AV News 220 August 2020

However, the email below form Bryan Stubbs epitomises the nature of communications we have all received over the past few months. At one point, there was nothing left in my diary to get cancelled! Dear All, Hope you are surviving the weather and the virus. I thought I would try and bring you up to date with our present thinking on the Yorkshire RPS AV Days at Leeds Trinity University. As you probably know we normally organise meetings in Nov and April each year. There is no way we can organise a meeting this November. I have been in touch with Trinity and there will be no face to face teaching at least in the rst semester. All lectures will be via video. The University's Estates department has said that if the Auditorium was used then they would only allow people to sit every 3rd seat and in every 3rd row making the maximum occupancy 25! I have to admit to being relieved when I heard this because with the age pro le of our regulars (myself included) we are all in the vulnerable category and I don't think we can risk meeting in November. Obviously we will see what develops and hope we might meet up again next April, maybe! So what have you all been doing? Making AVs I hope! I've only made one very short one celebrating our move to this house 25 years ago. I hope everyone is not too disappointed with this decision about meetings but will recognise the sense of it. All the best and keep safe, Bryan However, I am optimistic that out of such a negative period, a sense of good will come. Perhaps we have had time to “get creative”. Maybe we will value the time we spend on our hobby and the wonderful community of people around us. Perhaps out of the ashes of Covid 19 will be a reinvigorated AV community. I hope so. It won’t be for the want of a considerable amount of effort from a number of enthusiasts from across our community. Perhaps our new focus should be on making a success of the new RPS Distinctions under the auspices of the Film, Digital and Multimedia genre. In the meantime, keep safe,, keep well, keep sane, and keep AVing ….. As always, can I express my thanks and appreciation to all of our contributors. Contact the editor at: magazine@avnews.org.uk Page 5 | AV News 220 | August 2020