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PROGRAMME OF COURSES AND EVENTS
JANUARY - OCTOBER 2020
DILLINGTON "Dillington House is one of England's special places. A truly lovely rural surrounding in which to learn and study, to walk and think, to eat well and make new friends.” Rosie Boycott, Writer and Broadcaster
WELCOME TO DILLINGTON HOUSE
‘Dillington House,
Creating Adventures in
Adult Education and the
Arts since 1950’
A New Year brings promises of change We are celebrating Shakespeare this year, When visiting and staying at Dillington you
as well as reflection on the past. he may have been born 456 years ago but can be guaranteed a warm welcome in
Dillington House continues to evolve his plays are still relevant today. We start beautiful surroundings.
and grow and our new programme the year with tragedy and comedy, then a
combines this by celebrating and wicked look at Shakespeare’s nastiest Finally,
continuing with favourite traditional shrews and ugliest villains, a visit to the It is with sadness we write that Chris
courses as well as introducing you to Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Pollard passed away in November. Chris
a wide range of new courses for your to see The Comedy of Errors and finally had for many years organised our Summer
enjoyment. we culminate our programme with School as well as courses and tours. We are
Exploring Shakepeare at our Summer inviting all who knew Chris to join us on
Dillington House is entering its 70th Year, School.
from July 2020, and we are looking forward Sunday 5 April 2020 at 2:30pm in the
to continuing our celebration of all things Theatre to share memories and pay tribute
After 25 years under the dedicated to Chris.
Dillington with you. stewardship of Peter Rueffer, the Dillington
Throughout this programme there are Guitar Festival has gone from strength to We would like to take this opportunity to
several courses that lend themselves to strength. We are pleased to announce that thank all our Customers, Patrons and
be associated with the ‘Slow Movement’ - from 2020 the Eden Stell Guitar Duo (Mark Friends of Dillington,Volunteers, Sponsors
a time to recapture meaningful connections Eden and Christopher Stell) will take up the and Tutors for your continued loyalty to
whilst creating and learning with others. helm and move the Festival forward with an Dillington. We would also like to thank
Take the opportunity to try something new exciting line-up of international artists and those individuals who have given us
and give yourself time to enjoy and gain musical activities throughout the week. We permission to use their photographs
new skills and knowledge. advise you to book your tickets early. throughout the programme.
As ever we have pleasure introducing you Dillington House continues to attract a
diverse range of customers, those who visit We hope you will find some interesting
to new Tutors. Please take the time to read courses and events you wish to attend and
their biographies on pages 4 and 5. All us for education courses, weddings,
conferences or, for a short break whilst we look forward to welcoming you back for
Tutors at Dillington House are passionate another year at Dillington.
about their subjects and have excellent visiting the West Country. We hope
academic credentials. everyone who visits us has a positive
experience and we continue to place our From all the team at Dillington House.
If you wish to attend one of our new Tutor care for guests and hospitality at the centre
courses, we are offering an early bird of all we do.
discount of 10% until 31 March 2020.
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Dillington House, Creating Adventures in Adult Education and the Arts since 1950
1950 saw Somerset County Council bedrooms in the magnificent Mews, or in
begin its journey into Adult Education the contemporary Boutique Hotel style
at Dillington House. bedrooms in the award-winning Hyde
building.
Over the years we have continued to
evolve and change to meet the demands Dillington House continues to evolve and
of our students and changing lifestyles. We grow and our adult education programme
refresh and develop our adult education combines this by celebrating and continuing
courses and events annually so we can with favourite, traditional courses as well as
offer a wide range of new subjects that introducing you to a wide range of new
run alongside more traditional favourites. courses for your enjoyment
Our aim is to provide breadth, high quality Our traditional favourites include two
and diversity of adult education courses weeks of Residential Summer School a
that appeal to all ages, abilities and interest rich mix of learning and pleasure. Summer
levels. Our courses range from Art to School gives you the chance to create your
Archaeology, Craft and Concerts, Lectures own special holiday with a difference.
and Literature, Photography and People to Our annual Guitar Festival gives a unique
Singing and Yoga, there is something for opportunity to participate in a varied
everyone. programme of music making that allows
Students can immerse themselves in time to develop playing and music reading
learning on one of our residential courses skills. The end of every day culminates in
or join us in the relaxed surroundings of an evening performance by renowned
Dillington House just for the day. Course international artists who perform in the
fees include tuition, refreshments and all wonderful setting of Dillington House.
meals. Residential courses include en-suite Browse our full list of courses, lectures,
accommodation. Accommodation is either concerts and events or select from your
in the main house in traditional country specific area of interest using our index
house style rooms, the cosy cottage style of courses or Tutors.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Residential Course Fees Additional Nights
Against each residential course you will find Subject to availability it may be possible to
a series of symbols and prices, which give stay overnight in advance of a day course,
the fees per person, relating to the different for which we can offer a special rate for Field Trips & Visits
grades of bedroom and occupancy. bed and breakfast. Ask for full details on Course fees which include travel
booking. and entrance fees for field trips or
s Double/twin room single occupancy visits are denoted by the bus symbol.
l Double/twin room shared occupancy
H Single room Frequently Asked
u Non Resident Questions (FAQS)
See page 70 for FAQs and further
We also have two deluxe rooms – upgrades information about what’s included.
to a deluxe room cost £25 per person per Charges current at time of going to press.
night.
Look out for 10% discount for all new tutors
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1.
GUITAR FESTIVAL
2.
1. Eden Stell Guitar Duo - Guitars
Sunday 2 August
2. Flauguissimo Duo – Lute and Flute
Monday 3 August
3. Duo Agostino – Two Guitars
Tuesday 4 August
4. Laura Snowden and Yoo Jeon –
Violin and Guitar
Wednesday 5 August 3.
5. Six Hands – Gary Ryan, 4.
John Williams and John Etheridge 5.
Thursday 6 August
6. Piano Recital with Charles Owen and Domenic Degavino 7. Piatti String Quartet and Ella Rundle (cello)
Sunday 29 March 2020 Sunday 10 May 2020
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MEET OUR NEW TUTORS
We are pleased to welcome and introduce our new Tutors. All our Tutors at Dillington House
are passionate about their subjects and have excellent academic credentials.
