Spring 2016

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly thirty years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Having just completed a very successful and most enjoyable course with Lindsay Fursland on the subject of the Romantic poets, artists and authors, we are now closed for the summer.

Our next course will commence in the autumn, starting in September.

Watch for details

Autumn 2016

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly twenty seven years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Autumn 2016

New courses starting September 2016 will be

Thomas Clarkson
and
The Abolition (of Slavery) Campaign

by 

Maureen James

Starting Wednesday 21st September 2016 10.15 for 10.30 lecture         Cost £47.50 for the course of 9 lectures

and

20th & 21st Century Opera

by 

Peter Bleasby

Nine lectures illustrated with excerpts of opera's to be shown on our big screen with Hi Fi sound 

       Starting Tuesday 20th September 2016 at 2pm for 2.15 pm lecture

       Cost £47.50 for the course of 9 lectures

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly twenty seven years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Autumn 2015

From Les Misérables to the Belle Epoque

A Social history of 19th century France

by 

David Price

Includes Haussmann's Paris, the Dreyfus Affair, The Commune; education and work for women, the peasantry and linguistic diversity; the notorious Courtesans; the Moulin Rouge and the Cancan; art and entertainment.
Further information here

Illustrated with film clips and photos

Riseley Village Hall 10 am refreshments for 10.15am lecture

Cost of the complete course is £48.00

Starting Wed 23rd September 2015 

Slav Opera

by
Peter Bleasby

Ten lectures illustrated with excerpts of opera's to be shown on our big screen with Hi Fi sound 

No thanks. All those bass voices, boring Russian History and interfering women!

Yes, but you also join Sadko on his escapades, spot the influence of Italian opera in Glinka, see Ruslan finally united with his Ludmilla, get a glimpse of the Plovotsian dances, thrill to the love duet from Smetana’s Dalibor,  get a Bartered Bride, growl at Pravda, cheer on Tchaikovsky against the Five (or vice versa), explore the importance of Pushkin, watch a bit of back stabbing for Prince Khovanschy, visit the Invisible City and see Moscow triumph against Napoleon (all on DVD) and afterwards make a note to see the new ROH production of Boris Gudonov at a cinema near you! And hear some of Dvorjak’s sequel Dimitry

Go on -give it a go!

Riseley Village Hall 2pm refreshments for 2.15pm lecture

Cost of the complete course is £48.00

Starting Tues 22nd September 2015 

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly twenty seven years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Autumn 2015

From Les Misérables to the Belle Epoque

A Social history of 19th century France

by 

David Price

Includes Haussmann's Paris, the Dreyfus Affair, The Commune; education and work for women, the peasantry and linguistic diversity; the notorious Courtesans; the Moulin Rouge and the Cancan; art and entertainment.

Illustrated with film clips and photos

Riseley Village Hall 10 am refreshments for 10.15am lecture

Cost of the complete course to follow.

Starting Wed 23rd September 2015 

Slav Opera

by
Peter Bleasby

Ten lectures illustrated with excerpts of opera's to be shown on our big screen with Hi Fi sound 

Riseley Village Hall 2pm refreshments for 2.15pm lecture

Cost of the complete course to follow.

Starting Tues 22nd September 2015 

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly twenty seven years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Autumn 2015

From Les Misérables to the Belle Epoque
A Social history of 19th century France

by 

David Price

Includes Haussmann's Paris, the Dreyfus Affair, The Commune; education and work for women, the peasantry and linguistic diversity; the notorious Courtesans; the Moulin Rouge and the Cancan; art and entertainment.

Illustrated with film clips and photos

Riseley Village Hall 10 am refreshments for 10.15am lecture

Cost of the complete course to follow.

Starting September 2015 - details to follow.

Welcome to Riseley WEA

Riseley WEA is an adult educational organisation where we offer two sessions of lectures per year on a variety of cultural subjects - a Spring Term and an Autumn term.

With a history going back nearly twenty seven years, we have covered a wide variety of subjects, from history, architecture, music, art, film and many more.

All our lectures are delivered by tutors with extensive knowledge of their subjects and a great deal of experience in teaching interested and enthusiastic adults.

Everyone is welcome.

We meet in the comfort of Riseley Village Hall Lounge where we start each meeting with a welcoming cup of tea or coffee and biscuits.

Spring 2015

The Plant Hunters

by 

Andrew Sankey

Ten lectures investigating the lives and travels of men who forded rivers, climbed mountains, faced danger and even death to bring wondrous plants back to Britain from around the globe. The Tradescants, Joseph Banks and 'Chinese' Wilson will feature together with three other great plant hunters.

Illustrated with film clips, maps and photos

Riseley Village Hall 10 am refreshments for 10.15am lecture

£48.00 for the complete course

Course now running.

Update

Our lectures have attracted an audience of  43 to listen to a series of exhilarating talks about famous pant hunters and their exploits.