EXCITING EVENTS IN SUSSEX - ENTERTAINING AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL, FUN AS WELL AS FACTUAL.
Sarah Tobias lecturer in social & cultural history
Sarah Tobias lecturer in social & cultural history
*Keep visiting this site for regular updates of all events
Details given as accurately as possible, but may change, be postponed or cancelled.
PLEASE CHECK ALL VENUES, FEES, DAYS BEFORE BOOKING. Details of venues at end.
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Local History 6 week course starts at Foredown Tower next Tuesday 2 October- scroll down for details
TODAY 30 SEPTEMBER:
PRESTON MANOR
End of Preston Park, Brighton Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Tales of the Supernatural : Haunting Ghost Story Tours set in the manor
End of Preston Park, Brighton Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Visit Preston Manor on the last day of the summer season and take a tour with a difference.
Hear two specially written chilling tales read drama-style in the rooms that inspired them.
Hear two specially written chilling tales read drama-style in the rooms that inspired them.
Sunday 30 September
World première Chop-Chop 2.15-3.00pm
Written by Paula Wrightson & Narrated by Sarah Tobias
Written by Paula Wrightson & Narrated by Sarah Tobias
World première The Gloved Hand 3.45-4.15pm
Written and Narrated by Sarah Tobias
Free with house entry
(reduced for Brighton residents with proof, such as driving licence, utility bill)
(reduced for Brighton residents with proof, such as driving licence, utility bill)
Tel: 03000 290902
City College, Peham Street, Brighton
Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-1875
10 weeks Monday afternoons 2-4pm start September 24
Mid-Victorian Britain saw huge social changes in all aspects of life, including: merchandising and consumerism, effects of the railway, life within the home, at work, in the factories and mills, the later consequences of the Industrial Revolution and in the rise of the middle-class, the affluent and wealthy, and the living conditions of the poorest in Britain. Education became compulsory for all in 1871 but how did this affect the working class? We look at architecture, housing, social and sanitary reforms and the outcomes of the Board of Health, including the work of Edwin Chadwick, Henry Mayhew, Friedrich Engels and others,. During this period the London Underground was opened, enabling people to travel quickly across the city. Elaborate forms of etiquette ruled everyday life, especially for the aspiring middle-class and were a minefield of manners caught up in the complex new social structure.
Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images an texts.
10 weeks Monday afternoons 2-4pm start September 24
Mid-Victorian Britain saw huge social changes in all aspects of life, including: merchandising and consumerism, effects of the railway, life within the home, at work, in the factories and mills, the later consequences of the Industrial Revolution and in the rise of the middle-class, the affluent and wealthy, and the living conditions of the poorest in Britain. Education became compulsory for all in 1871 but how did this affect the working class? We look at architecture, housing, social and sanitary reforms and the outcomes of the Board of Health, including the work of Edwin Chadwick, Henry Mayhew, Friedrich Engels and others,. During this period the London Underground was opened, enabling people to travel quickly across the city. Elaborate forms of etiquette ruled everyday life, especially for the aspiring middle-class and were a minefield of manners caught up in the complex new social structure.
Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images an texts.
Ref COM 045 Fee £99 (for concessions and payment by instalments see website or telephone)
Tel: 01273 667767
Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
(due to administration error* this course does not appear in brochure)
Booking in person at Pelham Street advised
*Please also note that all three Saturday workshops for 2013 as currently advertised in brochure are incorrect but are mainly correct online. They will appear in the spring 2013 brochure available late 2012
Correct details and reference numbers below:
Ref COM120858 1940s Women, Wartime and the Homefront Saturday 16 February 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
Ref COM088 Looking at Victorian Art - paintings as social history 16 March 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
Ref COM089 Art Deco, Modernism and the Jazz Age 20 April 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
For further details scroll down to 2013
Correct details and reference numbers below:
Ref COM120858 1940s Women, Wartime and the Homefront Saturday 16 February 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
Ref COM088 Looking at Victorian Art - paintings as social history 16 March 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
Ref COM089 Art Deco, Modernism and the Jazz Age 20 April 2013 1-4pm Fee £25
For further details scroll down to 2013
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Whiteway Centre, Rottingdean
Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-1875
10 weeks Wednesday mornings 10.30am-12.30pm
start September 26
All details as same course above at City College
Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images an texts.
start September 26
All details as same course above at City College
Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images an texts.