If you wish to attend one of our new Tutor courses, we are offering an early bird discount of 10% until 31 March 2020
Flora Arbuthnott is Chris Copson investigate the way writers create meaning,
a natural dyer, grower, currently works as to try to unpick what drives them and to
and forager. Exploring Learning and Public take away a set of skills that will enrich your
the land through Engagement Officer at reading in the future.
gathering wild dye plants, Haynes International
fungi, lichen and algae, as Motor Museum. He is Sophie Hatcher
well as growing plants to former Curator of The Floristry workshops
produce a variety of Keep Military Museum, combines two of
vibrant colours using non-toxic plant-based Dorchester and Education Officer at The Sophie’s passions,
processes. Flora loves to be out on the land Tank Museum Education and Flowers.
observing and learning from the wild plants Sophie has always
that grow around us as well as growing her Christine Green worked in education,
own. Christine is a graphic she taught in an FE
designer with a passion setting for five years. Simultaneously, Sophie
Christina Charles for typography, trained to become a florist with the British
has worked with leather patchwork, cut-outs and Academy of Floral Art in 2016. Since then,
for nearly 20 years. She inspiring others to have she has developed her business, The
fell in love with the a go. She worked at the Foraged Flower Co. and has offered
material whilst studying BBC creating opening workshops all over Somerset.
for a BA (Hons) Fashion title sequences, went freelance, retrained as
at Winchester School of a teacher and runs numerous creative John Hartoch taught
Art. Having specialised in courses, exhibitions and demonstrates at acting at the Bristol Old
leather for her degree show, Christina went crafting events where she sells merchandise Vic Theatre School for
on to work for a number of luxury London featuring her papercut designs. Career 35 years, latterly as
fashion houses such as Catherine Walker highlights include BAFTA nomination, main Head of Acting Courses.
and Jasper Conran in a product contributor on BBC4’s ‘Make! Craft Britain’, Over the years John
development capacity. After completing a producing/directing BBC Schools ‘The Art’. adapted and directed
research trip in 2009 that took Christina Christine enjoys making stuff, a challenge, various texts for stage
through the Middle East and Asia in search theatre, cinema, reading and car booting. including Kipling’s Jungle Book (published by
of Leather Artisans practicing in Syria, India Samuel French), Arabian Nights, Canterbury
and Nepal, she relocated from London to Nims Gribler Tales and The Three Musketeers. John directed
Somerset to take up the role of ‘Head of B.A.Hons, M.Ed is an Bristol Old Vic’s Theatre School annual
Design’ at Pittards, the well-known tannery A-level and GCSE tours of the South West and, more recently,
in Yeovil. In 2017 Christina set up her own Literature teacher, the yearly Shakespeares at the Redgrave
practice and now splits her time between international teacher Theatre, Bristol. John co-founded and
running her own contemporary trainer and examiner performed with The Company of Strangers –
leathergoods label Hirsch & Kirsch, for Cambridge re-telling mythic tales from Wales and
Sampling and Development for the fashion University with over Ireland.
and accessories industry and teaching 15 years’ experience and a deep passion
leather workshops from her studio in for poetry, plays and novels across the ages.
North East Somerset. With a lively style & engaging and thoughtful
content, her courses push the boundaries
of Literature to reveal the pulsing emotion
beneath. This makes for animated courses
that give you the confidence to analyse &
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Elizabeth Legge across the world. Debbie has taught dye, Sheila Seymour
Not long after leaving spinning and knitting workshops and skills After a career in IT, from
school she spent six on live television, at national shows, such as 2004 Sheila was a tutor
months in Vienna which The Knitting and Stitching Show and in her to the First Year History
sparked a great interest studio in Ilminster (The Lace Knittery). students at Royal
in the history and Debbie has been dyeing using natural Holloway College,
culture of the long-gone materials for over a decade and enjoys the University of London.
Austro-Hungarian changing colour palette throughout the year. Her role was to
Empire. This deepened when her career led introduce them to new aspects of, and
to her living and working in a number of Philippa Reid approaches to, history after years of
European countries and she became ever Philippa is a fully following tightly structured curricula. It was
more interested in how history shaped the Accredited (Higher a wonderful job – but demanding. It was
Europe we know today. Fuelled by her Level) Fellow of the not only the students whose love of history
research into German, French and Italian Quilling Guild, which has was stimulated, but also her own and she
sources, she brings to her talks extensive recognised her skills at looks forward to sharing her experiences.
knowledge of her subject, presented with Masters level for
enthusiasm and thought-provoking ideas. competition purposes. In Stephen Stokes
addition to creating highly original quilled Taught by the monks
Elizabeth Merry pictures and jewellery Philippa also works of Downside Abbey,
MA, PGCE will be joining hard to promote the art of quilling through Stephen Stokes has been
our Summer School. workshops, demonstrations, social media teaching letter-carving
Elizabeth has over 30 and the Guild’s websites. Philippa is well full-time for the last
years’ experience known in the quilling world as Editor of the seven years, based at his
teaching and lecturing Guild’s highly-regarded magazine, Quillers Bodden Cross Studios in
on a range of subjects Today. Her book 'QUILLING The art of Somerset. A career in media took him all
including classical art and paper filigree', published by The Crowood over the world, each time returning to his
architecture, aspects of the visual arts and Press in 2019, is a comprehensive practical workshop to find creative fulfilment. His
the links between literature and art. She has guide to all internationally-recognised work now appears in diverse locations
worked for the WEA, Universities of Bristol quilling techniques. around the world from Canterbury
and Southampton Departments of Cathedral to the Bruton Art Factory. “My
Continuing Education, Royal Society of Arts, Ann Pickard greatest pleasure is witnessing the flame lit
Dillington House, Jane Austen Society, Ann Pickard has over in a soul when working with their hands and
Thomas Hardy Society, Brussels Brontë 30 years’ experience realising they have an innate creative talent.”
