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Sunday 27 March 2016 A CONVERSATION WITH JACK DONNELLY. 5.30 -8pm
A conversation with Jack Donnelly. $39.00 ESU Jack is the Australian Senior Winner of the ESU My Magna Carta Members International Creative Essay Competition.
$49.00 non Jack will delight us with an enthralling repartee about his Members experience in winning the Australian ESU Competition and his My Magna Carta presentation in London at the Finals.
Jack was Dux of Marist Bros College 2015.
The Event will feature a special Cocktail menu created for the night accompanied by fine Champagne, wines and beverages
Jack Donnelly and Ella Mcevoy (the Australian Junior Winner) at ESU Dartmouth House London. Top row.
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Sunday 17 April 2016 5.30 -8pm JAZZ SOIREE WITH IAN MCFARLANE
$39.00 ESU Jazz Soiree Members with Ian McFarlane $49.00 non Members Featuring a special Cocktail menu created for the night accompanied by fine Champagne, wines and beverages.
Sunday CONVERSATION- EMERITUS PROFESSOR ROLAND 15 May 2016 (ROLY) SUSSEX OAM 5.30 – 8pm THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE
$39.00 ESU Conversation- Emeritus Professor Roland (Roly) Sussex OAM Members The Language of Shakespeare $49.00 non Members
SHAKESPEARE IS ALL CLICHÉS?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) had an extraordinary effect on the English language, not only by his unerring ear for the rhythm and cadences of the language, but also as a creator of new words and expressions.
Some phrases which we now regard as clichés began as original coinages with Shakespeare. Or maybe they were already in current use, and he simply picked them up and made them immortal? In many cases we simply can’t know.
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This paper discusses some of the 1,500 or so words which he is credited with introducing to English, and some of the phrases which are dated by the Oxford Dictionary from his works. In Elizabethan England, as nowadays, people were confronted with a barrage of new terms on a regular basis. We will try to understand how some of Shakespeare’s neologisms worked.
Emeritus Professor Rely Sussex Our Esteemed Friend in English
Featuring a special Cocktail menu created for the night accompanied by fine Champagne, wines and beverage.
Wednesday 1 June 2016 6.30 for 7pm ESU 2016 Churchill Lecture
Black Tie Dinner
$95.00 ESU Members $115 non Members
The ESU Churchill Lecture
Sir Winston Churchill played an active part in the work of the ESU and was Chairman from 1921 to 1925. After his death, Lady Spencer Churchill gave her warm approval to ESU to use the Churchill name for a commemorative event. Since 1974 this has taken the form of the Churchill Lecture. The theme for each lecture is based on an extract from the Preface to Volume 1 of “A History of the English Speaking Peoples”.
Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the Spencer family. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
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Proudly presented by H.E. Mr. Navdeep Suri
The High Commissioner of India in Australia
The Board of Directors of the English Speaking Union (QLD) are proud to announce that the High Commissioner of India to Australia, His Excellency Mr Navdeep Suri, will present the Churchill Lecture for 2016 on Wednesday the 1st of June 2016 at ESU House.
Mr. Suri joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1983 and has served in India’s diplomatic missions in Cairo, Damascus, Washington, Dar es Salaam and London and as India’s Consul General in Johannesburg. He has also headed the West Africa and Public Diplomacy divisions at the Ministry of External Affairs. He was India’s Ambassador to Egypt prior to his present assignment. His innovative use of social media in public diplomacy has received extensive recognition and two prestigious awards.
Mr. Suri has learnt Arabic and French, has a Masters degree in Economics and has written on India’s Africa policy, on Public Diplomacy and on the IT outsourcing industry. His English translations of his grandfather Nanak Singh’s classic Punjabi novels have been published by Penguin as ‘The Watchmaker’ and by Harper Collins as ‘A Life Incomplete’. Mr. Suri is accompanied by his wife Mani who has a degree in Economics and is now an accomplished graphic designer and potter. They have two daughters, a journalist and an avid environmentalist.
