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SUMMARY:The Colour Blue - From paradise to poison
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/test-monthly-lecture-event/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:From Errol Flynn to Bottles of Gin: Literary Portraits and their Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/writers-portraits/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:Henry VIII and the Field of the Cloth of Gold
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/henry-viii-and-the-field-of-the-cloth-of-gold/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:Opera : The melting pot of culture
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/opera-the-melting-pot-of-culture/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:Picasso`s Guernica
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/picassos-guernica/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:The art of the cartoonist
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-art-of-the-cartoonist/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:The British Army in India – an unofficial view
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-british-army-in-india-an-unofficial-view/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:The subtle science and exact art of colour in English Garden Design
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-subtle-science-and-exact-art-of-colour-in-english-garden-design-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:Most Popular Pictures in British Collections
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/most-popular-pictures-in-british-collections/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220609T113000
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SUMMARY:Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/william-beckford-1760-1844-genius-romantic-notoriety/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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SUMMARY:Peggy Guggenheim
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/peggy-guggenheim-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220407T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220407T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210703T062326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T122438Z
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SUMMARY:Bloomsbury Group: The Art of Vanessa Bell
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/bloomsbury-group-the-art-of-vanessa-bell-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220303T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210703T060657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T122355Z
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SUMMARY:The Manufactured Woman: The Story of Pandora and how she has inspired generations of artists to imagine how and why women came into the world
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-manufactured-woman-the-story-of-pandora-and-how-she-has-inspired-generations-of-artists-to-imagine-how-and-why-women-came-into-the-world/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220203T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220203T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210703T055648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T194547Z
UID:8364-1643887800-1643891400@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Mystery of Holbein’s Ambassadors
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-mystery-of-holbeins-ambassadors-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220106T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220106T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210702T085156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T104508Z
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SUMMARY:In the Kingdom of the Sweets
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/in-the-kingdom-of-the-sweets-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211202T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211202T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210628T133110Z
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SUMMARY:Repton and the Picturesque
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/repton-and-the-picturesque-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211104T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211104T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210628T091035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T122052Z
UID:8466-1636025400-1636029000@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:Moorish Architecture – the legacy of a vanished kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/moorish-architecture-the-legacy-of-a-vanished-kingdom/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211007T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211007T223000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20210628T124414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T122149Z
UID:8358-1633606200-1633645800@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Age of Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-age-of-jazz-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210701T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210701T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20200408T183214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T165141Z
UID:7128-1625139000-1625142600@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:A Design Evolution: Jewellery and Metalwork 1850-1940
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/a-design-evolution-jewellery-and-metalwork-1850-1940/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210603T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210603T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20200408T182558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T165513Z
UID:7126-1622719800-1622723400@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Cultral Heritage of the Huguenots
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-cultral-heritage-of-the-huguenots/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210506T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210506T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20200108T160824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T170400Z
UID:6522-1620300600-1620304200@theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Scottish Colourists
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-scottish-colourists/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T123000
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SUMMARY:The World in a Grain of Sand: William Blake
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-world-in-a-grain-of-sand-william-blake/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200305T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200305T123000
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SUMMARY:Pierre Bonnard: The Old Master of Modern Art?
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/pierre-bonnard-the-old-master-of-modern-art/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200206T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200206T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20191208T170402Z
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SUMMARY:FABER & FABER: 90 years of excellence in cover design
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/faber-faber-90-years-of-excellence-in-cover-design/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200109T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200109T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20190603T093652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T164051Z
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SUMMARY:Rebuilding Ypres
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/rebuilding-ypres/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191205T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191205T123000
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SUMMARY:The Origins of our English Christmas
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/the-origins-of-our-english-christmas/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191107T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191107T123000
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SUMMARY:Velázquez - 'The Great Magician of Art'
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/2019-11-07/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191003T123000
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SUMMARY:Girls Behaving Badly: Jane Austen's Wicked Women
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/girls-behaving-badly-jane-austens-wicked-women/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190704T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190704T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20180412T151314Z
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SUMMARY:Gilded Glories - the fascinating history of gilded decoration
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/gilded-glories-the-fascinating-history-of-gilded-decoration/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190606T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190606T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T115312
CREATED:20180630T202156Z
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SUMMARY:Women behind the Lens
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Description\n\n	Deep blue is the most popular colour in the world.  Perhaps it is redolent of velvety night skies and starry Summer evenings. It is thought to symbolize strength and wisdom. It has always stood for the cosmos and the Virgin Mary\, as a colour of the intellect and spiritual healing and was the colour of heaven for the Ancient Egyptians. This colour\, made from ground-down lapis lazuli that travelled over the Silk Route  from Afghanistan to Florence was more precious than gold.  On the great altarpieces it came to symbolize the wisdom of God. But in the search for a cheaper blue\, an entirely artificial chemical compound led to a deeply sinister result. Fashionable though it was\, Prussian Blue\, used in the Prussian court and in fashionable portraiture was the same chemical compound as the deadly poison – cyanide. Prussic acid was a key ingredient of Zyklon B\, the gas used in the extermination camps. Finally\, there is a return to the glories of ultramarine in the stained glass windows of Chagall. \n\n\n\n	\n\nLecturer: Hilary Guise\nHilary Hope Guise is Director of Art History for Florida State University on the London Campus. She has also taught courses for universities in North Carolina\, Montana\, Aix-en-Provence\, and Cambridge University. She was an invited Guest Speaker in Classics at the International MENSA conference also held in Cambridge.   She has toured widely in the USA as Evelyn Wrench Speaker for the English-Speaking Union of America\, and lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.   She tours regularly for The Arts Societies around the UK and Europe\, and has been as far as New Zealand on the Australasia circuit. She returns regularly to her home city of Cape Town to lecture at the University of Cape Town Summer School.  She has post-graduate degrees in Classics as well as in Fine Art\, and combines a passionate love of Classical Greek culture\, with a life-long career in the visual arts as a practising artist. \nHer artwork can be seen on her website: www.hilaryguise.com through which you can also send a message.
URL:https://theartssocietyblackmorevale.org.uk/event/women-behind-the-lens-2/
LOCATION:Stalbridge Hall\, Stalbridge Hall\, Lower Road\, Stalbridge\, Sturminster Newton\, Dorset\, DT10 2NF\, United Kingdom.
CATEGORIES:Monthly Lecture
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