Society, Finzi Society, The Art Fund, Dorset decorating cakes in her
County Museum, and Literary, Historical and business Clare Walsh Clare is
Philosophical Societies all over the UK. She www.icingcentre.co.uk a Textile Designer, Maker
is particularly interested in the connections and has taught both and Workshop tutor,
between literature and the other branches nationally and with a background in
of the arts and all her lectures explore this internationally since her books were first education and a lifetime
in various ways. An Arts Society lecturer published over 20 years ago. She has been love of textiles she uses
since 2009. Elizabeth has worked for Arts guest presenter on two of the UKs botanical material to
Societies all over Britain as well as in Europe Shopping Channels and her style and print directly onto
including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, The Hague, technique of cake decorating and modelling fabric, creating vibrant unique prints which
Malta and Southern Spain. She has lectured are perfect for beginners and more are used in garments, interior products and
for ADFAS in Australia and New Zealand. experienced students alike. Ann’s tutorials accessories. Inspired by and printed from
Independently of the Arts Society, she are very popular on Youtube and can also be nature her printed textiles are created for
lectures regularly in Stratford-on-Avon viewed on her website bespoke commissions and special projects.
at Shakespeare Study Weekends www.annpickardsugarcraft.com. Ann’s Travels in India and a growing collection of
expertise encompasses wedding cake hand-carved Indian printing blocks have
Debbie Munro design, piping and quick novelty modelling. inspired hand-printed designs on natural
Debbie has been All her techniques are fast and commercial. linen and organic cottons. Clare’s
fascinated with fibre and enthusiasm for printed textile design is
colour for as long as she communicated in the range of courses and
can remember. Debbie workshops she delivers to students of all
designs her own patterns ages. See www.clarewalshdesign.co.uk and
and paint range of yarn Instagram Clarewalsh16
that has been enjoyed
© Lynne Hawkins
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LECTURES Power and Patronage: The Death of an Elite? The Changing Fortunes and Roles of the Non- Royal Dukes of the British Isles with Mike Hope - Sunday 19 January The Real Ludwig Van Beethoven with Phil Grabsky - Sunday 9 February Images from the Edge with Brian Anderson - Sunday 15 March LECTURE & LUNCH Ancient Egyptian Artistry in Glass with Lucia Gahlin - Friday 28 February Music, Masonry and Manuscripts: An Inspirational Journey Through Medieval England with Mark Cottle - Friday 6 March Guernica: The Greatest Painting in the World with Wayne Bennett - Friday 20 March 8
T
he Dillington Book
DILLINGTON
Club offers an BOOK CLUB
opportunity for all with Elizabeth Rapp
CARVERY
those lovers of
literature to meet
and discuss a variety of
books. The group meets on LUNCHES
the first Tuesday of the A lively &
month and is led by stimulating
Elizabeth Rapp, who brings
with her a wealth of literary
knowledge and experience.
discussion -
good fun! Enjoy a delicious carvery
in the beautiful
surroundings of
Discussion is always lively and passionate as members are encouraged
to freely express their opinions. Whilst the book club is intended for Dillington
serious debate there is also a lot of fun to be had and discussions often
continue all the way through lunch!
Dates and books for 2020
Tuesday 4 February
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Penguin)
Tuesday 3 March
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (Penguin)
Tuesday 7 April
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (Harper
Collins)
Tuesday 28 April
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (Vintage)
Tuesday 2 June
Lark Rise to Candleford (Penguin Modern Classics)
*£25 per session starting with coffee at 10.30am and ending with a
three course lunch at 1.00pm. Su nd ay
Available every
Prior booking is essential for all dates as places are limited. Main Course *£11 per person (under 10s £6.50)
Dessert *£5.95 per person
Call 01460 258648 for further details and to
Please sign up to receive full details of the dates reserve a table
and books to be discussed by sending an email to
dillingtonbookings@somerset.gov.uk Lunch will be served either in the Hyde or the House
*prices are current at time of going to press and subject to change
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FRIENDS, PATRONS & SPONSORS
Friends
£25 per annum single subscription
£35 per annum joint subscription
l Receive the programme in advance of everyone else
l Priority booking
l Exclusive promotions
l Reserved seating for concerts
Reserved seating for talks
{
l
l Receive twice yearly newsletter with all the behind -
the-scenes stories and plans
l Entry into the annual prize draw
10%
Patrons on most courses
£300 per annum on concert tickets
discount on talk tickets
All of the above plus…
Sponsors
As you will see, a number of our concerts in the
programme have been sponsored by Friends and
Patrons of Dillington. We even have groups of Friends
joining together to sponsor future concerts. If you
are interested in sponsoring a concert in return
for some wonderful Dillington hospitality please
call our Events Team.
Terms and Conditions
l Membership runs for 12 months from the month of
joining.
l Joint subscriptions apply to two people residing at the
same address.
l Benefits to Patrons apply to a maximum of two
people residing at the same address.
l Priority booking applies to printed programme only.
l Patron’s discount applies to most courses excepting
those marked P where special payments to third -
parties are involved.
l Patron’s discount does not apply to pre-concert/
pre-talk meals.
l Patron’s discount applies to new bookings only.
Gift vouchers are an ideal present for Dillington regulars or a treat for
someone new to Dillington.Vouchers are available in the amount of your
choice and can be purchased from our Events Team 01460 258613.Treat
someone today and give them the gift of the Dillington Experience.
10WINTER courses
JAN
Europe – The Age of the Crusades
Saturday 4 January
Fee: £56 Bookbinding
The consolidation of Christendom in all Dinner Friday 10 –
but Europe’s extremities and the more Lunch Sunday 12 January
recent schism between Rome and the Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226
Orthodox church in 1054 led to Pope This workshop is aimed at anyone looking
Urban II’s exaltation to recapture the holy to do basic bookbinding at home without
places previously lost in the first expansion much specialised equipment. We will cover
of Islam. Thus were knightly orders created paper grain and folding, selecting
in various western lands and more than a appropriate materials, tools and
century of holy war initiated. adhesives. We will bind three different
Tutor: Mike Shaw book structures which will give you the
foundations of bookbinding. Please note
there is an additional £10 payable to the
tutor for materials.
Tutor: Sarah Jarrett-Kerr
GROUP BOOKINGS
With up to 40 bedrooms available,
we welcome groups looking to stay
The Italian Renaissance somewhere special.
