http://www.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx Events en-gb @copyright Thanet District Council http://www.thanet.gov.uk/advice__benefits/help_using_this_website/RSS_Feeds.aspx 15 http://www.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx http://iweb/thanetgov/images/TDC_logo_2009.png Angela Gill, the assistant curator of the museum at Quex, Birchington, brings us uptodate with recent developments and will also discuss the furnishings of Quex House. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=554 Cantate & La Chorale Le Renouveau in Concert, St. Laurence Church, High Street St. Lawrence, Ramsgate. 7.30 p.m. Tickets £5 from (01843) 592478 http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=575 Thanet Council's 'Sport Matters' team and Sainsbury's Thanet invite you to Marlowe Academy for The Thanet Mile as part of the national 'Sport Relief' Campaign Options include 1, 3 or 6 miles. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=567 This will be a day's outing by coach to these two beautiful English Heritage properties. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=556 meeting 7.30pm http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=290 Scout & Guide Show http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=434 This market coincides with another planned Easter event for the Old Town. Bookings are now being taken for the spring/summer markets. This year they take place on Easter Saturday followed by the last Saturday in May, June, July, August and September. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=566 This will be an account of London's Railways and Underground Stations. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=557 Beach Safety and Rookie Lifeguarding Training: £10 per person: This exciting new programme teaches children to acknowledge the importance of their local beach environment and how to enjoy the sea safely and responsibly. With Thanet being surrounded 2/3 by water it is vital that we know what we can do if some gets into trouble and who and how we could call for help. The programme also includes: Personal safety Understanding the sea i.e. rips, currents, tides etc The role of the lifeguards The water safety code Flags, signs etc Basic first Aid Rookie lifeguard training - open water. After the course or at least 6 sessions attended the young person will receive a certificate of attendance and skills attained. Dates and times as follows: MAY: 3rd 4.30 – 6pm 5th 4.30 – 6pm 17th 4.30 – 6pm 19th 4.30 - 6pm 31st 1 – 3pm JUNE: 2nd 2 – 4pm 4th 3 – 5pm 14th 4.30 – 6pm 16th 4.30 – 6pm JULY: 5th 4.30 – 6pm 19th 4.30 – 6pm 26th 10 12noon 30th 12 – 2pm AUGUST: 2nd 4 – 6pm 8th 10 – 12 noon 11th 10 – 12 noon 16th 4 – 6pm 20th 10 – 12 noon 25th 10 – 12 noon 30th 2 – 4pm SEPTEMBER: 13th 4.30 – 6pm 29th 4.30 – 6pm http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=573 GIVE BLOOD http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=368 Monks - the dynamo behind a new European culture. Monasteries were the powerhouses of the new intellectual and artistic development in European culture from the 9th to 14th centuries. Reference will bw made to Canterbury and its cultural life. Our lecturer will be Patricia Wright BA ARICS http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=558 The East India Company grew to be the biggest commercial undertaking the world had ever seen, bringing tea, spices, silks, porcelain and other exotic commodities to grace the homes and lives of Britons from the closing reign of Elizabeth I to the early years of Queen Victoria. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=559 We shall begin our visit by travelling by coach to Speldhurst where we will have coffee and biscuits before visiting the Church of St Mary's. This Church has a number of famous Burne Jones and William Morris stained glass windows. We shall have a guided tour around the Church before continuing to Newenden where we shall lunch in the White Hart. The coach will then take us the very short journey on to Great Dixter where we will have plenty of time to look around the house and gardens before we journey home. The original house dates from the mid 15th century. It was acquired by Nathaniel Lloyd, a businessman who made his fortune in printing and advertising, in 1910. He commissioned Edwin Lutyens to restore the house and design the gardens. The restoration involved moving elements of another house in Kent to the site and combining the two houses to produce the larger building we see today.It is a romantic recreation of a medieval manor house, complete with great hall, parlour, solar and yeoman's hall. Although Nathaniel Lloyd and Lutyens began the garden at Great Dixter but it was Nathaniel's son Christopher Lloyd, a well known garden writer and television personality, who made it famous. The garden is in the arts and crafts stye, and features topiary, a long border, an orchard and a wild flower meadow. The planting is profuse, yet structured, and has featured many bold experiments of form, colour and combination. The relative lack of space is overcome by clever use of vistas and pespective to give the illusion of distance. The gardens lie all around the house and in making a circuit of the gardens you will have made a circuit of the house exterior. Each has good views of the other. The estate is now managed by executors, and the management of the garden is carried out by Christopher's head gardener, Fergus Garrett. There are refreshments and a shop available for your use at Great Dixter before we journey home. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=560 Murderers, Magicians, Madmen and Monarchs; Shakespeare through Artists Eyes. Thursday 16 September 2010 2 for 2.30pm Over the past three centuries or so,Shakespeare’s plays have provided artists with a wonderfully rich source of material. Painters have been inspired by extremes of passion, by sprites, ghosts and monsters, by the humanity of everyday characters and by the playwright's evocative language celebrating the fecundity of nature.This lecture will explore three of Shekespeare's plays - the two great tragedies, Macbeth and Hamlet, and the comedy Midsummer’s Night Dream. From the wide variety of artists who have illustrated these plays, this lecure will include works by Fuseli, Blake, Landseer and Millais.In order to bring the language to life, slides will be accompanied by recorded readings by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor. Our lecturer will be Vivien Heffernan BA. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=561 An evening performance to be arranged at either the Granville Theatre, Ramsgate, or Holy Trinity Church Broadstairs. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=540 The decline in the 20th. Century of many of the grandest stately homes led to them becoming an endangered species. The Day of Special Interest looks at how world famous ones such as Chatsworth and Knole survived and also many newer ones such as Castle Drogo by Lutyens and the glamorous Eltham Palace were rescued. Roger Mitchell studied History at Oxford and Fine Arts at Leeds and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel and study in the USA. Now he lectures widely for NADFAS and at Liverpool University. He organises and leads study tours and in addition tries to find time for research at Chatsworth. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=562 The Victorian obsession with death and the hereafter is reflected in elaborate gravestones and funeral customs but also in the paintings and literature of the period. Artists included are John Martin and works by John Everett Millais. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=564 Tom Errington describes the history and development of two castles on the Taff, their inhabitants and how a later owner together with architect William Burges turned them into fantastical dream palaces. Tom Errington is here on a return Visit to TADFAS. A practising artist and designer, he is an adviser on Art, Art History, and stained glass to the Diocese of Southwell and Coventry. He formerly worked in the theatre on the technical side and lectured at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He specialises in trompe-l’oeil paintings and murals. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=563 A favourite lecturer, Valerie Woodgate will tell how the limited information in the Gospels has expanded into a rich blend of legend and fact. The theme of Christmas, taking us from the Annunciation to the Adoration of the Shepherds and of the Three Kings has inspired some of the greatest and most moving works of art ever created. Valerie Woodgate was our guide on the recent TDFAS trip to Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She lectures in other major Galleries and on religious art in churches and cathedrals. She is on the teaching team at Dulwich Picture Gallery and is a script writer for the Living Paintings Trust for the blind and partially sighted. She is married to Frank Woodgate -also a favourite TDFAS Lecturer. http://temp.thanet.gov.uk/events.aspx?eventid=565