MDFAS

LECTURES
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where
Lectures are held promptly at
11.00 am
on the second Thusday of each month (excluding August)
at St Mary's Priory Centre in Abergavenny. Coffee will be available from 10.15 to 10.45 am

To avoid distrurbance at the end the of the Lecture, please pay enough parking fees to cover an over-running lecture.

Members may bring 2 guests, provided that they pay £5 each when they sign-in.

A guest may not attend more than 3 times per year.

Is time dragging on your hands? .... Need more intellectual stimulation?

Click below for our neighbour's programmes...

Brecknock
Decorative & Fine Arts Society

Ross
Decorative & Fine Arts Society

2009/2010 Programme

8th October 2009

Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception

Malcolm Kenwood

12th November
2009

Ancient Faces: Flinders-Petrie and the Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
Dr Paul Roberts

10th December
2009

An Artist's response to Snow

Ann Clements

14th January
2010

The Tradescants-Plant: Art Collectors and Gardners of the 17th Century
Joanne Kidd

11th February
2010

Now You See It. Now You Don't. The Art of Deception: Optical Illusion, Camourflage and Trompe L'Oeil

Bertie Pearce

11th March
2010

Meissen Porcelain

Jane Gardiner

8th April
2010

Rachel Whiteread

Linda Smith

13th May
2010

The Great Twelve: An introduction to the Senior Livery Companies of London, their medieval origins and their role in modern society
Fenella Billington

10th June
2010

William Holman Hunt

Michael Wheeler

8th July
2010

Charles Darwin and the voyage of HMS Beagle

James Taylor

9th September
2010

From Joinery to Cabinet Making

Janusz Karczewski-Slowikowski

2010/2011 Programme

14th October 2010

Botticelli: Pioneer or Traditionalist

Clare Ford-Wille

11th November
2010

Art and Hilarity: British Caricature, British Eccentrics: Madness or local Colour
David Cross

9th December
2010

Merrily on High: The History of the English Christmas Carol

Peter Medhurst

13th January
2011

The Marquesses of Bute, Patrons of Opulence

Mathew Williams

10th February
2011

The Gilded Stage: a Social & Cultural History of Opera

David Snowman

10th March
2011

Design Matters: The Creation of Contemporary Fine Leather Bindings

Dominic Riley

14th April
2011

Picasso and his Women

Valerie Woodgate

12th May
2011

Exhibiting the Nation - as it was in 1851

Geoffrey Toms

9th June
2011

Nothing to do with Misery! Wit and Wisdom in British Misericords

Terry Pearson

14th July
2011

The Perfect Picture: Turkish Miniatures

Jane Angelini

8th September
2011

The Great Impresario: Giorgio Vasari, Artist, Architect and Art Historian

Shirley Smith