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Date: Monday 26th January 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: A History of Andalucía Lecturer: Peter Atkinson A History of Andalucía with Some Geography and a Lot of Pictures Andalucía is one of Spain’s 17 Autonomous Communities and comprises eight provinces: Almeria, Jaén, Granada,…

Date: Monday 23rd Feb 2015 10:30 (note change of date) Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Exodus – Myth or History? Lecturer: David Rohl Free entry The Bible remains the most published and widely read book in human history, yet archaeological research, carried out over the last…

Date: Monday 9th Mar 2015 10:30 Location: Salón de Actos, Espai la Senieta, Moraira (next to the large free car park) Subject: Goya and the Duchess of Alba (Change of Programme) Lecturer: Maureen Stanley Free entry Goya and the Duchess of Alba – An exploration of the affair between the Court Painter and the Duchess Much mystery and controversy…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…