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Ancient or Classical History Archaeology Astronomy Children's Literature Classical or Ancient Language or Literature Creative Writing Egyptology
English Language or Literature Fiction Film or Cinema or Video Geology Historical Studies History and Appreciation of Art History and Appreciation of Music History of Science and Technology
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Ancient or Classical History

Saturday 28 Apr 12:00 E201212OR000927 The Anglo-Saxon Landscape of Northumbria Stan Beckensall 1 x 1 hour sessions Single Session Bede's World Open Session (booking not required)


NB. The Bede's World talk by Stan Beckensall on Saturday 28 April has been cancelled. Bede's World hopes to re-schedule this event and we will advise our members when we have further information.


Archaeology

Monday 16 Apr 19:00 E201212OR000923 Operation Overlord: D Day to Berlin John Sadler 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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NB. Due to Bank Holiday's this term, this course will now finish on the 18th June. The final three sessions will happen on 28/05/2012, 11/06/2012 and 18/06/2012.
Thursday 26 Apr 18:30 E201212OR000920 Bernician Studies Group Colm O'Brien 5 x 2 hour sessions Every Two Weeks Ridley Building 2 Contact Tutor
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Monday 28 May 10:30 E201212OR000922 Healthy History Walks Malcolm Grady 3 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Field Trip Location I Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 28 May 10:30 Healthy History Walks: Buildings Galore Malcolm Grady Field Trip Location I
Monday 11 Jun 10:30 Healthy History Walks: From railway to river Malcolm Grady Field Trip Location I
Monday 18 Jun 10:30 Healthy History Walks: In the open air Malcolm Grady Field Trip Location I
Tuesday 29 May 19:00 E201212OR000928 Northumberland Archaeology Study and Walks Ian Colquhoun 4 x 3 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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Tuesday 29 May 19:00 Roughting Linn and Goatscrag Ian Colquhoun Ridley Building 2
Saturday 02 Jun 10:30 Roughting Linn and Goatscrag in the Field Ian Colquhoun Ridley Building 2
Tuesday 12 Jun 19:00 Breamish Valley Ian Colquhoun Ridley Building 2
Saturday 16 Jun 10:30 Breamish Valley in the Field Ian Colquhoun Ridley Building 2


Astronomy

Saturday 04 Aug 10:30 E201213PE000938 Comets and Asteroids Gordon Moir 1 x 5 hour sessions Single Day Commercial Union House Booking Required
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NB. Comets and Asteroids: Please note that this session will now be held in Commercial Union House.


Children's Literature

Monday 23 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000884 Writing for Children Ellen Phethean 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Bedson Building Booking Required
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Classical or Ancient Language or Literature

Thursday 19 Apr 15:00 E201212PE000949 Satyricon: Ancient Novel, Modern Film Alan Beale 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Ford Room, Kings Road Teaching Centre Open Session (booking not required)




Creative Writing

Monday 16 Apr 18:00 E201212RE000903 Quick Sharp - Write Various Tutors 6 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Theatre Royal Open Session (booking not required)




Egyptology

Monday 16 Apr 10:30 E201212OR000921 Egypt from Alexander to Constantine: Ptolomaic and Roman Egypt Angus Graham 5 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required


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English Language or Literature

Thursday 19 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000881 Short Story Fortnightly Various Tutors 4 x 1.5 hour sessions Every Two Weeks Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 19 Apr 10:30 Truman Capote, 'Among The Paths To Eden' Kathleen Kenny Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 03 May 10:30 Donald Barthelme, ‘Cortés and Montezuma’ Michael Ayton Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 17 May 10:30 Toni Morrison, ‘Recitatif’ Rachel Lister Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 31 May 10:30 Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘Lot 249’ and ‘The Ring of Thoth’ Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 26 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000882 Poetry Fortnightly Various Tutors 4 x 1.5 hour sessions Every Two Weeks Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 26 Apr 10:30 Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach (intro) Michael Ayton Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 10 May 10:30 What is Northern Poetry?* Ellen Phethean Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 24 May 10:30 Mimi Khalvati, Poems from Entries On Light and the Chine Kathleen Kenny Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 07 Jun 10:30 Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre


Fiction

Tuesday 17 Apr 18:00 E201212RE000885 Writing: Inspirations Kathleen Kenny 5 x 2 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Booking Required