The Churchill Lecture is an important occasion in the ESU calendar. A special Menu incorporating some of Churchill’s favourite dishes is being prepared by Wilsons on the River. The Dinner will be accompanied by Champagne, fine Wines and beverages.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was a British Conservative politician renowned for his extraordinary leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century. He served as the Prime Minister of England twice (1940-45 and 1955. A noted orator, Churchill was earlier an officer in the British Army and had served in Bangalore. He is also a historian, a writer and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values", and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Churchill arrived in India in 1895, aged 20. He reportedly spent his time in Bangalore, reading Plato, Aristotle, Gibbon, Macaulay and Schopenhauer, honing his skill with words and ideas. By 1899, he was in South Africa, covering the Boer war. He was imprisoned, escaped heroically and became nationally famous at 24. He was elected to Parliament and, by 33, was a cabinet minister. It would take him, it reads, despite ambition and single-mindedness, another 32 years to become Prime Minister.
Churchill was not always complimentary in his remarks about India but there is no doubt if he were alive today he could do nothing less than heap praise on the remarkable economic and technological advancement in the development of India. Currently recognised globally as a world class manufacturing enterprise and well respected Continent, that is India today. It was widely reported that 2014 could be easily said as the rocking rocketing year for India - only not for the number of rockets/satellites launched - but also on the technological front.
Benjamin Disraeli, former British PM, called India "the brightest jewel in the crown," acknowledging India's valuable resources that Europe exploited like spices, mineral ores, textiles, the huge pool of cheap labour and the large market for British goods. As its largest colonial territory, India was the most important of all the overseas possessions of the British Empire. India became independent in 1947. In 65 years, India has crossed many hurdles. It is the world's largest democracy, a nuclear power, a human resource powerhouse and is emerging as an economic giant.
Sunday CHRISTMAS IN JULY 24 July 2016 A SUMPTIOUS CHRISTMAS DINNER 6.30 pm
$75.00 ESU Members $85.00 non Members A sumptuous Christmas Dinner with all the Trimmings sponsored by The French Corner, Beautiful Furniture and Homewares, 240 Enoggera Road Newmarket. Featuring a special Christmas Dinner menu created for the night by Wilsons on the River accompanied by fine Champagne, wines and beverages. 5 fabulous Lucky Door Prizes donated by the French Corner. Christmas Carols and favourite Jazz numbers with pianist Ian McFarlane. Three very special raffle prizes, classic French designed Bevelled Mirrors to the value of $400, $300 and $200.
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Sunday 25 September 2016 JAZZ SOIREE WITH IAN MCFARLANE 5.30 – 8:30 pm
$39.00 ESU Jazz Soiree Members with Ian McFarlane $49 non Members Featuring a special Cocktail menu created for the
night accompanied by fine Champagne, wines and beverages
Sunday CONVERSATION WITH HISTORIAN STEPHEN 9 October 2016 SHEAFFE 5.30 – 8pm
$39.00 ESU Conversation with Historian Stephen Sheaffe Members The Australian Explorer SIMPSON $49 non Members $35 Members $45 non members. Featuring a special Cocktail menu accompanied by fine Champagne, wines
and beverages.
Sunday 27 November ESU AGM AND CHRISTMAS PARTY 2016 5.30 – 8pm
ESU Members no ESU AGM and Christmas Party charge Join the ESU Board of Directors, Members & Friends for the ESU AGM and $25 non Christmas Party with an abundance of Christmas Cheer in Celebration of Members Christmas 2016.
Featuring a special Christmas Cocktail menu accompanied by Christmas Pudding, Brandy Sauce, Fresh fluffy Pavlova layers of Cream and Strawberries, fine Champagne, wines and beverages.
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UPCOMING ESU EVENTS
The English Speaking Union Education programs
ESU EMPOWERING YOUTH PROGRAM 2016 Public Speaking Competition
THE ESU Public Speaking Competition All Members & Friends welcome
Public Speaking Competition Dates for 1016:
Seniors: Heats on 10 May 2016, Final on 23 May 2016
Junior: Heats on 10 Oct 2016, Final on 17 Oct 2016
Intermediate: Heats on 24-26 Oct 2016, Final on 1 Nov 2016.
THE ESU - ROLY SUSSEX SHORT STORY AWARD 2016 The ESU Roly Sussex Short Story Award competition will be announced on 31 March 2016.
Closing Dates for Entries will be 31 July 2016
Winners Announced on 30 September 2016
Update Shortly on ESU Web Site.
