In this talk, we look at different learner types so that you can explore and understand your own learning styles. Combining the latest neuroscience and the speaker's years of teaching practice, this lecture aims to offer some basics of how we learn, remember and some key strategies for enhancing one's learning and memory.
This lecture looks at the work of two artists who explored these 'new' sexual expressions, Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix, alongside the work of sociologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the Institute of Sexology.
Join Samantha Allen to understand what ancestral trauma means for the British Caribbean community and how we can help to create spaces of safety and liberation in the workplace.
This talk will consider the formal qualities of photographs produced during the apartheid era in South Africa and the impact of such images in post-1994 museums, physical landscapes and public consciousness.
Every summer Japan celebrates a festival, Obon, to commemorate ancestors, whose spirits are believed to return to this world in order to visit their relatives. It is believed that memorial ceremonies not only help people to pay their respect to spirits of deceased relatives but also serve as healing rituals helping families and communities to process their grief and disturbing memories.
Focusing on the mysterious Canadian landscapes of Peter Doig's childhood and moving to Luc Tuymans's explorations of collective memory, we will explore this theme through specific painterly examples.
In collaboration with Book Club Bunch we are excited to announce our next poetry reading evening! Join us as we delve into literary works and enjoy masterpieces read out loud by amazing actors! In February we will focus on Memory and its impact on our identity and will discuss poems exploring this subject.
This lecture explores Moore's 'Shelter Sketchbook', the artist's feelings for his subjects and how, over time, the artist's intention was lost to suit a more heroic narrative.
We spend so much of our lives striving for success and are often petrified of failure. During this talk we will explore the concept of success and failure in Western society and discuss better, healthier guiding principles to a happy life that we should be embracing for 2023.
Coinciding with a major retrospective exhibition at The National Gallery in London, this talk will focus on one of the best-loved figurative painters of the 20th century - Lucian Freud.
