IPSWICHINSTITUTE

Member's Programme Autumn 2021

Booking a course. Courses can be booked in person at the Library Desk fromMonday 16th August or by cheque in the post with your name, membershipnumber and course name. Bookings by post will be processed on the 16thAugust. A percentage of the spaces will be available in our online Shopify storefrom 00.01am on the 16th August: www.ipswich-institute.myshopify.com Please note we are unable to take payments by card or cash in advance

Course Fees & Dates see table on pages 6-7 for individual course details

Talks, Trips & WorkshopsAll non-course events in the programme are bookable now, on receipt ofpayment. Although phone-call enquiries about availability are welcome,we are unable to take payments over the phone.

Terms & ConditionsTerms & Conditions for Course and Event Booking, which include our policy oncancellations and refunds, are available from our website. Please ask if youwould like a paper copy.

We are anxious to meet the needs of all our members. Let us know if you havespecial requirements and we will do our best to help. We have three groundfloor classrooms which can accommodate those with access needs.

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AUTUMN COURSES 2021Languages

Spanish (Advanced): Monday, 9.30-11.00 (Marga Spilman)This class is for students of Spanish at a B2-C1 level. The lessons are conducted all in the target language.This class offers the opportunity to converse and debate cultural and current affairs topics in a friendlyenvironment.

Spanish (Intermediate): Monday, 11.30-1.00 (Marga Spilman)For students of Spanish at B1-B2 level; the class is also conducted mainly in Spanish.

Spanish (Improvers): Monday, 13.30-3.00 (Marga Spilman)Level A2- This is a group that has been running for 3 years (they have covered most of the indicativetenses and a great deal of grammar).

Spanish (Beginners) *NEW: Tuesday, 10.00-11.30 (Marga Spilman)This course is aimed at complete beginners; it will cover the basics, such as introductions, food and drink,ordering at a bar or restaurant, hotel bookings, shopping and more; learning about Spanish and Latin-American culture along the way.

French (Improvers 1 – GCSE ”O” level equivalent): Wednesday, 10.30-12.00 (Anne Pattison)A friendly class ideal for those with some prior experience of French and those who may perhaps wish toreacquaint themselves with the language after a break. There will be an emphasis on enjoying learningthrough a mix of speaking, reading and writing activities.

French (Improvers 2 – “A” level equivalent): Wednesday, 13.30-3.30 (Anne Pattison)A mix of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities around a Maigret book “Le chien jaune“ byGeorge Simenon and a textbook “Breakthrough 3“ in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Culture Francais (“A Tale of Two Cultures”): 1st Weds. monthly, 10.30-12.30 (Dominique Nightingale)The centuries-old dialogue between French and English-speaking cultures has produced some of the mostpowerful literature, music and art on both sides. Montaigne and Shakespeare, Hugo and Dickens, Turnerand the Impressionists, Offenbach and Gilbert and Sullivan – the influence flows either way and continuesto do so in films and on TV. We’ll explore what unites, divides and ultimately enriches those two culturesthrough such examples. This course is given in French for advanced level.

Italian (Intermediate): Thursday, 9.30-11.00 (Eleanor Dickson)This course is for students who are confident when speaking Italian, but who wish to develop theirflexibility and fluency through broadening their vocabulary and revising grammar. We will follow thetextbook Contatti 2, although lessons will be supplemented with material drawing on Italian history andculture.

Italian (Advanced): Thursday, 11.15-12.45 (Eleanor Dickson)This course is for students who are able to use Italian confidently in a wide range of contexts, and whohave covered most aspects of Italian grammar. Conversation will be an important part of the lessons, butreading texts and listening exercises will also feature. There will also be a cultural element, as texts will bedrawn from a variety of themes including Italian history, art, cuisine and geography. 2

Italian (Pre-Intermediate): Thursday, 1.00-2.30 (Eleanor Dickson)This course is for students who already have a good knowledge of Italian grammar and vocabulary, butwho seek further practice in order to gain confidence when applying it. Conversation will featureconsiderably in the lessons. We will study aspects of contemporary Italy, in addition to looking atelements of its rich history.

Italian (Beginners’): Thursday, 2.45-4.00 (Eleanor Dickson)A course for students who have little or no prior experience in Italian, but who are keen to learn a newlanguage and be able to get by when visiting Italy. We will focus on speaking and listening, and also makea start on the basics of Italian grammar such as present tense verbs, articles and adjectival agreements.

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Art

Coloured Pencils - Creating A Still Life Picture: Monday, 1.30-3.30 (Janie Pirie)Create a Still Life picture and learn how to colour it using coloured pencils with Janie Pirie, one of the UK’sleading and award-winning coloured pencil artists. She will show you how to use coloured pencils tocreate remarkable artwork from layering and gradating to blending and finishing. There are lots of ‘tricksof the trade’ and you will learn them all as you progress through the course. You will be working fromphotographs that you, or Janie have taken. Full instructions will be sent out to you before the beginning ofterm.

