Archive | Programme 2006-07

LECTURES

All meetings are held on the last Wednesday of each month except July, August and December at 10.30am in Potten End Village Hall.

Coffee is served 10.00 - 10.20am.

Visitors are welcome on prior application to the Secretary.
Donations are welcome.

September 27th

The Golden Age of Painting in Spain
Starting with a brief look at El Greco’s contribution to painting in Spain before concentrating on the great artists of the 17th Century: Velasquez, Zurbaran, Murillo, and ending with Goya’s tapestry designs and portraits.

Gail Turner

October 25th

Rembrandt – Family, Faces and Friends
Rembrandt (1606-1669) provides a wonderful window onto a vibrant city in its Golden Age.

Hilary Williams

November 29th

Phantasmagoria – The Gothick in British Arts
Phantasmagoria – a display of fantastic images depicted through the Gothick novel, opera, poetry and Walpole’s house - illustrated with music and slides.

Peter Medhurst

January 31st

Pearls Before Swine
The story of a necklace from its beginnings as a wedding present from Pope Clement to his niece Catherine de Medici to Queen Elizabeth 11. .

Jane Kelsall

February 28th

The English Country House
Houses chosen to reflect the important moments in the evolution of style - Hardwick Hall, Wilton, Blenheim, Houghton, Keddleston etc. (Where possible reference will be made to houses within easy reach of the lecture venue.)

Tom Duncan

March 28th

Princely Courts and Porcelain Secrets
Chinese porcelains arrived in Europe in bulk on the 17th Century ships of the Dutch East India Company, signalling the renewal of the European quest to discover the secret of porcelain manufacture led by Meissen.

Anne Howarth (new lecturer)

April 25th

Samarkand and the Silk Road
We are introduced to the making of silk, the history of the 8,000 mile route of the Silk Road - the great cities of Khiva, Bokhara and Samarkand, with their glorious tiled buildings - minarets, domes and palaces, the great mosques and madressehs of Islam as well as the Observatory of Ulug Beg.

Alan Bott

May 30th

The Gates of Hell. The Life and Works of August Rodin
The most influential and dynamic French sculptor of the 19th century – the tremendous force and power of his works overflowed into a complicated private life

Anna Barrington-Ward

June 27th

The Seven Ages of London – 2000 years of a City and its People
What makes this exciting, vibrant and sometimes infuriating city ‘tick’ - who can resist a city loved by such diverse individuals as Pepys, Canaletto, Johnson and Sir John Betjeman?

Andrew Davies

OUTINGS AND VISITS

Thursday 19th October 2006

Danson House and The Red House

Wednesday 15th November 2006

Put to bed at Osterley House and Pitzhanger Manor House

Tuesday 5th December 2006

Velázquez Exhibition

Wednesday 7th February 2007

Garrick Club and Thomas Coram Museum

Thursday 22nd March 2007

Royal Albert Hall plus Linley Sambourne House

Wednesday 18th April 2007

Compton Verney

Tuesday 8th - Sunday 13th May 2007

Residential Trip to Italy

Tuesday 12th June 2007

Kew Palace, Queen Charlotte's Cottage and Kew Gardens

Thursday 5th July 2007

Baddesley Clinton and Packwood House

18th - 20th September 2007

3 day / 2 night trip to Gloucestershire

THEATRE VISITS
 

Tuesday 28 November 2006 at 2.15

NATIONAL THEATRE
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. 
Coach departs Sacred Heart Church 11.00am.

16th May 2007

THE OLD VIC
The Entertainer by John Osborne.

The Programme and Outings organisers always welcome suggestions from members for lectures and places to visit in 2007 and beyond.

Every effort will be made to fit in as many as possible though this will be subject to limitations imposed by the rest of the programmes.