Dinner Friday 3 – Lunch Sunday 5 January Medieval English Pilgrimages For further details contact the
Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226 Dinner Friday 10 –
More a reinvention than a revival in classical Conference Team at
Lunch Sunday 12 January conferences@somerset.gov.uk
culture, the phenomenon of the Italian
Renaissance was a moment of profound Fees (£): s 400 l 343 H 343 u 231
historical significance that still resonates Before the Reformation, the roads of
today. This course will review the period England were alive with pilgrims travelling
and consider the cultural drivers which to the shrines of the saints, hoping for
helped shape the key achievements in miracles and revelations. But it was also a
literature, architecture, sculpture and means of self-expression, in an age when
painting. We will look at things both opportunities were rare. This course
chronologically and geographically and by concentrates on English shrines –
the end you will have a real grasp of key Glastonbury, Walsingham and Canterbury
events, people, places and, most importantly, to name but three – and English saints like
the art! All-comers welcome. Edmund, Cuthbert and Thomas Becket.
Tutor: Wayne Bennett They were a focus for feelings of
nationhood and they tell us much about
how medieval people felt about themselves.
All-comers welcome. Tutor: Tim Porter
12Have Your Say
JAN
If you have ideas for courses or events
you would like to see in our programme, The War of the Roses 1450-1487
or you are a tutor keen to run a course at Dinner Friday 17 –
Dillington then we want to hear from you. Lunch Sunday 19 January
Send an email with your suggestions to Reading Roman Inscriptions Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226
Saturday 11 January The weakness of Henry VI led directly to
dillingtonbookings@somerset.gov.uk open conflict. 1450 was a year of crisis, the
Fee: £56
The Roman Empire has left us thousands first battle occurred in 1455, with more
of inscriptions on stone, wood and metal, 1459-1461. Edward IV supplanted Henry,
as well as large numbers of papyrus and was then deposed and recovered his throne
parchment documents, especially from in 1471. His death in 1483 led to Richard
Egypt. The day course will look at the III’s reign until 1485. Several questions
scripts used, the standard forms of text follow: Why did the wars start, why did
and the wide range of abbreviations, which they persist and why did they end?
often reveal the meaning of an inscription Tutor: Edward Towne
without any need to understand Latin!
Tutor: Nick Griffiths Towards Enigma: Elgar’s
Masterpiece in Context
Dinner Friday 17 –
Lunch Sunday 19 January
Fees (£): s 399 l 342 H 342 u 230
Elgar’s Enigma Variations, created at the
threshold of the 20th century, is
undoubtedly a crucial turning-point in
British music. But, like all great works of
art, it didn’t really emerge completely ‘out
of the blue’ and in this course we shall
explore its intriguing background. The
Jazz Age Chicago influences on the composer were many
Saturday 11 January and varied, from Beethoven and Schumann
Fee: £56 to his compatriots Parry and Stanford.
“The parties were bigger, the pace was faster, Then, of course, there are the mysteries
the buildings were higher and the morals were that continue to surround it – though
looser.” In 1920s Chicago, migration, we can’t promise to solve all of those!
prohibition and corruption provided the Tutor: Gwyn Parry-Jones
ideal environment for jazz and violent crime
to flourish side by side. Louis Armstrong,
Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines and Bix
Beiderbecke were up-and-coming young
men, as were Al Capone and Lucky Luciano.
In this new course, we explore the jazz, the
musicians, and their lives during that
remarkable decade in the Windy City.
Tutor: Mike Denham
t 01460 258613 e dillington@somerset.gov.uk w www.dillington.com 13Conferences at Dillington
93% rate Dillington’s impression on
delegates as either very good or excellent
Dillington has twelve well -
equipped meeting rooms
If the purpose of a meeting or conference either very good or excellent. Once inside, tea with cake, close to 90% of respondents
is to engage, stimulate and inspire its our staff demonstrates both friendliness and perceived the quality of Dillington’s catering
participants, then the choice of venue helpfulness – 91% of survey respondents to be very good or excellent. Adding value to
has a critical role to play. scored our team as very good or excellent your event is what Dillington is all about.
for these qualities. We endeavour to provide a
Customer feedback confirms that in all of flexible and positive response to issues on the If you need further information on our
these respects Dillington House delivers. day, which so often arrive unexpectedly. facilities or pricing for a meeting, conference,
business dinner or group accommodation
On arrival, delegates will find ample parking Dillington has twelve well-equipped meeting please contact our Events Team on
and, if first impressions count, the impact of rooms varying in size to meet most 01460 258648
the main house and its surrounding gardens requirements and forty stylish en-suite conferences@somerset.gov.uk
is stunning. The contrast of the modern Hyde bedrooms for residential events.
building with the architecture of the main site
works magnificently. An extensive survey of Food always features as a key component in
our customers recently revealed that 93% delegates’ enjoyment of the day. Whether it’s
rate Dillington’s impression on delegates as a self-service hot fork buffet or afternoonAs this course is full we are running an
additional day on Monday 20 April.
Country Hares & Foxes Needle
JAN
Felting Workshop
Saturday 18 January
Fee: £66 includes materials
Love wool? Then you'll love needle felting!
Fibre artist Carla Taylor of The Mousehole
Woolery will guide you step by step
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through the basic techniques of needle
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felting as well as sharing lot of tips and
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tricks that she has learnt along the way and
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her love and passion for local Dorset and
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British wool. By the end of the workshop
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you will have created your own country
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hare or fox out of beautiful wool ready for
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you to take home or, if you can part with
them, to give to someone as a special gift.
This workshop is suitable for both Mayflower 400 – West Country
beginners or those with some experience Connections to North America
of needle felting. The price of the Tuesday 21 January
workshop includes all materials and a Fee: £56
needle felting kit, that you get to keep, take 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the
Gothic 4: home and carry on creating with. A fun, sailing of the Mayflower, but what are the
The Forgotten Age, 1536-1836 creative and inspiring day with friendly, like - West Country connections to the ‘New
Dinner Friday 17 – minded people! Tutor: Carla Taylor World’. Some of the earliest settlers in
Lunch Sunday 19 January Virginia, West Indies, Newfoundland and
Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226 New England came from the south-west.
