With Dr Jo House, PhD, BSc Honors, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Bristol. Jo is one of the lead authors of the IPCC Reports, the 1.5 degree Reports and the recent Committee on Climate Change Report. She says: “My research is on land and climate interactions, including emissions of carbon dioxide from land use change (e.g. deforestation), climate mitigation potential from the land (e.g. afforestation, bioenergy), and implications of science for policy.”

Free to attend - book tickets here

"Trams for Bath, Radstock, Keynsham & Bristol?” - Roger Harrison

Roger Harrison was Chairman of Tramlink Nottingham Ltd, heading the private sector consortium which designed and built. Phase 2 of the Nottingham trams and now operates and maintains the three line network. Highly popular & successful in curbing traffic and pollution.  

He will be talking about how trams may be beneficial to Bath and its connections to Radstock and Bristol.

 To ensure you have a place please book on Eventrbrite, use this link:  

Location

BRLSI ( Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute),16-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN (Parking 5 mins, Charlotte St Car park)

Cost (on the door)

£4.00 standard

£2.00 students

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The Summer party is fast approaching!

Here are all the details from Emma B:

We have arranged for a Pub Quiz around Bath followed by an early dinner. 

For the pub quiz we will need teams of 4 which I will arrange and distribute; and for the early dinner we need to pre-order.  More details below on both.

The plan is to meet outside The Crystal Palace on Abbey Green at 2.30pm where we will be given:

·         An introduction to the tour & the ideas behind it.

·         A miniature pub chalk board & chalk (one per team).

Each team will come up with a Pub Quiz Team Name, which will eventually be entered into The Bath Pub Tour Hall of Fame.

The questions are multiple-choice /educated-guess questions about pub culture & Bath history with a few bizarre trivia facts thrown in.

The route:

We leave The Crystal Palace and walk up through town for about 45 minutes. It doesn't feel like going for 'a walk' though. It is very gentle & familiar. It's probably about 15 minutes walking & the rest standing outside 'lost & forgotten pubs' & trying to imagine what they were like. We'll stop 3 x 10 minutes with 5 minutes between each stop.

Then we'll go to an actual pub & have a drink & some snacks! At this point we will have a beer expert speak briefly about local brewers & about the particular ale we are tasting. This is an opportunity to sit down for 15-20 minutes.   

From this pit-stop, we'll do another 15 minutes walking + 30 minutes standing & answering questions before we get to The Bell on Walcot Street where the winners will be announced! and the tour ends.

Food:

Once finished we will move to Bistrot Pierre (at Princess Buildings, 4 George Street) for an early evening 2 course dinner approximately 5.30/6pm.

Please see the menu - circulated by email - as we need to pre-order. 

There are no restrictions on the menu and you can pick either starter/main or main/dessert. 

Please can you let me have your choices ASAP.

 Any questions - please let me know - thanks!

The Department of Architecture and the Built Environment would like to personally invite you to the 2019 Graduate Show, where you will be able to see the fabulous work of our architects, architect- planners, architect-environmental engineers, technologists, interior architects, product designers and built environment graduates.

Bristol has a long tradition of practising and teaching design and built environment subjects. We are a youthful continuation of that tradition that has grown to offer an innovative and interdisciplinary portfolio of courses that delivers what industry needs. The departmental team approaches its courses with the critical vitality, curiosity and enthusiasm of a young school; and with a youthful appreciation of the urgent environmental, technical, economic  and social complexities to which the design and built environmental professional thinking must adapt.

Thursday 6th  June at 5.00-9.00pm

Block R, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, BS16 1QY

Please click here to  register (this is to ensure we have enough drinks! – so please register…!!!!)

Streets, open spaces and venues across Bath will come alive to the sound of music, as part of the launch event for this year’s 10-day Bath Festival, Party in the City.

Party in the City includes every kind of music, from classical and jazz, from pop and punk to folk and choral, and with 36 venues opening their doors, all tastes are catered for.

