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NADFAS Greater London Area Study Courses

Study Days are a great way to enjoy learning more about a subject in the company of like-minded people.

Please e-mail each Study Course Organiser to enquire about a course, including the name of the course, names and number of all applicants. If places are available, you will be asked to send a cheque made out to Greater London Area NADFAS with a stamped self addressed envelope, to the Study Course Organiser of each course.

These courses have been arranged by the Greater London Area: if you have a query please do not telephone NADFAS House, instead contact the Study Course Organiser.

Dance in Art
Date: Saturday 10th March, 2012
Time: Registration 10.00 -10.30, Day ends 2.45 p.m.
Venue: Vera Fletcher Hall, 4 Embercourt Road, Thames Ditton, KT7 0LG
Lecturers: Sian Walters and Darren Royston
Cost:  £32 including coffee. Please bring your own lunch

Study Course Organiser:  Mrs Ruth Cane, 10 Ewell Road, Long Ditton Surrey, Surrey KT6 5LE.  Telephone: 0209 398 4730

CHEQUES MADE PAYABLE TO KINGSTON DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY, and enclose a stamped self addressed envelope

 Join Art Historian Sian Walters and Dance Historian Darren Royston on a look at how dance and movement have been represented in art through the ages. Sian and Darren and professional dancers in historical costume will take you back in time to the courts of Tudor England, Phillip lV of Spain and Louis XlV giving a valuable insight into the lives and pastimes of men and women from Renaissance Italy to the age of the Impressionists. They will also discuss the development of ballet and how it evolved into the techniques shown in the painting of Degas.

The History of London Through its Artists & Craftsmen
Part 111 – The Later Stuarts & the Dawn of the Age of Enlightenment NOW FULL

Day 1 – London Maps & Panoramas – Monday 3rd October 2011
Day 2– Nicholas Hawksmoor – Monday 17th October
Day 3 – Samuel Pepys & the Pool of London – Monday 7th November 2011
Day 4 – Canaletto in London – Monday 14th November 2011
Day 5 -  Grinling Gibbons – Monday 5th December, 2011
Day 6 – London Squares -17th century – Monday 9th January 2012
Day 7 -  Hogarth – Part 1 – Monday 30th January 2012
Day 8 – Hogarth Part 2        Monday 27th February 2012
Day 9 – Huguenot Silver      Monday 19th March 2012
Day 10  Hugenot Silk Weavers Monday 3rd April 2012
Venue: Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
Time:  11.00 a.m.- 1.15 ONLY MORNINGS ARE AVAILABLE
Cost: - £22 including coffee and biscuits

In 1642 Londoners demonstrated so forcefully against Charles 1 that he fatally resigned the assets of London to his opponents – the Tower, the militia, money and materials. The City of London was where the money lay, and increasingly the hub of a new commercial and overseas empire. After the restoration of Charles 11 as monarch in 1660 and the Great Fire in 1666, London became a national epicentre of manners and taste, and by 1700 was probably the largest city in Europe with nearly 600,000 inhabitants. The existence of great estates owning much of the land around Westminster and the royal court led to the development of “squares”, giving exclusive character to an area, and becoming the centre of fashion and politics. This year’s course will explore the expertise and artistry of the craftsmen and artists who were employed to build, decorate and furnish the beautiful buildings of London in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Contact: sco8@nadfasgla.org.uk

Mythology and the Arts
Dates: Mondays 10th February, 9th March, 13th April, 11th May, 8th June, 22nd June 2012
Venue: The Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W! Time: 10.30 – 3.30
Tutor: Dr Margaret Knight
Cost: £120 for the full course, £25 per day. Priority given to those attending the whole course (no coffee)

Myths were first created by mankind to make sense of the world and were elaborated though the millennia as each civilisation added new stories, new gods and new heroes. Evolving myth has inspired every art from literature to architecture, it has given us profound tragedies and knock about comedies, the high art of the Academies and popular cartoons. It was the subject matter for “safe” public works and political propaganda but it also gave birth to the most radical art of the 20th century. This series is about the enduring life of myth and the ways in which it has inspired out thought and arts.

Contact  sco7@nadfasgla.org.uk

STOP PRESS

Moscow and the Golden Ring; Early Russian Art and Architecture
With Jane Angellini
Thursday 23rd February 2012 at the Art Workers Guild
For details contact sco2@nadfasgla.org.uk

Refunds are given only in exceptional circumstances, unless there is a waiting list. Tickets can be sold on by the member concerned.