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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionised his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealised spaces and symbolic characters.
Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show.
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.
Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.
Directed by David Bickerstaff – Produced by Phil Grabsky
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Helena Clews ‘Playful Art’ (max 15 participants)
£165 for block of 5 classes to include complimentary hot drinks and biscuits
Wed 6 Nov
Wed 13 Nov
Wed 20 Nov
Wed 27 Nov
Wed 4 Dec
10am-12.30pm
With an exhibition of students work in The Flavel Gallery from Monday 2 December
An exciting exploration of techniques using a variety of different materials, including inks, pastels and acrylic paints. Helena will use a different visual resources to inspire you on a journey through playing and experimenting with different techniques and developing your artistic 'handwriting'.
Please see information on materials needed below but you will be able to 'pay as you go' on the day and use materials that she has provided.
All abilities welcome.
List of items needed:
Pad of thick paper - suitable for painting 220gsm (A3 or A2)
Pentel oil pastel
Pack of soft pastel (12 or 24)
Acrylic paint set
Paint brushes
A palette
Water pot/jam jar
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Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Ryan Corbett present a virtuoso programme which includes two J S Bach Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier and exciting arrangements of pieces by Liszt and Tchaikovsky.
To see and hear more about Ryan, please go to www.ryancorbett.com
Programme:
Liszt arr. Corbett - Prelude and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S 260
J S Bach - Two preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier
Gubaidulina - De Profundis
Franck Angelis - Romance
Vladislav Zolotaryov - Rondo Capriccioso
Tchaikovsky arr. Corbett - Children’s Album, Op. 39
Are you interested in becoming a ‘Classical Supporter’ for a concert or concerts in the 2025 series? For full details of the scheme please contact Helen Deakin on 01803 835882
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LEE tells the story of Lee Miller, American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, for which she paid an enormous personal price. The film is not a biopic, instead it explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.
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The Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band - A tribute to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan
Join the Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band on a radical tour of some of the most iconic songs from our generation’s greatest singer-songwriters, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
With stops in Greenwich Village, Laurel Canyon and the Isle of Wight, this enigmatic, multi-instrumentalist five-piece will make you feel like you’re really there, man...
Saturday 9 November 2024, 7.30pm
Tickets £22
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Tuesday 12th November 12.30pm
Join us for the next in our "Winter Warmer" series.
A choice of soup and scone will be served at The Flavel Cafe from 12.30pm, followed by a Screening of "Lee" at 2pm.
Please book Separately for the film here : LEE
LEE tells the story of Lee Miller, American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee captured some of the most important images of World War II, for which she paid an enormous personal price. The film is not a biopic, instead it explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War. She changed war photography forever, but Lee paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.
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U3A Classics: Zenobia - Queen of the Palmyrene Empire
Presented by Mary Crawford
A highly educated, intelligent and accomplished leader. She created the largest empire that stood against the might of Rome. She created an empire that spanned from Mesopotamia Syria and Northern Egypt.
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