talk/disucssion on Pastoral Care with Chaplain Rosie Deedes from Earl Mountbatten Hospice. October 8th 2019 - discussion on Faith Schools led by Alan Rodway September 24th 2019 - Book Group discussion September 10th 2019 - Peter Marchant "Bad Myths - Good Myths" - a Review of Christ Mythicism" August 13th 2019 - Book Group discussion July 9th 2019 - Simon o'Donoghue on "Pastoral Support" June 25th 2019 - Members' BBQ evening 6.00pm May 14th 2019 - Juliane Kaminsky, Portsmouth University, "Do animals have a theory of mind?" April 9th 2019 - AGM and Members' evening March 12th 2019 - "Faith to Faithless" (Speaker meeting) February 19th 2019 - Members' evening with discussion on "Reality or Hallucination?" led by David Bodrell (3rd Tuesday this month). January 8th 2019 - Andrew Neilson on "The State of the Prisons" _____________________________ 11th December 2018 - Mince Pie evening - some business, some social. 7th December 2018 - (Friday afternoon, 3.00pm Committee only - tea and mostly business) 13th November 2018 Jonathan Pearce "God on Trial" 9th October 2018 - Simon Bligh on "Factfulness" - Why we're wrong about the World and things are better than you think. 25th September 2018 - Peter Marchant on "Beyond the Historical Jesus" 7.00 pm (moved from 11th) 11th September 2018 - admin and discussion evening, 7.00 pm 14th August 2108 - no meeting - Summer break 24th July 2018 - Private BBQ at member's home and looking at Sandi Toksvig's MOOC course 10th July 2018 - no meeting 19th June 2018 - "Is Music a Universal Language?" - Teddy Prout Director of Communications for Humanists UK 9th May 2018 - An Evening with Jim Al Khalili Professor of Physics, Surrey University. 10th April 2018 - Bill Nally on "Weird Beliefs" 13th March 2018- AGM and discussion on "Uncertainty" 13th February 2018 - discussion and conversation about Darwin - see this reference. 9th January 2018 - "Surviving Apostasy - Life as a Jehovah Elder" - Ray Metcalfe ____________________________ 12th December 2017 - Christmas Party - see Contact page for ticket 14th November 2017 - Review of GRAM - David Bodrell 10th October 2017- Bombs, Bloomsbury, and Bertrand Russell A talk by David Warden. In 1940 Bertrand Russell was condemned by an American court as ‘morally unfit to teach philosophy’. He was subsequently awarded the Order of Merit by George VI and the Nobel Prize for Literature. David Warden is chair of Dorset Humanists and an Honorary Member of the British Humanist Association. 12th September 2017 - The Big Change in Religion and Belief - How might a humanist respond? Britain is currently going through what’s been called the biggest change in religion and belief landscape since the Reformation, 500 years ago. But what's really going on? What are the facts? And what are the practical implications? Can the non-religious help make it work? Jeremy Rodell is a Trustee of the British Humanist Association and its volunteer Dialogue Officer. - no August meeting - 11th July 2017 - Private meeting (barbecue) at a member's home 13th June 2017 - “A Bluffer’s Introduction to Quantum Mechanics”. Sorry - it’s physics again - David will keep it light and hopefully we can have some fun discussing this. Peter seemed quite keen and suggested that we explore quantum mechanics and determinism. Two reprints from New Scientist have been circulated. 9th May 2017 - Sophie, one of Bob Keats' daughters who read her own version of a physicists eulogy that she personalised for Bob at his funeral last Saturday has agreed to come along and read it to us at the May meeting. Bob's funeral was a really fantastic tribute to the man. 18th April 2017 - AGM - use contact form for details of venue 22nd March 2017 - Peter's talk to Dorset Humanists - see www.3peter.co.uk 14th February 2017 - "The Epicureans" 10th January 2017 January - The Footprint Trust with Ray Harrington Vail. __________________________ 13th December 2016 - social meeting in a member's home 8th November 2016 - Bill Nally on the "meaning of Kalam" 11th October 2016 - John Caunt - Humanist Celebrant 13th September 2016 - Robin Ford on "Humanism in Shakespeare" 16th August 2106 - Summer break 5th July 2016 - social meeting in a member's home 14th June 2016 - Paul Armfield - Notes from a troubadour 10th May 2016 - Peter Marchant - deconstructing the bible 12th April 2016 David Bodrell on "The History and Scale of the Universe" __________________________ September 2015 - Andrew Copson |