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Film or Cinema or Video

Friday 20 Apr 18:30 E201212VI000876 Viva el cine Espanol! – Forty Years of Spanish Cinema Roger Mitchell 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Tyneside Cinema Booking Required


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Wednesday 25 Apr 14:00 E201212VI000941 Film Club at the Arts Centre: Reality and Convention – Do Movies Ever Mirror Real Life? Gail-Nina Anderson 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required 2 Explore Topups required to cover costs specific to this course
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Geology

Tuesday 17 Apr 15:30 E201212OR000929 Geology's Building Blocks - Fossils Michael Leddra 5 x 2 hour sessions Weekly Ford Room, Kings Road Teaching Centre Booking Required


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Historical Studies

Thursday 19 Apr 19:00 E201212OR000919 Reading Bede's Ecclesiastical History Colm O'Brien 5 x 1.5 hour sessions Every Two Weeks Ridley Building 2 Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 19 Apr 19:00 Bede on Cuthbert Colm O'Brien Ridley Building 2
Thursday 03 May 19:00 Bede on Wilfrid Colm O'Brien Ridley Building 2
Thursday 17 May 19:00 Bede On Hild and Royal Abbesses Colm O'Brien Ridley Building 2
Thursday 31 May 19:00 Book 5 and Mission Colm O'Brien Ridley Building 2
Thursday 14 Jun 19:00 Review: Bede as Historian Colm O'Brien Ridley Building 2
Thursday 19 Apr 12:30 E201212OR000918 Lunch Hour: Tutor's Choice Various Tutors 10 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 19 Apr 12:30 The Anthropocene: Meddling With the Geological Record Andy Lane Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 26 Apr 12:30 Using Poetry as an Historical Source: An exploration of the Victorian period through poetry Malcolm Grady Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 03 May 12:30 Etruscan Archaeology in the Shefton Study Collection Sally Waite Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 10 May 12:30 What Do We Do When We Read History? Marie Addyman Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 17 May 12:30 Medieval Latin Lyrics: Life, love and laughter Colm O'Brien Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 24 May 12:30 Women in Business in Newcastle and the North East in the Late 18th Century Postgraduates from the Region's Universities Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 31 May 12:30 Why do Birds Sing? David Noble-Rollin Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 07 Jun 12:30 The Records of The Diocese of Newcastle: What Do They Reveal About The Anglican Church Locally And The Wider Tyneside Community? Susan Wood Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 14 Jun 12:30 University Adult Education in Newcastle Angus Lunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 21 Jun 12:30 Why do we tour battlefields? John Sadler Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 19 Apr 10:30 E201212OR000917 Origins Open Talks Various Tutors 10 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 19 Apr 10:30 Changing Priorities in Nature Conservation and National Parks in Britain Angus Lunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 26 Apr 10:30 D Day - 6 June 1944 John Sadler Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 03 May 10:30 Engage: New Research by Postgraduates Postgraduates from the Region's Universities Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 10 May 10:30 'All so unimaginably different, and all so long ago': the Ancient Olympic Games Alan Beale Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 17 May 10:30 Rich and Poor in Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1300s Colm O'Brien Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 24 May 10:30 350 Years of the Book of Common Prayer: a Benedictine-Anglican inheritance Philip Cunningham Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 31 May 10:30 Bede's Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery and World Heritage Laura Sole Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 07 Jun 10:30 Engage: New Research by Postgraduates Postgraduates from the Region's Universities Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 14 Jun 10:30 Professor Brian Shefton and the Greek Museum Sally Waite Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 21 Jun 10:30 Temples of Millions of Years: Mortuary Cult Temples of Egyptian New Kingdom Angus Graham Newcastle Arts Centre
Saturday 19 May 10:00 E201212OR000930 Suburbs John Griffiths 2 x 2 hour sessions Single Session Field Trip Location I Booking Required
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Saturday 19 May 10:00 Suburbs 1: Jesmond John Griffiths Field Trip Location I
Saturday 19 May 14:00 Suburbs 2: Walkergate John Griffiths Field Trip Location I
Saturday 16 Jun 10:30 E201212OR000926 Elizabeth I: The Age of Contention Sam Newington 1 x 5 hour sessions Single Session Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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Thursday 12 Jul 10:30 E201213OR000937 Summer Departures: Thursday Various Tutors 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 12 Jul 10:30 T.S. Eliot: A Look at Some Shorter Poems * Richard Moore Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 19 Jul 10:30 Britain and the Continent 500-800: People Max Adams Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 26 Jul 10:30 If it Moves it's Rude: The Case of the Living Statues Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 02 Aug 10:30 Britain and the Continent 500-800: Objects Max Adams Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 09 Aug 10:30 Eudora Welty, 'Clytie' * Rachel Lister Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 16 Aug 10:30 Britain and the Continent 500-800: Places Max Adams Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 23 Aug 10:30 Britain and the Continent 500-800: Travellers Max Adams Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 13 Sep 12:30 E201213OR000946 Autumn Discoveries: Thursday Lunchtimes Various Tutors 2 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 13 Sep 12:30 Unpicking the Novel Bronwen Calvert Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 20 Sep 12:30 Hands-on Archaeology Sally Waite Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 13 Sep 10:30 E201213OR000945 Autumn Discoveries: Thursdays Various Tutors 2 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 13 Sep 10:30 What is 'Culture' and How do we Think About It? Tim Crocker Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 20 Sep 10:30 Why is Geology Interesting? Michael Leddra Newcastle Arts Centre


