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Unique to the North-East, our national award-winning Explore programme is a revolution in lifelong learning: learning for learners and for the love of learning.

For a monthly subscription, Explore lets you choose from a huge range of lectures, short courses and discussion seminars across a wealth of subjects delivered by expert tutors.
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We offer four seasons of programme a year, with more than 1500 hours of provision in over 30 distinct subjects taught by 45 expert tutors.
Attend Open Sessions as you choose. Book a place on a longer course. Use your priority booking. (And there's no compulsory assessment)
Explore is all you can learn, the way you learn, from around £5 a week or less.
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Don't miss this session - open to all Members without booking:
Imagining the Victorians in Contemporary Fiction
Monday 06 February 14:00

Bronwen Calvert
In February 1837 - the year Queen Victoria came to the throne - the Theatre Royal opened for the first time. We look at events inspired by this date in our themed series of talks. (Please note that there is no session on Monday 23 January.)... read more
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There are still places available on this bookable course.
Dorothy Wordsworth and her Brother: the Journals and the Poems
Saturday 10 March
10:30
Pamela Woof
Look at often-neglected work and see Wordsworth from a different perspective: the subject of a forthcoming exhibition at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.... read more
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Explore Tutor: Myra Giesen


Myra Giesen
In addition to be a tutor for The North-East Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Myra is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies within the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University. Myra obtained her BA and MA in Anthropology from Wichita State University (1984, 19...
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