Come and try dragonboating this

Come and Try dragonboating. It is your chance to experience what it is like to get outdoors and into a dragonboat, paddling to the beat of a drum with Colour City Dragons on Saturday 25 March at Lake Canobolas at 9.30am.

Dragonboating is a fast and furious paddle-driven water sport that is all about fun, fitness, teamwork and family.

The Club will provide the boat, paddles and life jackets and you just need to wear covered footwear – sneakers and clothes you don’t mind getting wet.

Come and enjoy a paddle on the lake on Saturday morning! (Just look for the orange club shirts). For more details call Colour City Dragon President John Moss on 0417 894 411.

The Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies is hosting a lecture from Alan Read on the topic: ‘Denys Lasdun and the national theatre – architectural masterpiece or was Prince Charles right after all?’

The architecture of the Royal National Theatre divides opinion so much that it once appeared twice in a poll on buildings of London – in the top ten best and the top ten worst. Famously, the then Prince Charles once described it as a nuclear bunker. Was he right? The lecture looks at the life and work of Denys Lasdun, including other buildings he designed, but focuses on the National Theatre and pleads for an appreciation of the austere beauty of this architectural masterpiece.

Lectures are held at the Orange Regional Conservatorium, 73A Hill St, Orange. 6pm for pre-lecture drinks and finger food, for a 6:30 pm lecture start.

Cost is $30. For more information, and more on upcoming lectures, call Sue on 0418 625 508