Fee £70
Booking forms available at Whiteway Centre, which can be posted with payment into Centre letterbox
downloadable booking form: http://www.rwc.org.uk
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OCTOBER EVENTS
PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community Academy
Foredown Tower, Portslade
A Short History of Brighton, Hove & Portslade
Portslade c. 1840
6 weeks Tuesday mornings 10.30am-12.30pm start October 2
Development and expansion of Brighton, Hove and Portslade, looking at particular aspects that have seen growth and change including Portslade's old village and manor, now a ruin.
Illustrated with slides, DVD, historic maps and books.
Course will run in historic Foredown Tower, home of the famous camera obscura - free viewing for all those booked on this course.
6 weeks Tuesday mornings 10.30am-12.30pm start October 2
Development and expansion of Brighton, Hove and Portslade, looking at particular aspects that have seen growth and change including Portslade's old village and manor, now a ruin.
Illustrated with slides, DVD, historic maps and books.
Course will run in historic Foredown Tower, home of the famous camera obscura - free viewing for all those booked on this course.
Final session will be field trip of old Portslade and manor ruins led by historian Trevor Povey
Ref no. GS26 Fee: £36 concessions £22 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Book: 01273 422632
Ref no. GS26 Fee: £36 concessions £22 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Book: 01273 422632
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PRESTON MANOR
"It was wonderful. The best tour I have ever done. I love the way the two of you interact and make it all so interesting." A N 20 July 2012
"The best tour I have ever been on." 15 September 2012
(End of Preston Park, Brighton)
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Preston Manor, Preston Park, Brighton 'Voice of Hassocks' released copyright into public domain
“HIDDEN HOUSE”
Behind the Scenes at the Manor
Behind the Scenes at the Manor
Unique guided tour. Discover hidden rooms and secret places not normally open to the public.
If you’ve ever visited a historic property and longed to go through that door marked ‘private’, now you can at Preston Manor! Sarah Tobias has devised a unique and fascinating tour where you will hear lots of secrets and surprises about this beautiful Edwardian Manor House - information not available in guide-books or standard tours. You will be taken upstairs, downstairs, back-stairs, into vaulted cellars and up concealed servants’ staircases,to attics where female servants slept and into corridors not on the public route.
Behind the door marked 'Private' at Preston Manor c. Sarah Tobias 2011
Autumn 2012
Saturday 13 October 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Saturday 13 October 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Friday 9 November 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Friday 7 December 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
These popular tours fill very quickly. Places are limited to 12 persons per tour - so early booking advised, especially if you wish for a particular date. Tours can be booked privately.*
Fee: £10.50 Members £8.50. Includes house admission, tea & biscuits.
*Group bookings available - minimum number of eight persons.
Tour guides Sarah Tobias & Paula Wrightson (Preston Manor Programme Manager)
N.B. Comfortable (pref. flat) shoes advised.There are lots of stairs and some low door frames - mind your head.
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house.
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house.
Book: 03000 290902
'Thanks again for the entertaining Preston Manor tour. It was a great treat to have 2 such knowledgeable and
enthusiastic guides as yourself [Paula Wrightson] and Sarah [Tobias] to show us round.' R by e-mail 17 April 2012
"It was wonderful. The best tour I have ever done. I love the way the two of you interact and make it all so interesting." A N 20 July 2012
"The best tour I have ever been on." 15 September 2012
The Haunting of Tabitha Grey by Vanessa Curtis, set in 'Weston Manor', a fictionalised version of Preston Manor- buy at reception. http://www.vanessacurtis.com
* Autumn and winter events *
Scroll down to each month for further details of these Preston Manor events:
Thursday 1 November half-term: How Did Lady Ellen Eat a Banana?
