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The Arts Society Oxford \u2013 VISITS PROGRAMME 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday 21 January:\u00a0Strawberry Hill coach trip to see ‘The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill’ exhibition and enjoy a private tour of the nearby Ham House.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The trip starts with a visit to Ham House.\u00a0 This\u00a0rare and\u00a0atmospheric 17th Century home on the River Thames is a National Trust property.\u00a0 We view the grand rooms and artworks of the Dysart Family and then see what life was like in the servants’ quarters below stairs.\u00a0 We then travel the short distance to Strawberry Hill where you can enjoy an optional lunch at\u00a0Walpole’s Gothic masterpiece and see the ‘Lost\u00a0Treasures of Strawberry Hill’ exhibition. \u00a0This exhibition brings back to Strawberry Hill 150 of the most\u00a0important masterpieces in Horace Walpole\u2019s famous and unique collection\u00a0for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.\u00a0 4,000 items were dispersed in a great sale in 1842. For the\u00a0first time in over 170 years, Strawberry Hill can be seen as Walpole\u00a0conceived it, with the masterpieces in the interiors as he designed it and\u00a0shown in their original positions.” COST \u00a332 (NT members), \u00a344 (non-NT members), including all costs except the optional lunch.<\/p>\n

Monday 11 and Wednesday 20 February:\u00a0Relax away from the cold\u00a0February weather and have\u00a0a\u00a0delicious Afternoon Tea (Coffee\/Tea, scones, sandwiches and cake) at University College with Alastair Lack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before tea, join Alastair, blue badge guide, and see the extraordinary Shelley Memorial, the magnificent stained glass in the chapel and the fine portraits in the dining hall (including one by Graham Sutherland).\u00a0 Founded by William of Durham who died in 1249, University is the oldest college in Oxford or Cambridge. COST \u00a314, including afternoon tea.<\/p>\n

12, 20, 26 March and 11 April: Four\u00a0Afternoon Walking Tours with Alastair Lack, to visit Three Oxford Chapels\u00a0(Pusey House, Worcester and Nuffield). \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oxford abounds in celebrated chapels but this visit takes in three less well-known chapels at Pusey House, Worcester and Nuffield. \u00a0Pusey House in St Giles was founded in 1884 in memory of Edward Pusey, a founding father of the Oxford Movement.\u00a0 The chapel was designed in late Gothic style by Temple Moore and features an east window and altar with canopy by Sir Ninian Comper.\u00a0 Worcester chapel remains an outstanding example of the work of William Burges, featuring luxurious architecture and decoration, with elaborate floor mosaics, rich ceiling patterns and an altar window by Henry Holiday.\u00a0 The third chapel at Nuffield is charming and intimate and owes a great deal to the artist and designer, John Piper, who designed the windows.\u00a0 COST \u00a36<\/p>\n

Friday 5 April: Make your way to London to visit\u00a0The Ruskin Exhibition at Two Temple Place and the nearby Sir John Soane’s Museum.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We meet at 11:00 at Two Temple Place when our tour of the Ruskin exhibition, ‘The power of seeing’ begins. To mark the bicentenary of his birth, a new exhibition\u00a0celebrates the legacy and enduring relevance of Ruskin\u2019s ideas and vision.\u00a0The exhibition brings together\u00a0over 190 paintings, drawings, daguerreotypes, metal work, and plaster casts to illustrate how Ruskin\u2019s attitude to aesthetic beauty shaped his radical views on culture and society.\u00a0After a break for lunch we enjoy a guided highlights tour of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. \u00a0This historic house, of\u00a0the\u00a0distinguished architect Sir John Soane, has been left untouched since his death \u2013 180 years ago. He built the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as his own extraordinary home by buying, demolishing and rebuilding three houses in Lincoln\u2019s Inn Fields to house his wonderful eclectic collection. COST \u00a38.50, but excludes transport and the optional lunch.<\/p>\n

Monday 6 May (which is a bank holiday): Make your way London to visit\u00a0The Wallace Collection and enjoy a Lunchtime Concert at Wigmore Hall.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will meet for coffee at The Wallace Collection and have a guided highlights tour of the artworks and building.\u00a0 Built over the 18th and 19th centuries by the Marquis of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace it is one of the finest and most celebrated collections of paintings, sculpture, furniture, armour and porcelain in the world. \u00a0The whole collection was given to the nation in 1897.\u00a0 We then walk the short distance to Wigmore Hall where we attend a lovely lunchtime concert by\u00a0the internationally renowned King’s Singers \u2013 the masters of a cappella singing. \u00a0They will take us through “An Unconventional Journey from Moscow to London in one hour”.\u00a0 The Hall\u00a0was built in 1901\u00a0<\/strong>by the German piano firm Bechstein and achieves its intended aim to be grandly impressive while remaining intimate enough for recitals.\u00a0 We have arranged an optional lunch after the concert in Wigmore Hall’s elegant restaurant before returning to Oxford.\u00a0 COST \u00a324 to include Wallace tour and concert ticket, but excludes transport, coffee and lunch (\u00a315.95, 2 courses\/\u00a320.95, 3 courses).<\/p>\n

19-23 May:\u00a0Trip to Budapest.\u00a0 This trip is going ahead as planned – 22 have booked and Sarah Whiteley will lead it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday 17 June:\u00a0Coach trip to\u00a0Boughton House, ‘The English Versailles’.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boughton House is rarely open to the public and this will be a private tour, exclusively for TASO.\u00a0 It is a fully inclusive day with coffee on arrival, a guided tour of the house* before a delicious buffet lunch and an afternoon tour of the gardens. Discover\u00a0one of Britain\u2019s grandest and best-preserved stately homes, with its outstanding collections of fine art, furniture, tapestries, porcelain and carpets.\u00a0 Here you can walk through grand apartments of contrasting character decorated in extravagant yet elegant taste. Paintings adorn the walls, including The Adoration of the Shepherds by El Greco, Gainsborough\u2019s portrait of Mary Montagu, grisailles and portraits by Van Dyck and Breaking Cover by John Wootton.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve had a tour of the House and lunch, you can step out into the surrounding country park. Its tranquil delights have been carefully restored over the last decade.\u00a0 There are wide sculptured lawns to survey, serene lakes, waterways, woods and avenues of trees to be enjoyed.\u00a0 COST: \u00a353 fully inclusive, except wine with lunch.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 17 July:\u00a0Coach trip to Wilton House\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilton House is one of the premier examples of Palladian architecture – re-built in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb. It is renowned for its 17th Century State apartments, the 19th century cloisters and the gardens with its famous Palladian Bridge.\u00a0 Included is coffee on arrival and a 90-minute guided tour of the house, which has an impressive number of portraits by Van Dyck and paintings by Lely, Rembrandt and Brueghel the younger.\u00a0 There is plenty of time for lunch and a stroll round the wonderful grounds in the afternoon. COST: \u00a339.50 includes transport, tour and coffee but excludes the optional lunch.<\/p>\n

Want to know more?\u00a0 Come and talk to us at the visits desk in reception before lectures.\u00a0 You can book for current visits and tell us your\u00a0ideas\u00a0for future trips.\u00a0 You can also email us for further information at tasoxford@gmail.com.\u00a0 We hope and will come and enjoy at least one of these\u00a0events in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*The Duke of Buccleuch, who owns Boughton House, has kindly offered to donate our entry fees to an arts charity, Keiskamma Art Project based in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is a collaborative community-owned art outlet and workshop that enjoys the participation of over 100 local artists and crafters in the Keiskamma, Hamburg area.\u00a0 It is well known for its tapestries, one of which hangs in Boughton House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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