Friends of Explore

For details the Friends of Explore member-led summer season please see the Season Four page on our website. All of the Friends of Explore events will be added to the 'Events' page.

You can access these links via the green buttons:

'Season Four Summer Programme' page 'Events' page

Who are we?

Everyone really - not a different group - just part of Explore helping to add a bit of 'social' to the learning by encouraging new social and promotional events outside the main programme.

Explore Lifelong Learning 2017 Cleadon Hills walk adult education

Explore lifelong learning 2017 walk adult education

What do we do?

We've provided refreshments and stewards at events; established a monthly walking group; started a monthly informal lunch meeting. Other one-off events are being planned - we're open to suggestions for (and offers to organise) anything else you think members might enjoy.

Get involved

Join in our activities, give us your suggestions and feedback, offer to co-ordinate an event, join in the planning committee.

Look out for updates on the noticeboard and in the weekly members' bulletin, or contact Friends of Explore at friendsofexplore@gmail.com

Explore lifelong learning 2016 Xmas party adult education

Explore lifelong learning 2017 Friends walk adult education

Is Friends of Explore just for members?

Bring friends / partners / relatives / dogs (depending on walks!) to Friends of Explore activities.

Events Coming Up

All of the Friends of Explore events will be added to the 'Events' page - link via the button:

'Events' page

Some of our previous events...

Gail Nina Anderson: A Clash of Symbols

Exploring theUse of Symbolic Imagery in the Visual Arts

May 2019

'Have you ever been puzzled by an odd Pre-Raphaelite details or an unlikely object in the hand of a Medieval saint? In art, what you see isn't always what you get...From classical to contemporary art, this event examined how symbolic content offers visual puzzles, gloriously illogical images or enriched nuance and possibility.

Explore Lifelong Learning 2019 Friends of Explore Gail Nina Anderson Adult Education

Friends of Explore organised this event in aid of the Explore Lifelong Learning programme and provided canapés and drinks before the talk .

Exploring China

April 2019

Friends of Explore organised a trip to China where they enjoyed seeing and learning about more about the country and cultural sites; combining lectures, sight-seeing and plenty of good food.

Explore Lifelong Learning 2019 Friends of Explore in China adult education

Max Adams: A Saint, a Slave Boy & Three Rivers - Northumbria in the Viking Age

April 2018

Friends of Explore organised this event in aid of the Explore Lifelong Learning programme and provided canapés and drinks before the talk .

Max Adams, the critically-acclaimed author of The King in the North and a popular Explore tutor, is an archaeologist, traveller and writing coach. His journeys through the landscapes of the past and the present, of human geography, music, art and culture are a continuing source of inspiration in his writing.

Explore Lifelong Learning 2018 Max in full flow! adult education

At this public lecture, Max spoke about his new book Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age - a companion volume to The King in the North and In the Land of Giants.