Sunday 4 November: Veteran Car Run Day - Special Edwardian Event
Sunday 4 November: Veteran Car Run Day - Special Edwardian Event
Saturday 24 November & 8 December: A Victorian Christmas Merriment
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PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community Academy
Foredown Tower, Portslade
FRIDAYS at FOREDOWN
Art Deco and the 'Moderne'
Geoff Cravitz
Friday 19 October 10am-4pm 1day only
After WWI a new, distinctive style emerged 1920s/30s. Art Deco was vibrant with colour and its modern designs were full of sharp patterns influenced by many different styles and countries. Its iconic elegance was used to furnish homes in a new and exciting fashion, utilizing modern technology and materials, and electrical devices.Lavishly illustrated.
Fee: £30 concessions £25 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Due to administration error this course does not appear in the brochure and is not currently advertised online - although it is running.
Book: 01273 422632
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Foredown Tower, Portslade
* SPECIAL SATURDAYS *
at Foredown Tower
Victorian Arts, Crafts & Paintings
Saturday 27 October 10am-3pm 1 day only
The Arts & Crafts Movement consisted of a group of craftsmen/women, artists, designers and architects who aimed to raise the status of applied arts (aesthetically pleasing) as a reaction to mass production, inspired and led by William Morris. The idea was to return to the use of natural materials and to make individual items beautiful as well as useful.Style and paintings were full of colour, symbolism and emotion.
Fee: £24
Not currently advertised in brochure
Book: 01273 422632
PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community Academy
Foredown Tower, Portslade
FRIDAYS at FOREDOWN
Art Deco and the 'Moderne'
Geoff Cravitz
Friday 19 October 10am-4pm 1day only
After WWI a new, distinctive style emerged 1920s/30s. Art Deco was vibrant with colour and its modern designs were full of sharp patterns influenced by many different styles and countries. Its iconic elegance was used to furnish homes in a new and exciting fashion, utilizing modern technology and materials, and electrical devices.Lavishly illustrated.
Fee: £30 concessions £25 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Due to administration error this course does not appear in the brochure and is not currently advertised online - although it is running.
Book: 01273 422632
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Sussex Learning Solutions Saturday Workshops
Southwick Community Centre
Art Deco, Modernism and the Jazz Age
20 October 10am-4pm
20 October 10am-4pm
The iconic style utilised innovations such as plastic and chrome. Design influences included Egyptian, ancient Greece, Jazz Age, Cubism, Aztec and Futurism. Smooth lines and geometric patterns were found on everything from architecture to fashion.
Ref no: AW522 Fee: £40 http://www.sussexlearningsolutions.org.uk/ Tel: 0845 873 7663
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PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community AcademyRef no: AW522 Fee: £40 http://www.sussexlearningsolutions.org.uk/ Tel: 0845 873 7663
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Foredown Tower, Portslade
* SPECIAL SATURDAYS *
at Foredown Tower
Victorian Arts, Crafts & Paintings
The Arts & Crafts Movement consisted of a group of craftsmen/women, artists, designers and architects who aimed to raise the status of applied arts (aesthetically pleasing) as a reaction to mass production, inspired and led by William Morris. The idea was to return to the use of natural materials and to make individual items beautiful as well as useful.Style and paintings were full of colour, symbolism and emotion.
Fee: £24
Not currently advertised in brochure
Book: 01273 422632
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NOVEMBER EVENTS
Preston Manor, Preston Park, Brighton
(End of the park)
(End of the park)
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Thursday 1 November Half-term Family Day (new):
How Did Lady Ellen Eat a Banana? - and other silly rules of etiquette
Dining Room at Preston Manor C Sarah ~Tobias 2012
A workshop-style introduction to the lost arts of Edwardian etiquette.
Fun activities for all the family to enjoy. Bring your own banana.
Fun activities for all the family to enjoy. Bring your own banana.
