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Art Appreciation: Modern Icons: Artworks that Disrupted the 20th and 21st Centuries
This course delves into the transformative impact of select 20th-century artworks that have revolutionized the trajectory of modern art. By examining pivotal pieces and their innovative approaches, students will uncover the reasons these works have garnered acclaim and reshaped artistic norms. Through critical analysis and contextual exploration, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and technological factors that contributed to these artworks' groundbreaking status. The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the artistic movements, influential artists, and key masterpieces that have defined and redefined the landscape of modern art, highlighting their enduring legacy and significance.
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Dates:Fri 08/11/2024 -
Fri 13/12/2024Times:2:00pm - 4:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:Blue Beetle Room (London)
Hendon Lane
Finchley
London
N3 1TRTutor:Chantal CondronCourse code:Q00017292How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢60.00
History: Queer History - An Introduction
This short course will take you through a whistlestop tour of places ranging from Victorian Britain to ancient Greece to give a snapshot of just a few of the attitudes to sex, sexuality and gender that have existed across centuries and cultures. We will see how such issues relate to power, politics and religion and how they are affected by social change. You will be able to explore the lives and ideas of queer people in past centuries through diaries, newspaper reports and court records. Throughout the course, we will explore what it means to 鈥渜ueer鈥 history 鈥 and how a queer approach to history can affect our attitudes today.
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Dates:Mon 11/11/2024 -
Mon 09/12/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Symon HillCourse code:Q00017285How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:4 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢37.00
History: How Renaissance Art Interpreted Christmas
This five week course will explore the art of the Renaissance and its depiction of the Nativity and Epiphany. We will explore a number of artists but our principal focus will be on works by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Breughal and Caravaggio. Each artist鈥檚 work will be well illustrated by reproductions on Canvas, allowing you to view the works under discussion.
The course will appeal to all those with an interest in the Renaissance and art more generally, and will provide context and interpretations of each major work under discussion.
There will be ample opportunity for you to exercise your own interpretations and views in what will be lively and informative sessions.
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Dates:Tue 12/11/2024 -
Tue 10/12/2024Times:2:00pm - 4:00pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Stephen SmithCourse code:Q00019615How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢37.00
History: Nottingham's Inner Suburbs
Nottingham became a City in 1877. It was a hugely significant milestone in its development but how did the city鈥檚 growth impact surrounding areas, the Inner Suburbs? This course will explore how once green fields and tiny hamlets were transformed into industrial suburbs that grew into their own bustling communities, with distinctive characters and personalities. How did Forest Fields come into existence? What was the impact of the 20th century on Hyson Green? How did Radford evolve into an industrial community? What created these new communities and how do their landscapes reflect their histories?
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Dates:Wed 13/11/2024 -
Wed 04/12/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:The Grange Community Centre (Radcliffe-o
Vicarage Lane
Radcliffe-on-Trent
NG12 2FBTutor:Christopher WeirCourse code:Q00016046How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢33.60
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History: How we used to Live 鈥 Social Housing
This course will give you an outline of the history of social housing in Britain over the last 200 years. Housing became a huge issue as a result of the Industrial Revolution as Britain鈥檚 industrial cities expanded and thousands of low-paid workers looked for somewhere to live. We will look at a range of 鈥榓nswers鈥 to this problem from cheap housing that rapidly turned into overcrowded slums to model villages built by some factory owners to house their workforce. Then we will explore the development of slum clearance and council housing schemes in the 20th century, before looking at possible causes and solutions for the current housing shortages.
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Dates:Wed 13/11/2024 -
Wed 04/12/2024Times:2:00pm - 4:00pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:St Olave's Church Hall (York)
Marygate Lane
York
YO30 7BJTutor:Katherine CroftCourse code:Q00018368How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢33.60
Healthy Living: Ways to Wellbeing: Self-Reflexology of the Hands and Feet
Join a group of like-minded people and explore the fascinating subject of reflexology for pain relief. On this course you will learn how you can help alleviate the symptoms of pain and discomfort by using age old techniques that are found on both the hands and the feet. Reflexology is a form of self- massage therapy that focuses on applying pressure over points that directly correlate to all areas of the body. This practice is purported to have a wide range of health benefits and has been cited as being beneficial for those suffering from both chronic and acute pain. Pain can be physical, psychological, pharmacological and procedural. Many individuals across the world manage pain by using a wide range of techniques, this course is very much designed to show people how they can help themselves and loved one鈥檚 if in a caring role.
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Dates:Wed 13/11/2024 -
Wed 18/12/2024Times:12:00pm - 2:00pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Georgia DanielCourse code:Q00017018How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢37.00
History: Women of Astronomy and Space
Join us to take a look at the amazing yet unsung women of astronomy and space who were pioneers but often overlooked or ignored. From ancient times to the modern era it is time to shine a light on their amazing achievements. From Aganice of Thessaly, a Greek astronomer of the 2nd or 1st century BC, Hypatia of Alexandria 370 鈥 450 AD, Elisabeth Hevelius (17th century), Caroline Herschel (18th Century) to 鈥楶ickerings Women鈥 at Harvard and into the modern age of spaceflight with such luminaries as Annie Easley, Katherine Johnson, Astronauts Sally Ride and pioneering Mae Jemison amongst many others.
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Dates:Sat 16/11/2024 -
Sat 16/11/2024Times:2:00pm - 4:30pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:The Minster (Grimsby)
St James Square
Grimsby
DN31 1EPTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00017920How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢15.00
Film & Media: A Short History of Italian Cinema
Full of iconic moments, stories that capture everyday and life with great authenticity, Italian cinema has produced film-makers of singular vision and style who have pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling and film form. This course will introduce you to a national cinema that has made a unique contribution to world cinema
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Dates:Mon 18/11/2024 -
Mon 16/12/2024Times:7:00pm - 9:00pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Ruth MulandiCourse code:Q00017438How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:0 places remainingStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to 拢37.00
Art Appreciation: Portraits through the Ages
The portrait has flourished as an art form from the ancient world to the present day and this innovative course will explore its continuing popularity. We shall study not only the painted face and figure but a variety of formats and formulae, from statuary to pendant medals and miniatures, and study artists as diverse as Holbein, Titian, Gainsborough, Singer Sargent and Francis Bacon. We include a reflection on the place of the photograph in this history of portraiture.
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Dates:Fri 22/11/2024 -
Fri 22/11/2024Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:The Ambrose Allen Centre (Tadley)
2 Franklin Avenue
Tadley
RG26 4ETTutor:Guest SpeakerCourse code:Q00017150How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:3 places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to 拢25.20
History: Jesus as a Historical Figure - What can we know?
A chance to ask historical questions about the most famous individual in history. Did Jesus even exist? What historical sources do we have about him? Are the gospels reliable? What was Jesus鈥 attitude to the Roman Empire? Why was he crucified? On this introductory course, you will find out what historians say about Jesus 鈥 from the issues on which most scholars agree to those on which they are bitterly divided. You will have chance to apply historical scrutiny to some early texts about Jesus 鈥 including from the New Testament 鈥 and to draw your own conclusions about what we can know and whether it matters. This course is open to people of any religion and none.
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Dates:Sat 23/11/2024 -
Sat 23/11/2024Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:Reading International Solidarity Centre
35-39 London Street
Reading
RG1 4PSTutor:Symon HillCourse code:Q00017286How you'll learn:In venueStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to 拢25.20