The Wonder of Watercolour: Tuesday, 10.00-12.00 (Steve Joyce)We will explore a wide range of watercolour techniques, including different ways of applying, agitatingand manipulating the media for different subjects and composition ideas. There will be some set tasks foryou to try out with extension suggestions for those more advanced. You may bring your own images orobjects to work from. Suitable for all levels

A Brush With Drawing: Tuesday, 2.00-4.00 (Steve Joyce) We will explore a range of different techniques and also bridge the gap between drawing and painting.Different subjects will be explored using of different media which are outlined in the available materialslist. Set tasks will lead to development in your preferred media so you may investigate subjects and ideasof your interest. Suitable for all levels.

Just Acrylics: Wednesday, 9.30-11.30 (Amy Drayson)A creative and friendly class for those who would like to explore painting in acrylic. We will look atdifferent aspects of painting and seek inspiration from various artists . The course aims to help beginnersand improvers enjoy painting and gain confidence with acrylics. A suggested list of materials will beavailable before the start of the course.

Art for All: Wednesday,12.30-2.30 (Amy Drayson)A class for beginners and improvers who like to experiment with a range of ideas and techniques. We willlook at different artists’ work and use their ideas as a springboard for our own. In the past students onthis course have drawn, painted, printed, made assemblages, collages and more! I like to think of it asadventures in art. All welcome.

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Life Drawing: Friday, 1.30-3.30 (Blue King)Working with a male model we will have the opportunity to explore dynamic gestural poses withobservational drawing. Using a variety of mediums we will make figurative drawings observing light andtone in a studio atmosphere. Suitable for beginners and practicing artists who want to work from themodel. Please bring sketch book, charcoal, eraser and a drawing board.

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Ukulele (Beginners): Tuesday, 11.00–1.00 (Tim Laming) The Ukulele is a hugely popular and enjoyable instrument to play. This course is ideal for completebeginners and those with some basic experience. You will learn chords and simple melodies in variousstyles. You will need your own Ukulele.

Guitar Improvers (2): Tuesday, 1.30–3.30 (Tim Laming) This course is for the more experienced guitar improver. You will learn to read and understand guitartablature, play chord progressions and play melodies in a variety of styles of music. You will need yourown acoustic or Spanish guitar.

Birkbeck Singers: Wednesday, 10.00-12.00 (Chandra Grover)The Birkbeck Singers are a mixed vocal group which sings contemporary pop, folk and songs from thelight classical repertoire. Vocal craft and instruction in singing techniques to achieve an excellent sound isthe focus of our sessions. The choir holds a concert each year in aid of a Suffolk charity and many singersenjoy socialising with summer walks and Christmas joviality.

Flute Ensemble: Wednesday, 10.00-12.00 (Sylvia Fairley)The flute ensemble is a relaxed but dedicated group. The repertoire is varied, from light to classical. AsSylvia makes most of the musical arrangements herself to suit the abilities of each player, the standardrange is wide, and we welcome players from grade 3 to diploma level.

Ukulele (Improvers): Thursday, 11.00–1.00 (Tim Laming)This course is for players with some experience of the Ukulele. You will broaden your repertoire andproficiency in playing chords in rhythm, playing melodies and reading and understanding ukuleletablature. You will need your own Ukulele.

Guitar (Beginners): Thursday, 1.30–3.30 (Tim Laming) This course is ideal for complete beginners and those with some basic experience on the Guitar. You willlearn chords and simple melodies in various styles and how to read guitar tablature. You will need yourown acoustic or Spanish guitar.

Guitar Improvers (1): Friday, 1.30–3.30 (Tim Laming) This course is for those with some prior experience on the guitar. You will learn guitar tablature, and playchord progressions and melodies in a variety of styles of music. You will need your own acoustic orSpanish guitar.

Greek Tragedies: Tuesday, 10.30-12.30 (Dominique Nightingale)(Weeks 1 - 4) Sophocles – Oedipus At Colonus. Back in March 2020, and not without tragic irony, the pandemic that opens the tragedy of Oedipus Kingwas suddenly on our doorsteps forcing us to abandon Oedipus at Colonus. Rescheduling this course takesus to a post-pandemic world with a destabilized political landscape and a tendency to deify those wholead their country through a plague. Should you like to join us at this point, we shall treat Oedipus atColonus as a stand-alone play as it was in Ancient Greece. Edition: Robert Fagles' translation. The Three Theban Plays, Penguin Classics. ISBN-10:0140444254 ISBN-13:978-0140444254(Week 5 – 12) Euripides – Medea. The name of Medea has travelled to us with an undiminished power to shock. How can we feel sympathyfor a woman who murders her own children out of revenge? Euripides’s play confronts issues still ragingamongst us: the destructive dynamics of divorce, the demonization of foreigners, and most disturbing ofall, the enduring presence of barbarism within a civilized world. Edition: Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer's translation, published by Oxford University Press in 2006.ISBN 978-0-19-514566-3

Play Reading Group: Tuesday, 2.00-4.00 (Janet Dines)This is a small, friendly, informal group which enjoys participating in the reading of a variety of playsrepresenting every genre.