10.30-11.30am, 1.30-2.30pm
£4 book in advance
(Limited spaces - early booking advised)
Veteran Car Run Day Sunday 4 November 2-5pm
Special Edwardian Event (new)
Edwardian Motoring
A special event to mark the RAC Veteran Car Run through Brighton
Includes illustrated talk at 2.30pm by Sarah Tobias on the joys of early motoring
Children's veteran car trail:
Follow the clues in each room to find the veteran car.
Admission free with house entry
Book: 03000 290902
Costumed characters- have your veteran car - or just yourself - photographed outside the manor with an "Edwardian friend" or servant
“HIDDEN HOUSE”
Behind the Scenes at the Manor
Friday 9 November 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Friday 9 November 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Unique guided tour. Discover hidden rooms and secret places not normally open to the public.
If you’ve ever visited a historic property and longed to go through that door marked ‘private’, now you can at Preston Manor! Sarah Tobias has devised a unique and fascinating tour where you will hear lots of secrets and surprises about this beautiful Edwardian Manor House - information not available in guide-books or standard tours. You will be taken upstairs, downstairs, back-stairs, into vaulted cellars and up concealed servants’ staircases,to attics where female servants slept and into corridors not on the public route.
These popular tours fill very quickly. Places are limited to 12 persons per tour - so early booking advised.
£10.50 Members £8.50. Includes house admission, tea & biscuits.
£10.50 Members £8.50. Includes house admission, tea & biscuits.
*Group bookings available - minimum number of eight persons.
Tour guides Sarah Tobias & Paula Wrightson (Preston Manor Programme Manager)
N.B. Comfortable (pref. flat) shoes advised.There are lots of stairs and some low door frames - mind your head.
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house.
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house.
Book: 03000 290902
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PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community Academy
Foredown Tower, Portslade
The Festive Season
The Festive Season
Customs of the Festive Season - history of Christmas and winter traditions
The origins, philosophy, gods, myths and legends of winter traditions and Christmas customs from early times to modern, starting with pagan roots and Winter Solstice through to seasonal festivities over hundreds of years and into modern times; considering truth behind belief and celebrating magical characters of folklore and literature, including legends and heart-warming tales of Sussex winters and festive customs.
Ref LL28 Fee £50, £40 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Book: 01273 422632
Book: 01273 422632
FRIDAYS at FOREDOWN
The Novel as Social History
The Novel Reader by Van Gogh
Friday 16 November 10am-4pm 1day only
We consider the social and cultural history of the novel by exploring the background information we are absorbing unwittingly, which is not the main theme, but which leads us into a deeper and clearer understanding of period, place, subject, time and general minutiae of everyday life. As novel extracts are read out, we discuss what exciting 'other' information we are discovering.
Ref LL29 Fee: £30 concessions £25 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
The Novel as Social History
Friday 16 November 10am-4pm 1day only
We consider the social and cultural history of the novel by exploring the background information we are absorbing unwittingly, which is not the main theme, but which leads us into a deeper and clearer understanding of period, place, subject, time and general minutiae of everyday life. As novel extracts are read out, we discuss what exciting 'other' information we are discovering.
Ref LL29 Fee: £30 concessions £25 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Book: 01273 422632
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The World of Jane Austen
Life in Regency Bath, Brighton and more.
Followed by lunch in the Mulberry Restaurant
£22.50 for lecture, lunch and coffee on arrival (plus 5% booking fee)
Book: 0844 249 1895
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans
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The Old Operating Theatre
Friday 23 November 6.30pm
DEATH & MOURNING IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Illustrated talk on fascinating rituals and customs
Fee: £6 Tel: 020 7188 2679
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Preston Manor, Preston Park, Brighton(End of the park)
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
Saturday 24 November & 8 December 11am-1.30pm
including songs, performance, readings and a glass of sherry (or soft drink) and mince pie served by staff in period costume
Pianist Vanessa Curtis
Fee £13.50 Foundation members £11.50 book in advance
Book: 03000 290902
http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/PMAVictorianChristmasMerriment24Novand8Dec12.aspx
* A Victorian Christmas Merriment *
Come and join us for a jolly, festive, drawing-room style entertainment ,including songs, performance, readings and a glass of sherry (or soft drink) and mince pie served by staff in period costume
Pianist Vanessa Curtis
Fee £13.50 Foundation members £11.50 book in advance
Book: 03000 290902
http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/PMAVictorianChristmasMerriment24Novand8Dec12.aspx
(limited seating - early booking advised – similar event last year booked up beginning of October)
*
Unitarian Church
New Road, Brighton
Friday 30 November 12.30pm
Music written by composers associated with that city, interspersed with
readings from Sketches of Vienna by Johann Pezzl, 18c writer.
