Coming soon a visit to Champs Hill to see the Bowerman Trust’s private collection of paintings by artists from the Cornish Newlyn School . There will be a short introductory talk with coffee and biscuits. After visiting the exhibition we will have the opportunity to walk round the gardens.

Full details and bookng forms will be available from our lecture on10 February

Chairman’s Report 2024/25

Dear Members

First, I would like to thank you for renewing your membership of the Society. There are significant financial pressures on all of us and it is good to see that you are still showing an active interest in the series of lectures, visits and Special Interest days which we are offering for the coming season. We hope that you will enjoy these.

We are still happy to welcome new members and if you have friends or neighbours who may be interested please do not hesitate to invite them to come as a guest.

I hope that you will find the coming year’s programme interesting and stimulating.

The lecture programme through the last season was very well received. Most lectures were rated ‘Excellent’ and two as ‘Outstanding’

We experienced some unexpected glitches early in the season with the Assembly Room both with lighting and sound due to some unannounced renovations which however were eventually resolved successfully.

We had two Study Days shared with the other Chichester Arts Societies. Both were very successful.

There were a number of visits through the year to Winchester, Portsmouth Distillery and Tudeley and Standen House, which have all been much enjoyed. We also enjoyed the novelty of a ‘virtual’ live tour of the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice given by Italian guide Luisella Romeo to members in the Assembly Room, followed by Italian drinks and nibbles.

There was a very successful Summer Social at Stansted House, with guided tours of the House and Chapel and tea. 

Ian Milton as Heritage Arts Co-ordinator also reformed his team of helpers to complete the second phase of the organisation of the  Chichester Cathedral Muniment Room. This has provided a comprehensive catalogue of almost 2600 documents which can now be accessed and borrowed by researchers.

Our Young Arts Programme this year was our support for the University of Chichester’s Fine Arts Graduates Show which took place in the Oxmarket Gallery. The students much appreciated the opportunity to showcase their works to a public audience. They also learnt the fundamentals of preparing for a professional exhibition. We wished them well for their professional futures. We liaised with the other daytime Chichester Arts Societies in this and are planning further co-operation for other projects next year. Funding for this came from the Arts Society nationally.

Last year the national organisation of the Arts Society was in some turmoil. A new Board of trustees was elected in August last year and they have engaged in reviewing the Society’s position and setting out their view of how we should approach the future.  Their focus will be firmly on promoting the Arts Society brand, and on increasing the membership of The Arts Society, to enable us to continue to deliver its charitable objects through the local society network. We support this and hope that it will enable all the Societies to thrive and grow. They will be continuing funding of larger scale projects but the format of this will be slightly different.

I should not finish the round-up of the year without also thanking the people behind the scenes who make the provision of the programme possible:

·       Tony Chapman, our Treasurer, for his grip on our finances and dealing with the lecturers increasingly complex audio-visual requirements

·       Hilary Williams for organisation of the programme of lecturers

·       Ian Milton for the organisation of the visits and

·       Joan Langhorne for her valuable assistance on these

·       Prim Hoult, in addition to her joint membership Secretary role, for the organisation of the Summer Social

·       Ros Bowen, joint membership Secretary, for delivery of the monthly Updates

·       Kathryn Pearce our Honorary Secretary who has produced all our Agendas and Committee minutes, together with the necessary tea and coffee at our meetings

·       Debs Bartlett-Pitt for the organisation of the Study Day on Opera

·       to Prim Hoult, Joan Langhorne, Sue Waring, Rosy McNally, Ruth Ritchie and other members for the provision of the excellent refreshments at our virtual Venice tour

·       Chris Wharf for organisation at each lecture of our team of reception volunteers

Best wishes to you all.

Gillian Scott

Chairman

The Arts Society Chichester Lavant Valley

MINUTES OF THE THIRTY NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

TUESDAY, 08  OCTOBER 2024 AT 2.00 PM

THE ASSEMBLY ROOM NORTH STREET CHICHESTER

Gillian Scott, Chair, opened the meeting at 2 pm and welcomed members.

1       Apologies for absence

Apologies were received from Linda McNab, Pam Priscott, Patricia Goodhew, Kathryn Pearce, Ian and Ann Milton and Joan Langhorne

2       Approval of documents –the following documents had been available on the Society’s website

                                                    i.     Minutes of the thirty eighth Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday, 10 October 2023

                                                   ii.     The Chairman’s Report 2023-2024

                             iii.     The Treasurer’s Report and Examined Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2024

and were taken as read.

Approval of these documents was proposed by Janet Beveridge seconded by Ian Farman and approved unanimously

Gillian handed over to Sybil Papworth the President of the Society to conduct the elections of the Officers

3       Election of the  Officers of the Society

The following Officers offered themselves for re-election en bloc:

i         Gillian Scott as Chair       

ii        Kathryn Pearce as Honorary Secretary

iii      Tony Chapman as Treasurer and Audio-Visual Officer

Approval of this was proposed by Graham Papworth seconded by Angela Boucherat  and carried unanimously

Gillian having been re-elected resumed as Chair of the meeting

4       Re-election of the Committee

The following members of the Committee offered themselves for re-election en bloc:

i.       Hilary Williams as Programme Secretary

ii.     Prim Hoult and Rosalind Bowen as joint Membership

Secretaries

 iii.  Ian Milton as Heritage Arts and Visits Co-Ordinator

 iv.  Deborah Bartlett-Pitt as Study Day Co-Ordinator

 v.   Joan Langhorne   

 Approval of this was proposed by Chris Wharf seconded by Sue Farman and carried   unanimously

5  Election of the Committee

Sybil Papworth retired as Honorary President of the Society

Gillian asked the members to approve her proposal of the election of Ian Farman as Honorary President of the Society, seconded by Tony Chapman, which was carried unanimously

6  The appointment of Financial Examiner for the accounts for the year 2024/2025

John Aitken was proposed by Tony Chapman and seconded by Ian Farman and approved unanimously

7  Any Other Business

In the absence of the Secretary Gillian confirmed that there was no other business

8. Vote of Thanks  

Gillian paid tribute to Sybil Papworth the retiring President for her unstinting support of the Society and the Committee over many years and made a presentation to her.

The meeting closed at 2.11pm

Annual Accounts to 30 June 2025

https://www.theartssocietylavantvalley.org.uk/DocumentStore/TASCLV%20Annual%202025.pdf

The Society in conjunction with the Arts Societies Chichester and City of Chichester are sponsoring the Chichester University Arts Graduates' Show at the Oxmarket  Chichester from 24 June to 6 July: all visitors will be welcome to support the artists at the beginning of their careers.

