Return to Burma by Derek Brooke-Wavell

………….. when we hope you will give your support to an experiment with a new type of lecture meeting – using your own computer or tablet via Zoom technology.

For this first meeting, Derek Brooke-Wavell will give us a full photo-presentation and commentary on his visit to Mon and Karen States in January this year – an area of Myanmar where few foreigners ventured in the past, because of fighting in progress there. He was seeing Myanmar anew after ten years’ absence.

Derek is an old lover of Myanmar and former Hon Secretary of this society, so he knows us well. He is a serious photographer who has mounted several photographic exhibitions in London, and he loves nothing better than a really irresistible photographic image. Presentations are best on the big Medical Society screen, but home has its advantages too, especially if you can use your biggest viewing area. (It might even be worth plugging into a TV screen, using an HDMI cable).

Mon and Karen States have some truly remarkable experiences to offer – the karst limestone country soars up into sheer heights which we will climb in the footsteps of Shwe Yoe, and plunges down into ancient caves, filled with the art of the Mon civilization, some of which predates Bagan.

The show will last a little under 20 minutes with Q&A at the end. If Derek cannot answer any detailed questions, we certainly have other experts who can – and the Zoom meeting will allow everyone to be heard clearly.

To join the meeting, tap on the link below a little before 5.30pm on 22nd September. If you do not already have the Zoom app, you will be given instructions how to download and install it – quite a fast process.

Meeting ID: 830 2997 7095

Passcode: 385997