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The highlight of our calendar this year,<br />
however, was a ballet demonstration and talk<br />
by Colombian dancer Fernando Montano,<br />
Soloist with the Royal Ballet, in the Leonard<br />
Wolfson Auditorium in collaboration with<br />
the University Colombian Society. Fernando<br />
told his extraordinary life story from his<br />
childhood in Colombia and ballet school in<br />
Cuba to Italy and finally to the Royal Ballet<br />
in London. He showed a short film and then<br />
gave a performance of the Dying Swan.<br />
It is thanks to the enthusiasm and dedication<br />
of Arts Sub-Committee members that this<br />
lively programme of arts activities continues<br />
from year to year, and in particular to our<br />
Chairman, Mark Norman who, despite a very busy schedule as Head of Conservation<br />
at the Ashmolean, still finds time to get involved with all that the Arts Society<br />
does, efficiently chairing our meetings, attending openings and providing me with<br />
invaluable advice.<br />
Jan Scriven<br />
Arts Administrator<br />
BarCo<br />
It has been an exciting year. We refurbished a pool table and the darts area, and<br />
added a football table. The games room was up-graded with a new sound system, a<br />
big-screen, a DVD player, a Playstation 3, a video-stream box, and ports to connect<br />
a computer to all of them. Johan Paulsson, our retiring beer manager, used a<br />
Raspberry Pi to automate many of the day-to-day tasks required to run the Bar: go<br />
to http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/07/raspberry-pi-powered-bar<br />
The new facilities have been used extensively by Wolfson members, clubs and<br />
societies, and there is no sign of slowing down.<br />
DW Bester<br />
BarCo Chair<br />
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