Hello All,
We have details of lectures during the coming two months and we are also pleased to include information on the Berwick Literary Festival which will be presented online this year.
BEA is looking for a new treasurer and would love to hear from you if you are interested in this voluntary role. For a chat about what might be involved please contact Cian at berwickea@gmail.com.
If you have an interest in science and would like to help with programming science lectures for BEA please get in touch at berwickea@gmail.com . This role would involve contacting lecturers, working out the content of a course with them, and being lead volunteer in any course you set up. While we are working on Zoom, part of your responsibility would be hosting the sessions online.
BEA PROGRAMME
The following online lectures and courses for August and September are available for booking on Eventbrite:
AUGUST
4th August-27th August: We continue with 'Andean Civilisations'. Individual sessions are bookable at £4 each and the course runs twice weekly on a Tuesday and Thursday until 27th August. This course is part of a series on Ancient Civilisations of the Americas with Prof Maria Chester.
24th August: Join us for a two hour session (including a 15 min break) with Maurice Ward, who will lead a talk on the topic 'Advancing Technology: Good or Bad'. The session will investigate four possible scenarios for the effect of technology upon society which have been developed by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and Arup. Full details of the interesting content of the talk are available on the booking page on Eventbrite. This event is free, but please register on Eventbrite to receive an invitation to attend the Zoom session.
SEPTEMBER
1st Sept: Prof Maria Chester presents a lecture designed to enhance the experience of 'The Glasgow Boys and Girls' exhibition at the Granary Gallery, Berwick (anticipated to open later this year). 'Japonisme: The Presence of Japan in Western Art' explores the influence of the remote and unknown culture of Japan on Western art in the 19th Century. The event is at 4pm, tickets £3.
Maria's lecture will complement the next online art workshop with Gill Walton, which will look at the influence of Japan on the work of artists George Henry and Edward Hornel who were highly impressed by the aesthetics, traditions, painting techniques and the advanced photography they found on their travels to Japan. Details of the workshop will be announced in August and will give you an opportunity to create a portrait or kimono costumed figure in their style working from photographs. Hornel often worked in his Kirkudbright Studio from photographs and you may want to prepare for the workshop by attending a Zoom lecture on Hornel and the use of photography in his art on 27th August. This is organised by The City Art Centre in Edinburgh and presented by Ben Ross. The Gallery will also be holding an exhibition of Hornel's work 7th Nov 2020 - 14th March 2021. The lecture is free but ticketed and you can book your invitation to the event here: E.A Hornel From Camera to Canvas
10th Sept and 1st Oct: BEA is delighted to be working with Catherine Weetman MSc, FCILT, FRSA, author of the award-winning book, A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains (published by Kogan Page). Catherine will be presenting 2 one-hour talks on how the idea of the circular economy can be used to help create a fairer, more sustainable future. 'The Circular Economy: How To Make our Lives More Sustainable' will be in two sessions via Zoom on Thursday 10th September & Thursday 1st October, at 12.30pm. Both events are free but ticketed. Space is limited, so early booking is advised.
- In the first session, Catherine will explain how in a circular economy, products and their materials are kept in circulation for longer by reusing, remaking, and eventually recycling, meaning that we get more value out of them.
- The second session will look at how circular approaches are better for people, planet, and prosperity. Maurice Ward MSc, FRSA, will bring the discussion to an end by looking at what we are doing and what we can do in Berwick. The event will be of general interest, and should also appeal to anyone with a particular concern for sustainability, or how the post-Covid-19 world could (and should) look. No prior technical knowledge is required.
Please book on Eventbrite or by going to our website www.berwickea.co.uk
We are planning some more lectures relating to the Glasgow Boys & Girls with Prof Maria Chester in September and further details of these will be available on Eventbrite soon:
- 8th Sept: 'John Lavery, an Edwardian Portraitist and a Glasgow Boy'
- 15th and 17th Sept: 'Glasgow Boys and the Cockburnspath Connection Parts 1&2'
- 22nd Sept: 'The Glasgow Style and the Mackintoshes'
LOCAL INTEREST
Berwick Literary Festival’s seventh season will go live online 15th-18th October 2020. Registration for all of the events opens on 14 September and can be booked via the website berwickliteraryfestival.com
In a press release, festival chair, Michael Gallico says: ‘Since a ‘normal’ festival is not practical this year, it’s vital that we keep Berwick in festival-goers’ minds. We’ve been developing a virtual festival and are aiming to create an accessible and dynamic online programme. The overarching aim of the Festival is to entertain, engage and provoke debate across age ranges'. You can read the rest of the press release here: Literary Festival press release
Three of the events at the festival will be presented in association with BEA and more details to come next month.
Very Best Wishes
Andrea Butler
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