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  • Art Exhibition and Competition

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

      Many of you will be aware that we hold an exhibition of members' art. Our most recent and highly successful exhibition in 2016 saw the winners being entered into the Wessex Area ArtFest. NEW Invitation to Submit works of Art Our next Member's Exhibition is to take place on March 1st 2018 and all […]

  • Women Behind the Lens – This Lecture had to be cancelled due to snow It has been rescheduled for the 6th of June 2019.

    Go to the rescheduled lecture. The work of women photographers has often been neglected. This lecture examines the contribution of three outstanding British practitioners: Julia Margaret Cameron, a Victorian pioneer, Jane Brown, a brilliant portraitist and Fay Godwin, who excelled in landscape photography. This lecture will also explore the work of Annie Liebovitz and Dorothea […]

  • London’s Squares and Townhouses between the 17th and 19th Centuries

    The New Remembrance Hall Charlton, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom

    The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw many aristocratic landowners developing their London estates, building fine town mansions and laying out elegant squares and terraces, thus creating a fashionable West End. Inigo Jones’s Covent Garden Piazza, built in the 1630s for the 4th Earl of Bedford, was London’s first formally laid out architectural space, but it […]

  • A Photographic Odyssey: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition 1914-1916

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Frank Hurley’s photographs are a visual narrative, captured with great artistry, of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914-16 expedition to Antarctica and the epic story of survival which followed the loss of the Endurance. On Ernest Shackleton’s third Antarctic expedition in 1914, his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and eventually crushed in the pack ice. After camping for […]

  • Legend and Lustre: Jim Thompson and Thai Silk

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Jim Thompson arrived in Bangkok as a US army officer in 1945, fell in love with it and stayed. Captivated by the beauty of Thai silk, an ancient craft in decline, he resuscitated it and made it famous, creating costumes for films and embellishing his house, which today is a museum. An aesthete and art […]

  • I AM THE VERY MODEL: PARODIES OF VICTORIAN SOCIETY BY GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

    St. Mary's School Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom

    YOU ARE INVITED TO An Evening Celebration Wednesday 30th May 2018 I am the Very Model: Parodies of Victorian Society in Gilbert  and Sullivan. Lecture by Mr Peter Medhurst. Doors open at 6.15pm. Lecture at 6.45pm Followed by drinks and canapes until 8.30pm   Lecturer: Peter Medhurst – Gilbert and Sullivan etc. Peter appears in […]

    £18.00

  • A Message from our Chairman

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

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  • The Royal Academy 1768-2018

    Stalbridge Hall Stalbridge Hall, Lower Road, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, United Kingdom.

    Britain’s oldest fine arts institution will be celebrating its 250th Anniversary in 2018. The Royal Academy has an illustrious history that spans from the mid 18th century through to the 21st century.  We contemplate its past and review its various homes before settling on its current Mayfair location in Burlington House. This fully illustrated talk explores a […]