Creative Writing: Alternate Wednesdays, 2.00-4.00 (Peppy Barlow)We all have stories to tell. It's how you tell them that matters. A course for anyone interested in writing atany level and in any style. The classes are informal and there is a lot of discussion. It is a place forexploring and developing your own talent with support and advice from the tutor. Most of the writing isdone at home between classes.

EM Forster's Howard's End and A Passage to India: Thursday, 10.30-12.30 (Dr Stephen Palmer)Forster didn't write many novels over the course of his long life. These two, however, cover a wide sweepof topics and themes on early-20th century British society and culture. Published in 1910, Howard's End,amongst other things, focuses on relationships between the classes, as the Bohemian, cultured Schlegelfamily are brought into close contact with the eminently commercialist, bourgeois Wilcox’s and theworking-class Leonard and Jacky Bast. In A Passage to India (1924), Forster brings his attention toracialised relationships and politics in Raj India, sometimes in unexpectedly hilarious ways. Each novel isutterly readable and absorbing, and over 10 weeks we will explore some of the many themes and ideasthat Forster draws out. Editions: A Passage to India - Penguin 9780141441160; Howard's End - Penguin 9780141182131

Poetry Matters: Friday, 10.15-12.15 (Janet Dann)Each week we will bring in our chosen poems to read aloud and discuss. These will be based on a series ofthemes and drawn from all periods of poetry writing. We will look closely at particular examples andexplore the work of lesser-known, post-1950’s, poets.

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Creative Writing – “Change”: Friday, 10.15-12.15 (Sally Wilden)A theme to develop ideas for creative writingA practical, hands-on approach to creative writing with an emphasis on using experience and imaginationto develop a piece of writing on a particular theme. Over the 10 sessions we will be taking different aspectsof a theme and explore how these can stimulate ideas for creative work. We will experiment with storyform, dialogue and poetry and how these forms offer different possibilities for writing. Please don’tprepare anything in advance of the sessions. Part of the 2 hour session will be used to provide constructivefeedback, given by the tutor and members of the class.

Philosophy, History and Economics

Philosophy: Thursday, 2.00-4.00 (Dr Nicholas Joll)(Weeks 1 – 5) Singer, Hegel. The course is a reading group. The book and its subject. The book isHegel: A Very Short Introduction by the contemporary Australian philosopher Peter Singer. There are acouple of editions, but to my knowledge they differ little; so, any edition will do. The book is published byOxford University Press (originally in 1983). It is inexpensive; and it is informed, thoughtful, critical andwonderfully lucid. A much earlier and much longer book about Hegel, called The Secret of Hegel (and byScottish philosopher J. H. Stirling), generated the sardonic comment that the secret had been well kept.Not so here: Singer illuminates an important but obscure philosopher who has influenced, in one way oranother, just about everyone. According to Michel Foucault, Hegel stands waiting at the end of every road– even those roads that we take in order to avoid him. Singer’s book treats Hegel’s ideas on history,freedom, community, mind and world, logic and dialectic. Procedure. Each week we will tackle sometwenty to thirty pages. The idea is that participants read the relevant pages before the session and that inthe session we discuss those pages. In our first week we will discuss the preface to the book and its firsttwo chapters.(Weeks 6 – 10) Simone Weil. The course is a reading group. The author. Weil was born in Paris in 1909and died 1943, arguably by suicide. She seems to have been many things, some of them seeminglyinconsistent with each other: mystic and philosopher; anarchist, Marxist and theologian; Jew andChristian; teacher and factory worker; pacifist and soldier; practically inclined but clumsy, short-sightedand somewhat neurotic. Weil stands outside any philosophical mainstream. Yet, her influence isconsiderable. That influence extends to T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, IrisMurdoch and Susan Sontag; and Weil’s ideas have been compared to those of Wittgenstein. HannahArendt praised Weil for having given perhaps the only honest account of labour. Camus declared her ‘theonly great mind of our time’. André Gide called Weil ‘the patron saint of all outsiders’. The book and itseditions. The book is Simone Weil: An Anthology. This anthology ranges across Weil’s works and acrosstopics including the self, the sacred, society, oppression, work, rights and obligations and love. Irecommend the 2005 edition by Penguin. An earlier edition appeared with Virago in 1986. The Penguinedition is fairly inexpensive and contains introductory material (at least some of which is absent from theearlier edition). Procedure. Each week we will tackle some twenty to thirty pages. The idea is thatparticipants read the relevant pages before the session; in the session we will discuss those pages. We willmanage to discuss approximately half of the pieces in the book. In our first week I will introduce Weil andwe will discuss the essay ‘Human Personality’.

