The History of Opera by Jamie Hayes – Thursday 7 September
A fascinating lecture of how opera began, developed and spread worldwide; from 1600 to the present day. Illustrated with musical[…]
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A fascinating lecture of how opera began, developed and spread worldwide; from 1600 to the present day. Illustrated with musical[…]
Read moreWhat a pleasure it was to be back at the V. & A. again; whilst a few of our members[…]
Read moreAll members’s are invited to an informal meeting at the Village Hall over refreshments and cake to meet other members.[…]
Read moreOur Annual Bridge Drive will now take place on Wednesday June 7th play starting promptly at 1.45 p.m. and ending[…]
Read moreThe childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle dates back to the 13C. Panelled rooms house fine furniture, tapestries and[…]
Read moreWe will have timed tickets during the morning to the Exhibition, ‘Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance’, being transferred directly from the[…]
Read moreThe first Virtual Tour of the season was both fascinating and extremely moving. Lecturer and Blue Badge Guide Ruth Polling[…]
Read moreThis special day of three lectures by Justine Hopkins will demonstrate the interest of artists and writers in forests, glades[…]
Read moreWe will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
Read moreOur 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
Read moreLying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
Read moreLocal guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
Read moreThe Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
Read moreOn the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
Read moreAlice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed[…]
Read moreIn the last few years the top end of the art market has flourished and collectors have been prepared to[…]
Read moreFrom the late 1850s to the mid-1870s a new craze gripped the world. Photography had just begun to be popularised[…]
Read moreAn abstract painter in the 1930’s, John Piper was also a writer, critic and typographer and his love of[…]
Read moreThere were eight studios in Hollywood during its Golden Age and this lecture provides a helpful history from their early, tentative[…]
Read moreRamesses II (c 1279 -1213 BC) is known to many as ‘Ramesses the Great’. He built extraordinary temples throughout Egypt[…]
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