History and Appreciation of Art

Monday 16 Apr 12:30 E201212VI000874 Visions Lunch Various Tutors 8 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 16 Apr 12:30 British Art on Holiday Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 23 Apr 12:30 Glass and Ceramics: International Perspectives Kevin Petrie Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 30 Apr 12:30 Orientalists: Thinking through Western Depictions of the East Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 14 May 12:30 Other Lands, Other Animals – The Surprising Popularity of the Lion Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 21 May 12:30 Gerhard Richter (B.1932) On the "inadequacy and bankruptcy" of Painting Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 28 May 12:30 Abram Games, Graphic Designer: Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means Mick Sharp Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 11 Jun 12:30 From Black Kings to Slave Markets – Exoticism in Western Art Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 18 Jun 12:30 20th Century Exotics Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 16 Apr 10:45 E201212VI000873 Of Other Lands and People - Visual Arts Various Tutors 8 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 16 Apr 10:45 Modern (Foreign) Art in Britain before WW1 Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 23 Apr 10:45 New Glass and Ceramics Kevin Petrie Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 30 Apr 10:45 Gustave Courbet (1819-77) Nothing but the Truth Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 14 May 10:45 Other Lands, Other Animals – Dürer’s Rhino and its Relatives in Art Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 21 May 10:45 Rebecca Horn (B.1944) Performance, Sculpture and Film Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 28 May 10:45 Emigré Designers in Post-War Britain Mick Sharp Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 11 Jun 10:45 Ancient Babylon in Western Art Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 18 Jun 10:45 Frank Brangwyn: Bacchanals and Bazaars Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 17 Apr 10:30 E201212VI000897 Seven Puzzling Paintings AM Gail-Nina Anderson 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required


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Tuesday 17 Apr 14:00 E201212VI000898 Seven Puzzling Paintings PM Gail-Nina Anderson 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Literary and Philosophical Society Booking Required


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Monday 09 Jul 10:30 E201213VI000895 Summer Departures: Monday Various Tutors 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 09 Jul 10:30 Ancient Egypt in Popular Culture – from Napoleon's Dinner Service To Mummy Movies Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 16 Jul 10:30 The Art of Cinema - Learn How to 'Read' a Film Roger Mitchell Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 23 Jul 10:30 The Language of Reggae and Rap: The Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah Kathleen Kenny Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 30 Jul 10:30 Late Picasso Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 06 Aug 10:30 Art and the Supernatural – Is There a Fashion in Phenomena and the Way We Envisage the Weird? Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 13 Aug 10:30 Sophie Calle (born 1953) Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 20 Aug 10:30 Summer: Sweet and Savoury Marie Addyman Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 09 Jul 12:30 E201213VI000896 Summer Departures: Lunch Various Tutors 7 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 09 Jul 12:30 Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile and Siren of the Screen – her life in art Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 16 Jul 12:30 The Significance of Costume in Film Narratives Roger Mitchell Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 23 Jul 12:30 Why Do People Matter? Ian Ground Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 30 Jul 12:30 Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) Making Sense of Site-specific Art Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 06 Aug 12:30 Monkeys, Apes and Humans – Does Depicting Our Closest Relatives Hold Up a Mirror To Ourselves? Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 13 Aug 12:30 Zuza and the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art Peter Quinn Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 20 Aug 12:30 Summer: Sweet and Savoury Marie Addyman Newcastle Arts Centre
Thursday 12 Jul 14:00 E201213VI000936 Out and About: Behind the Scenes Group Led Sessions 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Field Trip Location I Open Session (booking not required)


