Lectures for 2010.

Thursday 30th Sept. Starts 7.30pm, followed by drinks.

‘Collecting in the field’

Chris Boylan gives a colourful and in depth lecture on the challenges of collecting

tribal art in the depths of Papua New Guinea.

Chris has spent his life  collecting and travelling to the furthest corners of this amazing region.His experiences of sourcing highland shields should make this lecture well worth the visit. 

 

 

 

Below is the 2009 Lecture list.

                                           ‘DINKA’  – Book Launch

- 7pm 23 September

Limited edition book by Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith celebrating

the great Dinka pastoralists of Southern Sudan photographed over a thirty

year period first European book launch,slide presentation and book signing

by the authors

”Magnificent….A monument of the sucessful colloration of the photographers,

researchers,publishers and printers”

John Reader,Los Angeles Times Book Review

 

- 7pm 24 September

‘THE MOTHER OF ALL MUSIC’

David Bradnum,musican/composer will give a musical talk

and slide presentation on his experiences of building a grass

 recording studio in Surmaland,one of the remotest regions

of Africa where man and music began

 

ALL LECTURES ARE FREE ADMISSION