For three hundred years Gothic We will look at these early settlers and
architecture would play second fiddle to their impact on the development of these
the evolution of the Tudor, Elizabethan and new colonies. Who made good and made
Jacobean Renaissance, then the influence their fortune? Ideal for anyone interested
of French and Dutch styles. Finally the in local and migration history.
eighteenth century would see wave after Tutor: Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard
wave of Classicism, which was inspired by
the Grand Tour.Yet Gothic architecture Power and Patronage: The Death
never disappeared. New churches were of an Elite? The Changing
built, old ones repaired. Then in the middle fortunes and roles of the non- “Thanks to all staff for
of the eighteenth century the ‘Gothick’ royal Dukes of the British Isles
style emerged bringing with it a renewed with Mike Hope maintaining such a high
standard to the Dillington
interest in the Medieval period. The 1818
Church Building Act and the strong Sunday 19 January 2.30pm
criticism levelled at the ‘Commissioner Tickets £14 (includes tea and cake)
Pre-booked carvery lunch available £18
experience”
Gothic style, would lead to the Gothic
Revival of the 19th century. How many current non-royal Dukedoms
Tutor: Mike Hope are there? Can you name them? Are they
heading for extinction? This lecture will
look specifically at the Ducal titles that
remain, to reveal a fascinating picture of the
state of British aristocracy at the highest
level. After hundreds of years of continuous
entitlement and privilege what does it mean
for these families, not just in terms of
cultural and political power and patronage
but also in continuing to shape Britain and
social attitudes in the twenty-first century.
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Monday 3 February GROUP BOOKINGS
Cut Sylvia Plath
The Tender Place Ted Hughes
With up to 40 bedrooms available,
Week 2 we welcome groups looking to stay
Monday 10 February somewhere special.
FEB
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath For further details contact the
The Shot Ted Hughes Conference Team at
conferences@somerset.gov.uk
Week 3
Monday 17 February
The Life and Death Morning Song Sylvia Plath
Isis Ted Hughes
of a Love Affair
This course takes place over six
consecutive weeks, each session lasting Week 4
around two hours followed by a three- Monday 24 February
course lunch. Students can sign-up for Daddy Sylvia Plath
the whole course or dip in and out. The Minotaur Ted Hughes
DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor
introduction if booked by 31 March 2020 Week 5
Monday 2 March
Monday 3 February Ariel Sylvia Plath
Fee: £25 per session (includes coffee Sam Ted Hughes Crossroads in History -
and three-course lunch)
Week 6 Fashioning 'Brand Tudor': Hans
This course will be of interest to those who Monday 9 March Holbein, his predecessors and
enjoy poetry, engaging in discussion and want Edge Sylvia Plath successors, 1485 - 1558
to learn more about the poets and poetry itself. Life after Death Ted Hughes Thursday 6 February
This course encompasses the meeting, Fee: £33
relationship and ultimate demise of Sylvia Morning session with three-course lunch
Plath and Ted Hughes’ marriage through BOOK CLUB During this session we will observe how
the early Tudors, like their European
the lens of Plath’s poetry from Ariel and
Hughes’ poetry 30 years later in The with Elizabeth Rapp counterparts, came to develop and enlarge
Birthday Letters. This course explores their status and power through the way
the context of the poetry, the themes and they presented themselves to their publics,
the psychological effects of their words on both in the flesh and in a range of media.
audiences at the time and today, the Beginning with Henry VII, often
reaction to Plath’s death, the life of Ted and overshadowed by his much-married son,
their children afterwards and, ultimately, the we will examine how through the art of
legacy of their words and deeds on 21st Tuesday 4 February the period, most especially portraiture
century readers. and complex iconography within it, these
Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three - monarchs promoted themselves on the
The poetry and lives of the 20th century’s course lunch) national and international stage at a time
most iconic literary couple give us pause For this month’s Book Club, we will be when the emergent superpowers, France
for thought on this course that allows us to discussing Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – and Spain, dominated Western politics.
access their poems, learning how to unpick published by Penguin. We will observe the preponderance of
their feelings from the words they left us Northern Renaissance artists in this
and enabling us to look at their very public cultural propaganda exercise, most notably
lives in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Hans Holbein but also others including
William Scrots and Anthonis Mor during
Participants will be given a copy of the the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I.
poems in a bound booklet. Includes extensive handouts.
Tutor: Nims Gribler Tutor: Joanna Cobb
16Yoga, Mindfulness & Stress
Awareness Getaway
Tea Friday 7 – Lunch Sunday 9 February
Fees (£): s 410 l 353 H 353 u 241
Leave behind the busyness of the modern
world, your routine and responsibilities and
join like-minded people to relax and enjoy
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a few days of mindfulness, yoga and stress
awareness. Suitable for all levels of ability
and experience, from those with a regular
yoga and meditation practice to those
wishing simply to discover what these are The Real Ludwig Van Beethoven
all about. The workshop will include four
yoga practices, one yoga nidra, one with Phil Grabsky
mindfulness and meditation session, a stress Sunday 9 February 2.30pm
awareness session and a talk and meditation Tickets £14 (includes tea and cake)
focussed on getting a good night’s sleep. Pre-booked carvery lunch available £18
There will be plenty of time within the Beethoven is undoubtedly one of the
schedule to rest, read, walk in the greatest composers of all time – for some
countryside, chat with other guests or he is the greatest.Yet he is much
simply relax and enjoy the beautiful misunderstood. Phil Grabsky is a multi- Celebrating Raphael
surroundings of Dillington House. award-winning filmmaker who having made
Tutor: Bev Alderson Monday 10 February
a box office smash hit film about the ‘real’
Mozart then went on a search for the ‘real’ Fee: £56
Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy Beethoven. His film ‘IN SEARCH OF 2020 sees the 500th anniversary of the
BEETHOVEN’ was met with rave reviews death of Raphael - perhaps the greatest
Dinner Friday 7 – Lunch Sunday 9 February High Renaissance painter. In this study day
Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226 and played in some cinemas around the
world for months. Phil will be with us at we will survey Raphael’s life and work in its
This course will explore some of the novels historical context. Special attention will be
by the 19th century writer. Hardy’s Dillington (and not for the first time) to
show us some clips and pick apart some of paid to works by Raphael that can be seen
protagonists have an enduring appeal and in the UK, including the tapestry cartoons
his works offer valuable commentary on the myths and misunderstandings that need
to be corrected. In doing so, we can held at the V&A. Tutor: Angie Smith
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the social attitudes of the period. We will
consider the characterisation of his central appreciate this extraordinary composer and
protagonists and the social and political performer even more.
context of his work.
