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Sydney Bridge Centre is the home of Sydney Bridge Club, one of Sydney’s largest and oldest Bridge clubs. We are centrally located, friendly and welcome all visitors. Our main venue and office are on Level 1, 162 Goulburn Street, Sydney 2010. We also run regular sessions in Polish Club Ashfield and Henley. We offer a variety of bridge activities to suit players of different levels and aspirations, including recreational daily games, beginners courses, workshops, special events and competitive congresses.

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Sydney City Good Church. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Erica grew up in Uddevalla, Sweden, but has lived in Sydney since 2017. She is passionate about language education and has several years of experience teaching Swedish to both adults and teenagers. Erica holds a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in linguistics, from The University of Sydney, and has completed additional courses in Swedish and SSL (Swedish as a second language). Erica is also a qualified ELICOS teacher and works part-time at an English language school.

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Magdalena Tausch is an archaeologist, museum educator, tour guide and graphic designer whose passion for uncovering the past spans more than a decade and 11 archaeological projects across Europe—from prehistoric to medieval sites. A graduate of Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, she has worked in leading museums, creating hands-on workshops and exhibitions that bring history vividly to life. Now based in Sydney, Magdalena combines her expertise in archaeology, art history, and design to make learning about our shared human story engaging, creative, and accessible to everyone.

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Michael Taylor (LLM, DPhil) is new to the WEA but has extensive teaching experience over a long career. He began over thirty years ago as a College Lecturer in Moral and Political Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has since been actively engaged in teaching and lecturing at many leading universities around the world. Although his professional career mainly involved work in economics and economic policy, Michael has always retained his passion for philosophy, and has published several well received books on the nineteenth century thinker Herbert Spencer. He believes that philosophy helps us think more clearly about the problems of everyday life and the great questions that now confront us as a species.  Michael’s classes aim to be interactive, with all the members of the class engaged in a a voyage of discovery.

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Maria Teixeira-Alves studied Germanic Philology at Porto University in Portugal before coming to Australia where she graduated from the University of Sydney with a major in Linguistics and then undertook post-graduate studies in Vocational Education and Training and Public Relations at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Maria has led a career in the development and implementation of policies, training programs and resources in the NSW Department of Education and Training for 23 years. She also taught Portuguese to speakers of other languages in the Cambridge Institute in Porto and reading and writing to adults in the Portuguese Association in Sydney. Maria is a native speaker of Portuguese and has also studied French and Italian at the University of Sydney.

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Pernilla has an Advanced Certificate in Language Teaching and has been working as a teacher since 2014. Currently, she serves as the Headteacher (Principal) at the Swedish School in Sydney, leveraging her background in sales and marketing. Pernilla is a driven and dedicated teacher, ensuring that her lessons are interactive and enjoyable by utilizing various methods to enhance language absorption in the brain. She firmly believes that anyone can learn, with the only question being how. Therefore, come prepared with your post-it notes, and be ready to utilize online tools while having fun learning Swedish.

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The Deaf Society of NSW. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Sonya Thompson, MA, MALP, has taught in the subject areas of history and politics for over thirty years, much of that time with the WEA. Sonya holds postgraduate degrees in history, law and government. Her studies focussed on Australian history and international relations. Sonya believes the study of history is important because we need to understand the past to truly understand the present. Sonya embraces the opportunity the WEA provides to share learning with students and to exchange experiences and viewpoints. Sonya believes that learning should be about challenging views and perceptions, including her own.

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Dr John Tidmarsh was formerly President of the University of Sydney's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation and currently Chairman, Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.  He was previously  part-time lecturer in the Department of Archaeology. He is also Co-Director of the University's excavations at Pella in Jordan, and the ANU/University of Melbourne excavations at Jebel Khalid in Syria. He has also excavated in Greece and Cyprus. His special interests are in the Hellenistic period in the East (in which area he gained his PhD) and in the art and archaeology of the Islamic period. He has led numerous tours to Iran, Oman, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and other countries in the eastern Mediterranean.