Thursday 12 Jul 14:00 National Glass Centre - 2pm and 3pm Tours of the Gallery Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 19 Jul 14:00 Northern Stage: Meet at the Box Office at 2pm - up to 40 places available, first come, first served. Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 26 Jul 14:00 Discovery Museum: Meet at front desk at 2pm Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 02 Aug 14:00 St Nicholas' Cathedral: Meet at the font at 2pm Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 09 Aug 14:00 BALTIC and Flow (Floating Building on the River Tyne) meet at BALTIC Information Desk at 2pm - up to 30 places available, first come first served Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 16 Aug 14:00 Sights and Sounds of the River: Quayside walk with Malcolm Grady. Meet outside BALTIC at 2pm. Bring a brolly! Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Thursday 23 Aug 14:00 The Sage Gateshead: Meet at the Welcome Desk (West Door) at 2pm - up to 50 places available, first come, first served. £3 per head charge. Group Led Sessions Field Trip Location I
Friday 13 Jul 10:30 E201213VI000894 BALTIC 10 Various Tutors 6 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Booking Required
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Friday 13 Jul 10:30 Introduction To Baltic: from Flour Mill To Art Factory Peter Quinn BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 20 Jul 10:30 Northern Stage/Newcastle Playhouse - The Story of a Theatre and its Productions Gail-Nina Anderson BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 27 Jul 10:30 Norman Cornish and Other Pitmen Painters – the Art of the Working Man Gail-Nina Anderson BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 03 Aug 10:30 The Craft and Design Collections at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead Sim Panesar BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 10 Aug 10:30 Anthony Gormley, the Angel and the Changing Role of Public Sculpture Gail-Nina Anderson BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 17 Aug 10:30 A Decade of Contemporary Art in the North East: Examining the Baltic-effect. Peter Quinn BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 14 Jul 10:30 E201213VI000899 The Painting of Modern Life, French Impressionists and the City Peter Quinn 2 x 2 hour sessions Two Saturdays Ridley Building 2 Open Session (booking not required)


NB. This pair of sessions will now take place in Commercial Union House, not Ridley 2 as advertised.
Saturday 14 Jul 10:30 Part I: Boulevards Peter Quinn Ridley Building 2
Saturday 21 Jul 10:30 Part II: Suburbs Peter Quinn Ridley Building 2
Monday 10 Sep 12:30 E201213VI000943 Autumn Discoveries: Monday Lunchtimes Various Tutors 2 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 10 Sep 12:30 Getting to Know the Ancients Alan Beale Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 17 Sep 12:30 Gus' Smiling Woman: Exhibition of 'Fair Women' Cecilia Holmes Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 10 Sep 10:30 E201213VI000944 Autumn Discoveries: Mondays Various Tutors 2 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 10 Sep 10:30 A (very short) Introduction to Philosophy Ian Ground Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 17 Sep 10:30 An Archivist's Approach to History Susan Wood Newcastle Arts Centre


History and Appreciation of Music

Tuesday 17 Apr 19:00 E201212PE000915 Exploring Music Mike Green 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Holy Biscuit Open Session (booking not required)


Tuesday 17 Apr 19:00 Musical forms and genres, an introduction. Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 24 Apr 19:00 Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 01 May 19:00 Sonata form and the sonata Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 08 May 19:00 The concerto Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 15 May 19:00 The symphony Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 22 May 19:00 Sacred vocal music Mike Green Holy Biscuit
Tuesday 29 May 19:00 Opera and ballet Mike Green Holy Biscuit


History of Science and Technology

Wednesday 18 Apr 10:30 E201212PE000947 Discovery: The Story of the Chemical Elements Rachel Dunn 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


