Art and History Talks

Fri 24 August, 2018 Group Coords Only

Frequency: Monthly: 2nd and 4th Mondays, 10:30-12:30

Venue: La Senieta (Theatre), Moraira    

 Group Leaders: Brian Nicholls, Cheda Panajotovic and John Hopwood

There are bi-monthly presentations, alternating Art and History. Members of the group give fully illustrated presentations to share their knowledge of artists, artistic movements, and explain the path of developments and the reasons for change.

We are a group of like-minded people who have worked with art and its history for much of our lives and would like to share our love of this exciting and controversial subject with the U3A members.

We welcome participation from the audience too, so do come along with your opinions and let us enjoy and take from this meeting new ideas and enlightenment on an extremely colourful subject.

We meet every other Monday at Espai La Senieta – see list of talks below for exact dates and times

Posterboard
Posterboard
March – November 2020 Mar – Nov 2020
Mar
9
Mon
2020
Mar 9 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Angela Chantry Only 17 years old when she took the throne, Cleopatra quickly became one of the most powerful rulers Egypt had ever known. Her romantic liaisons and military alliances with the Roman leaders [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta
Mar
30
Mon
2020
Mar 30 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic Accepting one image seen, one piece of music heard, one ancient ceramic vase or one Japanese Samurai sword as ART may suit one person but not necessarily another. Too often we like [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta
Apr
27
Mon
2020
Apr 27 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Peter Atkinsons HMS Endeavour, 1764-1778: carrying coal from Newcastle to London, sailing the Pacific with Captain Cook, adventures in the Atlantic, an undignified end and, possibly, a partial resurrection. Built in Whitby in 1764, [...]
May
25
Mon
2020
May 25 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
In the latter 19th and early 20th century, ‘Western ART’ was centred in Paris and London. Anyone who wanted to be where ‘the action is’ had to be in either city. Amongst the greats of their day were [...]
Salon de Actos, Espai la Senieta
Jun
8
Mon
2020
Jun 8 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic The year 1492 is known as the year in which history books state that Christopher Columbus ‘DISCOVERED’ America. For many centuries, history was accepted and written to coincide with the Columbus stories [...]
Salon de Actos, Espai la Senieta
Jun
29
Mon
2020
Jun 29 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: John Hopwood This talk is entirely non-technical, given by someone who has never set foot on – never mind in sailed – a submarine. It opens with some surprising events in ancient history and ends [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta
Sep
14
Mon
2020
Sep 14 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Alan Hunton John Flamsteed became a hugely influential astronomer and mathematician at the end of the 17th Century but why is it that he is so little known? Isaac Newton was a contemporary and [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta
Sep
28
Mon
2020
Sep 28 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
Lecturer: Rosalind Miranda Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but keep your minds open! This talk will be divided into two parts: The first will concentrate on art made by animals other than [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta
Nov
30
Mon
2020
Nov 30 @ 10:30 – 12:30
10:30
Tickets
‘On a warm summer night in 1947, the largest Empire the world had ever seen did something no Empire had done before; it gave up. The British Empire did not decline, it simply fell; and [...]
Teatro, Espai la Senieta Moraira
March – November 2020 Mar – Nov 2020
  • The U3A Teulada-Moraira lectures are given in the splendid comfort of the main auditorium of La Senieta, the modern building on the corner of the free public car park in Moraira.
  • No booking is necessary and there is no group to join – just turn up and take a seat.
  • All U3A members are welcome to these FREE lectures.

Directions to the Espai la Senieta (same building as the Tourist Office)

Contact the Group Leaders: art_history@u3amoraira-teulada.org
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Art & History lecture: Sorolla

Posted on Jan 27th, 2020

At the Art & History Group meeting at the La Senieta theatre on Monday morning 27th January, one hundred and thirty members attended to listen to a talk on the wonderful Valencian artist, Joaquin Sorolla. This was the first talk of this year and it was presented by John Hopwood, one of this group’s leaders. Lasting just over one hour the audience were entertained by John’s talk which included approximately one hundred and fifty illustrations of Sorolla’s wonderful…

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Art & History 11th March

Posted on Mar 12th, 2019

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List of past Art Appreciation and History lectures September 2009 to date

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