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ADULT EDUCATION COURSES, WORKSHOPS, TALKS, TOURS, EVENTS 2019
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R SUMMER 2019 R
ADULT EDUCATION COURSES
1A Pelham Street, Brighton, BN1 4FA tel 01273 667704/88
Courses taught on Pelham Street campus unless otherwise stated. Sessions are relaxed & friendly and there is no homework.
THERE MAY BE PROBLEMS ENROLLING FOR COURSES ONLINE AT PRESENT - IF SO TELEPHONE 01273 667704 MON- FRI, OR
ENROL IN PERSON PELHAM STREET - CONTACT ME IF PROBLEMS.
THIS SATURDAY:
R SUMMER READING: BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS!
Unique course comprising literature and social and cultural history.
Books for summer reading - recommendations, discussion, background social
history... and novels to read before class. If you like books, literature and social history – this is for you! A different, unusual, exciting way of reading and learning in a friendly, relaxed group. We also view extracts of two of the novels that were made into films.
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| Summer c.1958 by Donald Moodie (1892-1963) |
A reading list will be available from the tutor and you will be expected to participate in group discussion.
Saturday 27 April 10am-4pm * Ref: CL0067-1C
Fee: £25
Pelham Street campus.
Enrol in person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667704
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-summer-reading-books-books-and-more-books
Short weekday course starts next Monday:
A GRAND TOUR OF GEORGIAN AND REGENCY INDULGENCE
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For those of you who are interested in the late Georgian and Regency period and of Brighton and its development. We look at high and low society, including some interesting personalities of the time.
Course aims and information:
We study different influences in architecture and fashion: neo-classicism, Gothick, Egyptian Revival and Chinoiserie style, including town and country gardens, grounds, public buildings, fashion and manners.
Excesses and vast wealth of a small section of society make us forget the other side of the Regency. Great poverty and hardship for the poor. We consider their conditions and contrast domestic society from aristocracy to residuum, including food, dining, household management, the role of servants and daily life above and below stairs in a Regency town house.
Jane Austen and the Regency go hand in hand. We read some of her charming and witty writings as well as those of other writers and romantic poets.
Illustrated with images, period texts, maps, powerpoint and video.
5 weeks Monday 1.30-3.30pm starting 29 April
Pelham Street campus Ref: CL0028-1C Fee: A £62 B £47 C £31
Enrol in person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667704
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/a-grand-tour-of-georgian-and-regency-indulgence
(Course eligible for Advanced Learner Loan – info here: https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/student-support/financial-assistance/advanced-learner-loan)
Course is full but 2 extra places have been added
Short Saturday Course:
R SUMMER IN THE CITY: EXPLORING BRIGHTON'S UNIQUE HISTORY
Two classroom sessions and 3 field trips in Brighton
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| Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove |
This will be followed by three field trips, getting to know our unique city, discovering lots of hidden gems and understanding how Brighton evolved from a small Georgian fishing town to the vibrant seaside resort of today.
Pelham Street campus
Ref: CL0027-1C Fee: £60 b. £44 c. £22
Ref: CL0027-1C Fee: £60 b. £44 c. £22
5 weeks Saturday 11am-1pm starting 04 May
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/courses/history-exploring-brightons-rich-history-short-course
TEL 01273 667704 (667767/88)
Brighton Metropolitan College
Varndean College at Holy Cross Church Hall, Woodingdean
(Buses 2, 22, 22A stop outside, car park across road outside library)
Women, Wartime and the Homefront (WWII)
We study domestic, working and social life on the home-front during World War Two, the impact it had during this period and its life-changing effects post-war.
When the men returned from war the women returned to the home – which they had not really left. Their stories are fascinating. Women, such as Ruby, the welder, were not allowed to carry on with jobs for which they were highly trained. And, what about life on the home-front? Women displayed their ingenuity and inventiveness. Nurses writing home from overseas or who were stationed in Britain give us a touching insight into the lives of men and women during this period.
Post-war 1940s meant many adjustments and changes in relationships, social and domestic life. Schemes were put in place to get men and women back to work and cultural life, the cinema and holidays took on a renewed interest.
