DISCOVERY DAYS
Discovery Days are held at Moor Park Mansion and include tea/coffee and a light lunch within the ticket price. Each day includes two one-hour lectures before lunch and one lecture after lunch. Registration is from 10.00. The first lecture begins at 10.30 and the afternoon lecture ends typically at 3.15pm. Please explore the list below and click the links for full details of each Discovery Day and to download the flyer/booking form. Members may book online.
Members have priority for all our bookable events. However, non-members are welcome to express an interest in attending a specific event by contacting the Event Organiser (contact details are on the relevant flyer). Should places still be available, they may at the discretion of the Event Organiser be made available to non-members or members of other Arts Societies, in order of application date.
The Maya Heritage - Ancient and Modern Maya Culture
5 June 2025 at 09:30:00
Booking closes
29 May 2025
Bonampak mural c. 790 AD
Speaker:
Chloƫ Sayer
The civilisation of the ancient Maya of central America reached its peak between AD300-900 and today some six million Maya still carry on many of the traditions of their ancestors. This Discovery Day will explore their rich cultural heritage, both ancient and modern.
The Enigma of Edward Elgar
6 November 2025 at 10:30:00
Booking closes
30 October 2025
Sir Edward Ekgar
Speaker:
Roger Askew
One of our greatest composers, Edward Elgar was an extraordinary man. Brought up in a provincial town, his father a piano tuner and the owner of a music shop, he was completely self-taught as a musician, evidence of the strong determination behind his original and unique genius.
This Discovery Day, illustrated with many notable musical examples, explores the development of this contradictory musician, always wracked with self-doubt, and explains how his music expresses a quintessential Englishness.