LEIGH-ON-SEA BRANCH
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2011/12 COURSES


Course Title: Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Course Description: An exploration of both series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. Written for the BBC these brilliant dramatic monologues were broadcast in 1988 and1998.
Tutor: Stephen O'Kane
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Mondays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 26/09/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590


Course Title: Victorian Education of the Poor ? Ragged Schools
Course Description: A focus on the inspirational efforts of Victorian philanthropists Dr Barnardo, Lord Shaftesbury and Charles Dickens in changing society's attitude to the education of the vagabond child with the introduction of the Ragged School Union.
Tutor: Stephanie Hadden
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Wednesdays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 28/09/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590


Course Title: Russian Art: An Introduction
Course Description: A brief but illuminating consideration of the span of art in Russia from Medieval times to the present, intended to demonstrate the East/West, Christian/Muslim and conservative/progressive paradoxes of this country's art.
Tutor: Graham Slimming
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Thursdays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 29/09/2011  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590


Course Title: Appreciating First World War Poetry
Course Description: An exploration of how the horrors and ironies of the experience of 'The War to end all Wars' turned talent into greatness and 'A Rare and Terrible Beauty' was born.
Tutor: Ron Marks
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Mondays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 09/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590


Course Title: Essex Composers
Course Description: What do William Byrd, Gustav Holst and Mark Anthony Turnage have in common? They are all Essex Composers. And there are others, some living, some dead, all interesting.
Tutor: Peter Dale
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Wednesdays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 11/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590


Course Title: Russia in Revolution 19001930
Course Description: "Ten days that Shook the World". An examination of the circumstances that led to dramatic events in Russia in 1917, with an appraisal of their profound national and international impact
Tutor: Ted Woodgate
Venue: Leigh Community Centre, 71-73 Elm Road, SS9 1SP
Day of Week: Thursdays  Time: 13:30  Duration: 2 hrs  
Start Date: 12/01/2012  No. of Weeks: 10
Fee: £57
Contact Name: Valerie Morgan  Telephone: 01702 475590



Please note that the "duration" of one day courses includes a lunch break of up to two hours. More information about one day courses - including lunch arrangements - is available on the One Day Courses page.

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