
Lectures
Held monthly on the 3rd Tuesday at Caryford Community Hall.
For information about the programme or on individual lectures contact: 01963 350 132.
Lectures with high quality illustrations start at 11.00am.
Coffee is served from 10.15am.
Non-members are welcome. Pay on the door
For more information on the Society and membership details can be found at
18 February
Restoration and After: Boobs, Bombast and Gin
Following the trauma of the English Civil War came the Restoration, a period of loucheness and scandal. Giles looks at how the theatre of the day reflected society in this most saucy of eras.
Giles Ramsay
17 March
Thomas Heatherwick – The Modern Leonardo *** Cancelled ***
This lecture looks at the meteoric rise of this extraordinarily versatile young designer and the way in which his Heatherwick Studio has solved the challenges presented to it to create amazing buildings throughout the world.
Ian Swankie
21 April
The Pilgrims of Babylon: The Artists of Montmartre
Montmatre, the rundown suburb overlooking Paris, bristling with windmills, but home to some of France’s greatest artists. Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso all painted here and their canvases would shake the foundations of Western art.
Douglas Skeggs
Please note 10:30 start - AGM