NB. (Discovery: The story of the Chemical Elements) Unfortunately, due to tutor illness the session due to be held with Rachel Dunn on the 16th May has been cancelled. Ian Ground will hold a philosophy session in its place. The final session of this course will now be 6/6/2012.
Wednesday 18 Apr 10:30 Magnesium: Mineral Water and Metallurgy Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 25 Apr 10:30 Hydrogen: Paracelse, Cavendish and 'Flammable Air" Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 02 May 10:30 Oxygen: Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier and the Discovery of "dephlogisticated Air" Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 09 May 10:30 Nitrogen: Rutherford and "Lifeless Air" Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 23 May 10:30 Potassium & Sodium: Davy and Electrolysis Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 30 May 10:30 Fluorine: "we ere in the presence of…" the Isolation of Fluorine Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 06 Jun 10:30 Polonium: Curie and Radioactivity Rachel Dunn Newcastle Arts Centre


Horticulture

Wednesday 25 Apr 10:00 E201212OR000925 Gibside: the Well Run estate Marie Addyman 1 x 2.5 hour sessions Single Session Field Trip Location I Booking Required


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Inter-Disciplinary

Monday 16 Apr 14:00 E201212VI000875 The Creative North East - Past, Present and Future Various Tutors 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Theatre Royal Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 16 Apr 14:00 The 'Northern Voice' in Sheila Quigley's Fiction Susan Mandala Theatre Royal
Monday 23 Apr 14:00 The North East's 'Creative' Revolutionaries Max Adams Theatre Royal
Monday 30 Apr 14:00 Ralph Hedley and the Image of the Victorian working man Gail-Nina Anderson Theatre Royal
Monday 14 May 14:00 Sixties Newcastle, Art, Technology and the Modern: Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton Peter Quinn Theatre Royal
Monday 21 May 14:00 A History of 'Canny' in the North East Mike Pearce Theatre Royal
Monday 28 May 14:00 The Aesthetics of Charles Avison Ian Ground Theatre Royal
Monday 11 Jun 14:00 Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Print and Culture in Newcastle Peter Quinn Theatre Royal
Monday 18 Jun 14:00 The Davy Lamp: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics Max Adams Theatre Royal
Monday 16 Apr 16:00 E201212VI000935 Tea Time at the Theatre Royal Various Tutors 8 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Theatre Royal Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 16 Apr 16:00 Voices from History: Roman and Barbarian, but which is which? Colm O'Brien Theatre Royal
Monday 23 Apr 16:00 Why Do We Find Things Beautiful? Ian Ground Theatre Royal
Monday 30 Apr 16:00 Get Those Voices Working: How to Create Authentic Dialogue Barry Stone Theatre Royal
Monday 14 May 16:00 Make Those Characters Real: How to Create Authentic Characters Barry Stone Theatre Royal
Monday 21 May 16:00 Voices from History: Boniface writes letters home Colm O'Brien Theatre Royal
Monday 28 May 16:00 New Poets and Poetry in the North East Michael Ayton Theatre Royal
Monday 11 Jun 16:00 About Time Matthew Conduct Theatre Royal
Monday 18 Jun 16:00 The Invention of Tradition Max Adams Theatre Royal
Wednesday 18 Apr 12:30 E201212PE000909 Perspectives: Lunch Time Debates Ian Ground 7 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Wednesday 18 Apr 12:30 Introduction to Debate Ian Ground Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 25 Apr 12:30 The Greatest Good? Ian Ground Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 02 May 12:30 Engage: New Research by Postgraduates Postgraduates from the Region's Universities Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 09 May 12:30 Is Cheating Ever Justified? Bea Groves Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 16 May 12:30 Memory and Self Ian Ground Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 23 May 12:30 Should We Kill Socrates? Alan Beale Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 30 May 12:30 Engage: New Research by Postgraduates Postgraduates from the Region's Universities Newcastle Arts Centre
Monday 09 Jul 14:00 E201213VI000908 The Creative North East: Summer Sessions Various Tutors 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Theatre Royal Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 09 Jul 14:00 New Directions at the National Glass Centre Julia Stephenson Theatre Royal
Monday 16 Jul 14:00 The Sage Gateshead Katherine Zeserson Theatre Royal
Monday 23 Jul 14:00 Poetry Translation in the North East Michael Ayton Theatre Royal
Monday 30 Jul 14:00 Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums: Engaging with Communities Bill Griffiths Theatre Royal
Monday 06 Aug 14:00 Admiral Collingwood and the Birth of the Locomotive Max Adams Theatre Royal
Monday 13 Aug 14:00 Reclining Nudes: Northumberland's Spiritual Landscape Max Adams Theatre Royal
Monday 20 Aug 14:00 Artist Studios and Artist Run Galleries in the North East Today. Peter Quinn Theatre Royal