Dear Member,

You will have received by post or e mail the Agenda for our 2024 AGM to be held on 8th October in the Assembly Room, prior to the first lecture of our season for 2024/25. All the other AGM papers are on our website.

We are all aware of the increasing cost of all living expenses and we are grateful that you have decided to renew your membership in the face of these pressures on budgets.

We do still need new members and would welcome any of your friends and others who might consider joining. Guests will be welcome to our lectures and we hope that you would be happy to recommend a visit. We have decided that this year we will increase the guest visitor fee to £10 which we feel reflects good value for money, but this will be deducted from the membership fee, if the guest decides to join.

This has been my first year as Chairman, and it has been a bit of a learning curve. Public speaking is not my forte and despite my best endeavours, I haven’t yet grown tall enough to speak clearly into the mic. My semaphore of the fire exits is, I hope, improving.  My apologies to all who struggle to hear the announcements.

Our lectures in the Assembly Room were all well-received. There were two Study Days, one run by Debs Bartlett-Pitt on behalf of this Society and the other in co-operation with us by TAS City of Chichester which were both very successful. 

There was a range of visits managed by Ian Milton our Visits Co-ordinator, including two tours of St Mary’s Hospital, the alms houses in Chichester, the second as a result of the popularity of the first and tours of Watts Gallery and most recently Parham House and Garden which were excellent.

We had a successful Summer Social at Goodwood organised by Joan Langhorne and blessed with lovely weather.

Ian Milton as Heritage Arts Co-ordinator has been hoping to get us restarted on the second phase of the Chichester Cathedral project, but this has again been delayed by the Cathedral and may start in the Autumn.

We obtained from the Arts Society Headquarters a grant from the Patricia Fay Fund, which in collaboration with the other Chichester daytime Arts Societies has been used sponsor the University of Chichester Fine Arts Graduates’ Show at the Oxmarket. This has proved very welcome to the graduates who expressed their thanks to us for this support in the first professional exhibition of their careers. We are hoping to continue this support during 2024/25.

The Arts Society (nationally) continues to provide us with support for our work and in running the Directory which provides all the excellent lecturers who visit us.

During the course of the year there was however a move to change its constitution which would have resulted in a loss of the individual Societies’ membership of the Arts Society and our ability to vote on the appointment of the Trustees who are responsible for running the organisation. In common with the substantial majority of local Societies, your Committee was opposed to this. As a result of the vote which was taken the proposals were overwhelmingly defeated. At the AGM of The Arts Society (nationally) to take place in August the present Trustees have said they will resign and new Trustees selected by the member organisations will replace them.

We are hopeful that the new Trustees will endeavour to increase The Arts Society’s public profile to help us locally with membership.  This report is written before that AGM has taken place.

Finally, I must thank the members of the Committee without whom it would not be possible to bring you the lectures and events which we have had this year and those which are planned.

In addition to those mentioned above:

Tony Chapman has once again been indefatigable in keeping our accounts, juggling this with the audio-visual requirements of the lecturers, and keeping the website up-to-date

Hilary Williams our new Programme Secretary, who is also an AS lecturer, has brought her erudition to managing and welcoming the lecturers professionally.

Prim Hoult and Ros Bowen as joint membership secretaries have dealt with the renewals, new members and all queries, in addition to Ros’ dealing with the distribution of the monthly Newsletter to members.

Kathryn Pearce as Honorary Secretary has kept us all in the loop for our meetings and made sure no item was overlooked

Last but certainly not least I must say thank you to Sybil Papworth who is retiring as our Honorary President at this meeting. She was a founder member of the Society and has been a tremendous support for all of us throughout. Her knowledge and understanding of the arts is immense and she has used this for the Society’s benefit tirelessly. Her kindness and generosity with her time and advice cannot be exaggerated. It has been a great privilege to have her on the Committee and I thank her for everything she has done for us over many years and for her support for me personally during this my first year as Chairman. We wish her a happy and deserved retirement.

Best wishes to you all

Gillian Scott

Chairman

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October 2023 AGM Minutes

2023/24 Financial Statement

SUMMER SOCIAL 29TH JULY 2024 GOODWOOD HOUSE TOUR AND TEA

Join us at Goodwood House at 1pm for 1.15pm on 29th July for a tour of the ground floor of Goodwood House, about 1 hour, followed by a sit-down afternoon tea. The cost for each member will be £34

Meet in the Car park which is  well sign posted . If anyone needs to be dropped off at the front door that is fine. Any member who is disabled but drives themselves may park at the front door.  Please let us  know of anyone who may need assistance so we can notify the House.

 Please also let us know if you have any dietary requirements

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SUMMER SOCIAL 29 July 2024 Booking Form

Please send this booking form, together with confirmation of your payment to the Society’s bank account( details below)  or your cheque payable to The Arts Society, Chichester Lavant Valley to: Joan Langhorne,Burfield Stables,Bosham Lane,PO18 8HG or  email to jlanghorne@talktalk.net

 BACS payments please at £34 per member to TAS Chichester Lavant Valley,

Sort Code 20-69-34.  Account 90399159 and include your name and postcode as reference  payment made £

   Cheque  £

 Please tick box as appropriate

Name: 1 

Name 2

Address:__________________________________________

email _________________________Tel No

Emergency Contact Details Name: _________________________________

Phone No_____________________________________

 Dietary Requirements: ___________________________________

One of the world’s greatest chamber orchestras, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields will visit beautiful Chichester cathedral for a programme featuring some of the world’s most sublime music. From Mozart and Beethoven to Vaughan Williams and a new piece from Errollyn Wallen CBE this evening of music-making promises to delight audiences and celebrate this internationally-renowned orchestra at its best. Tickets available through Eventbrite from £20 or contact The Academy of St Martin in the Fields website direct on https://www.asmf.org/whats-on/asmf-cathedrals-tour/

The Arts Society Turners Hill

SPECIAL INTEREST DAY – WEDNESDAY 1 MAY 2024

To be held in the Dove Suite at The Ark, Turners Hill. Timing 10.00 - 15.00

Subject: How the Art Market developed from the Renaissance to the 21st Century

Lecturer: Dr Tom Flynn

We will look at how the European art market has evolved from a structure of commissioning and   elite patronage by the wealthy princes of the Italian Renaissance, through to the commercial instincts of the merchant classes of Holland's Golden Age, and on to the impact of the Grand Tour on British tastes in the eighteenth century. We then explore the gradual appearance of a professional  ̳dealer‘ class in France and England in the nineteenth century before focusing on the speculative activities at work in the twentieth century art market. It's a fascinating story of capitalist self-interest, connoisseurship, commercial acumen, occasional bad behaviour and frequent sleight of hand.