Tutor: Dr Greta Depledge
A delightful way to
Get to Know Your spend your time,
Sewing Machine relaxing in beautiful
Saturday 8 February surroundings and
Fee: £56 learning something
If you have just recently bought a sewing Valerie
machine or have never really understood Singleton OBE fascinating.
how to use all the stitches and feet that
came with your sewing machine, then this
course is for you. Suitable for students new
to sewing, or just wanting to get the best
from a machine that perhaps has not been
used for a while. Gain the confidence to use
the machine to its full potential. Learn the
art of free machine embroidery, a fun and
creative technique.You will need to bring
your sewing machine to the course.
Tutor: Jenny Harrison
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Papercutting
Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 February
Fee £117 includes all materials
DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor
Creative Couching introduction if booked by 31 March 2020
Wednesday 12 February
The Life and Death Fee: £68 includes materials This course is perfect for those with an interest
of a Love Affair Come and enjoy a day learning how to in typography, illustration, craft and graphic
Monday 10 February couch threads in a huge variety of ways to design.
Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three produce your own fabulous textural piece. After mastering some basic cutting skills,
course lunch) A large selection of threads will be available students will cut out a prepared design and
DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor for your own experimentation. This then design and cut out a monogram of
introduction if booked by 31 March 2020 enjoyable and easy technique is SLOW their initials. They will design a panel (A4
STITCH at its best, allowing each person to max) using lettering and simple illustrations,
This course takes place over six develop their own design at their own pace. this will be cut out. Then a more complex
consecutive weeks, each session lasting Friendly personal tuition will be given at piece, which could be three dimensional.
around two hours followed by a three- every stage of the process. Students will develop their skills throughout
course lunch. Students can sign-up for Tutor: Helen Roskell the course as well as picking up top tips.
the whole course or dip in and out. The course also embraces the history and
This is the second session in our Sylvia current state of papercutting.
Plath and Ted Hughes programme. This Accomodation can be booked, subject
week students will look at Lady Lazarus to availability. Tutor: Christine Green
by Sylvia Plath and The Shot by Ted Hughes.
Tutor: Nims Gribler
Mystery of the Moon –
Creative Writing
Wednesday 12 February
Fee: £56
From earliest times the Moon has inspired Musicals: The Greatest Showman
artists, poets and musicians to celebrate her Wednesday 12 February
mysterious beauty. We shall discuss Fee: £56
medieval cosmology from Ptolemy to Benj Pasek & Justin Paul have burst onto The Life and Death
the movie musicals scene with box-office-
Copernicus and Galileo culminating in the
busting films that seamlessly blend classic of a Love Affair
moon landing by Apollo 11. We shall share Monday 17 February
lunar myths from Greece, Rome and Egypt musical theatre sounds with contemporary
to stimulate our writing, together with pop styles; re-imagining what a ‘movie Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three -
music and a variety of poems celebrating musical’ can be. Get to know these dynamic course lunch)
the many moods and influences of the young writers and their work as we learn DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor
Moon on our world through the tides she to sing songs from The Greatest Showman introduction if booked by 31 March 2020
creates. Shared work is a source of and their other shows. There’s no need to This is the third session in our Sylvia Plath
imagination and energy we all enjoy. All - read music notation as we’ll be learning and Ted Hughes Programme. This week
comers welcome whether new to writing using lyric sheets and all levels of students will look at Morning Song by Sylvia
or experienced poets! experience are welcome. Plath and Isis by Ted Hughes.
Tutor: Elizabeth Rapp Tutor: Jo Sercombe Tutor: Nims Gribler
18Piecing Together the Past:
Archaeology Revealed
Dinner Friday 21 – Lunch
Sunday 23 February
Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226
Twenty-first century archaeology employs a
You The Jury – dizzying array of techniques to analyse
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Casebook Number 5 ancient remains. This course will help you
Wednesday 19 February to become an archaeologist and learn how
to do everything from analysing prehistoric
Fee: £56 pots to dating human remains. In hands-on
Over the course of the day we will be sessions with real finds you will discover for
considering two different real-life cases of yourself how we go about piecing together
murder which occurred in England between the past to reveal the secrets of our
Art and Fire 1900-1975. Participants will be expected to ancestors. Along the way you will learn how
Monday 17 February listen to the evidence, making notes as they to recognise ancient stone tools, develop
Fee: £61 go, then discuss the case and attempt to skills in analysing pottery and find out how
This course will be of interest to those who reach a verdict, based on what they have to apply archaeological concepts to date
enjoy art history and/or have an interest in the heard. No advance reading or knowledge finds and sites. By the end of the weekend
representations of fire in art. of the English judicial system is needed. you will know how scientific analysis can
The cases chosen for your consideration divine details of the technological
The day features a great variety of art will not be revealed in advance and, just as
from 1500 to the present day. It features achievements, diet and travel habits of even
in the real Jury Room, everyone will be the long dead. All-comers welcome.
paintings of candles, fires on land and at sea, requested to switch off all electronic
volcanoes, bonfires, ironworks, war and Tutor: Dr Nick Snashall
devices and put aside any pre-conceived
apocalyptic visions. Artists include ideas they may have, if they do happen to
Rembrandt and Gerrit van Honthorst, have heard or read anything about either of
Joseph Wright of Derby, J. M. W. Turner these cases previously. The cases have been
(The Burning of the Houses of Parliament), selected with an eye to the insight they can
John Martin (The Great Day of His Wrath), give us on various aspects of our judicial
Stanley Spencer (Fire Alight), Claude system and social history and, at the end of
Rogers, John Piper, John Nash and Graham the day, the verdicts reached by the original
Sutherland. A wide-ranging look at art and juries will of course be revealed. No
conflagration. Tutor: Dr Jan Cox advance preparation is required, but
students will find a pen, a notebook and an
John Minton: His Life and Art open mind invaluable. Although these are all
Tuesday 18 February real cases, no distressing crime scene
Fee: £61 photographs will be used.
