Category: Art & History Archive

Date: Monday 8th February 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Picasso and His Muses Lecturer: Maureen Stanley During his long life Picasso attracted and loved dozens of women. He was a ‘womaniser’ of the first grade. Jealous, fickle, unfaithful and often morose and cruel, women…

Date: Monday 25th January 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Portuguese Maritime Explorers Lecturer: Alan Oliver   Portuguese Maritime Explorers Portugal, as we know the country today, came into being in 1139 with the crowning of Henrique Alfonso in Braga, but the moors were not…

Date: 5th May Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Celebrity Artists Lecturer: Ceda Panajotovic   Many famous people are selling their ‘works of art’ for exorbitant sums of money. Are the buyers buying their ‘ART’ for the content or are they simply content to safely invest into the…

Date: Monday 11th January 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Alternative History Lecturer: Mike Granville   What if Britain had stood aside in 1914? What if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed? What if Anne Boleyn had had a healthy baby boy? What if the Union…

Date: 14th December Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Valencia: the Biography of a City Lecturer: Peter Atkinson The lecture will cover the history (economic, cultural, architectural and morphological) of Spain’s third city, from its Roman origin as a planned, new town in 138 BC, through to…

Date: Monday 30th November 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Life in Lycra on the Roads to Santiago de Compostela: History, Art, Architecture and Landscape This is a memoir of more than 5,000 kilometres on a bicycle across Spain, France and Portugal, following the…

Date: Monday 9th November 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:The 2nd Republic and the Spanish Civil War 1930-1939 Lecturer: Alan Oliver The political and economic condition of Spain in the early 1930’s resulted in the election of a left leaning Popular Front Government in…

Date: Monday 26th October 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Magic of Turner’s Watercolours Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic Watercolour is the most difficult of all painting techniques to master. The immediacy, fluidity and transparency leaves very little room for the correction of errors. This method…

Date: Monday 28th September 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Elizabeth Thompson (1846- 1933) Lecturer: Angela Chantry During her heyday in the 1870s, Elizabeth Thompson was one of the most acclaimed artists in Britain. She showed a strong aptitude at a young age for painting horses…

Date: Monday 14th September 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cheda and Brian double-act Lecturer:A dual presentation by Cheda Panajotovic and Brian Nicholls Your group co-leaders have no bounds when it comes to ambition! In the 30 or so minutes that we have allocated to…

Date: 13th March 2017 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject:Charles II – The Wilderness Years Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic This is the story of an exiled Prince who lived his young years as a Royal Pauper. From the age of 12 young Charles spent most of…

Date: Monday 26th September 2016 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Lecture With No Name Lecturer:  Brian Nicholls If you can connect sardines, trout, a transvestite, three numbers from a popular series of films, an ingredient in a popular English country pie, several countries…