The Arts Society Farnham

10/04/2025

Lecture Tuesday 15th April 2025 at The Maltings, Farnham 10.30am - 11.30am
BEDE AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING-THE 8TH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE by Michelle Brown
Visitors welcome £7.00 at the door.
The lecture explores how a small boy who entered a monastery in Anglo-Saxon England in 680 became one of the greatest thinkers of the post-Roman world.

19/02/2025

LECTURE at The Maltings, Farnham Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 10.30am. Non members welcome - £7.00 entry at door.
A History of Japanese Woodcut
Carol Wilhide Justin
Ukiyo-e, or ‘Pictures of the Floating World’, executed in woodcut, was the dominant, popular Japanese art form between the 17th and 19th centuries. This historical overview beginning with the introduction of the woodcut to Japan in 770 introduces the cultural and political background, key artists, imagery and innovations that led to the ukiyo-e period, and goes on to explore the cultural and creative cross-fertilization that such prints inspired when they first arrived in the West in the 1880s, causing an immediate sensation. The influence of ukiyo-e can be particularly seen in the work of the Impressionist artists, and later through the Crown Point Press.

Following a residency in Japan, where the lecturer learned the mokuhanga technique from Japanese sensei, her own artistic practice has been informed by a similar cross-cultural sensibility.

Image The Great Wave - Hokusai Met Museum Public Domain

06/12/2024

Lecture at The Maltings, Farnham
Tuesday 17th December 2024 - 10.30 am - 11.30am. Non members welcome £7 at the door. Mince pies and wine afterwards.🎄🎄
CHRISTMAS, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE AND THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF FRANK CAPRA by Colin Shindler.
The lecture considers the films of one of America’s greatest film makers within the historical context of Jeffersonian democracy. Although Capra’s films were mostly set in his contemporary America, the lecture looks at the reasons why that rural idyll, so foreign to the growth of a modern urban country, resonated so powerfully with audiences during the Great Depression.

04/11/2024

If you haven’t yet been to the National Gallery to see the Van Gogh Poets and Lovers exhibition, it’s a must see. So many wonderful works some you will know well, others perhaps not but such a great exhibition.

29/10/2024

Lecture - 19th November 2024 The Maltings, Farmham
10.30am - 11.30am Non members welcome £7 at the door. THE ORIGINS OF JAZZ by Catherine Tackley
Illustrated with photographs and music examples, Catherine explores how jazz emerged in the early 20th century and answers questions such as 'who invented jazz?' and 'where does the word 'jazz' come from?' Then she focuses on the origins of jazz in Britain, showing how it evolved in. response to the particular musical and cultural circumstances of the time.

29/10/2024

Our Arts Volunteering Young Arts have been busy working with school children making lanterns for the upcoming Lantern festival in Farnham on 31st October 2024 organised as part of Farnham Town October Craft festival.

31/05/2024

Arts Volunteering Farnham
Our Young Arts committee have worked with our local schools and students on a photography exhibition of springtime photos. Available to view at the Farnham Library until 8th June when there will be a prize giving at 10am.

30/05/2024

Lecture -Tuesday 18th June 2024
JOAQUIN SOROLLA The Master of Light
By Arantxa Sardina.
At The Maltings, Farnham
10.30am to 11.30am. Visitors welcome. £7 at the door.
He captured the sparkling beaches and energy of Spanish life so beautifully. ​ Museo Sorolla, Madrid

27/04/2024

Jazz at the Abbey

24/04/2024

Lecture on Tuesday 21st May 2024 at The Maltings, Farnham 10.30 am - 12.30 am. Non members welcome £7 entrance.
A CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORY - The Royal Game of UR by Irving Finkel.

24/04/2024

Look out for our 18th June lecture on Joaquin Sorolla at The Maltings Farnham

Street in Granada
Joaquín Sorolla

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