Category: Art & History Archive
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150209 History Talk 9th Feb 2015: Cecil Rhodes
Date: Monday 9th Feb 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cecil Rhodes; The Man Who Gave His Name To Rhodesia Lecturer: Dee Craig This slice of the history of the British Empire is no longer remembered by schoolchildren. Rhodesia is of course, now known as Zimbabwe,…
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150112 Art Talk 12 Jan 2015: The Artist and World Conflict
Date: Monday 12th Jan 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Artist and World Conflict Lecturer: Brian Nicholls A single provocative act of terrorism in June 1914 was to plunge Europe into an immediate vortex of brutality, the effect of which was to result in…
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150309 Art Talk: 9th Mar 2015: Picasso and His Muses
Date: Monday 9th Mar 2015 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 Free entry “As an artist you are extraordinary but, morally speaking, you are worthless.” Dora Maar (muse). Picasso knew and loved dozens of women during his long life,…
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141124 Art Talk 24th Nov: The little-known Alfred Stevens and the Romantic Movement
Date: Monday 24 Nov 2014 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: AThe little-known Alfred Stevens and the Romantic Movement Lecturers: Cheda Panajotovic Free entry As a young art student I came across the name of Alfred Stevens who designed the amazing monument to The Duke of Wellington. It…
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140929 History Talk 29th Sep: Whilst London sleeps – Samuel Pepys
Date: Monday 29th September 2014 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Whilst London sleeps – Samuel Pepys Lecturer: Cheda Panajotovic Samuel Pepys is mainly known as a ‘dirty old man’ of history. He is famed as a diarist who wrote of his gallivanting escapades in a secret code…
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141027 History Talk: 27th Oct 2014 History of the Circus
Date: Monday 27th October 2014 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: History of the Circus Lecturer: Mike Rendell When Philip Astley left the army in 1768 with the rank of Sergeant Major he was already a hero – he had captured an enemy standard at the Battle…
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141013 Art Talk 13th October: The artistic talents of Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler.
Date: Monday 13th October 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The artistic talents of Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler Lecturer: Angela Chantry Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were two highly intelligent creative men who fought a battle of epic proportions – artistic men who altered the course of…
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141110 Art Talk Monday 10th Nov: Eladio Calleja
Date: Monday 10th Nov 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Eladio Calleja Lecturers: Angela Chantry Free entry Eladio Calleja (1931-1985): Artist, sculptor and poet. Eladio Calleja was born in Javea, but his desire for adventure and to meet people led him to travel to many different…
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140908 Art Talk: 8th Sept “Are Brian and Cheda going Head to Head…?”
Date: Monday 8th Sept 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Are Brian and Cheda going Head to Head in public? Lecturers: Brian Nicholls and Cheda Panajotovic Free entry Are Brian and Cheda going Head to Head in public? Not quite, but our Autumn Lectures season kicks off…
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140609 History Talk: 9th June “Slavery and the Abolition Movement”
Date: Monday 9th June 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Slavery and the Abolition Movement Lecturer: Mike Rendell Mike’s talk will examine this issue from an 18th c. British, viewpoint and how the call for abolition started. He will use the language of that time…
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140526 History Talk: 26th May “Cleopatra – Queen of Egypt”
Date: Monday 26th May 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Cleopatra – Queen of Egypt 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…
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140512 Art Talk: May 12th: The Pitmen Painters
Date: May 12th 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: The Pitmen Painters Lecturer: Angela Chantry The Ashington Group began in the 1930s as an evening class of pitmen in an isolated village in Northumberland, drawn together in their spare time to learn a little…