Music includes works by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Wölfl and Koželuh.readings from Sketches of Vienna by Johann Pezzl, 18c writer.
Piano Ambrose Page * Narration Sarah Tobias
Admission £3 pay on door. No booking necessary
Admission £3 pay on door. No booking necessary
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DECEMBER EVENTS
Sussex Learning Solutions Saturday Workshops
Southwick Community Centre
Southwick Community Centre
Christmas Customs and Winter Traditions
Origins, philosophy, gods, myths and legends of winter traditions and Christmas customs from pagan roots to seasonal festivities over hundreds of years, including
heart-warming tales of Sussex winters and festive customs.
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Preston Manor, Preston Park, Brighton (End of the park)
“HIDDEN HOUSE”
£10.50 Members £8.50. Includes house admission, tea & biscuits.
Preston Manor, Preston Park, Brighton (End of the park)
Free parking, buses stop nearby, Preston Park railway station nearby
“HIDDEN HOUSE”
Behind the Scenes at the Manor
Friday 9 November 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Friday 9 November 11am-12.30pm & 2-3.30pm
Unique guided tour. Discover hidden rooms and secret places not normally open to the public.
If you’ve ever visited a historic property and longed to go through that door marked ‘private’, now you can at Preston Manor! Sarah Tobias has devised a unique and fascinating tour where you will hear lots of secrets and surprises about this beautiful Edwardian Manor House - information not available in guide-books or standard tours. You will be taken upstairs, downstairs, back-stairs, into vaulted cellars and up concealed servants’ staircases,to attics where female servants slept and into corridors not on the public route. £10.50 Members £8.50. Includes house admission, tea & biscuits.
Tour guides Sarah Tobias & Paula Wrightson (Preston Manor Programme Manager)
N.B. Comfortable (pref. flat) shoes advised.There are lots of stairs and some low door frames - mind your head.
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house
It is VERY COLD in some parts of the house, so warm clothing also advised! No photography in house
Book: 03000 290902
* A Victorian Christmas Merriment *
Saturday 8 December 11am-1.30pm
Come and join us for a jolly, festive, drawing-room style entertainment ,
including songs, performance, readings and a glass of sherry (or soft drink) and mince pie served by staff in period costume
Pianist Vanessa Curtis
£13.50 Foundation members £11.50 book in advance
(early booking advised – similar event last year booked up beginning of October)
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City College, Pelham Street, Brighton
The Victorian World 1851-1875
We look at all forms of housing and the people who inhabited them; from large country estates and town houses to humble cottages ad pitiful town rookeries of the residuum. We see how dwellings were built and furnished and view the internal workings of the home and the ornaments, paintings and furniture which adorned them for all classes. There was a strict hierarchy which existed "below stairs" that was far more snobbish than that between master and servant. The domestic life of the servant, their duties, wages and relationship with the houses in which they worked is a fascinating one. Mrs Beeton was the Delia Smith of her day and introduced technology into household management. In comparison, we study life of the poor, their lack of amenities, deficient nutrition, education and medical attention and the effect of their appalling living and working conditions. Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images and texts.
