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  • JMW Turner in Kent

    The Delf Room Guildhall, Sandwich

    Cost: £7 for non members (Free to members of The Arts Society Sandwich and Sandwich Local History Society). Title: Turner and Constable - two intertwined lives. The Arts Society Sandwich in partnership with Sandwich...

  • Amy Lin – A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer’s Cookham

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Few artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and...

  • Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre – Jim Thompson and Thai silk

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Jim Thompson arrived in Bangkok as a US army officer in 1945, fell in love with it and stayed. Captivated by the beauty of Thai silk, an ancient craft in decline, he resuscitated it...

  • Sandy Burnett – Christmas in Bach’s Leipzig

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    How Bach brings the Christmas story alive in his Christmas Oratorio, written for Lutheran congregations in 1730's Leipzig

  • Balenciaga, Dior and Fath: Haute Couture’s Holy Trinity with Scott Schiavone

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Haute Couture is an art form, inseparable from fashion, that achieved some of its finest momentsduring the years following World War II. During this period, Paris reaffirmed its position as theCapital of Fashion and...

  • The British Crown Jewels: Every stone tells a story with Laurie Wickwire

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    The British Crown Jewels are an unchanging jewelled anchor, whilst all around us changes.Delve into the history & beauty of the Crowns, Sceptre, Orb and other royal jewels used duringthe coronation ceremony. Diamond industry...

  • Greek Vase painting with Stephen Kershaw

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Ancient Greek painted pottery is greatly admired, and with good reason. This talk, lavishly illustrated with both slides and video, will attempt to make the beauty of Greek ceramics more readily accessible and comprehensible....

  • The Renaissance Portrait from Van Eyck to Titian with Paula Nuttall

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Portraiture is a quintessentially renaissance art form which evolved in response to new ideas about realism, likeness and posterity. This lecture looks at its development in Italy and the north, across a variety of...

  • The History of Colour: Blue with Alice White

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    Loaded with symbolism, the colour blue creates meaning, provokes emotion and ignites memory on a personal, and a cultural level, throughout the world. From the scared shade of Ultramarine, to the ancient roots of...

  • The Bayeux Tapestry: International relations then and now with Hilary Williams

    Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

    What is the Bayeux Tapestry really all about? A power struggle, dynastic rivalries, broken promises, diplomatic relations in peril, military prowess and the building of a super power? How was this amazing document in...