The lectures touch on the emergence of an entrepreneurial middle class in the mid-nineteenth century whose members sought to emulate the aristocracy through their consumer choices, leisure activities and aesthetic tastes. Conspicuous consumption — the eternal desire of successful people to display their success through the works of art they acquire — remains as powerful a driver of the global art market today as it was in Renaissance Florence.

Agenda: Timings are approximate

10.00 Arrival and Coffee

10.30 First Lecture – The Art Market from the Renaissance to the 19th Century

11.30 Comfort Break

11.45 Second Lecture – The Art Market in the 20th Century

12.45 Buffet Lunch

13.45 Third Lecture – The Art Market in the 21st Century

15.00 Finish

For more information about each lecture see our website: www.theartssocietyturnershill.org.uk

Cost: £38 which includes morning coffee and buffet lunch with a choice of sandwiches, fresh fruit,chocolate brownie, wine and coffee

Closing date: Wednesday 24 April 2024

Contact Rosemary Chamberlain on 01342 322940 or jandrchamberlain@sky.com so that we know  that you wish to attend as numbers will be restricted.

Payment by Internet Banking

Account 96664339 (The Arts Society Turners Hill)

Sort Code 60-07-17 using the reference ―TH May SID‖

Please note: Once the society has committed to expenditure, refunds cannot be made except when The Society cancels the event. Where a member is unable to attend due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance and the event is sold out, and The Society has a waiting list, The Society will endeavour to resell the tickets on behalf of the member. This does not prevent a member making their own arrangement to pass on or resell a ticket to another person. (Please inform the organiser if this happens).

19.00 at the Show Room, University of Chichester; tickets £12.50, students free

A Celebration of British  jazz saxophonist Bobby Wellins fund raising for Sage House by Dementia Support

For more details contact conservatoire@chi.ac.uk

www.ticketsource.co.uk/universityofchichestermusic

Bishop Luffa Student  Robbie Phillips is an entrant in the Royal Society of British Artists’ competition for  A level students. His entry “Fallen Angel”  may be seen online.

 The winner and runner-up will be chosen by your votes : view his and the other entries and vote at www.theartssociety.org/art-gallery by  February 29th

Bishop Luffa’s participation in the competition has been fostered by TAS City of Chichester

See our Study Day page for details of this event in Ditchling

The Arts Society Midhurst

A mid-winter teatime

Zoom lecture

Thursday, 11th January 2024 starting at 5.00pm

Hans Holbein the Younger at the Tudor Court

This lecture is designed to complement the major exhibition Holbein at the Tudor Court, showing at the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

LECTURE: This major exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view more than 100 works by Holbein from Henry VIII’s court. including drawings, paintings, miniatures and book illustrations by the artist and will tell the stories of his sitters through the portraits he created. Many of these works cannot be on permanent display for conservation reasons, but the exhibition will give visitors the rare opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the key figures of the Tudor court, from Anne Boleyn to Sir Thomas More.

This Zoom lecture is designed to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of those wishing to visit the exhibition on their own, with friends or a part of a group. It also aims to provide an opportunity to learn about Holbein, to put his approach to portraiture into context and reveal more about the intriguing characters known to us through Tudor history

Lecturer: Jane Choy Thurlow is a docent and enjoys giving lectures and tours at the Mauritshuis, Prince William V gallery and Huygens Museum Hofwijck in The Hague.

She received her BSc from Salem State University, USA , her MEd from Trinity College Dublin and continued art history studies at Leiden University.  In 2018, she was given the Order of Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau by the Dutch King Willem Alexander of Orange for her knowledge and work in the field of 15th – 17th century Arts.  Her knowledge of Holbein’s paintings is impressive and her talk is designed to enhance the viewer’s understanding of Holbein’s works.

To join the Zoom lecture please email Bridget Adler at  tasm.membership@gmail.com   Price £7.50 payable to The Arts Society - preferably by  BACS 20-20-65 -  00295604 - please use your name as a reference.  Once you have paid, you will be sent the zoom access code on the 7th January 2024

Join us for a talk by conservator Ying Yang on the restoration of one
of Goodwood House’s most significant portraits, with a Champagne
and canapé reception in the State Apartments of Goodwood House.

Whilst working on Sir Godfrey Kneller’s painting of Louise
de Keroualle (c.1680), mother of the 1st Duke of Richmond and
mistress of King Charles II, Ying realised the painting was not
as it appeared. Employing ultraviolet photography, decades of
expertise and historical detection, Ying unearthed finds that
are changing the way the artwork is understood.

Book online at

goodwood.com/visit-eat-stay/goodwood-house/ying-yang-talk/

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2022/23 Receipts & Payments

2021/22 AGM MInutes

Dear Member,

You will have received by email the Agenda for our 2023 AGM, to be held on 10th October, before our first lecture of the 2023/24 season. This year all other AGM papers are on our website; this is to avoid heavy postage costs. 

Thank you for renewing your membership. We appreciate that times are financially difficult for many. But our costs – for lectures, room hire and the like – have all risen and we needed to increase the subscription fee this year - after a long pause - in order to maintain a healthy financial position (see Annual Accounts in AGM papers).

This year, we have had a number of members who, for a variety of reasons, have not renewed their membership. We do need new members to keep subscription costs down. The best recruitment method is by recommendation from you, the existing members, so do please help us find replacements for those who have left. We are planning a voucher system to assist in this.

I hope that you will find the coming year’s programme to be as wide-ranging and interesting as usual. The nine lectures, combined with our Study Days, the national AS offerings, magazine and our Visits, still represent excellent value for money – and offer very high quality.

Looking over last year, it was a real pleasure to get back to normal after the trials of lockdown. We held all our lectures live in the Assembly Room – with tea again served! We had two Study Days, shared with the other Chichester Arts Societies. We had a range of excellent Visits to, inter alia, the Sussex Landscapes exhibition at Pallant House; the Towner and Russell-Cotes galleries; and the Wallace Collection in London. We had a very successful Summer Social at Tinwood Vineyard. Grateful thanks to Ian Milton and Marilyn Humphrey for all their hard work in the organisation.

Ian Milton also led our Heritage project at the Cathedral, archiving their property records, which our members involved much enjoyed and completed this year. The Arts Society nationally, in order to secure its charitable status, disburses grants to other charities and organisations involved in a range of arts activities – to help them achieve their objectives. We secured funding from AS Headquarters to support Pallant House Gallery with materials to help less-able visitors to enjoy their exhibits (again jointly with the other Chichester Societies) and also to help attendees at Sage House at Tangmere with art classes. Many thanks to Angela Hodgson for all she has done on our Volunteer and Young Arts work.