Partygoers will find festival outdoor stages at Queen Square and Parade Gardens, along with stalls selling fresh cooked street food.

SouthGate Bath is once again hosting its own al fresco party, with food, drink and two stages offering live acts throughout the evening.

Highlights of this year’s event include a unique piece of street performance inspired by football, a 40-piece orchestra playing film/TV themes in Queen Square and country music at Parade Gardens.

Indoor venues, including Komedia, St Swithin’s Church and Widcombe Social Club, will all be offering free live music.

Residents are being encouraged to wander the city and discover choirs in the Central United Reformed Church in Argyle Street, punk-pop at The Pig and Fiddle in Broad Street and orchestras at the Assembly Rooms.

A colourful Party in the City programme, which has a map and a full list of venues, with times for artists playing, will be available before and during the evening of Friday 17th May.

This year, for the first time, The Bath Festival is asking partygoers to donate £1 for a programme.

The donation will help pay the costs of putting on Party in the City, to keep it as a free event and reflecting the fact that The Bath Festival has no local government funding and is a charity.

To find out who is playing where for Party in the City, visit: http://bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bath-festival/party-in-the-city/

Here’s the link to the Party in the City 2019 programme.

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Gather your team of masterminds and test your knowledge against the rest, to win a number of superb PRIZES, kindly donated by the event sponsors!

This event will raising money for mental health charity Mates in Mind.

The evening includes:

• Introduction by Novus, CIAT aspirATion and Mates in Mind

• Meet and greet the other teams

• Platters of nibbles

• Quiz delivered by the excellent quizmaster

• Raffle, with plenty of fantastic prizes donated by our generous sponsors

• Business card lottery draw

• Charity auction

Enter

Register as a team of 4-6, or as an individual to be grouped into a team on the night.

To enter click here

OR to donate click here.

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We will, we will, Rock you! An amazing outdoor cinema experience at Frome Cricket Club with a showing of the fantastic Bohemian Rhapsody! (12A)

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound and culminates in their iconic performance at Live Aid.

Plus: Food, Snacks, Bar and Music before the film starts.
Gates open 7.00pm, film starts shortly after sunset.

Bring a blanket or camping chair and watch Bohemian Rhapsody on a giant cinema screen under the stars.

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* Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
* The event will go ahead if it's raining but we are hoping for a nice dry night under the stars.
* No seating provided unless you have VIP tickets. Blankets and camping chairs are allowed.
* No Dogs allowed.

Location

Frome Cricket Club
30 Rodden Road
Frome
BA11 2AH

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Tickets

£12.50 - £18.50

Buy tickets here

In our busy lives we often forget how essential it is to take a few moments of stillness each day to tune into how we feel and what’s important to us.

In this workshop, through the practice of postures, sequences, breath work, relaxation, meditation and mudras we will re-discover the ‘still point’ within us and from that place gain a clear perspective on our life.

•    We will work with a subtle flowing sequence - using movement, breath, visualisation and affirmation to take you to a place of inner stillness and clarity

•    We will explore how stronger more dynamic yoga, gives us the energy, vitality and dynamism to live an empowered life

•    You will experience how relaxation, meditation and mudras can help us on this journey to deepen our experience of stillness and access our inner power.

PRICES AND BOOKING

Cost: £35
Venue: New Oriel Hall, Brookleaze Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, BA1 6RA

Book here

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The shape of our cities is changing - how do we address the challenges of existing 19th & 20th century infrastructure and the contested spaces that have emerged in the absence of intervention?

Find out how the 19th century railway infrastructure of Kings Cross has been transformed and what effect that has had on the surrounding neighbourhoods. Discover the emerging plans for the Bearpit tackling the legacy of 20th century highways.

How can these projects improve the cityscape for citizens in an inclusive way?

Join Christine Murray and Miriam Delogu to examine two city centre spaces which exemplify these challenges and opportunities.

Location

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol
BS1 4QA

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Tickets

Standard £12
Concessions £10

Read more and book here

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Who’s up for….