This course will be of interest to those who Tutor: Diane Janes Guitar Orchestra Weekend
!
enjoy art history and/or culture in Britain in Dinner Friday 21 – Lunch
the 1940s and 1950s. Sunday 23 February
The course looks at the life and art of John Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226
Minton (1917-1957), a key figure at the A unique musical experience for classical
Royal College of Art in the 1950s, and
inhabitant of the Colony Club in Soho, DON’T MISS OUT guitarists of all ages and of varying abilities
(but not complete beginners). The emphasis
where he mixed with Lucien Freud and
Francis Bacon. The course examines BOOK EARLY is on participation, with students working in
a non-competitive and supportive
Minton’s career as a painter, designer and environment. Parts of the orchestra range
illustrator, including the cookery book in difficulty from elementary (Grade 2) to
covers for Elizabeth David. We look at the advanced (Grade 8) and are allocated in
2018 BBC Documentary “The Lost Man accordance with each students’ playing
of British Art”, in which actor Mark Gatiss standard. The music required for the course
stressed Minton’s vital role. will be made available one month before
Tutor: Dr Jan Cox hand, to allow for some advance
preparation. Tutor: Peter Rueffer
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in style
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Social Events & Celebrations For information and to
Dillington is the perfect setting for any occasion, such as a birthday arrange a viewing contact
celebration, wedding anniversary, a wake, family reunions and the Events Team
Christmas parties.
01460 258648
We can seat any number up to 150 for a meal and 200 for a party. weddings@somerset.gov.uk
With 40 en-suite bedrooms we can accommodate up to 78 guests. www.dillington.com
20Watercolour Winter Landscape Architecture and the
Dinner Friday 21 – Lunch English Wool Trade
Sunday 23 February Wednesday 26 February
Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226 Fee: £61
The winter scenery allows us really to see This course looks at the way the wool
the structure and shapes of hedgerows and trade changed the architecture of England.
trees. Beautiful textures of bark, moss and It concentrates on two periods when the
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lichen are combined with wonderful curves trade brought great prosperity to large
and twists of branches and boughs. An parts of the country: the Middle Ages, when
opportunity to develop your individual style the stunning churches of the Cotswolds and
of watercolour painting with some close East Anglia were built, and when
observation and a range of more picturesque towns like Lavenham sprang
experimental watercolour techniques. For into prominence, and the 18th century, with
those that may like to add a wintry crow, its often large water-powered mills and
owl or even a beetle there will be plenty of extraordinary market buildings.
help and references to hand and, of course, Tutor: Philip Wilkinson
we have the wonderful grounds at The Life and Death
Dillington to inspire us. Tutor: Shari Hills of a Love Affair DNA – And Family
Monday 24 February History Research
Four Early Medieval Christians Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three - Friday 28 February
Saturday 22 February course lunch) Fee: £56
Fee: £56 DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor The session will look at DNA results from
What inspired medieval men and women to introduction if booked by 31 March 2020 Ancestry and My Heritage. How can we
give their lives to God? We will examine This is the fourth session in our Sylvia Plath use these results to help us in our family
the lives and writings of four very different and Ted Hughes Programme. This week history research, break down some
individuals: St Benedict, Hildegard of Bingen, students will look at Daddy by Sylvia Plath brickwalls and find long lost cousins.
Francis of Assisi and Julian of Norwich. and The Minotaur by Ted Hughes. DNA is becoming very popular but a lot
Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries was a Tutor: Nims Gribler of people don’t know what to do with the
foundational text throughout the Middle results, using them like another tool in the
Ages; Hildegard was a gifted abbess. In
contrast, Francis of Assisi saw himself as Great British Brands kit we use for researching family history.
Tuesday 25 February Only suitable for those who have done, and
‘the little poor man’. Julian of Norwich was have the results of an Ancestry DNA test
a hermit who has left us a vivid account of Fee: £61 and maybe have uploaded those results to
her visions. All-comers welcome. Britain’s manufacturers have created famous My Heritage for free. Bring laptops along.
Tutor: Sister Elizabeth Rees and unforgettable brands that have become Tutor: Jane Ferentzi-Sheppard
part of our lives. Their stories are tales of
Nature’s Other Minstrels: Bird heroic individual endeavour, dedicated
Poems of the Romantic Poets workers, and instantly recognisable
advertising and design. This course tells the Summer School
Saturday 22 February story of some of the greatest and most
Fee: £56 enduring: Bird’s custard, Cadbury’s, Twining’s
Bird song has long been associated with tea, Tate and Lyle, and others that stick in
British poetry, especially in the Romantic our minds, enliven our tables, and bring
period, 1780s to 1820s. This may explain back happy memories.
why the nightingale became the most Tutor: Philip Wilkinson
celebrated bird in English verse. The
course will focus on poems by Coleridge,
Wordsworth, Keats, Clare and Shelley - not
only about nightingales, but also the skylark,
the cuckoo, the snipe and the owl. How see page 55
successfully did the poets enter the natural
world of these birds? We shall explore their
perspective on each bird – from the
ethereal to the terrestrial, from the
fanciful to the carefully observed.
Tutor: Jane Crozier
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Ancient Egyptian Artistry in Glass
with Lucia Gahlin Goldwork Bees with
Friday 28 February 1.00pm Beads and Appliquѐ
Tickets £25 (three-course lunch & Dinner Friday 28 February –
Lunch Sunday 1 March
lecture)
The ancient Egyptians began making glass Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226
c1450 BC following the introduction of the This course focuses on a range of
technique from Syria. The Egyptians were techniques to create a beautiful decorative
soon highly skilled at producing a range of picture featuring goldwork bees in flight
object types in coloured glass. In this around a cluster of appliquéd, beadwork
lecture Lucia will explore how the ancient and goldwork flowers. Students will learn
Egyptians produced glass objects and the techniques including felt padding, cut
wonderful range of object types, including goldwork, contemporary use of pearl purl
on a honeycomb-textured net base.
vessels, inlay, beads, amulets, figures and Nile Deities of Upper Egypt and Students can work their own version of the
even headrests. She will examine the
developments in glass manufacture from the their Temples at Esna, Kom design, arranging flowers and bees to suit
15th century BC through to the Roman Ombo and Elephantine the piece’s final purpose, or can follow the
Period in Egypt, and will show images of Dinner: Friday 28 February – tutor’s plan. The class will suit stitchers who
Say
many of the vibrantly-coloured glass objects Lunch Sunday 1 March have done some embroidery before.
surviving from this great civilisation. All- Fees (£): s 395 l 338 H 338 u 226 Tutor: Clare Clensy
comers welcome. Life in Ancient Egypt revolved around the
Have Your
river Nile, so it is hardly surprising that a
number of the gods and goddesses of the
ancient Egyptian pantheon was associated
with aspects of riverine life and the Nile’s
annual inundation. During this course we
will explore the deities Sobek, Hapi, Khnum,
Satet and Anuket and the rituals and
mythology associated with them. We will
take a guided tour of the temples of Esna,
Kom Ombo and Elephantine, exploring
their architecture and extensive reliefs and If you have ideas for courses or events
inscriptions carved on their walls. We will you would like to see in our programme,
discuss these intricate scenes and texts and or you are a tutor keen to run a course at
find them a window into ancient Egyptian Dillington, then we want to hear from you.
belief and thought. All-comers welcome.
