Listed on August 10, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesOut-and-about or Dillington based, create a learning holiday with a difference. Read more ...
Listed on August 3, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis popular event offers classical guitarists a unique opportunity to participate in a varied programme of music making, with plenty of time to develop playing and music reading skills. Read more ...
Listed on July 30, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!I’ve often heard stories of people relocating their lives in foreign parts. The choice seems idyllic but I sometimes think that this is all very superficial – a sort of very long holiday. Somehow or other I think it would … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on July 28, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesDame Laura Knight worked as a war artist and we will study her paintings of men and women working in factories, the army and air force during World War Two, culminating in her interesting portrayal of the Nuremberg Trials. All-comers welcome.Read more ...
Listed on July 23, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!Last night we enjoyed a really accomplished performance of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. The company were the Taunton Thespians (founded in 1927) and it was done open air on the back lawn with the House as the backdrop to … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on July 23, 2014 by Dillington in Featured Courses We will study works by several practitioners through the 1920s and 1940s. Sculptors such as Chiparus and Preiss, and the fashion designer who used designs by the artist Raoul Dufy, Paul Poiret, as well as the fabulous, iconic paintings of Tamara de Lempicka.Read more ...
Listed on July 20, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis week will explore Purcell’s dramatic works such as Dido and Aeneas, King Arthur and the Fairy Queen, his court and other odes for special occasions, his magnificent church music and his glorious instrumental works such as the Fantazias for viols and the two sets of trio sonatas. Read more ...
Listed on July 17, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!Every day at Dillington elicits extraordinary conversations between colleagues or with visitors and sometimes both. Yesterday we were talking about how our conference business was picking up as we emerge, slowly, blinking out of the darkness of the longest and … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on July 13, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis course is designed mainly for players of the following instruments; guitar, mandolin, dobro, banjo, bass, fiddle. Musicians with other instruments would be welcome, subject to their contacting us about suitabilityRead more ...
Listed on July 7, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesOn this course at Dillington we will be covering a variety of techniques incorporating old wires, beads, fabrics and threads, and needlelace stitches. Read more ...
Listed on July 7, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!The launch of any new Dillington programme is a big event which, like the start of the Tour de France, requires some nifty planning. As always, the Friends and Patrons get their programme first and that was the beginning of … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on June 28, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!It is the time of the Glastonbury Festival and the weather is as dynamic as ever. Great clouds billowed over the site yesterday, as they promise to do today, the rain fell amidst the occasional flash of lightening and drum … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on June 27, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!I do apologise for neglecting the blog. My only excuse was a BIG birthday at the end of May and a very busy time concluding work on the new adult education courses and events programme. I also think that there’s … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on June 10, 2014 by Dillington in Member NewsFrom 3-7 August we are celebrating twenty years of the Dillington Classical Guitar Festival. Performed by some of today's top international artists the programmes include works by Spanish composers giving a Spanish flavour throughout the Festival. Read more ...
Listed on May 14, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis day course will inspire you to draw and paint buildings in a quick and easy way, which will give you endless pleasure in the future. All-comers welcome.Read more ...
Listed on May 14, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!The U3A is a brilliant self-organising concept worthy of The Big Society. Ever since its first faltering steps way back in 1981 the organisation has grown from strength to strength and is now pretty much well established all over the … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on May 8, 2014 by Dillington in Member NewsDue to popular demand we are running the following extra courses: Painting Buildings in Pen and Wash - 14 May, Art Deco - 23 July, The Art of Laura Knight - 28 July
To make a booking for any of the above courses please telephone the Bookings Office on 01460 258613Read more ...
Listed on May 2, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesExplore passages from writers such as Thomas Browne, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Milton in the context of the sound of Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi and Bach and works from Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Vermeer. Read more ...
Listed on April 28, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!There’s always something wonderful about hearing and seeing what students achieve. Only last week a group of painters did some amazing work in gouache – mainly animals and plants. That was Simon Williams’ course. This weekend we hosted a course … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 25, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesThis is an entertaining, informative and friendly chance to experience Gregorian chant through singing it. Read more ...
Listed on April 25, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!News of the death of Richard Hoggart a couple of weeks ago sent me scuttling for my copy of his most important book – The Uses of Literacy. First published in 1957 its vibrant thesis has ensured that it has … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 17, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!The BBC is a fantastic resource and in my view worth every penny of the licence fee. Radio Four in particular has some of the best broadcast content on the planet! If you are not convinced by this assertion then … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 16, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs! The Georgians seem to be the BBC’s flavour of the month with programmes across the radio and television celebrating the arrival of the Hanoverians on the English throne in 1714. BBC4’s programmes with Suzy Klein – Rule Britannia! – … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 11, 2014 by Dillington in Featured CoursesDuring this course we will look at the Festival of Britain during the turbulent year of 1951, with a particular emphasis on the “60 for ‘51” art competition.Read more ...
Listed on April 9, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!There was a piece in The Times yesterday (9 April) about the dangers and the under-reporting of depression in older people. The source of the story was Dr James Warner who is the Chairman of the Old Age Faculty of … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 8, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs! This morning I had a telephone call saying that Bob and Andrew Perry were at Reception asking if they could photograph their new Bentley outside the front of the House. No problem I said, and then went to investigate. … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on April 7, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!We keep hearing about the world of social media and old dogs like me keep fretting as to whether this is really something to take seriously. Is this the new marketing reality? Is this how ideas are spreading? Well, the … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on March 19, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!Think Different was the enigmatic strapline used by Apple computers some years ago. Adverts just carried the words with the Apple logo displayed somewhere else on the page. It was a daring and ingenious campaign which actually made you think … Continue reading →Read more ...
Listed on March 14, 2014 by Dillington in Blogs!One of the strange things about publishing a blog, or anything for that matter, is that you never know who is going to read it. An author friend of mine says don’t worry about it. His mantra is ‘publish and … Continue reading →Read more ...