Some Easter fun?

A healthy Easter competition?

Some Easter craft?

Tempting………….well, we thought we would introduce ‘Easter Egg Rolling’!

On Wednesday 17th April at 1pm we will transform the kitchen into a creative corner where you will have 10 minutes to decorate your egg (we will provide hard boiled eggs) before going out into Queen Square to start the race (approx 1.15pm).

There will be prizes for the best egg and the overall winner!

Facts: Egg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Different nations have different versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled, decorated eggs.  In the UK the tradition of rolling decorated eggs down grassy hills goes back hundreds of years and is known as "pace-egging".  The eggs traditionally were wrapped in onion skins and boiled to give them a mottled gold appearance (although today they usually are painted) and the children competed to see who could roll their egg the farthest.

 We hope you will be able to join us!

 The Social Team

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Before her untimely death in 2016, Dame Zaha Hadid was one of the most distinguished architects in the world. She was also a talented designer.

Zaha Hadid’s work is exciting because she developed a new form of architecture: she set architecture free by rejecting 90-degree angles. Read more

Times

The talk starts at 7.15. Members are requested to be seated by 7.10pm.

Wine, tea and coffee will be served from 6.45pm.

Location

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN .

Cost

Non-members are very welcome at a cost of £8.00 and Arts Society visiting members £5.00.

If you need any further information please contact Membership Secretary, Gillian Capel on 01225 333770, or Chairman, Jane Walters on 01225 834030.

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Building Bloomberg with Michael Jones, Foster + Partners

Discover how a meeting of minds between a visionary client and exemplary architects led to the UK's best new building.

In 2018 Bloomberg’s European headquarters was named the UK’s best new building, winning the RIBA Stirling Prize.

Built in the heart of the city of London overlooking St Pauls, the elegant pair of 10-storey stone clad buildings occupy a site originally earmarked for a 22-storey glass tower. Opening up an ancient Roman route and creating new public spaces the buildings aim to be good neighbours to the surounding city.

Behind the elegant facades lie a wealth of technology providing exemplary spaces to work, meet and stroll through whilst minimising water and energy use.

Join Architect Michael Jones from Foster + Partners to find out more about this extraordinary building.

Location

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol
BS1 4QA

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Tickets

£10.00 - £12.00

Book

Mike, Chris and Devon are running the BathHalf on 17 March to raise money for the British Heart Foundation (awesome hey!).

You can help support their fundraising efforts by donating directly to their fundraising page. They are aiming to raise £500.

JustGiving sends your donation straight to British Heart Foundation and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more!

Keep up with the latest news on the BathHalf on their website. Includes a course description and map, in case you fancy popping down to the event to cheer your colleagues on!

Wishing you every success Team SRA!

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Bath Abbey are holding an afternoon of talks for British Science Week on Saturday 16 March, 1.00-4.30pm, to celebrate the exciting science, technology and engineering of their £19.3m Footprint project.

Talks will explore the science and cutting-edge technology currently being used by those working on the Footprint project. Six organisations will be taking part in the afternoon of talks, including: Wessex Archaeology, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, University of the West of England, Mann Williams Structural Engineers, Buro Happold Engineering, and IsoEnergy.

The programme of talks will include:

• 1.05pm - Alex Morris, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: The Bath Abbey Footprint Project: Repairs, Conservation, Interventions & Sustainability; Problems are just solution opportunities
   

• 1.30pm - David Littlefield, University of the West of England, Bristol: Mapping the condition of Bath Abbey’s ledger stones: a study in photogrammetry
   

• 1.55pm - Bruce Eaton and Shoned Jones, Wessex Archaeology: Archaeology in 3D
   

• 2.50pm - Henry Pinder, Mann Williams: Structural Engineering Challenges of the Footprint Project
   

• 3.15pm - Neil Francis, Buro Happold Engineering: Bath’s natural hot spring water
   

• 3.40pm - Ed Levien, IsoEnergy: Installation of the GSHP system at Bath Abbey

No tickets required, all welcome.

