Tuesday Mornings
10.15am to 12.15pm Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage. Tuesday mornings 10.15 to 12.15 Cost £40 10 weeks. Starting Tuesday 22nd April English Country Houses. Late Medieval to Jacobean. Speaker: Adam Smith We welcome Adam back again this summer with a course which aims to give a view into the architecture of English country houses and the people who created them from the 15th to the mid 17th Centuries. We will see how late medieval houses, castles and other residences changed with the end of the Wars of the Roses and arrival of the Tudor dynasty in 1485. Peace in the 16th Century meant landowners were able to express themselves in evolving architectural styles and we will trace the first signs of the Renaissance in England. We will see how the Dissolution of the Monasteries radically changed landowning in England and provided funds for owners to build the splendid new houses of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Throughout this course we will be considering how people lived and worked in these houses. |
Thursday Mornings10.15am to 12.15pm Community Arts Centre Roaring Meg Stevenage. Thursday mornings 10.15 to 12.15 Cost £40 PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL NOT BE A CLASS ON 1st MAY AS THE CENTRE IS BEING USED AS A POLLING STATION Speaker : Chris Budd. 24th April. The Art of the Movie Poster. 8th May. British Film Industry 15th May. British Film Industry 22nd May. British Film Industry 5th June. British Film Industry 12th June. British Film Industry 19th June. Colour in Film. 29th May. Nik Pringle.Introduction to Murder 26th June. Mike Barbakoff. The story of Allied Code Breaking in WW2 3rd July. Nick Spinks. Life in a blue suit. 24th April Movie posters have helped us decide how to spend our hard-earned cinema money for over a century, from the art deco attractions of Metropolis, though the widescreen promises of the mid-century, all the way to the formulaic multiplex offerings of today. Some are timeless works of art, some are downright deceptive, some are startlingly original. And today, some change hands for half a million pounds. Join lecturer Christopher Budd to find out what we can learn from a hundred years of movie posters. 125 YEARS OF BRITISH CINEMA 8th, 15th, 22nd May 5th, 12th June Speaker: Chris Budd The British film industry represents over a century of creativity and innovation, and is responsible for some of the most memorable movies ever produced – as well as some uniquely British moments. Come and explore the studios, directors, and stars that shaped an artistic and commercial powerhouse to rival that of our friends in Hollywood. INTRODUCTION TO MURDER Thursday 29TH May Speaker: Nik Pringle Nik Pringle a recently retired Police Officer with 45 years of experience in Hertfordshire, will give a short illustrated talk on the offence of Murder & some of Hertfordshire’s more famous or infamous cases drawing on his experiences as a Coroners Officer, Search Team Officer & DVI ( Body Recovery) specialities he performed within his time as a Hertfordshire Constabulary Officer. COLOUR Thursday 19th June Speaker: Chris Budd The challenge of capturing colour on celluloid occupied some of the best minds in Hollywood for decades, as each technological leap forward enabled moviemakers to show a brighter, richer world. Join writer and teacher Christopher Budd for a little bit of movie science and lots of clips of important milestones in the history of colour filming, as well as an exploration of some of its cleverest creative uses. ALLIED CODE BREAKING SUCCESS Thursday 26th June Speaker:Mike Barbakoff Allied code-breaking in WWII against the European Axis, centred on Bletchley Park, is generally appreciated as a pivotal success story. It has widely been credited with shortening the war in Europe by at least two years. Less well understood in Europe is the comparable success in code-breaking against the Japanese. This talk provides a history of the Government Code and Cypher School and its operations against the European Axis powers and, in the Middle and Far East, working along with American and Commonwealth Code-breakers in the defeat of Japan. LIFE IN A BLUE SUIT Thursday 3rd July Speaker: Nick Spinks A decade of close protection with the Royal Family” |
