¡Bienvenido!
The Portsmouth Hispanic Society offers presentations and discussions on a wide and eclectic range of Hispanic topics.
Something of interest to anyone interested in all aspects of Hispanic culture and life. We welcome visitors to any of our meetings.
The Aims of the Society
- To further the understanding of all aspects of Hispanic culture and life
- To provide a meeting point for those interested in the Hispanic world
- To provide inexpensive tuition in the Spanish language at a range of levels
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Society member Anna Seevaratnam has written a poem about her feelings whilst learning Spanish. Anna recited the poem at this year's Christmas party and members have requested that the poem was made available to them.
Click on the links below to view the poem.
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During the recent presentation on Argentina author Jeanine Brownrigg introduced her recentky published book Pioneering Spirit, An Anglo-Argentine Story of My Ancestors, My Mother and Me.
The book can be ordered through her website, which has links to Amazon and Balboa Press UK. |
Alejandro Talaminos contacted the society to introduce his book Learn Spanish with Don Quijote.
Download a self starting Powerpoint overview of the book. |
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As we cannot currently present our usual programme of monthly meetings at Fratton Community Centre, the payment of membership subscriptions is suspended until further notice. We will automatically re-enrol 2019 2020 season members for the 2020 2021 season, so for them no action is needed. Members new to the Society will be most welcome and are asked to enrol using the Membership Application Form. Until Government guidance permits us to meet at Fratton Community Centre we are planning to offer our programme of monthly talks on-line using Zoom where speakers are happy with this arrangement. As the situation develops, further details will be given on our Meetings page.
We are delighted to tell you that our President Emeritus, Professor Patrick Williams, has been made a member of the Spanish Real Academia de la Historia , an august body founded in the 1730s. We have congratulated him on behalf of the Society, but will be very happy to forward to him any personal emails that members may wish to send.
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Where we meetMeetings are held at the Fratton Community CentreTrafalgar Place. Off Clive Rd, Portsmouth PO1 5JJ at 7.00pm usually on the first Thursday of the month. Click here for a MAP There is limited free parking. The Centre is twelve minutes walk from Fratton Railway station. A number 18 bus stops at St Mary's Church, 2 mins walk away.
Society ActivitiesThe main activities of the Society are Spanish language classes and the Monthly Meetings. The meetings include talks or demonstrations followed by discussions, and a social evening with tapas available. One or two social events are also held during the year.Monthly Meetings are open to anyone aged 18 or over and are conducted in English, though some Spanish may be spoken, and is translated. Non-members are very welcome and pay £2.00 to attend any meeting MembershipThe annual subscription for 2020/21 remains at £12.00.Full-time students - half-price on production of a student card. The membership year runs from September to August You may join by using our ONLINE FORM |