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Please chat to Robert W if you are interested in joining him and others for the Bristol City v Leeds United match on 9 March. Tickets are being booked Monday 11 February to ensure seats are together.

• Kick-off at 3pm

• Tickets £29

• Venue: Ashton Gate - location information
  
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Come and enjoy some tasty food and post-work drinks on 28 February.

• Leaving the office at 17.30 and heading to Hall & Woodhouse for a drink

• Off to The Eastern Eye: www.easterneye.com around 18.30

• Please chat to Amy if you would like to go so she can get an idea of numbers

See you there!

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Entries are now open for the Bath Rugby Walk on Saturday 23rd February, with two local charities looking for 700 men, women and children aged 12+ to take part in the annual sponsored event.

The sponsored Bath Rugby Walk will raise funds for Bath Rugby Foundation and Dorothy House Hospice Care.

The Bath Rugby Walk is a two-hour, eight mile walk along the Kennet and Avon canal path starting from Dorothy House in Winsley at 11am after registration.

The walk finishes at the Rec, the home of Bath Rugby, after a short detour for refreshments along the route.

Once at the Rec, walkers are treated to a screening of the day’s Six Nations action and a free pie and a drink. This year walkers can watch both the France v Scotland match at 2:15pm and Wales v England at 4:45pm.

SUMMARY

£29.95 entry (aged 12+)
Enter online by clicking here or download a paper entry form here

START
> Dorothy House, Winsley, BA15 2LE
> Registration: arrive between 9.30am and 10.45am
> Our delicious bacon butties are back to purchase
> Walk starts 11am
> Fancy dress welcomed!

ROUTE
> 8 mile route – mainly along the canal
> Portaloos half way
> Click here for the route map
> Pub stop at Bathampton for refreshments

END
> The Rec, Bath, BA2 4DS – the home of Bath Rugby
> Free pint
> Free pie

Read more here - includes details about entering as a team.

Sign up for the sponsored Bath Rugby Walk here.

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It's back to blast away the new year blues - join in the famous and much-loved RIBA Bristol and Bath Pizza and Bowling evening at the fabulously retro The Lanes in Bristol city centre.

• 7 February 2019, 5.30pm to 8.15pm

• The Lanes, 22 Nelson Street, Bristol, BS1 2LE

• 0117 972 3777  | riba.southwest@riba.org 

• £12 Standard, £6 RIBA Member, £4 RIBA Student

More tickets and buy tickets here

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It is nearly time to roll up our sleeves and get stuck into the SRA gingerbread construction competition on Tuesday 18 December!

In teams of 3 or 4, we will have half an hour to build and decorate a gingerbread structure from a kit of parts that Melissa will bake.

It can be anything from a house to the Colosseum so long as it is a 3-D structure!

Melissa will be our Mary Berry for the day and will select a winning team.

There is a reward for the winners!! And your design may end up on Twitter and Instagram - what more incentive do you need?

BIG thanks to Melissa for being our baking queen.

Design ideas.

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This year’s Christmas party is being held at Walcot House.  There will be a sit down dinner, live band and dancing well into the evening (or for some the early hours).

As in previous years, the invitation is extended to your respective Husbands / Wives / Fiancé /Fiancée / Boyfriends / Girlfriends / Partners / Friends  (1 each please!).

 Emma B has sent an invite dated 1 November, please accept/decline accordingly.

 If you plan to come along, please her know the name of who you will be bringing.

With many thanks!

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It is nearing the time for hunting out a Secret Santa pressie! £5 is the suggested price tag.

Please see Emma B or Amy to pick your Secret Santa ticket.

The theme of the pressie is headdresses :) - lots of scope for creativity!

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Anna Adams, Centre Host for Temple 1852 in Bristol is organising a Christmas party.

Save the date - Thursday 13 December - if you would like to go! More details coming soon.

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