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Programme

LECTURES

All meetings are held on Wednesdays at 10.30am in Potten End Village Hall.
Coffee is served 10.00 - 10.20am.

Visitors and Associate Members should make prior application to the Secretary.
A donation is welcome.

Programme for 2009/10

     

2009

Wednesday, 30th September

In the wake of Handel: 300 years of the impact of Handel on British Culture
2009 marks 250 years since the death of Handel and 2010 celebrates 300 years since he arrived in London where he had great influence on the British cultural scene, both in his lifetime and after his death.

Peter Medhurst

Wednesday, 28th October

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose at Farley Farmhouse
A personal encounter with the lives and art of Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their friends.

Antony Penrose

Wednesday, 25th November

Constantin Brancusi
Explores Brancusi's artistic development and demonstrates how he evolved perhaps the most spiritual and visually inventive body of sculpture since Michelangelo.

Eric Shanes

2010

Wednesday, 27th January

Bars, Bedsits and Bordellos: the low life of ancient Pompeii
An investigation into "how the other half lived" - the world of the ancient poor and their street-corner culture.

Dr Neil Faulkner

Wednesday, 24th February

The Great Twelve: An introduction to the Senior Livery Companies of the City of London
This lecture explores the medieval origins of the livery companies and their role in modern society.

Fenella Billington

 
 

Download handouts here:

| Reading List
 
| Map showing the Great Twelve Livery Halls
 
| Great Livery Companies of the City of London in order or precedence laid down in 1516

 

Wednesday, 31st March

Titian to Van Dyck: The Art of Portraiture
Through the prism of two master portraitists the lecture looks at the interest and need for likenesses in portraiture and how they were used by those who commissioned them.

Leslie Primo

Wednesday, 28th April

The Dealer's Story: Dealing in the British Art Market
Illustrated with a number of items he has bought and sold, the talk aims to give something of an insight into the colourful nature of the dealing world.

Nicholas Bagshawe

Wednesday, 26th May

Matisse and Picasso: Half a Century of Friendly Rivalry
Starting at the end of the 19th Century we follow these friends and rivals, each considered by the other to be the only artist even remotely his equal, until after Matisse's death at the age of 84 in 1954.

Frank Woodgate

Wednesday, 30th June

When is a cupboard not a cupboard?
We all know that a door is not a door when it's 'ajar' but the answer to the question posed by this lecture title will be revealed through the development of the 'cup-board' from its medieval origins to the present day.

Janusz Karczewski-Slowikowski

     

ADFAS VISITS FOR 2009-2010

2009

Wednesday 16th September

Fry Gallery and Audley End

Wednesday 11th November

Wallace Collection and Handel's House

Wednesday 9th December

Theatre Trip, at the National Theatre to see ‘The Habit of Art’ by Alan Bennett

2010

Thursday 21st January

"Aztecs" at The British Museum

Monday 15th March

Vintners' Hall and Dr. Johnson's House

Tuesday 23th March

Annual Dinner, Berkhamsted Golf Club

Wednesday 2nd June

National Theatre to see ‘London Assurance’ by Dion Boucicault with Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw

Thursday 10th June

Restoration House and Rochester Cathedral

 

The Programme and Outings organisers always welcome suggestions from members for lectures and places to visit in 2010 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.

 

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