Tuesday Mornings
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Thursday Mornings10.15am to 12.15pm Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage. Thursday mornings on Zoom. 10am No charge 29th April Norton Ashby. Manet and Monet. The beginnings of Impressionism. 6th May Kate Alcock Virtual tour of Bath 13th May Norton Ashby. Henry Moore. 20th May Kate Alcock Virtual tour of Oxford 27th May. Norton Ashby Pablo Picasso 3rd June Kate Alcock Virtual tour of London 10th June. Norton Ashby David Hockney 17th June Kate Alcock Virtual tour of the City of Westminster 24th June Rosanna Eckersley – The Ashcan artists of New York An artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th/early 20th century which was best known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the poorest neighbourhoods. 1st July Roy Smart – Wallis Simpson and the Abdication Crisis Roy recounts how Queen Mary despaired that her son had been beguiled by an American sorceress, while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin thought Mrs. Simpson tolerable as ‘a respectable whore but not as Queen Wally!’ But the king whose obsession with Wallis had become total dependency, signed the Instrument of Abdication, making way for the third monarch of 1936. Now, ‘Prince’ Edward fled the country to be with his ‘love’ and a lifetime of exiled futility, and Wallis would, thereafter, carry the burden of blame for this catastrophe; and remain to this day, the enigmatic, compelling subject of gossip and fascination worldwide. 8th July Roy Smart – Queen of the Air Aviatrix, Amy ‘Johnnie’ Johnson,who, from modest beginnings as a fishmonger’s daughter from Hull, by singular grit and determination, taught herself the basics of aviation and then with little experience and against all the odds emerged to a crescendo of fame, celebrity and heroine worship. Roy tells the story of this magnificent girl and her flying machines; her triumphs and disasters, her highs and lows, her ups and downs - not least her calamitous marriage to the “The Flying Scotsman” - and then, unravels the mystery of her disappearance one winter’s Sunday, serving her country in its hour of need as the Battle of Britain gave way to the Blitz. |
