Get lectured on the arts
JOBURG – Knowledge is power and learning a thing or two is a great thing, so make sure you take advantage of all that Darts has to offer.
The Decorative Arts Society (Darts) has contributed to enriching the lives of its members since 1983.
In each yearly quarter, there are eight weekly lectures covering a wide array of subjects not confined to the decorative arts.
The lectures take place at the Ditsong Auditorium, Museum of Military History, Erlsworld Way, Saxonwold.
Darts members pay R30 per lecture and non-members R60 on a cash basis only.
The schedule for this quarter are as follows:
15 August: Tim Butcher – renowned author, journalist and public speaker. Trigger – how a teenage assassin brought the world to war. The gunman who shot and killed the Archduke in Sarajevo.
22 August: Sue Cock – BMus (cum laude), LRSM ( Performers). The development of the romantic tone poem. A brief history and an in-depth look at Vlatava by Smetana and Les Preludes by Liszt.
29 August: Gail Nattrass – BA (University of Natal); BA (Hons); MA (Unisa), PCE. Jan Smuts: 1870–1950, How should he be represented in our history? Everything changes. The controversies surrounding this iconic statesman will be examined and his legacy assessed.
5 September: Professor Richard Brooksbank – Associate Professor of Physiology, Wits. The story of Ma’s laces. His great-grandmother Louise Lienaux-Vergauwe created six unique pieces of lace as her response to the trauma of the First World War (1914–1918) in Belgium.
12 September: Professor Carel Mieny – Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Pretoria. The ill–fated Mendelsohn family. Members of the talented Mendelsohn family who died young of an inherited familial disease of the cerebral arteries.
The fourth quarter begins on 10th October 2016.
