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.
Painters In Paradise - Visions of French Indochina
23 April 2026 at 09:30:00
Booking closes
16 April 2026
Woman with Lilies - detail, by Tô Ngoc Vân © Denise Heywood
Speaker:
Denise Heywood
From 1887 until 1954 a large part of Indochina was ruled by the French and today we will explore the impact of the area and its culture on a whole generation of French artists.
Perhaps the best known of these are Alix Aymé, who travelled widely through the area in the 1920s and 30s, and Victor Tardieu who founded the Ecole des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi in 1925, thereby attracting other French artists to the area as well as influencing the work of a number of Vietnamese artists.
This Discovery Day promises to be a fascinating exploration of art and artists relatively little known in the UK.
Last Supper in Pompeii
4 June 2026 at 09:30:00
Booking closes
28 May 2026
Roman seafood mosaic c. 100 BC
Speaker:
Paul Roberts
For the Romans, life meant getting together to eat and drink, in a pub, in a simple flat or at a banquet in a triclinium or grand dining room. Last Supper in Pompeii celebrates the Roman love affair with food and wine, in a journey from fields and vineyards to markets and shops, from tables to toilets and the tomb.
Carpe diem - Seize the day!