ESU EVENT REGISTERATIONS
Payment by Bank Transfer the English Speaking Union - BSB 034-086, Account Number 169442, or Cheque made payable to the English Speaking Union P.O. Box 1429, Milton BC QLD 4064.
Email: [email protected]
Please identify Title and date of the Event, ESU Member’s name, name of Guests attending and your phone number together with email address.
JOIN ESU QLD and assist us at ESU to unite the World in English.
ESU Membership Forms available. No joining fee applicable for 2016.
Join now for 30 June 2016-30 June 2017 and receive free Membership until 1 July 2016.
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The English Speaking Union Uniting the World through English.
DARTMOUTH HOUSE LONDON
Dartmouth House, home of the English-Speaking Union London is an elegant mansion set in the heart of London’s Mayfair. ESU Members are most welcome to visit Dartmouth House when in London.
Dartmouth House is a large and luxurious Georgian house in Mayfair, central London, England. It now acts at the headquarters for the English-Speaking Union (ESU), an educational charity. The original building was constructed in the 1750s and what today comprises Dartmouth House was two separate residences, numbers 37 and 38 Charles Street. The first owner of number 37 was Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon from 1757–1776.
In 1870, the banker Edward Baringbought both properties and on his creation as Baron Revelstoke in 1885, he converted the two houses into one to house his collection of Louis XIVfurniture and art. He remodelled and refurbished the house in an Anglo-French style.[7] There is a painted ceiling by Pierre- Victor Galland above the grand staircase. However a crisis at Baring Brothers and Co Bank meant that spending on the buildings was curtailed and all building and design work ceased. Many of Lord Revelstoke’s furnishings and objects d’art had to be sold at auction, although he continued to live here until his death in 1897. The next owner, Lord Dartmouth (6th Earl of Dartmouth) made the most significant changes to the interior of the house in 1900, with the creation of the Long and Small 8 The English Speaking Union (QLD)
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Drawing Rooms. The house was used as the Dartmouth family home until the outbreak of war in 1914, when it was used by the British Red Cross as a military hospital. It was sold again in 1918 to the Hon. Mrs Robert Lindsay. Dartmouth House was purchased by the English-Speaking Union in 1926 for the sum of £45,000 from the Hon. Mrs Robert Lindsay. It was formally opened as the London Headquarters of the ESU by the then Prime Minister, Sir Stanley Baldwin, on the 22 February 1927. Today, Dartmouth House is an important heritage building in Mayfair. It was upgraded by the UK government Department of Culture, Media and Sport to be a Grade II* listed building.
ESU PATRONS: Since 1936 the Patron of the ESU has been the reigning monarch, 1936 HM King Edward VIII, 1936-1952 HM King George VI and 1952 - HM Queen Elizabeth II. The ESU is dependent financially on the commercial investment return we are receiving from ESU House, the generosity of its members, individual donors and corporate sponsors. Its charitable and educational purpose is clear with an increasing focus on the challenge of social exclusion globally.
The English-Speaking Union as a Global Charitable organisation continues to expand throughout the world with branches in Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England & Wales, Estonia, Finland, France: France-Anjou, France-Bordeaux, France-Paris, France- Strasbourg, Georgia, Germany-Bavaria, Germany-Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal Romania-Bucharest, Romania-Craiova, Russia-Moscow, Russia-St Petersburg, Scotland, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of American, Vanuatu, Yemen.
THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION (ESU) QLD Our Aims and Programs
OUR VISION
The English Speaking Union (Qld) promotes global understanding and human achievement through the shared use of the English language.
OUR FOCUS
Our programs create, empower, enrich, encourage and transform.
Creating educational Partnerships International scholarships - Partnering like-minded organizations
Empowering through communication Public Speaking Competitions – Juniors and Seniors The Churchill lecture Cultural Awareness Lecture series - Enriching human endeavour through performance Roly Sussex Short Story Competition
Encouraging appreciation of Heritage and History
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ESU House
The Iconic Cook Terraces circa 1887
Cnr Park Rd and Coronation Dve, Milton, Brisbane Qld 4064.
THE 2015 CHURCHILL LECTURE Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta Proudly Presented by Mr Tony Brennan British Chargé d’Affaires, Deputy High Commissioner.
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