Literature

Tuesday 17 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000879 Of Other Lands and People - Readings Talks Various Tutors 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Tuesday 17 Apr 10:30 Through the Wardrobe Door: Discovering Fantasy Lands Bronwen Calvert Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 24 Apr 10:30 Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies Rachel Lister Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 01 May 10:30 Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed Ellen Phethean Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 08 May 10:30 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels Michael Ayton Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 15 May 10:30 Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Tim Crocker Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 22 May 10:30 Samuel Butler's Erewhon Richard Moore Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 29 May 10:30 Haruki Murakami and the Influence of Western Culture Kathleen Kenny Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 12 Jun 10:30 Dickens and the Supernatural Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 17 Apr 12:30 E201212RE000880 Readings Lunch Hour Various Tutors 8 x 1 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Open Session (booking not required)


Tuesday 17 Apr 12:30 Quality or Readability? Bronwen Calvert Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 24 Apr 12:30 My Cousin Rachel: Better than Rebecca? Rachel Lister Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 01 May 12:30 Writing on the Themes of The Dispossessed Ellen Phethean Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 08 May 12:30 Baudelaire on the Mascareignes Islands Michael Ayton Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 15 May 12:30 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Tim Crocker Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 22 May 12:30 Gilbert's Utopia Limited Richard Moore Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 29 May 12:30 Challenging our Stereotypes of Japan: Creative Writing Session Kathleen Kenny Newcastle Arts Centre
Tuesday 12 Jun 12:30 The Medium in Literature Gail-Nina Anderson Newcastle Arts Centre
Wednesday 18 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000887 Climbing the Social Ladder Gail-Nina Anderson 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required
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Sunday 22 Apr 14:30 E201212RE000934 Sundays at Tilleys Various Tutors 6 x 2 hour sessions Non-Consecutive Weeks. Please check Session Dates Tilley's Bar Booking Required


Sunday 22 Apr 14:30 Field Music - The Story So Far... David Brewis Tilley's Bar
Sunday 20 May 14:30 Street Art Peter Quinn Tilley's Bar
Sunday 17 Jun 14:30 Angela Carter's Fiction Rachel Lister Tilley's Bar
Sunday 15 Jul 14:30 The Coming of Age Text in Popular Culture Roger Mitchell Tilley's Bar
Sunday 19 Aug 14:30 Rhythm workshop: from Shamans to Stomp Max Adams Tilley's Bar
Sunday 16 Sep 14:30 Being Human Bronwen Calvert Tilley's Bar
Tuesday 24 Apr 14:00 E201212RE000889 Just for Kids?: Classics of Children's Literature Bronwen Calvert 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Bedson Building Booking Required
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Thursday 26 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000932 How to Read Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and The Mystery of Edwin Drood Tim Crocker 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Claremont Tower Booking Required
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Friday 27 Apr 10:30 E201212RE000907 How to Read Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Friday) Tim Crocker 8 x 1.5 hour sessions Unspecified Bedson Building Booking Required
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Wednesday 09 May 12:30 E201212RE000883 The Theatre of the 1890s Richard Moore 4 x 2.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required
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Friday 11 May 10:30 E201212RE000890 American Journeys Rachel Lister 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required
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NB. American Journeys - Please note that there is a half term break on Friday 8th June, so there will be no session. The last session will be held on 29th June.
Monday 14 May 12:00 E201212RE000891 Children's Literature Book Group Group Led Sessions 2 x 1.5 hour sessions Non-Consecutive Weeks. Please check Session Dates Great North Museum Hancock Open Session (booking not required)


