The Old School, Sturminster Marshall.  Click here for the booking form.

The Old School, Sturminster Marshall, with lunch at the adjacent Red Lion.

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Lee Miller is the subject of the current acclaimed film "Lee" starring Kate Winslet.  Antony Penrose is Lee's son.

This event will take place in Lecture Theatre A025 at the Arts University, Bournemouth, BH12 5HH at 16:45 - 17:30.

It will be followed by tea and home-made cake in the Refectory.

For tickets please apply to harrisonann284@gmail.com.

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By kind permission of Arts University Bournemouth.  Sponsored by Wimborne & Blandford, Poole, Bournemouth & East Dorset branches of the Arts Society.

Susan Kay-Williams is Chief Executive of the Royal School of Needlework based at Hampton Court

Lecture 1: From St Cuthbert to Opus Anglicanum and the Tudors: Goldwork, Silk and Blackwork

Lecture 2: From Jacobean Crewelwork Bed Hangings to the Developemnt of the Gentleman's three Piece Suit

Lecture 3: Berlin Wool Work and the 19th Century, Art Needlework and the Birth of the Royal School of Needlework to 20th Century Needlework based at Hampton  Court

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A Special Interest Day at The Haven Hotel, Sandbanks

Lecture 1: Brothers in Art: Burne-Jones and William Morris

Lecture 2: The Cult of Beauty: Aesthetes and Decadents

Lecture 3: Fin De Siecle Symbolism: Myths and Fairytales

With a first degree in archaeology and a PhD in English, Anne was a senior lecturer in Art and Design History at Southampton Solent University for 14 year. She has curated three national exhibitions, including The Truth About Faeries (2009-11) and Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree (2013). Her book on The Perseus Series was published for the Edward Burne-Jones exhibition (2018). She has held several prestigious fellowships. Currently a tutor for the V&A Learning Academy, she specialises in Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement. Her career as an international speaker has taken her all over the world.

Further details and a Booking Form can be found here

This day has been organised by The Arts Society of Bournemouth and Easter Dorset

Six days of lectures exploring the people who  travelled across Asia and the treasures and ideas they took with them.

To be held in the Market Lavington Community Hall. 

For more information email Julie Price:  j_m_price@btinternet.com 

To be held at THE OLD SCHOOL, STURMINSTER MARSHALL, BH21 4BU.

Join us on this much acclaimed “time travel” virtual tour of New York with art historian and Arts Society favourite, Mary Alexander. We will consider the influence of “new money” on art patronage, and track the move of fashionable society from Washington Square, so beloved of Henry James and Edith Wharton, in the relentless move uptown. We will look at the people, visions, and fortunes which created the great art collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick, and the Guggenheim. Imaginative use of digital photography will recreate the atmosphere of the brownstones, and the art clubs of Greenwich Village, the marvels of the Rockefeller Centre and the Radio City Music Hall, and the interiors of the grand hotels and nightclubs.

Whether you know and love New York or maybe have never visited, join us and have fun discovering more about the personalities of the artists, designers, patrons, and social climbers who shaped this extraordinary and ever changing city. The aim will be to create the sense of “being there” and to capture the vibrancy and energy of the city.

For further information and a booking form please go to the 'Our Society' page, scroll down to 'Documents' and then click on 'New York New York.

There is to be an art exhibition of work by members of The Arts Society Wimborne & Blandford. It is to be held in the Quarter Jack Suite at the Allendale Centre, Wimborne, on Friday 2 March 2018 between 1.00 and 4.00 pm. Admission is free.There are two categories of work :

1) Fine art 

2) Decorative art.

Members are invited to submit up to two pieces of work, one from each category.

At the exhibition, members are able to vote for one piece from each category and the most popular entries will be submitted to represent our Society at the Artsfest, an event which is part of the Arts Society Golden Jubilee. This Artsfest exhibition will be held in the Corn Exchange in Devizes on Wednesday 25 April and will be opened by Mrs June Robinson – Chairperson of the Arts Society.

In conjunction with this event, there will be a lecture entitled The Canal Age. This will be given by Paul Atterbury of The Antiques Roadshow and starts at 12 noon. Admission to the exhibition and lecture is free.

For rules and entry form please go to the 'Our Society' tab and then scroll down to Document and click on the 'Artsfest Rules and Entry Form document'.