Monday 10am-12pm 5 weeks
start 13 May (finish 17 June)
Fee £60 concessions £20/20 Tel: 01273 546604
Enrolment also at Java Cafe, Woodingdean Thursday 25 April 10.30am-11.30am
Space Light and Speed:
Art Deco and Modernism 1918-1939
For those of you who love the iconic style of Art Deco and clean lines of Modernism, this is the course which will explain the difference between the two and discover the influences that made these innovative forms.
The Decorative Movement, Modernism or ‘moderne’, later described as ‘Art Deco’ was based on classical and other influences, including Egyptian - after the 1922 opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
The distinctive iconic style of space, light and speed, utilised modern technology
and innovations such as plastic, chrome, aluminium and electricity. Smooth lines and geometric patterns featured on architecture, advertising, fashion, jewellery, furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, metalware, technology and cinema.
Illustrated with powerpoint slideshows, books and paintings. and texts.
5 weeks Tuesday 7-9pm. Start Tue 23 April
Pelham Street campus Ref: CL0068-1C Fee: A £62 B £47 C £31
Enrol in person at Student Centre, Pelham Street, Tel 01273 667704
https://www.gbmc.ac.uk/brighton/study-at-the-met/ courses/ history-space-light-speed-art-deco-and-modernism-1918-1939-1-day-course
MET at Whitehawk Inn Community Centre Whitehawk Rd BN2 5NS
GORGEOUS GEORGIANS : LIFE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Gorgeous, grand, ghastly, grotesque, greedy, gin-drinking, gluttonous, gamblers – inventive, fabulously wealthy, devastatingly poor Georgians. We look at high and low society and study the elegant magnificence of the buildings and stunningly lavish life of a small handful of society contrasted with the devastatingly poor members of the lower class who lived in abject poverty and the grim goings-on of the underworld of pickpockets, prostitutes, thieves, gamblers and gin-drinkers – of all classes.
Not only a time of intrigue, debt and excess but also many interesting and colourful personalities – men and women who wrote, painted, sculpted, made beautiful gold, silver glass or pottery, dressed in the extremes of fashion, were witty or worthless, talented, intellectual but never dull. A hugely fascinating period.
8 weeks Wednesday 1-3pm start 24 April
Ref: CL0328-1C: Fee £60, £26 EB/PC, £8 VOL/MBC TEL 01273 667704 (667767/88)
or enrol in person at Brighton Metropolitan College, Pelham Street
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The Regency Town House, Hove
THE WAY WE WERE AND WHAT WE WORE
A talk with costumes and accessories from the collection of Marion May followed by tea in the dining room and servant's kitchen, after which Sarah Tobias will give an illustrated talk on life in the Twenties and Thirties.
Saturday 8 June 2.30pm
£15 plus booking fee £1.58 -
FULL - Waiting List
FULL - Waiting List
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-way-we-were-and-what-we-wore-between-the-wars-tickets-57378067344
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| Black History Project |
SATURDAY 22 JUNE 11am-12.30pm
Woodvale Cemetery
To mark the anniversary of the death of the little rescued slave boy, Thomas Highflyer, who lived and went to school in Brighton and whose grave we shall visit. Tour ends in one of the chapels where interesting items will be displayed.
Tour is led by Sarah Tobias and Bert Williams OBE, who will give a short history of Thomas's life and how his gravestone was discovered in a poor condition which led to its restoration.
Limited number of spaces
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International Summer School
For students 18-24 years mainly from non-UK countries
COOL BRITANNIA: HOW FASHION SHAPED BRITISH CULTURE (1750-2019)
2019 Session 2:
4 weeks 22 July - 15 August
Tutor Sarah Tobias
Field trips include: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of London, Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
Course fees £2000 includes tuition and housing. Deadline for application 02-04-2019 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/iss/apply
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| Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove |
LANTERN TOUR OF PART OF WOODVALE EXTRA-
MURAL CEMETERY, BRIGHTON,
FOLLOWED BY
A TALK ON THE ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN
IN THE GOTHIC CHAPEL,
AFTER WHICH SUPPER WILL BE SERVED.
