BeARA weekly activities Senior Elastixs, Tai-Chi & Strolls around Moat Park. BeARA fortnightly activities Kurling, monthly Tenpin Bowling usually 1st Tuesday of the month and Bi-Monthly Walks. See "Diary of Events" for all forthcoming activities.
26 Activity Reports
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23rd January 2026 Trip to see Cirque du Soleil (Royal Albert Hall)
Our coach trip of 50 members travelled to the Royal Albert Hall to see the Cirque du Soleil a fantastic circus type show featuring an insect theme.
With a cacophony of acrobatic disciplines including floor acrobats, pole, trapeze, slack rope, wall trampoline to name but a few. with of course the clown sequences.
The performance was high energy throughout the acrobatic sequences that left the near capacity audience in ore of the performance's stamina.
Our thanks to Lee & Pat for organising this event.
19th January 2026 Main Meeting: Speaker Guy Bartlett Operation Nymrod The SAS in action.
It was good to have the return of Guy Bartlett to give us a presentation of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980. His presentation included archive news reel footage and various photographs of the events, often as they unfolded live on Television, along with many fascinating facts that his considerable research had uncovered.
Thank you Guy for a fabulous afternoon and we look forward to seeing you again for one of your other excellent talks.
18th January 2026 Trip to Shen-Yun
23 of our members embarked on a coach to Hammersmith Eventim Appollo Theatre for the final performance before moving the production to Northampton step of the tour.
The performance was to a sell out audience who must have been in ore of the synchronisation of the dance movements and acrobatics throughout the show could only be described as phenomenal. The high definition screen at the rear of the stage was used to effectively give impression of dancers and characters jumping from screen to live stage with perfect timing.
Our thanks to Ron Wooldridge for suggesting this excursion and and initiating the booking of tickets, and to Dave Finch for co-ordinating the trip in the latter stages.
8th January 2026 Trip to "MJ" The Musical
Our first event of 2026 was a fantastic trip to see the Musical "MJ" Michael Jackson on a very wet day. Most of our party headed to initially to find lunch or perhaps a little retail therapy before entering The Prince Edward Theatre in the west end.
Our seats were in the front stalls and we enjoyed a fabulous show depicting the life of Michael Jackson.
On completion of the performance we had a short walk back to the coach in the pouring rain and our journey home.
We were pleased to welcome some guests including some family and friends of our members and members of other ARA's from our KentARA area group four, their help enabled us to fill the coach.
