Tuesday Mornings
10.15am to 12.15pm
Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage Tuesday 20th September. 10 weeks. Cost £35 Elizabethan England. Tutor Mike Mancaster England under Elizabeth 1 was a vibrant and colourful country which laid many of the foundations of the modern state. It provided a lengthy period of relative calm after the religious and political upheavals of the preceding 25 years. As well as becoming influential in European affairs, England embarked on overseas exploration which later led to Britain becoming a world power. The course takes a thematic approach and examines religion, the cult of Gloriana, major personalities, threats to security, the development of the theatre and life in both city and country. |
Thursday Mornings10.15am to 12.15pm
Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage Thursday 22nd September. 10 weeks Cost £35 The music of Disney. Tutor Stephen Barnard Walt Disney's pioneering work in cinema animation is legendary, but less acknowledged is the contribution that his studio made in film over the last 100 years. From the very first Mickey Mouse cartoons to the epic musical storytelling of ‘Snow White’, ‘Pinnochio’ and ‘The Jungle Book’, Disney pursued an idiosyncratic musical vision that he trusted to his own team of musicians and composers, while in ‘Fantasia’ he attempted a marriage of animation and classical music so ambitious that it almost bankrupted the company. In this course we’ll explore those classic Disney films of the 30s to the 60s - and how music was at the heart of the studio’s dramatic renaissance from the 90s onwards, with ‘The Lion King’, ‘Toy Story’, ‘Aladdin’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, right up to the award-winning ‘Frozen’ and ‘Frozen II’. |
