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SUMMARY:Timothy Walker - Paradise Lost and Found - 400 years of garden design
DESCRIPTION:The history of garden design through the lens of the Oxford Botanic garden.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/timothy-walker-paradise-lost-and-found-400-years-of-garden-design/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251201T190000
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SUMMARY:Sandy Burnett - Christmas in Bach's Leipzig
DESCRIPTION:How Bach brings the Christmas story alive in his Christmas Oratorio\, written for Lutheran congregations in 1730’s Leipzig
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/sandy-burnett-from-tchaikovsky-to-tin-pan-alley/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260112T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260112T200000
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SUMMARY:Balenciaga\, Dior and Fath: Haute Couture’s Holy Trinity with Scott Schiavone
DESCRIPTION: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 its reputation for producing the most luxurious and creative clothes moneycould buy. Three names became synonymous with luxury\, glamour and elegance during hautecouture’s most exclusive and fertile period – Christian Dior\, Cristóbal Balenciaga and JacquesFath. Undisputed masters of mid 20th century haute couture\, Cristóbal Balenciaga was the fatherof Contemporary fashion\, Christian Dior redefined post-war fashion in 1947 with his ‘New Look’and Jacques Fath\, now relatively unknown\, was an innovator known for dressing “the chic youngParisienne”. This lecture explores the life and creative output of three designers during theperiod widely considered as the zenith of French haute couture.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/12th-jan-balenciaga-dior-and-fath-haute-coutures-holy-trinitywith-scott-schiavone/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260202T200000
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SUMMARY:The British Crown Jewels: Every stone tells a story with Laurie Wickwire
DESCRIPTION: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 expert Laurie Wickwire\, GIA will take you to thefront row of the coronation with details of the diamonds\, rubies\, sapphires and pearls used in thenewly crafted royal regalia used by Kings & Queens since 1661. Secrets & mystery aboundwithin these priceless jewels\, seen by millions\, worn by one.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-british-crown-jewels-every-stone-tells-a-storywith-laurie-wickwire/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260302T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T062543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T063729Z
UID:4292-1772478000-1772481600@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:Greek Vase painting with Stephen Kershaw
DESCRIPTION: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. It will concentrate on gaining knowledge and understanding of the physical forms\, stylistic features\, subject matter\, composition\, emotional content\, function and development of ancient Greek pottery\, along with the acquisition of an understanding in its historical context of the civilisation studied through its art. Emphasis will also be placed on the relevant social\, political and religious contexts: how were the vases created? Why? Who for?
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/greek-vase-painting-with-stephen-kershaw/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260413T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260413T200000
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SUMMARY:The Renaissance Portrait from Van Eyck to Titian with Paula Nuttall
DESCRIPTION: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 media\, from sculpted busts and medals to painted portraits. It also discusses how and why portraits were made\, and the role they played in expressing status\, personal qualities and commemoration\, unravelling the meanings of still-life detail and costume to shed light on the social practices of the day. We encounter a host of examples\, from the unfamiliar to the iconic\, including Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait\, Dürer’s Self Portrait as Christ\, Holbein’s Ambassadors\, and the Mona Lisa.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-renaissance-portrait-from-van-eyck-to-titian-with-paula-nuttall/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260511T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T063227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T063303Z
UID:4297-1778526000-1778529600@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:The History of Colour: Blue with Alice White
DESCRIPTION:Loaded with symbolism\, the colour blue creates meaning\, provokes emotion and ignites memory on a personal\, and a cultural level\, throughout the world.  \n\n\n\nFrom the scared shade of Ultramarine\, to the ancient roots of Indigo\, to the startling alchemy of Prussian\, blue has been used to venerate icons since the earliest human civilizations. Enjoy this rich history of colour via two powerful forces: Impressionism andJ apanese Print. \n\n\n\nWhen Monet’s water-lilies met Hokusai’s Great Wave\, the values of art changed forever.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-history-of-colour-blue-with-alice-white/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260601T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
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SUMMARY:The Bayeux Tapestry: International relations then and now with Hilary Williams
DESCRIPTION: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 stitch made\, when and possibly why? What has been the history of this brilliant but fragile object throughout its life? Its conservation has brought new data to light. \n\n\n\nHow important is this piece of history as an object to foster ‘entente-cordiale’ and to link nations today?