Mondays 2-4pm 10 weeks start 7 January
Ref: COM091 Fee £99 Tel: 01273 667767
Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
This course does not yet appear in brochure or online
Whiteway Centre, Rottingdean
The Victorian World 1851-1875
Details as above
Whiteway Centre, Rottingdean
The Victorian World 1851-1875
Details as above
Wednesdays 10.30am-12.30pm 10 weeks start 9 January
Booking forms available at Whiteway Centre, which can be posted with payment into Centre letterbox
Sussex Learning Solutions Saturday Workshops
Southwick Community Centre
The Novel as Social History - 9 February 10am-4pm
Southwick Community Centre
The Novel as Social History - 9 February 10am-4pm
We consider the social and cultural history of the novel by exploring background information we are absorbing unwittingly: leading us into a deeper and clearer understanding of period, place, subject, time and general minutiae of everyday life.
City College, Pelham Street, Brighton
Women, Wartime and the Homefront
Life for women during Wartime and how they coped during the later 1940’s after war ended when life had changed completely. We look at women at war – their occupations in the armed services, as pilots, nurses, typists, working in the Land Army, in factories, in the WRVS and other voluntary organisations, as well as being housewives and mothers. Some women worked as spies or at Bletchley Park tapping out codes on the Enigma machine. At home during war and after, women had to cope with rationing and learning to ‘make do and mend’ while attempting to remain glamorous keeping up with fashion and cosmetics. When war ended women found it difficult to give up their new independence, life in the family changed and so did relationships. Illustrated.
Saturday 16 February 1-4pm
Ref: COM 120858 Fee £25 Tel: 01273 667767 Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
Saturday 16 February 1-4pm
Ref: COM 120858 Fee £25 Tel: 01273 667767 Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
Looking at Victorian Art - paintings as social history
Victorian narrative paintings tell us much more than the main topic. They are full of symbolism and expose other features we hardly notice. These 'extras' tell us more about the period and its social history, Painters wanted to show domestic scenes and 'real life' and were not afraid of controversial subjects which might shock the public. Massive social and cultural changes took place within the period which painters wanted to tell us about but, as they did so, they were also exposing much more - a little girl bringing her father's lunch to his workplace, the inner turmoil of an emigrating couple, the pain of parting, or he long engagement, as well as tiny figures and scenes around the main subject we almost miss. Narrative paintings of various topics open up our view of art and enable us to see and enjoy it in a totally different way. Illustrated with many slides.
Saturday 16 March 1-4pm
Ref: COM088 Fee £25 Tel: 01273 667767 Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
Art Deco, Modernism and the Jazz Age
After WWI a new, very distinctive style emerged, directly following Art Nouveau. Architectural buildings of every type from churches to cinemas, houses, bus stations, garages and lidos were developed in this style which had many influences. It was associated with the Jazz Age and also described as "jazzy" and it utilised modern innovations, such as plastic, chrome, aluminium and electricity. The smooth lines and geometric patterns were found in and on everything from art to fashion, furniture, light fittings, ornaments, glass ceramics and jewellery. Cinema and film included sets and flowing dresses and the style reached its height of fashion in the Hollywood musical with the wonderful Busby Berkeley Hollywood film dance routines. We look at influences, architecture, style, fashion, interiors, paintings and clips of favourite films and stars of the period.
A fabulous feast of colour, illustrated with a huge amount of images.