Tutor: Lucia Gahlin Send an email with your suggestions to
dillingtonbookings@somerset.gov.uk
22From Elizabeth to Anne: A
Century of English Music
Dinner: Friday 28 February –
Lunch Sunday 1 March
Fees (£): s 411 l 354 H 354 u 242
People’s lives in Elizabethan England were
often more turbulent, and far more
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dangerous, than we experience today.
Conflicts of politics and religion were
reflected in music and the life of composers
like Byrd and Philips and could bring death
or exile to some. A hundred years later, this
nation had achieved a sort of stability and
renewed its enthusiasm for music and
culture. Using recorded examples and live
performance Steven Devine, Kate Semmens
and Colin Booth will trace the changes Concert Two Harpsichords and
during the 17th century bringing by the Kate Semmens
turn of the new century under Queen Sunday 1 March 2.30pm
Anne, a more democratic enjoyment of Tickets £16 (under 18s £8)
music in the completely new style of Three Ways to Paint an Abstract Includes tea or coffee during the interval
masters like Purcell and Croft. The course Pre-booked carvery lunch available £18
will culminate in a Sunday afternoon Saturday 29 February
Fee: £56 Harpsichordists Steven Devine and Colin
concert, featuring soprano with two Booth are joined by soprano Kate
harpsichords. Tutors: Colin Booth, “What does it mean, jellybean?... Even if I
knew, I could only know what I thought it Semmens in a journey through the music
Steven Devine and Kate Semmens of 17th century England.
meant.” John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Abstract art may be over one hundred Keyboard pieces, duos and songs from the
years old as a genre, but it can still baffle court of Elizabeth I form a startling contrast
and provoke as much as it intrigues and with the new style espoused by Purcell and
excites. This one-day, practical course in his contemporaries after the Restoration of
acrylics demystifies the art form by looking Charles II in 1660.
at the fundamentals of all painting from an By the time of the reign of Queen Anne, an
art historical perspective, before guiding even more modern style was forming,
participants through the creation of three sowing the seeds of a further evolution in
very different abstract works. Suitable for music in the early part of the new 18th
all abilities and attitudes (from doubters to century.
the plain curious), this course is for anyone Our concert will feature stunning highlights
who wishes to gain more confidence with of English music, from the Renaissance to
their colours as well as their brushwork. the Baroque.
Images of Rome: Tutor: David Chandler
The Grand Tour and After
Saturday 29 February Conferences
Fee: £56
Although we may visit Rome to make
contact with the remains of ancient Roman
civilisation, the Rome that we see is very
much a product of artistic and aesthetic
ideas of the last 200 years. The course will
explore how the remains of the ancient and
medieval past have been modified, adapted
and restored, to create the Rome we see
today. Tutor: Richard Henderson
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Constructing the Elizabethan
ideal and its legacy
Thursday 5 March
Fee: £33
Morning session with three-course lunch
During this session we will examine how
Elizabeth I strove to refine the Tudor
propaganda machine even further through
employing some of the most celebrated and
accomplished artists of her time, including
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Nicholas Hilliard, Levina Teerlinc and
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. This she
did through a vast range of media, including
The Life and Death portraiture, print, miniature, coinage, the
of a Love Affair decorative arts, architecture, literature and Music, Masonry and Manuscripts:
music, and by employing the most An Inspirational Journey Through
DISCOUNT OF 10% for New Tutor sophisticated of allegorical devices.
introduction if booked by 31 March 2020 Through these means Elizabeth sought Medieval England with Mark
Monday 2 March to place 'Brand Tudor' centre-stage during a Cottle
Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three - period of religious and political uncertainty, Friday 6 March 1.00pm
course lunch) cementing her own status as Supreme Tickets £25 (three-course lunch &
This is the fifth session in our Sylvia Plath Governor over her nation and an lecture)
and Ted Hughes Programme. This week embryonic empire, as well as a key player The music, architecture and manuscript
students will look at Ariel by Sylvia Plath in international diplomacy and war. The illumination of medieval England are among
and Sam by Ted Hughes. session will conclude by examining how this the greatest achievements of any period
Tutor: Nims Gribler 'brand' has endured and been reinvented in of English cultural history. The aim of the
subsequent centuries. Includes lecture is to open a window onto this
BOOK CLUB
comprehensive handouts. remarkable world to capture something
Tutor: Joanna Cobb of the essence of its religion and secular
music, its Romanesque and Gothic
with Elizabeth Rapp cathedrals and its equally rich span of
GROUP BOOKINGS manuscript illumination, both sacred and
profane. Essentially inspirational and
aspirational, these are forms of artistic
With up to 40 bedrooms available, endeavour which can touch the sublime.
we welcome groups looking to stay All-comers welcome.
somewhere special.
Tuesday 3 March
For further details contact the Watercolour – The
Fee: £25 (includes coffee and three Importance of Tone in Painting
Conference Team at
course lunch) Lunch Friday 6 – Lunch Sunday 8 March
conferences@somerset.gov.uk
For this month’s Book Club, we will be Fees (£): s 437 l 380 H 380 u 268
discussing The Salt Path by Raynor Winn – If you know the basics of washes, colour
published by Penguin. and mixing and want to take the next steps
this course is designed for intermediate
students and will deal with the fascinating
subject of tone. We will examine if tone is
more important than colour and, if so, why.
This is a chance to explore this subject
using traditional watercolour techniques
and improve your observational skills. Learn
how to adapt and improve subject matter
to create more exciting paintings.
Tutor: Clare DuVergier
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