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Admission £3 per meeting
Wednesday 11th September 2024 (7.30 pm)
If Warwick walls could talk……
Trevor Langley
Wednesday 9th October 2024(7.30pm)
Coventry Cathedral’s Windows and the Broken Angel Project
Professor Michael Tooby
Mike grew up in Coventry and Warwickshire, and was educated in Coventry and at Magdalene College Cambridge.
Over his career Mike held curatorial posts at Kettles Yard Cambridge, Third Eye Centre Glasgow, and Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield. Mike was the first curator of Tate St Ives (1992-2000), and a Director of Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum Wales (2000-11). He served as an advisor to many public bodies, including the Arts Council Collection and Warwick University’s art collection.
He is chair of Trustees of the Artes Mundi Prize, and the founding chair of Wales’ pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He has been chief external advisor at the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Hong Kong; and visiting professor at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and at Australia National University Canberra. Mike gave the 2018 Ursula Hoff Lecture in curating at University of Melbourne, Australia.
Mike Tooby lives in Cardiff and is Professor of Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Film and Media, Bath Spa University.
Mike’s recent curating projects include wavespeech, with David Ward and Edmund De Waal, Pier Arts Centre Stromness (2016) and ‘Journeys with “The Waste Land”’, in Margate and Coventry (2018). He has been advisory curator for Coventry Cathedral for the series of artists’ commissions called ‘Broken Angel’ since 2020.
Bringing Light
Coventry Cathedral’s glass and the ‘Broken Angel’ project
Professor Michael Tooby introduces the stained and etched glass of Coventry Cathedral, and its importance to the Cathedral. He will describe the ‘Broken Angel’ project, 2020-23, for which he was advisory curator, where new art was made in response to the destruction of John Hutton’s ‘The Angel of The Eternal Gospel’ in the West Screen. Exploring the relationship between the old and new Cathedral, and different eras of the Cathedral’s windows, he will share thoughts about the role of glass and light in our experience of both.
Mike will bring along some items to do with the opening of the Cathedral in 1962, and will welcome anyone bringing their own memorabilia to look at.
Mike Tooby lives in Cardiff and is Professor of Curatorial Practice at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University.
Wednesday 13th November 2024 (7.30pm)
Robert Dudley’s Warwickshire
Tim Clark
Wednesday 11th December 2024 (7.30pm)
Christmas Songs through the Ages/Seasonal Refreshments
Dr Richard Churchley
Wednesday 8th January 2025 (7.30pm)
Many Cultures one Town
Stella Bolitho
Wednesday 12th February 2025 (7.30pm)
Hidden Depths, Canal Industry
Trevor Langley
Wednesday 12th March 2025 (7.30pm)
Leamington Sky Garden
Natalie Rothwell & David Snart
Wednesday 9th April 2025 (7.30pm)
AGM followed by Sheep that eat men, Washington & the wool trade
Martin Sirot – Smith
Wednesday 14th May 2025 (time TBC)
Visit to Stockton
Past Events
- Remembering old Southam
- The St. Paul’s Watch
- Family History and DNA
- Restoration of Ladbrooke Church
- Joseph Ashby’s Victorian Warwickshire
- Warwick’s First Factory
- Postcards of Coventry and further afield
- Visit to Country Bygones Musuem, Marton
- History of Kaye and Nelson Cement Works
- Plague Pestilence and Pox
- Stories behind Long Itchington War Memorial
- Long Itchington Houses
- Riot and Revolution
- A Trip Down The River Avon c1900
- Stand and Deliver – Notorious Highwaymen
- Ladbroke Village Walk
- Midland Murders – Infamous Cases from the Midlands
- Why Medieval Coventry could not survive into the 20th Century
- Early Photographs of Rugby and Surrounding Villages c1900
- Bells and Bell Ringing
- Upton House
- Canals – a 1960’s tour of the Grand Union
- A Pint of Ale – stories behind Southams’ Public Houses
- Guided Tour – the stories behind Southams Public Houses
- Ridge and Furrow
- Thornley
- Victorian & Edwardian Photographs in Warwickshire
- Drovers Roads
- The River Avon from its source
- Bandages and Fesh Air: The Story of the Grange V.A.D Hospital
- Dear Mother: Humour & Sentiment in WW1
- Memorial & Memories
- Development of the Police and Law Enforcement
- Life under the Romans
- Dr. Smorfitt’s Medical Bag
- The River Severn Story
- Southam Bobbies – 100 Years of Southam Police
- St. Mary’s Church, Warwick
- Coventry in WW1
- Agricultural Migration (From This Ground)
- 3d Slides of Leamington Spa
- Railways Around Rugby
- “Finds” in Long Itchington – Warwick Metal Detecting Club
- “Back Tracks” Detecting the Past
- Guided Walk around Kineton.
- Southam Ear and Eye Hospital
- Warwickshire Home Guard
- Experiences of a Local Conservation Structural Engineer
- 2000 Years of British Coinage
- All Roads Lead to Rome
- Tour of Harbury and visit to Harbury Heritage Centre