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-bayeux-tapestry-international-relations-then-and-now-with-hilary-williams/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260602T190000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20260412T182729Z
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SUMMARY:The Mayoralty of Sandwich - an 800 year Celebratory Talk
DESCRIPTION:Description: The mayoralty of Sandwich is an ancient office dating back to the early 13th century with various mayors playing key roles in English history. \n\n\n\nIn 1226\, Sandwich was one of the first towns outside of London to install a mayor\, highlighting its significance as a port. \n\n\n\nAs part of the 800-years celebration of Sandwich mayors\, this talk will share some of the stories about them through the past eight centuries. \n\n\n\nHear about the theft\, extortion and bribery of some mayors\, as well as the bravery\, kindness and astuteness of others. Learn how we welcomed Royalty to the town and discover how Sandwich became one of the original Cinque Ports and was granted the ‘Honours of Court’ at Royal Coronations from the 13th century to the present day.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-mayoralty-of-sandwich-an-800-year-celebratory-talk/
LOCATION:The Delf Room\, Guildhall\, Sandwich
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260710T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260710T230000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20260406T201525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T124228Z
UID:4499-1783706400-1783724400@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:Summer Gala Event 2026
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URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/summer-gala-event-2026/
CATEGORIES:Annual Supper Evening,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260907T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260907T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T064046Z
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UID:4303-1788807600-1788811200@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A story of survival and music with Anne Sebba
DESCRIPTION:In 1943\, the German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Forty-seven women and girls were drafted into a hurriedly-assembled band that would play to other inmates as they left each morning and as they returned at the end of the day. They were made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers\, and members were sometimes summoned to give individual performances of an officer’s favourite piece of music. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part\, the orchestra was to save their lives. \n\n\n\nWhy was the orchestra formed? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz\, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care. \n\n\n\nFrom the orchestra’s formidable conductor (and niece of Gustav Mahler) Alma Rosé\, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch\, its cellist and last surviving member\, i draw on a mixture of archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to bring the full and astonishing story of the orchestra and its members to light for the very first time.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/the-womens-orchestra-of-auschwitz-a-story-of-survival-and-music-with-anne-sebba/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260910T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260910T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20260406T194707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260412T182431Z
UID:4494-1789027200-1789070400@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:*Provisional* Day Visit to Cookham - Stanley Spencer Gallery & Village guided tour.
DESCRIPTION:Members are invited to join us on a day visit to Cookham\, the Thames-side village closely associated with the painter Stanley Spencer. Date: Thursday 7th May. Cost: £55 Details have been sent to members by email. Organiser is Anne Weatherley youngarts.artssocsandwich@gmail.com \n\n\n\nFindout moreabout the gallery here: https://stanleyspencer.org.uk/
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/day-visit-to-cookham-stanley-spencer-gallery-village-guided-tour/
CATEGORIES:Events,Visits
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261005T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261005T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T064317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T064327Z
UID:4305-1791226800-1791230400@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:Vincent in Ramsgate: Van Gogh in England with Jacqui Ansell
DESCRIPTION:Before he was a famous artist – or indeed an artist at all – Vincent Van Gogh was a disgruntled art salesman\, a failed suitor\, and a would-be teacher. We glimpse Vincent’s life through his letters which illuminate his inner thoughts\, passions and preoccupations. Focusing on a few short months from late 1875 to the middle of 1876 we find Vincent’s life at a crossroads\, having lost his job at the Paris branch of respected international art dealership Goupil & Cie. The main focus of the talk is how he found himself working in a small school in Ramsgate on the Kent coast. From the rich and poetic descriptions in his letters we discover more about this unique corner of England\, and how it attracted architects like A. W. N. Pugin to live there\, and artists\, writers and royalty to stay there and record their impressions of the place where Van Gogh found happiness albeit short-lived.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/vincent-in-ramsgate-van-gogh-in-england-with-jacqui-ansell/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T070121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T112814Z
UID:4308-1793646000-1793649600@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:Carry on up the Khyber - Movies and the end of an Empire with Colin Shindler
DESCRIPTION:It’s hard to laugh at something too immediate. The surest sign that something serious has finished is when you can laugh at it. The end of the British Empire\, which started with the partition of India in 1947 but increased rapidly in the 1960s as the African colonies disappeared\, was immortalised in the very best Carry On film ever made. Set in India under the Raj but clearly filmed in Pinewood\, Up The Khyber starring Sid James as Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond and Kenneth Williams as the Khasi of Kalibar is a glorious parody of every imperial film ever made with its upstanding British heroes and mad/stupid/villainous natives.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/carry-on-up-the-khyber-movies-and-the-end-of-an-empire-with-colin-shindler/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T201408
CREATED:20250908T070415Z
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UID:4312-1796670000-1796673600@www.sandwichdfas.org.uk
SUMMARY:E H Shepard's Christmas (Illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in theWillows) with James Campbell
DESCRIPTION:E H Shepard loved Christmas\, and this lecture describes\, including his own words much of the magic and joy of successive festive seasons\, from those of his own childhood to others throughout his long life. We see a range of artistic styles from full colour images to pen-and-ink personal Christmas cards\, with cartoons\, drawings and watercolours\, some featuring the iconic images from the Wind in the Willows (the snow in the Wild Wood…) and Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh and Piglet from The House at Pooh Corner). Many of the images have not been published for over fifty years.
URL:https://www.sandwichdfas.org.uk/tasevent/e-h-shepards-christmas-illustrator-of-winnie-the-pooh-and-the-wind-in-thewillows-with-james-campbell/
LOCATION:Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required.\, Guildhall\, Sandwich\, CT13 9AH
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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