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Reading Novels - The Joys Of Double-dipping
Of the thousands of novels published every year very few, if any, will go on tobecome classics, not many will reach great critical acclaim, buy some few will demand to be read and then re-read. In this course we will look at some of those which make this demand on us and try to find out just why it is that we aredrawn to read them again and again....
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Sydney Discovery Walks - Ultimate Ultimo Walk
Meet outside the Southern Entrance of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour. An early 19th century court case, a land grant and a joke led to an exciting inner-city suburb changing from cornfields and cow paddocks to Sydney’s industrial heart. Today it is a neighbourhood of modern city living, culture, entertainment and education...
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Down Memory Lane: Famous Poems We Knew and Loved
We all have snippets of poetry in our minds, whether its “Tyger, tyger burning bright ..”, or “shall I compare thee to a summer's day ..”, , but not all of us know the whole poems from which famous lines come, who write them, or what their proper context is. This entertaining course presents a multitude of excerpts from famous, well-loved poems and...
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Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media
This class will show you how to employ a range of traditional artist’s materials in combination with one another. Improve your drawing skills while also discovering and analysing the possibilities these materials offer an artistic practice, both individually and in unison. Materials studied will include chalk pencils, pen and ink, pen and wash,...
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Intermediate Drawing
Drawing can be an intriguing way of passing time or a major obsession and way of life. Develop and expand on your skills in a variety of techniques and media such as pastel, charcoal and ink. Explore skills such as texture, tone and composition. We all have artistic ability – the only way to find out what kind we have is to ‘have a go’. Cost of...
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Drawing Portraits
A taster session forming part of NSW Seniors Festival 2020. All materials included....
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Drawing Landscapes
A taster session forming part of NSW Seniors Festival 2020. All materials included....
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The Middle East, Past and Present
To even begin to understand the turmoil in the Middle East today – the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Israel/Palestine, and elsewhere – we need to know more than most of us do about its geography and its violent history. We also need to understand how much the peoples of the Middle East have in common, including their concerns for land and...
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Eating Their Words: The Literature Of Food
When we talk about food, we don’t just talk about supplying our bodies with food. Instead, we end up talking about some of our deepest emotions, closest relationships and greatest pleasures-and dislikes. This discussion group uses the literature of food to explore different “flavours” of food writing, and then we’ll talk about these contrasting...
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Partners in Pre-Eminence
This course will look at couples who made their mark in their time focusing particularly on what they achieved in their years together. The couples whose lives we will cover are: Robert Schumann, German composer, and his wife Clara, pianist; Marie Curie, Polish radio-activity researcher, and her husband Pierre, French physicist; Sidney Webb (Baron...
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