Saturday 20 April 1-4pm
Ref: COM089 Fee £25 Tel: 01273 667767 Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
PACA Portslade Aldridge (Adult Education) Community Academy
Foredown Tower, Portslade
Fridays at Foredown 10am-4pm
Flea-Pits &Picture-Palaces: A history of film & cinema : Friday 15 February
The Victorian World : Friday 15 March
Life Between-the-wars (1918-1939) : Friday 24 May*
Special Saturdays 10am-3pm
Art Deco & the 'Moderne' : Saturday 25 May*
The Edwardians : Saturday 27 April
Life Between-the-wars (1918-1939) : Friday 24 May*
Fee: £30 concessions £25 (over-60s/benefits/BN41 postcode)
Art Deco & the 'Moderne' : Saturday 25 May*
The Edwardians : Saturday 27 April
The Homefront in Wartime : Saturday 27July
Fee: £24
*Friday 24 May & Saturday 25 May can be booked together with discount
Fee: £24
*Friday 24 May & Saturday 25 May can be booked together with discount
Book: 01273 422632
City College, Pelham Street, Brighton
Victorian Life and Leisure 1851-1875
We study general life, as well as the family, work, leisure, travel, art and culture. This period saw the burgeoning "leisure industry", holidays - particularly the seaside - travel to the countryside, and the new green spaces of the town as public parks were opened for al to enjoy and benefit. Working life was a different matter and there was little time off from the hard and continuous grind for the poor. But society was changing and we look at the urban environment, railway, public health and civic amenities, as well as improvements in working hours and conditions, plus poverty and unemployment, philanthropy and poor relief. Illustrated with PowerPoint, DVD, books, images and texts.Victorian Life and Leisure 1851-1875
Mondays 2-4pm 5 weeks start 15 April
Ref: COM090 Fee £48 (check) Tel: 01273 667767
Download booking form from website http://www.ccb.ac.uk/public/courses/adult-education
This course does not yet appear in brochure or online
Whiteway Centre, Rottingdean
Victorian Life and Leisure 1851-1875
Details as above
Wednesdays 10.30am-12.30pm 5 weeks start 17 April
Booking forms available at Whiteway Centre, which can be posted with payment into Centre letterbox
Not advertised on Whiteway Centre website till 2013
The Victorian World Summer Field Trips
4 Wednesdays in June 2013
4 Wednesdays in June 2013
Meet Brighton Station 9.45am
Four
guided visits to houses, museums and collections which illustrate
Victorian social, domestic and working life. Venues
not finalised but will include The Red House, Bexleyheath (home of
William Morris) (NT, otherwise £8, £7) (18c Danson House
nearby, so will also visit) and may include William Morris Gallery,
Walthamstow (free entry), Florence Nightingale Museum, London (near
Houses of Parliament £5.80/4.80), possibly Crossness Pumping
Station. More information for
those who request it.
(2012
trips included Down House, Kent; Apsley House & Wellington Arch, Canal & Foundling Museums, London; & Houses of
Parliament).
Fee
£35 does not include travel, admission to venues or
refreshments.
Whiteway Centre, Rottingdean downloadable booking form: http://www.rwc.org.ukNot advertised on Whiteway Centre website till 2013
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Venue Addresses, transport and refreshments
City College
Pelham Street, Brighton BN1 4FA
Location:
Behind York Place & London Road, turn up Cheapside – Aldi supermarket on corner. Or, turn left in Trafalgar St walking down from Station.
Transport & Parking:
Lots of buses.
Adjacent car park.
Refreshments:
Tea and coffee on balcony of Main Building – self-service
Coffee shops and small cafés in nearby London Road
Foredown Tower
Foredown Road, Brighton (Portslade) BN41 4EW
Transport & Parking:
No. 6 bus stops nearby-200 yds walk
Free car parking outside,
Refreshments:
Refreshments available
Preston Manor
Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD
Location:
Situated at end of Preston Park.
Transport & Parking:
Buses and rail nearby
Free parking outside and in adjacent street.
Refreshments:
No cafe. Refreshments provided by staff at courses, and some events where stated.
Rottingdean Whiteway Centre
Whiteway Lane, Rottingdean, BN2 7HB
Location:
By Library/Grange Museum
Transport & Parking:
Buses in High Street and on seafront
Small car park, but always full. Possible space if you get there early
Fairly near street parking
Refreshments:
Kitchen with tea and coffee making facilities (provided)
Southwick Community Centre
24 Southwick Street, Southwick, BN42 4TE
Transport & Parking:
Transport & Parking:
Buses stop nearby
Small car park outside community centre but fills quickly. Car park opposite near Library. Both free.
Small car park outside community centre but fills quickly. Car park opposite near Library. Both free.
Refreshments:
Cafe and garden area
Sarah Tobias
Entertaining social/cultural/local historian.
Ask for details of talks/guided walks/visits for groups, clubs, societies.
Current list of 30+ topics
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