An awful lot of work goes on “behind the scenes” to bring you our annual Programme. In addition to those mentioned above, I would like to pay particular tribute

• to my Vice-Chairman, Gillian Scott, for all that she has done to put together such an excellent range of lectures and Study Days;
• to Tony Chapman for not only keeping our finances in good order, but also dealing with the vagaries of lecturers’ audio-visual needs;
• to Patricia Goodhew for her Hon Secretarial load, keeping us on the straight and narrow under our constitution and at all our meetings
• to our Membership Secretary Sue Farman for her work in dealing with annual membership renewals, our records and enquiries throughout the year
• to our President Sybil Papworth for her wise counsel and support
• Chris Wharf and all her Registration volunteers.

This was my last year as Chairman, having had my tenure extended due to the covid lockdown. I stand down at the AGM and, as you will see from the Agenda, so do a number of our long-serving Committee members. We all owe them an enormous debt of gratitude for keeping our Society not only afloat, but active and thriving, through the most difficult period in its long history.

I am delighted that we have been able to recruit excellent nominees to form our new Committee, with Gillian Scott as our proposed new Chair. I commend them to you and wish them every success.

Best wishes to you all.

Ian Farman. Chairman.

The Arts Society Portsdown is organising a Special Interest Day on Scandinavian Art and Hilma af Klint on Wednesday 21st June and would like to extend an invitation to your members to join us at The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, East Street Havant.

This is a joint event with The Spring and is open to all. It coincides with the major retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern, Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian. We have arranged for the Arts Society Lecturer, Dr Caroline Levisse to give a lecture, followed by a film screened in The Spring Theatre and a discussion with Dr Levisse.

£10 concession for Arts Society members.  £12 full price

Book via The Spring Box Office 023 9247 2700, or at www.thespring.co.uk

Best wishes,

Pat Hindley

Chair, The Arts Society Portsdown

Subscription 2023/24 for TAS Chichecster Lavant Valley.

£50 please

Renewal Forms will be issued shortly

SAGE HOUSE DEMENTIA SUPPORT HUB
Based in Tangmere near Chichester, this Support Hub offers a range of therapeutic activities for those suffering with Dementia. 
In March 2023 we sponsored Art and Craft experiences and Spring flower- arranging workshops.
It is hoped we may continue our support for similar projects in the future.

The Chichester Combined Church Recording Group is well and truly back in operation! We have resumed producing our record of St George’s Church in Whyke and would welcome recorders to the group, as our number has been reduced because of illness.

If you are interested in recording the contents of a church, have a computer and an interest in the subject, there is more work to do in St George’s - although the Memorials, Stonework, Woodwork, Windows, Library are now completed.

At present we meet every Monday morning 10.00-12.00 as we are trying to make up for the long gap we had when we were unable to record in 2020 and 2021.

Just a little warning – Church Recording is addictive…

Jennifer Woolfrey 01243 530745 jenniferwoolfrey@outlook.com

THE ARTS SOCIETY CHICHESTER LAVANT VALLEY – FEBRUARY 2022 UPDATE

Dear Member,

I hope you are keeping well. I would like to update you about our forthcoming events.

8th February Lecture LIVE – “Art & Architecture; Estranged Bedfellows”

In the light of the reduced number of omicron cases in our area and the relaxation of Government covid restrictions, we have decided that this lecture will be held live in the Assembly Room. 2.00 pm start – please do not arrive before 1.30 pm.

Please continue to wear a face covering once you are inside the building. Spaced out seating and ventilation will continue and we shall seek to avoid bunching. We shall continue with live lectures unless there is another covid wave. We hope to resume teas in April.

8th March Lecture – “Smallhythe Place & Other Hidden Gems” – Valuations for Members

Our March lecturer is John Benjamin, who will be well known to members as the long-standing jewellery expert on the BBC’s  Antiques Roadshow.

John has kindly agreed to assess/value items of jewellery which members might wish to bring along. He will do this after the lecture. We shall need to limit members to one item each and also limit and pre-register the number of members John can see. To register your interest, please email our Programme Secretary Gillian Scott at gillian.scottaslv@gmail.com before 5th March. First come, first served.

A Virtual Visit to St Mark’s Square, Venice – 29th March 2.00 pm

We had planned a Visit in March to the Wallace Collection in London to link in with our January lecture. However, group visits are still not available there (though we hope to reinstate this Visit later in the year).

To make up for this, we have arranged a Virtual Visit on Zoom to all the fascinating buildings around St Mark’s Square in Venice, with a qualified guide, Luisella Romeo. This will be a live broadcast. Further details are up on our website and the link to join will follow by email. Mark the date!

Best wishes from your Committee.

Ian Farman. Chairman.

THE ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2020/21

Well, what a year! It is actually quite difficult to remember all that has come to pass since my last Report and I am not going to try to give a detailed account. My hope, above all, is that you have come through the worst of the pandemic as unscathed as possible and that we are able to look forward now to better times and delivering our varied and exciting Programme for next season in a more normal way.

Thank you for renewing your membership. Your Committee is grateful to you for placing your faith in our Society.

Our lectures and virtual tours last year were of course all delivered by Zoom, apart from the very successful visit to the Festival Theatre. We were delighted that so many of you mastered the technology and were able to join in with these; our lecturers and tour guides did us proud and we were so glad we were able to give you the full list of our lectures – with some extra visits and talks thrown in. For those without internet access, we hope that at least our regular Updates kept you in touch.

We have been liaising with the City Council regarding our return to the Assembly Room for our lectures, taking account of required covid precautions. We have completed a full risk assessment and you have with this mailing a Note of the things we need to do in order to stay safe. Do please read this before our first lecture on October 12th. Should covid rules change, we have worked out back-up approaches to deliver lectures and will advise you of these as necessary. We will also advise you of the way in which visits will be safely handled when these are advertised.

Our Arts Volunteering and Heritage Volunteering programmes were also curtailed last year. We did however support the AS Sussex Area sponsorship of a metalworking student at West Dean College and also provided support to young musicians at West Sussex Music and an arts project at West Dean School. Our Heritage programme to catalogue the Cathedral’s property records is now scheduled to start this autumn.              

You will see from our Treasurer’s Report that our finances remain in good shape – hence our decision to give a one-off reduction in membership fee for 2021/22. Though still healthy, our membership numbers have dropped somewhat – at least partly due to the impact of the pandemic. So do please use every effort to bring in new members to join us. (We shall be undertaking some additional marketing alongside a recruitment campaign by the National AS).

