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August 2018
Recorder Players’ Workshop III
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…
Find out more »Open Quiet Day III
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…
Find out more »C S Lewis – Narnia and the Seven Heavens
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…
Find out more »September 2018
Heart & Soul Singing Retreat II
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…
Find out more »Literature Appreciation II – Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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…
Find out more »Sir William Milner’s Music Collection with Hugh Parry
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…
Find out more »October 2018
Autumn Rambling in Wharfedale
Join us for the last of our three walking breaks in the 2018 programme. There is a choice each day of either short or longer, more demanding walks with one of our two guides, returning to the welcome and warmth of Parcevall Hall. We…
Find out more »Sir William Milner’s Birthday: Friends’ Eucharist & Celebration
The Friends of Parcevall Hall come together for a time of worship and fellowship to celebrate the 125th birthday of Sir William Milner. Coffee and biscuits will be served from 10am. Spaces are available for this event. Friends are invited to contact the office…
Find out more »Open Quiet Day IV
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.…
Find out more »Recorder Players’ Workshop IV
Tutor: Margaret Shearing 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…
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