Steyning WEA

The WEA (Workers Educational Association) runs quality courses with excellent tutors. Two new WEA courses are starting in Steyning in January.

J S Bach and his heritage – an exploration of Bach’s music and its effect on later composers. Tutor Robert Carrington – venue Jarvis Music Room, Jarvis Lane – on Wednesday afternoons 2-4, 10 meetings from 19 January 2011.

Robert is a gifted composer and performer whose music appreciation classes have been popular in Steyning for several years. These are relaxed and friendly, benefiting from his encyclopaedic knowledge of every kind of music. It’s not necessary to read music or to know anything about classical music to enjoy them.

His approach is always fresh and ebullient. This will be an unconventional approach to the great composer and not to be missed. The course covers Bach’s influence on composers right up to the present day, composers as diverse as Villa Lobos, Shostakovitch and Tan Dun whose “Water Passion” was a 250 year anniversary tribute to Bach.

Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and later landscapes – tutor Judie English, venue Catholic Church Room, Penlands Way – on Thursday afternoons 2-4 – 10 meetings from 20 January 2011.

Judie is an archaeologist and her courses illuminate areas of our history which many of us tend not to know about – not the history of kings and leaders, but the life of ordinary people. Her courses on the age of Charlemagne and prehistory have been very popular. She uses visual aids throughout her classes and no prior knowledge of archaeology or of the period in question is necessary. This course will illumine the development of our use of the land over the centuries and our perception of the land around us. It covers the way people lived in the landscape for 800 years, from St Cuthman to the Tudors.

For further information about these and other courses in the area please log onto the WEA website (www.wea.org.uk) or phone Martin Toomey on 01903 814167. Please, if you can, enrol online.

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