Your Committee is standing for election again en bloc. I cannot say how much that I have valued their support over this very difficult and time-consuming year. They have worked tirelessly to give members the full programme, learning all sorts of new tricks on the way! We owe them a considerable debt.

But we have been unable to work on recruiting new Committee members and a large number of the present Committee will stand down at the end of this year. So, we really do need volunteers for the Committee urgently – to allow for a period of overlap. Please do come forward when we can meet again.

Until then – best wishes.

Ian Farman.

Chairman.

THE ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY – APRIL 2021 UPDATE

Dear Member,

I know that you do not usually have access to email or to Zoom online for our lectures and virtual visits. So I am posting this Update to you, so you have access to booking the live Visit planned for June – see below – and in case after vaccination you are able to join another member with computer facilities.

As I mentioned last month, we are carrying on with Zoom lectures - and a virtual visit - for April and May. You will see below that we have a live visit planned for June; whether June’s lecture can be back in the Assembly Room depends upon Government rules which are yet to be published. Hopefully more news by May’s Update.

The April Lecture

This will be on line by Zoom on Tuesday 13th April starting at 2.00 pm. Join using the link below from 1.30pm – please don’t leave it too late or you may be shut out. Alexandra Epps will talk to us about Peggy Guggenheim, the “poor little rich girl” who arguably changed the face of public art in the 20th Century. Looks to be fascinating.

Meeting ID 622 364 0593     Passcode tony 123

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6223640593?pwd=MHQ5ekdGSWFhdlMwa25MNjY2eVVqUT09

May and June Visits

Following our May lecture on 11th May (“Painting the Modern Garden – From Monet to Matisse”), we have arranged another virtual visit on Zoom, this time to the historic City of York on Tuesday 25th May at 2.00 pm. Full details in the May Update.

On Wednesday 23rd June, we have organised a live visit to the exhibition of 19th Century European Art at Champs Hill. By then, on the timetable for release from lockdown, we should be free of restrictions and able to wander round the self-guided exhibition and the glorious gardens freely. But, to be on the safe side, we are restricted to 30 tickets, which at least initially will be for ASLV members only.                                      

Many of you will have been to the Bowerman Foundation at Champs Hill before. Champs Hill is just south of Pulborough and we shall drive ourselves there for a 2.00 pm start. There is plenty of parking. To get to the exhibition and see the gardens will involve a certain amount of walking.

If you would like to join us, please complete the attached Booking Form and return it with your cheque and SAE as shown. (We are asked to pay a £10 donation per member. Cheques will not be banked until we are certain the visit can proceed; money cannot be refunded once cheques are banked).

The Booking Form is also on our website. Only if you are really unable to print off the Form, please email Ian Milton at iansmilton@hotmail.com or phone him on 01243 371788 to request alternative arrangements. Full exhibition and joining information will be posted to you.

Look after yourselves and hope to see you again for the April lecture.

Best wishes to you all from your Committee.

Ian Farman. Chairman.

THE ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY

BOOKING FORM FOR VISIT TO CHAMPS HILL ON 23RD JUNE 2021 at 2.00 pm

Please note that the Visit is initially for ASLV members only

I/we wish to apply for …..tickets @ £10 per member

I/we enclose a cheque for £……..  made payable to ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY together with a stamped addressed return envelope – please don’t forget this!

Please send this Form to our Committee member:-
Ian Milton, 15 Southbourne Avenue, Emsworth PO10 8BB.

Member’s name(s)……………………………………………………………………………………………

Address ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Postcode……………………………  Tel No…………………………………………………………………

Email address…………………………………………………………………………………………………..

EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION (Must be completed please)

Member’s name(s)………………………………………………………………………………………….

Name of Person to be contacted in Emergency …………………………………………….

Relationship to you………………………………………………………………………………………….

Telephone number of Emergency Contact………………………………………………………

Do you carry essential medications with you?    YES/NO

If Yes, please bring a list with you for possible use by medical staff                             

Click on Zoom Meeting Instructions

ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY – JUNE 2020 UPDATE FOR MEMBERS

Dear Members,

For those able to join us for Peter Medhurst’s Venice Zoom lecture last Tuesday, I do hope you enjoyed what your Committee felt was an outstanding first run in this new format. It was a real delight to see so many of you on line and greeting one another. Quite like a party! 

We were one of the first two Arts Societies in Sussex to trial this new lecture format and, now that we know it works and a significant number of you can join in, we are offering you another.

So mark your diaries for 2.00pm on Tuesday 14th July, when our new Programme Secretary Claire Power has arranged a Zoom lecture by the highly-recommended Rosalind Whyte on “Spirituality in 20th Century Art”. 

The lecture will cover the overtly religious work of artists such as Eric Gill, as well as the more generally spiritual elements of work by artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. It will also look at work by Kandinsky and Mondrian and later artists and should be very interesting and wide-ranging. 

Do please join us and ask other members to do so. We will let you have the Zoom joining links on 13th July by email. (Instructions for setting up Zoom on your machine were in the May Member Update and are on the ASLV website under News).

Your Committee continues to work hard to set up the programme for the 2020/21 season. We have all the lectures and one Study Day organised and Visits planned. The manner and timings in which we will be able to deliver these to you will of course depend upon Government guidelines as these evolve; but we are being as adaptable as possible in our planning so that we stand the best chance of giving you a full programme. (An outline of the programme was in your April Update).

You will receive membership renewal forms by post in the first part of July. Do please renew your membership! It provides most of our income and very good value for money in what you get from ASLV and the National Arts Society and – as I have said – we plan to give you what you have come to expect for your subscription come what may.

Look after yourselves and best wishes.

Ian Farman.
Chairman.

ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY – MAY 2020 UPDATE FOR MEMBERS
Dear members,

First, I hope that this finds you and your families in good health and not too affected by all the consequences of the corona virus outbreak.

Your Committee has continued to work, meet and plan ahead in the lockdown period. We have done this by using Zoom, an internet meeting facility. We would like to give you this Update on our current thoughts.

As you all know, we had to cancel our lectures scheduled for April, May and June.
However, we have now arranged for you to receive via the Zoom internet application a lecture on Tuesday 9th June at our usual time of 2.00 pm (though you will need to join in 10 minutes beforehand).

This lecture will be given by Peter Medhurst, one of our most popular lecturers, on the subject of “The Glory of Venice – 500 years of Music & the Arts”. It will include Peter’s usual wonderful mix of slides and music.

