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.
What does our DNA tell us about who we really are? What does it explain to us about our personal and collective identities and the culture and society we really come from? Join us for a reflection on life after doing a DNA test and an exploration of the questions and thoughts it raises about where we come from.
Join us to explore the celebratory history and purpose of a Caribbean Carnival to understand its combination of Trinidadian roots, African traditions and Jamaican sound system culture and how it came to symbolise freedom in the face of oppression for the Afro Caribbean community in West London's Notting Hill carnival.
Have you ever considered who decides what is cool, appealing, fashionable, undesirable, threatening or healthy? We consume the media for knowledge and entertainment but do we ever stop and think how that consumption shapes what we get to know and like and what we don't? Join Samantha Allen to explore notions of beauty, heritage and 'the savage' to understand why we often think the way we do.
In this talk we discuss the history of the Dandy, its relevance to fashion, arts, drag and theatre today and how we might learn from this playful archetype to further embody our own inner Dandy.
Join us as we explore the occult subcultures of the fin de siecle and uncover their stories. We will talk about their symbolism and rituals in the context of historical coloniality and militarism.
We will look at artists who use their art to hold a mirror to society and expose problems or issues around them. I'm going to bring in themes like Feminism, Black lives matter etc.
