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.
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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.
What do we do?
Get involved
Look out for updates on the noticeboard and in the weekly members' bulletin, or contact Friends of Explore at friendsofexplore@gmail.com
Is Friends of Explore just for members?
Events Coming Up
All of the Friends of Explore events will be added to the 'Events' page - link via the button:
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.
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.
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.
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Photographs by Rob Campion (unless otherwise credited).
