EIGHTEENTH SEASON 2023
Please note the change of time for our Open Meetings.
During the dark Winter months we have arranged for the October, November and December meetings to be held in the AFTERNOON in Westerham Hall as usual, 2 o'clock for 2.30 with a Wine and Tea Bar
Single membership remains at £40 & £75 per couple
WELCOME Wine Bar opens at 7.15 and Evening Lectures begin at 8p.m. Visitors most welcome £7 on the door
"As it was - where it was" - the Fall and Rise of St. Mark's Campanile, Venice.
Wednesday 7th June 2023 at 7.30 for 8pm. Photographer Sarah Quill returns to tell this story. In July 1902 the famous bell-tower of St Mark, the city’s totemic symbol, collapsed into a pile of rubble, crushing Sansovino’s 16th-century Loggetta beneath it and narrowly missing the slender columns of the Basilica. News of the disaster flashed by telegram round the world, and the shock and distress felt by Venetians at the sudden loss of their landmark bell-tower was intense. The work of recovery, planning and rebuilding took ten years.
Sir Kenneth Grange - Designing Daily Life"
Wednesday 5th July 2023 at 7.30 f0r 8pm. Few people realise how much the designs of Kenneth Grange have contributed to "modern life" - from the Kodak Camera to the InterCity 125. Johanna Agerman Ross is the V & A's Curator of 20th century Contemporary Furniture and Product Design - has met him many times and is working with colleagues at the V&A Archive on the arrival of his archive to the Museum. Should prove fascinating.
Visit to Titsey Place & Gardens
On Wednesday 19th July at 2pm We have arranged a Guided Tour [including afternoon tea] of Titsey Place in Oxted: an impressive manor house, parts dating back to the 16thC - with beautiful gardens, including a stunning walled kitchen garden. Family portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Peter Lely greet the visitors and in the delightful dining room are four paintings of Venice by Canaletto. Explore the garden - Guided Tour - then we will have Afternoon Tea £ 25 Own Transport Members Only. Numbers limited to 20. Booking opens at 10th May Meeting
"The Making of Landscape Photographs"
Wednesday 6th September 2023 - at 7.15 for 8pm. Photographer Charlie Waite is renowned and established as one of the world's leading Landscape photographers. His pictures convey a spiritual quality of serenity and calm. He has been an advocate of engaging in the landscape through photography for over 30 years.
"A Personal Heaven - the paintings of Stanley Spencer"
Wednesday 4th October 2023 at N.B. Afternoon 2 for 2.30 One of the most original British artists of his generation - Val Woodgate's lecture will examine the eccentric and visionary world of one of the most creative and imaginative painters of the 20th Century. Spencer's art was dominated by his personal life and his profound religious faith. His birthplace Cookham was for him an earthly paradise.
"Widor and his Mighty Toccata"
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Wednesday 1st November 2023 N.B. Afternoon 2 for 2.30
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"A Portrait of Jewels" - a Fascinating Detective Story
Wednesday 13th December 2023 N.B. Afternoon 2 for 2.30
Andrew Prince returns to entertain and inform us with his journey following missing treasures through Art. His interest was aroused when he saw paintings of the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs in the National Portrait Gallery
N.B. The Lecture "How to be Good" which was to be given by Jo Walton this month - has been moved to April 2024.
Andrew Prince returns to entertain and inform us with his journey following missing treasures through Art. His interest was aroused when he saw paintings of the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs in the National Portrait Gallery
N.B. The Lecture "How to be Good" which was to be given by Jo Walton this month - has been moved to April 2024.
NINETEENTH SEASON - 2024
Meeting times changed. January to April will be in the afternoon, as will October through to December. During the Summer months of May, June, July & September will be in the evening .