Tour guided by Sarah Tobias
This event is a collaboration between her and Sussex Food Tours
YOU ARE INVITED TO
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| Mid 19c mourning brooch Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove |
(OR SUPPER)
IN THE GOTHIC CHAPEL OF THE EXTRA-MURAL CEMETERY, BRIGHTON
Sarah Tobias discusses Victorian Rituals of Death and Mourning and there is a rare opportunity to view the short film noir: "Dido's Lament: Victorian Rituals of Death and mourning", written and produced by Sarah Tobias and Valentina Lari - who is also the award winning director.
(The film has been shown at Sicily Film Festival and at the Komedia, Brighton, 12th Cinecity Film Festival and other venues)
Dates throughout the year. Details to follow
A collaboration between Sarah Tobias and Sussex Food Tours
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| Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove |
AT THE GRAND HOTEL, BRIGHTON or/and OLD SHIP HOTEL (tbc)
Dates throughout the year. Details to follow
A collaboration between Sarah Tobias and Sussex Food Tours
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They are taught at Brighton Metropolitan College, Pelham Street, Historic Preston Manor, Whitehawk Inn Community Centre and Woodingdean
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| Class taking place in the Macquoid Room of Preston Manor March 2019 Photo: Sarah-Mary Geissler |
Autumn
Life in Late Georgian and Regency England 1785-1830 Mons 1.30-3.20
Cool Britannia: How Fashion Shaped British Culture (1750-2019)
A History of Christmas & Winter Traditions (Preston Manor)
Art Deco and the ‘Moderne’ (1918-1939) (Preston Manor)
The Novel as Social History: Homes of Every Sort (Fortnightly Saturdays)
Upstairs, Downstairs in the Edwardian House (Preston Manor) 1 day Sat
"Beautiful and Useful" - Victorian Arts & Crafts (1 day Saturday)
A Sussex Christmas: Customs, Myths and Legends of Winter in the Festive Season
A Victorian Christmas Merriment (Preston Manor)
Spring 2020
Arts Culture and Society in Regency England (1790-1830)
Cool Britannia: How Fashion Shaped British Culture (1750-2019) (Preston Manor)
The
Edwardians (1900-1914) (Preston Manor)
The Novel as Social History: Life and Living (Fortnightly Saturdays)
"The Whiplash Curve" Art Nouveau (1890-1910) (1 day Saturday)
Summer 2020
The World of Iconic Art Deco-Interwar Modernism 1918-1939
Summer Reading: Books, books and more books! (1 day Saturday)
Introducing the Victorians
Summer in the City: exploring Brighton's unique history
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Sarah Tobias MA, BA Hons, Dip Eur Hum
Entertaining lecturer in social, cultural and local (Brighton, Sussex, UK) history
Contact me for talks/guided walks/visits for groups, clubs, societies.
Current list of 30+ topics
Also contact me for poetry readings and narrations.
Also contact me for poetry readings and narrations.
More information about me, my subjects, research and contact:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-tobias-0318943a?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
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Courses -Venue Addresses, transport and refreshments
Brighton Metroplitan College MET (formerly 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 nearby.
Nearby car park, about 5 minutes walk.
Railway station few minutes walk
Refreshments and further information:
College canteen. Tea and coffee bar on balcony of Main Building. Vending machine.
Coffee shops, small cafés and public houses in nearby London Road
London Road and Trafalgar Street: many shops, some banks and supermarkets
Whitehawk Inn Community Centre
Whitehawk Road Brighton, BN2 3NS
Transport & Parking:
Buses stop nearby and some outside venue
Metered street car parking
Refreshments:
Café and garden area
Further information:
Shops, Co-op, public library in same road.
Few minutes walk to sea, beach and Marina or East Brighton Park
Holy Cross Church Hall, Woodingdean
Warren Road, Brighton, BN2 6ND
Transport & Parking:
Car park outside Library and Community Centre over the road, opposite church hall. Bus nos 2, 22, 22A stop nearby.
Refreshments:
Tea-making facilities in hall. Small cafes nearby. Downs Hotel almost next door serves tea, coffee and refreshments at bar and has outside area.
Further information:
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
Delicatessen cafe and public houses opposite and in Preston Drove. Chalet restaurant in park.
Sussex University
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH
Location:
Campus located in the South Downs National Park
Transport & Parking:
Buses and rail nearby into town and elsewhere
Car parks
Refreshments:
Cafes and restaurants on campus.
Co-op, pharmacy, books and stationery shops
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