Residential Course Programme

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Course Tutor Date
Creative Music Weekend – Write That Tune Al Summers & Ray Bradfield Dinner Friday 18 – Lunch Sunday 20 May
Chinese Brush Painting Kaili Fu Dinner Friday 18 – Lunch Sunday 20 May
Prehistoric Exmoor Professor Christopher Tilley & Wayne Bennett Dinner Friday 18 – Lunch Sunday 20 May
Spanish Adventure Chris Pollard Tea Wednesday 6 – Lunch Friday 8 June
Creative Writing – Excavating the Past Joan Wiles Tea Wednesday 6 – Lunch Friday 8 June
The Czech Tradition in Music with The Wihan String Quartet & Michael Dussek (piano) Czech Traditional Music Tea Wednesday 6 – Breakfast Sunday 10 June
Beginners Drawing & Painting In & Out of Doors Stella Murray Whatley Dinner Friday 8 – Lunch Sunday 10 June
Bloody Spain – War & Conflict on the Iberian Peninsular Chris Pollard Dinner Friday 8 – Breakfast Monday 11 June
Innovative Jazz Musicians David Price Dinner Friday 15 – Lunch Sunday 17 June
Painting Wildlife using Gouache (Opaque Watercolour) Simon Williams Dinner Friday 15 – Lunch Sunday 17 June
The World of India The World of India Lunch Monday 18 – Breakfast Friday 22 June
Two Golden Ages in Italian Art – Ferrara & Siena Jan D. Cox MA Dinner Friday 22 – Lunch Sunday 24 June
Land, Sea and Sky – The Artists & Landscape of West Penwith Wayne Bennett Tea Sunday 24 – Lunch Thursday 28 June
Gardens of the West Country Nick Rigden Tea Sunday 24 – Lunch Thursday 28 June
Bobbin Lacemaking – British & European Patricia Bury Tea Sunday 24 – Breakfast Saturday 30 June
An Introduction to the Mycenaean Civilisation Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw Tea Sunday 1 – Lunch Wednesday 4 July
Creative Watercolour Shari Hills Tea Sunday 1 – Lunch Wednesday 4 July
Glasgow Girls and Glasgow Boys Jennifer Spiers MA Tea Sunday 1 – Lunch Wednesday 4 July
Reinventing Monarchy: Shakespeare & The First Elizabeth Dr Paul McDonald Tea Sunday 1 – Lunch Wednesday 4 July
Haydn: The Complete Master Tim Porter Tea Wednesday 4 – Breakfast Saturday 7 July
Colour, Light & Space David Cuthbert Tea Wednesday 4 – Breakfast Saturday 7 July
The Archaeology of the Ancient Greek Myths Dr Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw Tea Wednesday 4 – Breakfast Saturday 7 July
Artists of the Dutch Golden Age Jennifer Spiers MA Tea Wednesday 4 – Breakfast Saturday 7 July
1066 and All That: The Story of Anglo-Norman England Mark Cottle Tea Sunday 8 – Breakfast Wednesday 11 July
South Somerset’s Industrial Heritage Dr Peter Stanier Tea Sunday 8 – Lunch Wednesday 11 July
Vibrant Summer Colours – Silk Painting Course Lyn Marie Whiteman Tea Sunday 8 – Lunch Wednesday 11 July
Taking the Waters Barbara Shaw Tea Wednesday 11 – Breakfast Saturday 14 July
Before the Normans Came: The Society & Culture of Anglo-Saxon England Mark Cottle Tea Wednesday 11 – Breakfast Saturday 14 July
Discovering Printmaking Mavina Baker Tea Wednesday 11 – Breakfast Saturday 14 July
Wagner – Two Song Contests Joan Burns MBE Tea Sunday 15 – Breakfast Friday 20 July
Charles Dickens – The Craft of Storytelling Keith Chandler Tea Sunday 22 – Lunch Wednesday 25 July
First Steps in Coloured Pencils Susan Hillier Tea Sunday 22 – Lunch Wednesday 25 July
The Wonderful World of Gilbert & Sullivan Eric Wetherell Tea Sunday 22 – Breakfast Saturday 28 July
Pebbles, Eggs & Feathers Using Watercolour or Coloured Pencils Susan Hillier Tea Wednesday 25 – Breakfast Saturday 28 July
Classical Guitar Summer School Directed by Peter Rueffer Guitar Summer School Tutors Tea Sunday 29 July – Breakfast Saturday 4 August
Summer School at Dillington - Week One Roger Priest Tea Sunday 5 – Breakfast Saturday 11 August
Creative Writing for Pleasure Elizabeth Hawksley Tea Sunday 5 – Breakfast Saturday 11 August
Galicia Chris Pollard Tea Sunday 5 - Breakfast Saturday 11 August
Summer School at Dillington - Week Two Roger Priest Tea Sunday 12 – Breakfast Saturday 18 August
The 2012 Dillington Jazz Week John Petters Tea Sunday 19 - Breakfast Saturday 25 August
Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii & Herculaneum Bill Manning Tea Tuesday 28 – Lunch Friday 31 August
Chinese Brush Painting - “Four Gentlemen”: Plum, Orchid, Chrysanthemum & Bamboo in Freehand Style Kaili Fu Tea Tuesday 28 August – Breakfast Saturday 1 September
The Language of Drawing David Chandler Tea Tuesday 28 August – Breakfast Saturday 1 September
September in Somerset Not applicable Monday 3 – Saturday 8 September
Northern Landscapes: From Scandinavia to The Group of Seven Jan D. Cox MA Tea Monday 3 – Lunch Wednesday 5 September
Painting with Soft Pastels Keith Stott Tea Monday 3 – Breakfast Saturday 8 September
A Tudor Traveller Tim Porter Tea Wednesday 5 – Breakfast Saturday 8 September
Stained Glass for Beginners Aza Adlam Tea Sunday 9 – Tea Tuesday 11 September
The Monastic Foundations of Somerset Professor James Clark Tea Sunday 9 – Lunch Wednesday 12 September
The Landscapes of Wessex Dr David Field & Wayne Bennett Tea Sunday 9 – Breakfast Saturday 15 September
Miniature Painting for Beginners & Improvers Aza Adlam Tea Wednesday 12 – Tea Friday 14 September
Spirit House – A Three Dimensional Pop-Up Model Paul Johnson Tea Wednesday 12 – Breakfast Saturday 15 September
Musical Endings & Beginnings – From Romanticism into the Twentieth Century Gwyn Parry-Jones Dinner Friday 21 – Lunch Sunday 23 September
The Alberni String Quartet Weekend Alberni String Quartet Dinner Friday 21 – Tea Sunday 23 September
Wildlife & Natural History Painting in Gouache Simon Williams Tea Monday 24 – Breakfast Friday 28 September
Singing for Larks – Jazz & Swing Harmonies Weekend Faith Watson Dinner Friday 28 – Tea Sunday 30 September
Argyll Scottish Country Dancing Weekend Argyll Scottish Dancing Group Dinner Friday 5 – Lunch Sunday 7 October
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