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The Arts Society Woking's Talk
Programme 2011
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| All Speakers are
carefully chosen based on their
reputation for attractive and
well-presented talks with good pictures.
Talks take place on the second
Wednesday of each month except July and
August, so that’s under £4.00 per
talk. |
| Talks commence promptly at
10.30am at
Bisley Pavilion, Bisley Camp,
Queens
Road, Bisley Woking Surrey GU24 0NY This
website includes an
Interactive map. |
| Coffee and biscuits are served from
9.45am. |
| Members may bring a visitor, but
the same person may not be a guest more
than twice a year. The visitors fee is
£5 per talk. |
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January 12th 2011 |
London’s Unseen History (D)
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This talk takes a fresh look
at London’s development over the
centuries. It includes rivers
that are now underground, Roman
London, tunnels and Joseph
Bazalgette’s sewer system.
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Speaker: Peter Lawrence Dip Local Hist (Ldn Univ)
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Peter Lawrence is a tutor in architectural history and is a retired member of Royalty and Diplomatic protection at Scotland Yard. |
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February
9th 2011
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Fakes and Forgeries:
The Art of Deception (D)
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The question of fake decorative
art has been in vogue for
centuries; however, increasingly
sophisticated methods are being
used by criminals to generate
vast profits. The talk
reveals actual studies,
demonstrating the lengths to
which forgers will go in passing
off works as legitimate. |
Speaker: Malcolm Kenwood
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Malcolm Kenwood has 20 years experience as a police detective investigating art antiques crime. |
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March 9th 2011
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Great Tarts in
Art:
High Culture and the Oldest
Profession (D)
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This talk is a mixture of
art-historical analysis and
scandalous anecdote, taking a
generally light-hearted look at
changing attitudes to sexual
morality down the ages. It
examines the portraits and
careers of some of history’s
most notorious ladies – but also
looks at the complex and
ambiguous attitudes of art and
society towards the working
girls at the lower end of the
scale. |
Speaker: Linda Smith BA (Hons), MA
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Linda Smith is an art historian who talks at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Dulwich. |
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April 13th 2011
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The Sublime and the
Ridiculous: a Look at Victorian
Painting
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Andrew Davies explores the
extraordinary range of Victorian
painting from the well-known
(Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler) to
the less celebrated (Samuel
Palmer, J.Atkinson Grimshaw,
Richard Dadd) and glances inside
several 19th century art
galleries. He returns to us for
the seventh time. |
Speaker: Andrew Davies MA (Hons) Oxon
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Andrew Davies is author, broadcaster, speaker and Extra-Mural Tutor for London, Essex and The Open University. |
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May 11th 2011
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John Betjeman: First and
Last Loves of Architecture
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This talk is essentially a
biography of John Betjeman with
reference to architecture, where
his first and last loves lay and
where he was a pioneer in
creating an awareness for
conservation. In his poetry, his
Englishness went to the heart of
England and the English,
containing some nostalgia and
melancholy , but also a capacity
for laughter – at our society,
institutions and ourselves.
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Speaker: Denis Moriarty MA(Oxon)
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Denis Moriarty, who gives a wide range of talks on architecture, supplements his slides with generous readings of poetry and prose delivered in John Betjeman’s style. |
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June 8th 2011
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Hatchments and
Hedgehogs – an introduction to
everyday heraldry (D)
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Heraldry is all around us, not
only in country houses,
cathedrals and castles, but also
from passports to pub signs and
cricket caps to council offices.
The talk is a straightforward
introduction to what is often
dismissed as an esoteric
subject. |
Speaker: Chloe Cockerill MBE, MA
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Chloe Cockerill has a qualification in Librarianship and has experience in Church and local history (Essex). |
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July 2011 |
No Talk (Summer
break)
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August 2011
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No Talk (Summer
break)
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September
14th 2011 |
The Pleasures of
Paris: from Daumier to Toulouse
Lautrec
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This is an account of the
re-designing of Paris and its
social life from the time of
Napoleon III to 1900, seen
through the paintings of the new
boulevards, parks and race
courses. It shows Parisians at
the opera, the theatre and
ballet through the eyes of
Manet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro
and at the Moulin Rouge with
Toulouse-Lautrec. |
Speaker: Shirley Turner MA Oxon
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Shirley Turner is a historian and a freelance speaker and course speaker for the V. and A. Museum. |
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October 12th 2011
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Abracadabra of the
Mountebanks - stages, scenery
and effects in the theatre (D)
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This talk traces the
architectural line of
development of theatres from the
Ancient Greek through the
Medieval and Renaissance to the
Victorian. It also includes the
development of theatre machinery
and stage effects. |
Speaker:
Tom Errington
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Tom Errington is a practising artist and designer with experience in the theatre on the technical side. He returns to us for the second time. |
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November
9th 2011 |
Red Vibrations: the
aesthetic and emotional
significance of Red in Western
art
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Red is the most forceful colour
and is very flexible, from
demonic scarlet to angelic pink,
from the wisdom of crimson to
the warm exuberance of orange.
The talk is an analysis of
the way in which artists over
the centuries have used it. |
Speaker: Alexandra Drysdale BA (Hons)
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Alexandra Drysdale is a practising artist who aims in her talks to open people’s eyes to the language of painting in a practical and imaginative way. |
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December
14th 2011 |
A Celebration of
Christmas in Music and Painting
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This talk explores the sacred
and secular aspects of
Christmas, using the keyboard
and audio-visual illustrations.
(D) = digital
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Speaker: Janet Canetty-Clarke ARAM, BMus London
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Janet Canetty-Clarke is a musician and speaker in music. This will be her fifth visit to us. |
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Prior Years Talks |
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Disclaimer |
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The Arts Society Woking cannot be held responsible for any personal accident, loss, damage or theft of members' personal property. Members are covered against proven liability of third parties. |
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