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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Category: Past Events
Visit to the V & A Museum and the Donatello Exhibition on 27 April
What a pleasure it was to be back at the V. & A. again; whilst a few of our members[…]
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Member’s Coffee Morning – Friday 29th March 2023 from 10.30 a.m
All members’s are invited to an informal meeting at the Village Hall over refreshments and cake to meet other members.[…]
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Fund Raising Bridge Drive – 7 June 2023 at 1.45 pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will now take place on Wednesday June 7th play starting promptly at 1.45 p.m. and ending[…]
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Visit to Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent – Tuesday 13 June 2023
The childhood home of Anne Boleyn, Hever Castle dates back to the 13C. Panelled rooms house fine furniture, tapestries and[…]
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Visit to the V & A Museum and Donatello Exhibition – Thursday 27th April 2023 BOOKING NOW CLOSED
We will have timed tickets during the morning to the Exhibition, ‘Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance’, being transferred directly from the[…]
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The Final Journey of the Unknown Warrior – A virtual tour by Ruth Polling
The first Virtual Tour of the season was both fascinating and extremely moving. Lecturer and Blue Badge Guide Ruth Polling[…]
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Special Interest Day – Wed 22 March 2023 – Cornard Wood to Fanghorn Forest. British trees in art and literature
This special day of three lectures by Justine Hopkins will demonstrate the interest of artists and writers in forests, glades[…]
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Christmas Lunch at Frensham Pond Hotel – Monday 12 December 2022
We will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
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Tour to Madrid and Toledo 12 – 16 May 2023 (Note date has been changed in view of the Coronation)
Our 2023 tour will take us to see the wonderful artistic and architectural heritage of Madrid, together with Toldedo, one[…]
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Virtual Tour – Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden, Cape Town – Monday 6 March at 9.30 am
Lying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
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Virtual Tour – A walk around Art Nouveau Vienna – Tuesday 17th January 2023 at 11am
Local guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
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Virtual Tour – Treasures of the Borghese Gallery, Rome – Wednesday 8 February 2023 at 11.00 am
The Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
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Virtual Tour – The Final Journey of the Unknown Warrior – Tuesday 15 November at 11.00am
On the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
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Ways to Look at Painting by Alice White – Thursday 2nd March 2023
Alice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed[…]
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The World’s Most Expensive Art – Where Leonardo Meets Picasso by Ian Swankie – Thursday 6th April 2023
In the last few years the top end of the art market has flourished and collectors have been prepared to[…]
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Selfies, Self – Expression, Celebrity and Victorian Carte De Visite by Mark Hill – Thursday 1st June 2023
From the late 1850s to the mid-1870s a new craze gripped the world. Photography had just begun to be popularised[…]
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The Art and Craft of John Piper by Jo Walton – Thursday 2nd February 2023
An abstract painter in the 1930’s, John Piper was also a writer, critic and typographer and his love of[…]
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When the MGM Lion Roared: The Hollywood Studios by Colin Shindler – Thursday 5th January 2023
There were eight studios in Hollywood during its Golden Age and this lecture provides a helpful history from their early, tentative[…]
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The Colossal Art and Architecture of Egypt’s Boldest Pharaoh by Lucia Gahlin – Thursday 4th May 2023
Ramesses II (c 1279 -1213 BC) is known to many as ‘Ramesses the Great’. He built extraordinary temples throughout Egypt[…]
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