All our courses are listed in the Herefordshire brochure or you can download the following flyers:
Masterworks of Classical Chamber Music
ledbury
Submitted by webadmin on Tue, 2007-06-05 11:58.
LEDBURY BRANCH
OUR PROGRAMME FOR 2007/08
Our programme for 2007/08 is detailed in the Herefordshire brochure. Please click here to download your copy.
There is an interesting range of courses starting in January 2008. Please click on the courses titles in the box to the left to download the flyers.
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NEWS FROM LEDBURY BRANCH Here in Ledbury we have successfully completed our first term as an independent Branch of the WEA with good attendances at each of the four courses we have run. Broadly speaking these have covered Literature and Drama, Urban Geography, Cathedrals and Abbeys and the Old Testament. Two of our courses included tutored field trips, the first to Coventry for a fascinating tour of the remains of several ecclesiastical foundations with Tim Bridges, including three cathedrals. The second was to Stafford where, on a day of unrelenting rain, Clive Prior took us to explore another urban townscape. The quality of the buildings and amount of historical interest in Stafford took us all by surprise and both trips underlined the rich variety of material for study available to us in our Region. |
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Sadly, this will be our last season with Clive as he will be retiring this year; he has been a consistently hard-working and popular tutor in our area and his loss will leave big gap in his field of study.
Hereford Library and Museum is expanding its services to local groups and in early December a party of our students enjoyed a tutored view of a small part their costume collection. Our term finished with a flourish when we were joined by students from Hereford and Leominster for our ‘Christmas Miscellany’. Now in its third year, this glorified Christmas Party includes Carols and music, poetry and prose readings compered by Joy Roderick who tutors literature classes for the three branches, and of course plenty of food and mulled wine!
From January 2008 we have an interesting programme with classes in Garden History, Chamber Music, The End of Putin, Ethics and George Elliot’s Middlemarch; full details on the Hereford and Worcester page of the West Midlands web site. We shall also be running two short courses comprising a day school and field trip, one on local Geology and the other on the Industrial Archeology of the Black Country.
LEDBURY BRANCH SUMMER VISITS 2007
Summer is far from being a ‘close' season for Ledbury branch. The popular series on ecclesiastical architecture tutored by Tim Bridges was followed by a six-week course of mainly field visits throughout May and June, including some unexpectedly exciting excursions at the height of the recent floods!
Also in June , Clive Prior, who in recent years has been running a series of courses on the theme of ‘History and the Landscape' for several WEA branches in the Hereford area, organized an inter-branch trip to Wenlock Edge and Much Wenlock. This included a detailed viewing of the geology of the Edge itself, followed by a conducted tour of the fascinating ‘black and white' town of Much Wenlock finishing at the Abbey ruins.
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Finally, on one of the really fine afternoons of the disappointingly wet July, our Garden History lecturer, Steven Desmond, took us to the beautiful gardens of Hestercombe near Taunton in Somerset. The intricate planting scheme of Gertrude Jekyll, in the exciting landscaped garden designed by Lutyens, has recently been fully restored and replanted and looked stunning against a backdrop of Taunton Vale and the Blackdown Hills. The picture shows the group listening to Steven in knowledgeable and witty full flow as he describes Lutyens high handed treatment of his workers and his inspired designs. All three tutors will again be holding courses in Ledbury during the 2007/08 season and full details can be found in the brochure. Click here to download your copy.
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