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Talks and Special Events

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Gardener's World Reader offer
Thursday 24 May, 10.30am - 4pm
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Circle of Tales - a puppet show
Saturday 10 June, 3pm
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Why Garden? RHS Lecture with Ursula Buchan
Saturday 16 June, 2pm
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Talk - Maps of Modern Life
Tuesday 3 July, 8-9pm
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Talk - Crossing the bridge from Observation to Abstraction
Wednesday 25 July, 8pm
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FOOD EVENING EVENTS – TALKING & TASTING
Come for a glass of wine from 6pm. The talks start at 6.30pm and will finish by 8pm.

Saturday 4 August£15 Book online here
Sunday 5 August £15Book online here

Talk - Feeling and Emotion in Art: What do they mean?
Wednesday 8 August, 8pm
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Talk - The dramatisation of the figure in Giotto’s Lamentation and Cezanne’s The Bathers
Tuesday 4 September, 8pm
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Poetry Performance – THE GOLDEN AGE
Saturday 8 September, 8–9.30pm
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Train your tastebuds – British cheeses
Friday 5 October
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Creating Atmosphere in the Garden
Saturday 6 October, 2pm
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