We do hope that as many of you as possible will join us for this ASLV lecture. There will be a dummy run on Zoom with Peter on Friday 5th June between 11.00 am and 12 noon. This will allow those of you who may not have used Zoom before to try it out, before the lecture proper on 9th June. Zoom is not difficult to use and we give detailed instructions on how to do it at the end of this Update. On 5th June you can join at any time between 11.00 am and 12 noon and leave when you feel happy with using Zoom.

We do appreciate that not all members have computers, tablets or internet access, but we believe that we should trial this new approach now in case we have to continue to use it later in the year.

At this stage, Government guidelines are unclear as to what we may be able to do regarding our next year’s programme starting in October. However, as circumstances improve, we remain positive and hope to go ahead with the programme as given to you in our April Update, even if social distancing and other measures (if still in force) oblige us to alter our normal arrangements.

We shall continue to keep you updated regularly on our plans both by email and on the ASLV website www.theartssocietylavantvalley.org.uk Please be assured that your Society fully intends to keep operating as best we can and to bring you lectures and visits in whatever format will work safely for you.

Membership renewal forms will come by post in the summer and we would urge you please to renew your membership as this is our main source of income. It also allows you access to an increasing range of downloadable lectures and material from the National Arts Society website; and it allows us to continue to support the Arts and the Arts Society lecturers through this very difficult time.

With best wishes to you all from your Committee.

Ian Farman.
Chairman.

Instructions for using Zoom – Zoom is free!

If you do not already have Zoom on your computer, Ipad or Iphone, or other tablet or smart ‘phone, please do join us for the dummy run between 11.00 am and 12 noon on 5th June, when help from Peter will be on hand for you.

We regret that the Committee is unable to help with computer queries.

Please print out and keep these instructions for future use.

If you are going to use a computer (PC or laptop) for the lecture, then in your web browser (eg Google or MS Edge) type in or click here: https://Zoom.us/download.

This will take you directly to Zoom and to a page which allows you to download the free Zoom app. Ensure that only this address is shown in your web browser.

Alternatively you can download it by going to Zoom.us and looking for the downloadable app there.

In either case, press “Download the Zoom Client for Meetings” app and follow installation instructions, opening an account by typing in your email address and creating a password.

If you are going to use an Ipad or other tablet device, or a smart ‘phone, then download the free Zoom app from your Apple or other App Store. You can set up an account just by giving your email address and creating a password.

In either case, once installed, you will have all you need to join Zoom meetings on line for the future. Then follow these steps:-

• For the dummy run on 5th June, please follow the blue link below. Just click on the link and it will take you to Peter’s website. You may then need to enter the meeting ID code and password shown below:
• Join Zoom Meeting
• https://zoom.us/j/93735741883?pwd=TDl1WHE0ak5vWHRSd1dTcVNaUnhHQT09
• Meeting ID: 937 3574 1883
• Password: 547192
• If this link does not take you straight in, copy and paste it into your browser at the top of your screen.

• For the lecture proper on 9th June, you will be sent an email invitation to join by the ASLV Committee the day before. (Check your junk box). 10 minutes before the lecture starts, go to your email invitation, click on the blue “Click Here to Join” link and follow the simple instructions there. (NB You will not be able to join the lecture once it has started).
   
• On both dates you will be asked to click on the “Test your Sound Settings” button to make sure your speakers are receiving audio for the lecture
   
• You may be kept in the “waiting room” for a short time, but Peter will admit all members before the lecture is due to start
   
• If you cannot see Peter, check the “Video” button at the bottom of your screen. Make sure that it is “live”. If it has a line through it, just click on the icon to make it live.
   
• When all is ready, Peter will mute all our microphones, Ian Farman will make the introductions and Peter will deliver his lecture. We will be muted until the end of the lecture.
   
• If you want to ask Peter a question at the end of the lecture, click on the “Chat” icon at the bottom of your screen and type in a brief question which Peter will see and answer. We will have to restrict the number of questions taken.

ARTS SOCIETY LAVANT VALLEY – APRIL 2020 UPDATE FOR MEMBERS

Dear members,

In these very difficult times, I do hope that you are keeping well and have not been affected by the dreadful corona virus. Your Committee join me in wishing you all the very best of health.

The purpose of this letter is, first, to keep you informed on access to certain arts websites which may be of interest to you in this period of lockdown and second to advise you of how we plan to go forward for ASLV.

If you have not seen this already, the national Arts Society has launched on its website some very informative material. They are also streaming lectures regularly for you to watch. You can access these at www.connected.theartssociety.org/forum/society-forum.

Another useful site, showing a variety of other arts links, is at http://theartssocietyeastsurreyarea.org.uk/CultureLinks/CultureLinks.aspx  One of our lecturers, Sian Walters, is giving a weekly on-line lecture on Mondays at 9.30am. Go to www.facebook.com/Art-History-in-Focus-169973736373556. (You don’t need a Facebook account).

As to where ASLV goes from here, the picture is of course still very uncertain. You know that we had to cancel the remainder of this season’s lecture programme. Because of uncertainty at Goodwood as to when the House may reopen, I am afraid that we also have to cancel the Summer Social on 27th July. These cancellations left us with out-of-pocket expenses, so I am afraid a refund is not possible, but I am sure you will agree our membership fee represents very good value anyway.

But, on a happier note, we have already planned and – where possible - booked an exciting programme of lectures, visits etc for our next season. Please see the schedule at the end of this Update. Also, we have planned a Christmas Party on 2nd December – in the hopes it will get us back in the mood.

Normally our first lecture of the new season would be on 13th October 2020, along with our Annual General Meeting. At this time we intend to maintain our planned schedule. We will keep this under constant review, mindful of Government rulings and members’ health. We will be updating members on our plans as the situation develops.

This year we are going to postpone membership renewal and renewal will be dealt with by post at a later date. You will receive a letter and a request for payment by cheque or BACS.  The full programme and AGM papers will follow. (If you have moved house recently, please advise our Membership Secretary of your new address by email as below). Your ASLV membership will continue until the revised renewal date and the Society’s Officers will continue in post until the AGM can be re-arranged.

We are delaying membership renewal this year partly to allow us to take account of the virus situation rather nearer to October and partly to decide on what should be next season’s subscription amount, should the season have to start later or be curtailed.

The continued financial health – indeed existence - of your Society rests very much on you renewing your membership, as membership subscriptions form our main source of income. Unlike other local Arts Societies, we do not have a large waiting list; any significant fall in our membership numbers will necessarily result in a reduction in our programme, at the least. So we would urge you please to renew your membership at whatever level is decided. By taking this approach to the uncertainties we face, we will try and ensure that the benefits you receive match the amount you pay.

