Lectures Dinner, Tea and Lunch Lectures by experts
A Demonstration of Close-up Magic Dinner & Lecture
Friday 10 July 2009 CO 09 13
Tickets: £19 inc. dinner at 6.45pm, lecture 8 – 9.30pm
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Almost everyone has seen a magician work at a distance - on the stage or on television. But, when it all happens right under your nose, the result is even more effective, more so when no special equipment is used, just everyday items such as a saltcellar, some used bottle caps, a piece of rope or an ordinary pack of cards. You can even bring your own cards from home (no plastic please!). Nothing is gimmicked, nothing is fake, the magic is all in the eye of the beholder!
Presented by: Neal Weigel
Klimt Dinner & Lecture
Friday 17 July 2009 CO 09 10
Tickets: £19 inc. dinner at 6.45pm, lecture 8 – 9.30pm ;
Last year's blockbuster Exhibition at Tate Liverpool showed us how Klimt painted glittering society portraits in an extravagant style. There are also little known landscapes and his 'private' paintings, which were subtly erotic. He was the leader of The Secession Movement in Vienna at the turn of the C20th, important in Western architecture and design. Come and explore Klimt's life and his art.
Presented by: Valerie Marshall
Antartica - 'Albatrosses, Penguins & Icebergs' Dinner & Lecture
Friday 24 July 2009 CO 09 14
Tickets: £19 inc. dinner at 6.45pm, lecture 8 – 9.30pm ;
Join Brian for recollections from his trips in 2003 and 2008 on Russian icebreakers to the coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent, the Antarctic.
You will see penguins, albatrosses, giant petrels, cormorants, skuas, whales, elephant and fur seals photographed against backdrops of violent seas, sheer cliffs and stunning icebergs.
This rich wildlife and breathtaking scenery is revealed through Brian’s images from the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Elephant Island, the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, the last great wilderness on earth.
Presented by: Brian Anderson
Brian Anderson is a Merseyside based architect and photographer with over 20 years experience capturing landscape, travel and architectural images from his extensive travels in the UK and Europe. Trips further afield have included Africa, South America, Asia, the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
In addition to giving illustrated talks on a few of these trips, his images and articles have been published in travel brochures, websites and UK photographic journals.
You can visit Brian's website at andersonimages.co.uk and view his images through a series of themed galleries.
Queen Victoria - First Royal Rebel? Dinner & Lecture
Sunday 2 August 2009 2.30pm - 4pm CO 09 12
Tickets: £11 inc. Afternoon tea & cakes
Our vision of Queen Victoria is moralistic, dreary and dull, but TV Historian and author Dr Kate Williams uncovers a passionate, exciting, vibrant girl, whose struggle for the throne was the biggest mother-daughter battle in history. Join us for a fascinating afternoon with one of the UK's experts.
Presented by: Dr Kate Williams
Kate Williams is an author and historian specialising in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries. She has written a highly acclaimed biography of Emma Hamilton, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton and Becoming Queen, on the Regency Monarchy and the youth of Queen Victoria. She speaks regularly on BBC Radio 4 and has consulted and appeared on historical programmes for television, notably BBC2 Timewatch on Young Victoria and Channel 5 on the Mistresses of Edward VII.
Florence - The Jewel in the Renaissance Crown Dinner & Lecture
Friday 11 September 2009 CO 09 15
Tickets: £19 inc. dinner at 6.45pm, lecture 8 - 9.30pm
During the C14th, C15th and C16th, the city state of Florence became immensely wealthy and powerful as a result of highly successful merchant trading and banking. Thus the principal Florentine families were able to commission artists and architects to beautify their city, none more so than the Medici. The buildings, statues, paintings and collections of the Medici have made Florence a veritable treasure house during the extraordinary cultural movement known as the Renaissance. The prolific gems of craftsmanship executed by Andrea Pisano, Fra Angelico, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti, Michaelangelo, Vasari, Bronzino and Giambologna, to name but a few, continue to astound with their immediacy, skill and beauty. In this lecture, we shall see as many of them as we can.
Presented by: Fenella Billington
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Exhibitions at Burton Manor
Updated 10th May 2009