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One Day Courses
There are a wide variety of one day courses and evening talks throughout the year. One day courses are an excellent way to introduce yourself to the WEA and sample the quality and breadth of the learning options available.

These courses tend to be very popular so please contact us on the telephone numbers shown if you are interested and we will endeavour to fit you in!

Tea and coffee are usually, but not always, included in the Fee. Lunch arrangements are indicated but the duration of the lunch break may vary - the branch will be able to supply further details.

The following is a list in date order of all the one-day courses in Essex. To search by branch, please go to the Branches page.


 
Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Gardens of Essex and WEA Gardeners' Question Time!
Course Description: Morning session - an illustrated talk about the origins, development, content and layout of some of magnificent gardens of Essex by a leading horticulturalist and television personality.  Afternoon session - GQT - a chance to ask her questions and seek advice about your own garden.  
Tutor: Christine Walkden
Venue: St. George's Suite, The Basildon Centre, St. Martin's Square, Basildon, SS14 1DL
Date: 25-Sep-10  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Joan Black  Telephone:


Branch: HALSTEAD
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Nelson (a national Hero)
Course Description: A look at the life and times of Horatio Nelson, the man, his battles and his mistresses!
Tutor: Roger Mannion
Venue: The United Reformed Church, Kings Road, Halstead CO9 1HJ
Date: 16-Oct-10  Start Time: 10:00 AM  Finish Time: 4:00 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Adam Thompson  Telephone: 01787 224147


Branch: RAYLEIGH
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Work and Leisure in 19th and Early 20th Century Rayleigh
Course Description: A slide show presentation of a unique collection of photographs which show the daily lives of people in this small town, as seen through the eyes of the photographers of the day.
Tutor: Mike Davies
Venue: Rayleigh Parish Centre (behind Holy Trinity Parish Church) SS6 8BB
Date: 23-Oct-10  Start Time: 10:00 AM  Finish Time: 12:00 AM  
Lunch Arrangement:

Fee: £6 Contact Name: Jean Baldwin  Telephone: 01268 742930


Branch: CHELMSFORD
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Rationed Fashion
Course Description: The course looks at clothes from the years of austerity, 1939 - 1952, with make do and mend fashions. Illustrated with the original clothes.
Tutor: Lee Ault
Venue: The Keene Hall, Watchouse Road, Galleywood, Chelmsford, CM2 8PT
Date: 13-Nov-10  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3:30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J Black  Telephone: 01245 354644


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - America on the Move 1860-1960: The Pony Express to the Space Age
Course Description: 150 years after the establishment of The Pony Express, we travel through a century in the history of the United States, its development and expansion.
Tutor: Anne Greenslade
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 20-Nov-10  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - American Art - An Independent Tradition
Course Description: A fascinating exploration of developments that yielded a unique art with the realism as challenging as the abstraction.
Tutor: Graham Slimming
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 20-Nov-10  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Great American Literature: Mark Twain and Walt Whitman
Course Description: 100 years after the death of Mark Twain, Ron Marks explores some of his work, in particular the irony, social criticism and pioneering narrative techniques of Huckleberry Finn.  Tina Nay introduces and discusses some of the poetry of Walt Whitman and one or two other significant 19th Century Americans.
Tutor: Ron Marks and Tina Nay
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 20-Nov-10  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: CHELMSFORD
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Five Lives in Jazz
Course Description: We shall look at the lives and music of five well-known and influential jazz musicians from different backgrounds - Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Lyttelton, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday.
Tutor: Roger Bawden
Venue: Broomfield Community Centre, Main Road, Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 7AH
Date: 29-Jan-11  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3:30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - The King James Bible
Course Description: 2011 celebrates the 400th anniversary of this monumental landmark in the history and culture of the English-speaking world, and we shall explore its significance. 
Tutor: Rosemary Williams
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 16-Apr-11  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - René Lalique
Course Description: An exploration of the work of this designer-in-glass par excellence. 
Tutor: Suzanne Bode
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 16-Apr-11  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: ESSEX FEDERATION
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - A Fresh Look at the Anglo-Saxons
Course Description: This study day will include discussion of the latest on the Staffordshire Hoard and its implications, setting it in its context, as well as some examination in detail of its metalwork, technology of manufacture and dating. There may also be some examination of attitudes to metal-detecting and the way such finds are treated in the media.
Tutor: Pat Brown
Venue: Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, CO5 9QB
Date: 16-Apr-11  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3.30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583


Branch: WIVENHOE
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - Art and Poetry in the Trenches
Course Description: The First World War inspires huge amount of poetry and art. The poetry is at least acknowledged but little of the art ever sees the light of day.
Tutor: Colin Padgett and Graham Slimming
Venue: Congregational Church Hall, 101 High Street, Wivenhoe CO7 9AB
Date: 11-Jun-11  Start Time: 10:30 AM  Finish Time: 4:00 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £12 Contact Name: Janice Allen  Telephone: 01206 824470


Branch: HALSTEAD
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - History of Colchester AD43-2003
Course Description: Moving through the centuries covering events such as the Norman conquest, the siege of Colchester and the cloth trade.
Tutor: Patrick Denney
Venue: The United Reformed Church, Kings Road, Halstead CO9 1HJ
Date: 11-Jun-11  Start Time: 10:00 AM  Finish Time: 4:00 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Adam Thompson  Telephone: 01787 224147


Branch: CHELMSFORD
Course Title: ONE DAY COURSE - The Crimean War
Course Description: The Crimean War was fought by the British in the same manner and with almost the same equipment, uniforms, weapons, and thinking as at Waterloo. Reforms were finally instituted which began the modernisation of the army and a revolution in medical care, instituted in the main by three very forceful ladies - and the invention of the pie chart.
Tutor: Frances Boardman
Venue: Broomfield Community Centre, Main Road, Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 7AH
Date: 18-Jun-11  Start Time: 11:00 AM  Finish Time: 3:30 PM  
Lunch Arrangement:
Bring your own lunch
Fee: £10 Contact Name: Mrs J M Dougan  Telephone: 01245 476583