Our future Updates for members will be by email and shown on our website. The difficulty of organising postal mailings in the lock down - and the costs - are now such that we have to use Royal Mail sparingly. If you have received this April Update through the post and have not previously given us your email address please do so now by emailing our Membership Secretary at suefarman@hotmail.com.

I would ask you please to bear with us in these uncertain times. Please rest assured that the Committee is still meeting – thanks to internet technology – and working to keep in touch with you and bring you as full a programme for the new season as circumstances permit.

Our best wishes to you all.

Ian Farman – Chairman.

Outline 2020/2021 Programme

Lectures.

13th October 2020 “Oscar Wilde Up Close” – Giles Ramsey.

10th November “Rosalba Carriera: Great Venetian Painter” – Lucrezia Walker.

8th December “Raphael: A Master in the Making” – Sian Walters.

8th January 2021 “The Art & Life of Augustus John” – David Haycock.

9th February “Gold in Japanese Art” – Meri Arichi.

9th March “The Many Faces of William Morris” – Joanna Banham.

13th April “Peggy Guggenheim” – Alexandra Epps.

11th May “Painting the Modern Garden from Monet to Matisse” – Lydia Bauman.

8th June “Magnificent Mosaics: Windows into the colourful Roman World”.

Visits etc. Because many places are currently closed, it is difficult to give exact dates at present, but we are booking visits to:- 

the Royal Pavilion, Brighton (Winter 2020/2021);

the Wallace Collection in London in February 2021;

Salisbury and Wilton House (Spring 2021);

Knole House (re-scheduled with priority for previous bookings, Spring/Summer 2021) and

the Lily Garden Festival at Sheffield Park Gardens (June/July 2021).

We are also re-scheduling the postponed Special Interest Day “450 Years of Theatre” to Winter 2020/2021, again with priority for those previously booked.

We are planning an evening Christmas Party – drinks, canapes and music – at Chichester College on 2nd December 2020.

Your Committee has organised a full programme of lectures, visits and study days for the 2020/21 season, which we hope you will all support.

Membership renewals will be sent out in May/June.

Dear Arts Society Lavant Valley members,

In the light of the corona virus situation and Government advice – and our overriding concern to protect members’ health – I regret to advise you that your Committee has decided to cancel, review or postpone all Lectures, Visits and Special Interest Days for the rest of this season up to 30th June 2020.

The effect of this decision is as follows:-

·         The Theatre Special Interest Day on 25th March is cancelled. Members booked have already been advised and their money refunded by BACS. We plan to reschedule this to our next season if possible.

·         The Lectures on 7th April, 5th May and 9th June are cancelled. One may be rescheduled to next season’s programme if possible.

·         The Visits to Knole (closed) on 30th April and to Champs Hill on 13th May are both cancelled. Please do not send in any further bookings. Members already booked will be advised. Their cheques for payment have not been banked and will be returned. We hope to include Knole in next season’s visits programme.

·         The Dance Special Interest Day on 30th June is cancelled. Please do not send in any further bookings. Members already booked will be advised. Their cheques in payment have not been banked and will be returned.

·         The Summer Social Goodwood House tour and tea on 27th July will be reviewed in the light of Government advice. If it seems possible to go ahead, members will be advised and booking forms posted on our website.

We realise that this decision will be a disappointment to members, but we feel that it is the correct one in the circumstances. We very much hope that life will return to normality as the year goes on.  We have already planned a full programme for the 2020/21 season, including (among others and to be confirmed) possible visits to Brighton Pavilion, Sheffield Park Lily Festival and the Wallace Collection and lectures on Raphael, William Morris, Painting the Modern Garden and Beethoven.

This year we shall be posting Renewal Forms to members by the end of May for return by end-June. If you have any change of postal or email address, please email our Membership Secretary at the address given on our website (www.theartssocietylavantvalley.org.uk). Please also continue to monitor this website for updates.

I would like to extend my grateful thanks to our Committee members who have worked so hard to deal with the consequences of this situation.

Our best wishes to you all in these difficult times.

Ian Farman. Chairman.

Erin Barnes of The National Trust says it "is just about to embark on a new programme for Petworth House that puts the arts absolutely central to all activity and also launches a new community space for art workshops, studio intensives and talks. 

We don’t go live until April but are trialling the space and offering a preview in an event on the 21st February 7 - 9pm. 

We’d be thrilled if you wanted to come and would be happy to offer a few guest places for your team but also £5 tickets for the Arts Society if members were interested in previewing the space, hearing some wonderful talks and seeing the Skyscape exhibition with a welcome drink. You could just send me a list of people by the end of this week and rather than any online booking we would do payment on arrival for ease. 

Erin Barnes, Creative Programme Director, National Trust, Petworth House & Park. +44 (0) 7734 721 574
​​erin.barnes@nationaltrust.org.uk

Following their amazing success last year, Singleton Primary School have once again entered the National Chairman's Art Competion. We wish them every success in 2017 but whatever the outcome they should be applauded for their hard work, initiative and some delightful art work. 

Click here to see their entries

Heritage Volunteering  at The Weald and Downland Museum, Singleton 

At the moment around half a dozen Heritage Volunteers from four societies steward in the Medieval clothing exhibition in Lower Crawley Hall on the Market Square on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The museum would like to extend this to include Wednesday afternoons so more stewards are required. 

If you would be interested in joining the team, Gillian Wilson from West Sussex DFAS would like to hear from you.

The clothing is hand made by the Museum’s sewing group from wool and linen, the material available to artisan workers, and is shown on figures in the hall for the public to examine. A  few items are there for children to try on. Stewards explain the different items, how  they are made, dyed and sourced. Heritage Volunteer Stewards do not  wear the clothing but it is worn by stewards in many of the houses and for films made at the museum.

Training is given on site and at meetings in the Museum. Stewards work from 1pm to 5pm in pairs. Coffee and tea is available in the Hall and volunteers get 10% off any shop purchases. 
Volunteers are not expected to be on duty for more than one afternoon per month. Gillian assured us that volunteers have a lot of fun and as a group have the occasional lunch together. 

Gillian plans to organise a coffee morning in Lower Crawley Hall at the Museum for those interested. You  will have an opportunity to find out more, have a look at the clothing and meet Lucy Hockley, Head of interpretation.

Following Gillian’s appearance at our February meeting, 10 Lavant Valley members have already expressed an interest. Add your name to the list by contacting Gillian Wilson on 01798 865569  or by email:  gmw5@btinternet.com. 

In order to increase membership and raise our public profile NADFAS has been working with Jane Wentworth Associates (an international consultancy specialising in helping cultural organisations define and communicate their brands).The results of this work were announced at a meeting for Society Chairmen in London on 23rd January, when our 'brand' new name and logo were revealed. We are to be called The Arts Society and our local society The Arts Society Lavant Valley.

