Dear Members and Friends,
Whilst we are all looking forward to a long, warm summer this email is to remind you that KLSAS will be back in October to warm your winter evenings.
Our meetings will take place on Tuesday evenings in our new home, the Ballroom of the Duke’s Head Hotel on the Tuesday Market Place in King’s Lynn. Free parking is available in the hotel’s carpark on a first come, first served basis. The doors will open at 7pm and a full bar as well as tea and coffee will be available throughout the evening. The meetings will start at 7.30pm.
We are not forgetting that some members will not be able to attend in person whether for reasons of distance, illness or mobility: all the meetings will be shown simultaneously via Zoom. However they will not be recorded so you do have to reserve the dates in your diary in order to watch live.
And here is the programme:
Tuesday 11th October: AGM, immediately followed by
‘Artists Painting Themselves’ by Hugh Belsey, former Director of Gainsborough’s House.
Tuesday 1st November:
‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ by Ray Simmons, former Principal Trumpet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tuesday 15th November:
‘Bringing the Light’ by Professor Bill Jones, Professor of Materials Chemistry, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Tuesday 6th December:
‘The Teaching of Poetry’ by Lachlan Mackinnon, Poet and former Head of English, Winchester.
Tuesday 17th January 2023:
‘Dinosaurs — In and Out of Africa’ by Paul Barrett, Merit Researcher, Natural History Museum.
Tuesday 31st January 2023:
‘What Matters in Jane Austen?’ by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Professor of English, University College London.
Tuesday 28th February 2023:
‘A Lab of One’s Own — Science and Suffrage in the First World War’ by Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Tuesday 14th March 2023:
‘The Art of Portrait Photography’ by Julia Hedgecoe, portrait photographer and exhibitor at the National Portrait Gallery.
Tuesday 28th March 2023:
‘Harding’s Pits Doorstep Green, Creating an Urban Common’ by Rick Morrish, Director of Harding’s Pits Community Association Ltd.
I hope you will agree that this is a varied programme with extremely well qualified speakers. Please note the dates in your diary — you would hate to miss these evenings.
Papers for the AGM will be circulated in September, I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 11th October,
Have the very best summer you can possibly manage,
Sherie
Sherie Naidoo, Chairman, King’s Lynn Society of Arts and Sciences.
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