The Arts Society, Bournemouth & East Dorset have asked us to circulate details of their special interest day to be held on 23rd November at the Haven Hotel in Sandbanks.  Details below:

Architecture and gardens of 16th-18th century stately homes and palaces in UK & Europe.

(Heard and seen at Day of Interest at Cerne Abbas in 2015 for Wessex Area NADFAS)

Our speaker is Mr James Bolton BA (Hons) MBA Dip ISD: Biography-Inchbold School of Design 1990 (Dip ISD). Head Gardener, Old Rectory Farnborough 1990-92. Faculty Director, Design History, Inchbold School of Design. Garden Designer 1992-99.  NADFAS lecturer 1995-. Organiser NADFAS garden study days and tours in UK and Europe. Organises tours to the best private gardens in the UK, Italy, France and South Africa. “Garden Mania”, a book on garden ornaments, published in 2000.

For further details please go to the 'About Us' page, scroll down to 'Documents'  and then click on 'Rome re-invented, a Grand Tour of the Gardens'.

THE OLD SCHOOL,STURMINSTER MARSHALL,BH21 4BU will be the venue for our next Special Interest Day

Born in Teddington, Noel Coward was a man of profound talent- playwright, composer, director, actor and singer. He was known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise.”He attended a dance academy as a child and made his professional debut at the age of eleven. He made his entry into high society as a teenager and later set most of his plays in it. He composed hundreds of songs, musical theatre works, screen plays, poetry and short stories. His career spanned sixty years. During WW2 he ran the British propaganda office in Paris, and then joined the Secret Service to persuade the American government and people to help Britain. Later, at   Churchill’s behest, he entertained the troops in all the theatres of war to uphold morale.

He was knighted in 1969, given a Tony Award for “ Lifetime Achievement” in 1972, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and made an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Sussex university .He died at his home in Jamaica, and a plaque was placed in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey  in 1984.

Frances Hughes is a lecturer in Art and Theatre History, and her daughter Sarah is a professional Casting Director for theatre and television and a teacher at a number of Drama Schools.

Two lectures in the morning, and one after lunch.

For full details and a Booking Form please visit our 'About Us' page and then scroll down to 'Documents' and finally to the Noel Coward Flyer and Booking Form or contact our Chairman Ann Butler.

On behalf of the Bournmouth and East Dorset DFAS we are providing details of this day of Specal interest to be held at the Haven Hotel, Sandbanks, Poole.  Our members are welcome to attend.

For full details and a booking form please go to our 'About Us' page - 'Documents' - Bournmouth & East Dorset - Christopher Wren

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TWO LECTURES IN THE MORNING, AND ONE AFTER LUNCH. FULL DIGITAL PRESENTATION

 Our speaker will be MR TONY TUCKER; MA (OXON)  In Modern History from Oriel College. Qualified City Guide and former Chairman of the City of London Guide Lecturers Association and Trustee of the Friends of the City Churches (FCC). Lectures to various City institutions, the FCC, U3A, various historical associations and NADFAS groups throughout the UK. Leads regular guided walks for the City of London Corporation, the Friends of the City Churches, and numerous private groups. Publications include The Visitors Guide to the City of London Churches (2006). (personally recommended). Plus regular contributions to Cityguide magazine and the FCC Newsletter.

Commencing at 0945 there will be two lectures in the morning and one the afternoon. Starting with an overview of the Court of Burgundy, its characters and extravagances, Stella will then speak about the costumes of the period and after lunch we will delight in the beautiful illuminated manuscript known as the 'Prayerbook of Charles the Bold'. Morning coffee and a light lunch will be provided.

For further details and booking please contact Sue Smith - 01725 552225

A Visit to Fairford Parish Church and Gloucester Cathedral

St Mary's Church, Fairford is one of England's outstanding galleries of Church Art (to quote Simon Jenkins). It contains England's only complete set of medieval narrative glass. The stained glass was the creation of Cirencester wool merchant John Tame in the 1490's. The glass is not just rare but of the highest quality, attributed to the royal glazier Barnard Flower who worked at Westminster Abbey and King's College Cambridge. Gloucester Cathedral needs little introduction. The Great East Window installed in the early 1350's is one of the great landmarks of English medieval glass painting. Heraldic glass for the reign of Henry V11, the Lady Chapel with glass installed in the early 20th century is considered to be the finest Arts and Crafts glass in England. To book or obtain more information contact Sue Smith