Meon Valley Arts Society

Lectures

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data/20260414.jpg Tuesday 14 April 2026

Subject: The Silver Thread: silver filigree and traditional arts in Kosovo
Speaker: ELIZABETH GOWING
From the early Kosovan silver mines to twentieth century politics there is a silver thread winding through their history. Its most intricate tanglings are in the country’s cultural capital, Prizren, where a seventh generation of filigree artisans use various designs to magic lacy creations from dull sticks of raw material creating a wide variety of objects.



data/20260512.jpg Tuesday 12 May 2026

Subject: The Art and Culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna
Speaker: GAVIN PLUMLEY
In the early 1900s Vienna was the capital of a vast empire and one of the most exciting artistic laboratories in the world. It produced Gustav Klimt, Otto Wagner, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Looking at these and others figures we ask how and why the City of Dreams became a cultural hotbed.. 



data/20260609.jpg Tuesday 9 June 2026

Subject: Henry Moore: A Revolution in British Sculpture
Speaker: JO WALTON
Henry Moore is one of the most popular and important British sculptors of the 20thC. He was inspired by the art of the past and of other cultures, but also at the forefront of modernism – creating a new language of sculpture, full of abstract shapes, holes and magisterial forms.



data/20260814.jpg Tuesday 14 July 2026 – AGM and Summer Lunch. Members only

Subject: Selfies, Self-Expression, Celebrity & the Victorian Carte de Visite
Speaker: MARK HILL
From the late 1850s to the 1870s photography suddenly enabled nearly everyone to have a self-portrait. Small portraits mounted on card were shot professionally and handed out like business cards. In this lecture, we look at the rise and fall of the fashion, learn how the cards were used, dating them from clothing and hairstyles.



data/20260908.jpg Tuesday 8 September 2026

Subject: Monopoly
Speaker: ROGER MENDHAM
Monopoly is one of the world’s most popular and enduring board games. The lecture starts with the original 1903 Landlord’s Game to its evolution into the game known today.  Based on the classic 1936 London version the lecture takes a photographic journey around the locations on the board.   Expect some surprises as we uncover the story we all know so well -or do we?