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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

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

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.

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

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.

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.