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Current Economic Issues: Wednesday, 2.00-4.00 (Sheila Moore)We will discuss the national and international economic effects of the pandemic, and consequentGovernment policies. In particular we shall consider climate change, “levelling up”, international trade,employment problems, technological progress, public finances and any topical economic issues that arise.

Spain - The Habsburg Era: Friday, 1.30-3.30 (Catherine Dell)This course explores Spain's history and culture during the 16th and 17th centuries: Habsburg rule, therise and fall of imperial power, and the Golden Age - a period of dazzling creativity featuring masters suchas El Greco, Murillo, Velazquez, Cervantes, Victoria...

History Matters: Revolutionary Britannia - Britain in the Age of the French Revolution:Friday, 2.00-4.00 (Dr Simon Doney)The French Revolution is one of the great turning points of modern history and an event which led todebate and division in this country and war in Europe. We aim to look at the political and cultural impactof the revolution on Britain. We will investigate the parliamentary and popular responses and reactions tothe French Revolution, evaluate how Britain defended itself from revolutionary France, before finallyexamining the impact of reform and reaction in post-war Britain.

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Fitness

Yoga For All: Tuesday, 10.00-11.15 and 11.30-12.45 (Sarah Moss)I look forward to welcoming you to ‘Gently into Yoga' for a total wellbeing of the mind, body and breath. Iam a yoga teacher, trained for 4 years with The British Wheel of Yoga, with over 10years experience. Yogais for everyone so I make sure I offer many different levels into poses throughout the class. The class willinclude working with the breath, strengthening and flexibility for the body, mindfulness and a relaxation,all so important.

Alexander Techniques: Wednesday, 10.30-12.00 and 1.00-2.30 (Rosalind Field)We shall explore together some of the basic principles of the Alexander Technique and their application todaily living. Head books will be available – or you may bring your own if you prefer.

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TALKS 2021The Astonishing Story of Mary Alice Berners (Simon Pearce)

Monday 18th October 2.00-4.00 £5.00

Thomas Gainsborough: A Suffolk Artist (Evelyn Hewing) Wednesday 17th November 10.30-12.00

£5.00

Born in Sudbury in 1727, Gainsborough moved toIpswich with his young family in the mid C18th.

Discover the town he knew, the friends andlandscapes he painted, the Chapel where he

worshipped and the raucous Ipswich MusicalClub he attended.

Discover the astonishing story of Mary AliceBerners who was born at Woolverstone into a life

of wealth and privilege at the height of QueenVictoria's reign.

Mary Alice followed her own path; passionate,determined and resilient. She married in secret

and travelled thousands of miles betweenEngland, India and the Far East.

Tragedy was never far away but she faced herchallenges with courage and ingenuity, forging

an incredible new life

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TRIPS 2021Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Wednesday 22nd September £30.00 Members, £35.00 Non-Members

The garden was planned by the first Curator,Andrew Murray, and John Stevens Henslow (Prof. of

Botany at Cambridge, 1825–61, and a founder ofIpswich Museum) and today holds a collection of

over 8,000 plant species from all over the world plusspecimens collected by Darwin on his Beagle voyage.Our trip includes a Guided Tour of the garden plusfree-time to explore the different areas - from thetropical glasshouses to British wild flowers. The

Fitzwilliam Museum, and Cambridge City Centre areonly ½ mile away for further exploration if desired!After 8th September, members may be able to book

for non-member guests if places are available

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Wrap up warm and enjoy Kew Gardens as you havenever seen it before. Kew’s annual after-dark

Christmas festival will lighten up the shortest day ofthe year! Discover sparkling tunnels of light,

dancing waterside reflections, and trees drenched incolour as you stroll a pre-set route through

mesmerising flickering flames in the Fire Gardenand larger-than-life illuminations to the panoramic

Palm House light display. Finish by treating yourself to a warming drink in

Kew’s café and maybe browse in the shop for someChristmas gift ideas before returning to the coach

for the drive back to Ipswich.After 7th December, members may be able to book

for non-member guests if places are available

Christmas at KewTuesday 21st December

£40.00 Members, £45.00 Non-Members

Notes PageTo make a note of dates, courses, prices etc.

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Reading Room and Library15 Tavern Street

Ipswich IP1 3AA

Open Mon-Sat 0900-1600

Admiral's House13 - 15 Tower Street

Ipswich IP1 3BE

Open Mon-Fri 0900-1600

Ipswich Institute