It was announced that after the AGM in May 2017 The Arts Society will replace NADFAS as our new operating name. The announcement was met with much approval among those present, with many professing the new name to be “spot on”.

NADFAS President, Loyd Grossman, commented:

“Over the past year I have followed the rebranding process with great interest. The outcome is a clear and confident brand with beautifully crafted visuals, which will help ensure the future of The Arts Society for the next 50 years and beyond.”

NADFAS Chairman, June Robinson, reassured members:

“Even though we’ll look and sound a little different, we will still offer the same services: through our excellent lectures we will provide welcoming opportunities for our members to discover and connect to the arts and each other. We will also ensure that heritage has a future through conservation and preservation, and we’ll continue to support the skills of tomorrow’s artists and makers.

The belief that the arts are essential to enriching people’s lives will always be at the very heart of who we are."

Here is a link to the film shown at our rebranding meeting:

https://youtu.be/t8vbYHswUg4



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Don't miss the article in the '2016 Art of Giving' magazine, which will be delivered this week to all members of NADFAS. 

Louise Rigglesworth, Community Partnerships Manager at Chichester Festival Theatre writes...

"During their time on the Pass it On project, the Lavant Valley DFAS volunteers contributed just short of 1200 hours, which totals almost 150 days' worth of time, which we are exceptionally grateful for."

Click here to see the letter of appreciation Liz Juniper received from NADFAS Chief Executive Florian Schweizer in respect of our nomination for the Marsh Christian Trust Award.

It is very gratifying to receive recognition for the hard work and dedication of our Heritage Volunteers.

Lavant Valley DFAS Chairman Claire Power presented Anna  Douglas's prize and certificate at Singleton School's Friday Assembly. Certificates were also presented to Amy McLean and Ethan Conway, whose work was Highly Commended. 

Lavant Valley's Young Arts Co-ordinator, Linda McNab and Claire are pictured with the children in front of the school prayer, which was the art project funded by our grant to the school last June. 

CASS are offering 2 for 1 entry for our members. 

Valid until 30th June 2016

click here for Voucher

We are delighted to announce that Anna Douglas’s artwork ‘Chocodile’ is the NADFAS Society Winner in the 8-10 Years Category Of the Young Arts National Chairman's competition. 

Congratulations to Anna and our sponsored school, Singleton CE Primary school, on this national award. Anna will receive a certificate and gift voucher from NADFAS. 

Amy McLean and Ethan Conway will receive Highly Commended Certificates for their entries  

Click here to see all the competition winners

Click Here to view our sponsored school's entry to the 2016 NADFAS 'Edibles' Competition. 

West Dean College invite members of Sussex NADFAS societies to become Friends of the College. 

Click here to discover details of their offering. 

The completed Record compiled by the Combined Chichester Church Recorders will be presented to the Church at 6pm on the 31st January 2016. The presentation will take the form of a Church Service at St Mary Sennicotts, together with a short talk by Pam Hilton, the Recorders Leader, before handing over the Record to Father Charles Howard. 

The service is open to any Lavant Valley DFAS members and friends who would like to come.  Sennicotts church is very different.  It has box pews, a gallery and no electric light inside the main body of the church. This is why the service is in the evening because the church, with its pink walls, will be candle lit and will look quite magical. It does however have electric wall heaters so it wont be cold.  There is some parking in the lane beside the church but for events, parking is usually in the field next to the church.  For this reason, anyone who is thinking of coming should bring a torch and maybe not wear their best shoes.

For just £20 you have the chance to win a painting by Maggi Hambling or Friends Membership of Gainsborough House

Maggi Hambling, one of the most celebrated contemporary artists, was born in Suffolk. Her steel monument to Benjamin Britten, Scallop (2003), has a permanent position on the beach at Aldeburgh and is the perfect place to observe the crashing waves that inspire much of her painting. Now you have the chance to own the original painting Sun on breaking summer wave (2015) by Maggi Hambling – and help Gainsborough House raise vital funds at the same time. Raffle tickets cost just £20 each, and as well as the painting, there are 100 further prizes of yearly Friends Memberships to Gainsborough's House, which provide free entry to the museum and access to a lively programme of special events.

Click here To buy tickets, from the main NADFAS website

DRAW ENDS 4th December 2015

Melissa Gallimore is unwell and cannot travel from Yorkshire today  

Richard Whincop will instead be giving a lecture 'Painting in Calabria'. 

The following article appeared in the Chichester Observer today.......

Singleton pupils inspired by School Prayer

PUPILS at Singleton CE Primary School have unveiled their latest artistic masterpiece.

The large, colourful piece of artwork and calligraphy was inspired by the school prayer and now hangs in pride of place in the school hall.

Parents and friends of the school saw the new artwork blessed by the village rector, the Rev Kev Robinson, during a harvest thanksgiving service last Wednesday.

Head teacher Christopher Todd said: “Every pupil has contributed to the new artwork, which will have a major impact in the school hall.

“The pupils took their stimulus from their local environment, taking photographs and researching pictures of flowers, trees and animals to help them with their artwork, using the school prayer, which speaks of the ‘beautiful nature around us’ as their inspiration.”

Thanks to a donation from the local branch of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, the pupils were able to work with local artist and calligrapher, Cathy Stables, who provided expert knowledge and advice throughout the development of the project during the summer term.

Our very successful Heritage Volunteering Project - the creation of a digital archive for Chichester Festival Theatre's early press cuttings - is coming to a close. To mark this occasion there will be a short presentation by Sophie Shaw, CFT's Heritage Activities Manager and Liz Juniper, our Heritage Volunteers Rep. immediately before our November lecture. 

The LVDFAS Committee invite you to our Spring Seminar. 

• Look around  a series of showcases to discover more about the work of Lavant Valley DFAS.
• Contribute your ideas for future lectures, visits, tours and events.
• Find out more about joining some of our volunteering activities or becoming part of our team.
• Enjoy socialising with other members over a free sandwich buffet.

Contact Claire Power to book your place. Tel 01243 379140 or e-mail clpower@btinternet.com. Booking is essential if you would like lunch  

Open to all members and those on the waiting list. 

This report can be viewed in the documents section. 

http://lavantvalleydfas.org.uk/DocumentStore/Church%20Recorders%20report%20April%202015.pdf

Click on the link above to view the report. 

A display of photographs of our Church Recorders' activities will be shown at our February Meeting. It shows images from the recently completed records at the Bishops Palace Chapel and Apuldram Church and the work in progress at Sennicotts Church.

See these pictures in our Gallery section