This day will enable you to really understand Ancient Egypt, her life, culture, and her history.

Venue: Grange Hall        

Time:10.30am to 3pm, with registration from 10am

This study day comprises three lectures:

1: A Way of Life and Afterlife: Egypt's Pyramids and Tombs (discover how they developed and their magnificence)

2: Temple Traditions and Divine Deities (find your way around the gods and these remarkable holy sites)

3: Egypt’s Ongoing Story (when Greece and Rome took over Egypt, the glory days continued, as they did, millennia after this great culture had faded away but rose again from the sands ...).

The cost is £45pp to include buffet lunch and refreshments.

For further information please contact Patty Temple: trentvalleyprogramme@theartssociety.org

At Grange Hall

The study day comprises three lectures, each exploring a textile and a road. We examine how textiles have changed the course of Central Asian history, politics  and a way of life.  We examine how textiles have changed the course of Central Asian history, politics  and a way of life. We also revel in the intoxicating designs, colours, and techniques  achieved with these three textiles, from breath-takingly intricate suzani embroidery  and robes fit for a Shah, to world-class carpets, cheerful shyrdyk felts and  diaphanous cotton, lighter than a spider’s web.  

Each lecture will also be embroidered with Chris’s own experience of living and working in the region for 15 years as he attempts to justify a rather bold assertion,  'that everything is about textiles'.