Monday 14 May 12:00 Sabriel by Garth Nix Group Led Sessions Great North Museum Hancock
Monday 11 Jun 12:00 Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgewick Group Led Sessions Great North Museum Hancock
Tuesday 15 May 18:00 E201212RE000886 Scoffing at State?: Shakespeare’s King John and Richard II Michael Ayton 5 x 2 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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Wednesday 06 Jun 18:00 E201213RE000913 Tolstoy – The Later Novels – Anna Karenina, Resurrection, Hadji Murat (Part 1) Tim Crocker 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Bedson Building Open Session (booking not required)


Saturday 09 Jun 10:30 E201212RE000914 The Real and Fictitious Travels of Lord Byron Pamela Woof 2 x 2 hour sessions Two Saturdays Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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Wednesday 15 Aug 18:00 E201213RE000933 Tolstoy – The Later Novels – Anna Karenina, Resurrection, Hadji Murat (Part 2) Tim Crocker 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Bedson Building Open Session (booking not required)




Painting

Wednesday 18 Apr 14:00 E201212VI000877 'I used to be quite good at art at school...' Cecilia Holmes 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Holy Biscuit Open Session (booking not required)


Saturday 28 Apr 10:30 E201212VI000901 Your Painting 1: Developing a Personal Journey Lionel Playford 2 x 5 hour sessions Two Saturdays Commercial Union House Booking Required


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Saturday 26 May 10:30 E201212VI000902 Your Painting 2: Completing a Picture Lionel Playford 2 x 5 hour sessions Non-Consecutive Weeks. Please check Session Dates Holy Biscuit Booking Required
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Saturday 28 Jul 10:30 E201213VI000948 Art and About: Plein Air (Hopefully) Cecilia Holmes 1 x 5 hour sessions Single Day Field Trip Location I Open Session (booking not required)




Philosophy

Monday 16 Apr 19:00 E201212PE000916 The Bounds of Science Matthew Conduct 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Booking Required
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Tuesday 17 Apr 17:00 E201212PE000942 Philosophical Society of England Reading Group - North East Group Philosophical Society of England 3 x 2 hour sessions Every Four Weeks Ridley Building 2 Open Session (booking not required)


NB. Please note that there is no session scheduled for 15th May for this reading group. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 5th June. Details will be announced in the bulletin.
Please note that there is no session scheduled for 17th April for this reading group. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 1st May. Details will be announced in the bulletin.
Tuesday 17 Apr 14:00 E201212PE000892 Movie Meditations Ian Ground 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Claremont Tower Open Session (booking not required)


NB. Due to Tutor commitments, there will be no session on the 8th May. Dates have been updated on the website
Tuesday 17 Apr 14:00 Introduction Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 24 Apr 14:00 Being There Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 01 May 14:00 eXistenZ Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 15 May 14:00 Memento Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 22 May 14:00 Blade Runner Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 29 May 14:00 Drive Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Tuesday 12 Jun 14:00 Wittgenstein Ian Ground Claremont Tower
Saturday 05 May 10:30 E201212PE000931 Immortality, Seances and Religious Belief Michael Bavidge 1 x 5 hour sessions Single Day Ridley Building 2 Booking Required


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Monday 09 Jul 19:00 E201213PE000940 The Triumph of Reason? Matthew Conduct 7 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Bedson Building Booking Required
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Tuesday 10 Jul 14:00 E201213PE000939 Philosophy Today Ian Ground 6 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Claremont Tower Booking Required
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Plant Life

Friday 20 Apr 10:30 E201212OR000924 The Greening of the Land Jill Schnabel 5 x 1.5 hour sessions Weekly Newcastle Arts Centre Booking Required
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Friday 20 Apr 10:30 From Green Man to green medicine Jill Schnabel Newcastle Arts Centre
Friday 27 Apr 10:30 The nettle and the dock Jill Schnabel Newcastle Arts Centre
Friday 04 May 10:30 Of beets, dead nettles and goose feet Jill Schnabel Newcastle Arts Centre
Friday 11 May 10:30 Eat your greens: a culinary tale of cruciferous plants Jill Schnabel Newcastle Arts Centre
Friday 18 May 10:30 Naked and Dressed: a brief history of Sallets Jill Schnabel Newcastle Arts Centre


Television

Thursday 26 Apr 18:00 E201212RE000912 The Dickensian Rage of Alan Bleasdale: Boys from the Blackstuff Tim Crocker 8 x 2 hour sessions Weekly Ridley Building 2 Open Session (booking not required)


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