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  Tutor:  Tim Stimson Later Pre-Raphaelite pictures proved to be the perfect vehicle for the dreams and aspirations of Victorian society.  This course will investigate the attitudes to women, men, and relationships through key preoccupations which emerged at the end of the 19th century. For…

Please join us for a Study Day with Joyce Simpson at Parcevall Hall to explore themes of renewal, spiritual friendship and mission in the life journeys of John Newton, William Cowper, and William Wilberforce. A central focus will be the Olney Hymns (1779), the fruit…

Tutor:  Mary Tyers   Ensemble playing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, this workshop is aimed at moderate to good adult players who ideally offer two instruments and are able to swap between them.  You should have the ability to hold your own part in…

  Our Open Quiet Days this year are being led by Cathy Davie.  Cathy is a spiritual director, following roles as a town planner, teacher, mother, and clergy spouse. Her facilitation skills include writing materials and teaching spirituality in schools and for lay readers. Through…

  Tutor:  Dr Michael Ward C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia are among his most popular works, but they have often been dismissed as carelessly written, having little imaginative logic and with Biblical themes that blow hot and cold.  Michael Ward shows that Lewis secretly structured…

Tutor:  Keely Hodgson   Combine singing in harmony with rest, nurture and inspiration.  No previous singing experience, or the ability to read music, is required. A varied repertoire of songs and rounds are sensitively taught using call and response. Keely Hodgson has worked as a…

Tutor:  Hugh Parry   The Shakespeare Sonnets remain one of the peaks of poetic achievement.  Within their apparently identical and restrictive packaging, they are elegant, witty, raw, ruminative, rousing – sometimes all at once.  What do they have to say, and how do they get…

  This year we are celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the birth of Sir William Milner. Enjoy the pick of Sir William’s 78s introduced and described by Hugh Parry, aka the Sheik of Shellac.  We will hear music from the 1920s to the 1940s played…