Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… AGM at 7.30 followed at 8pm by: Tony Rawlins: Baroque on a Roll: Classical Music in the Modern Media How classical music enhances the mood – the drama, tension, romance – of feature films. How it makes TV ads memorable. How a piece by an obscure 17th century German […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Benedict Morrison:Cinema from the Rubble – The post war politics of Ealing Studios Ealing Studios is often hailed as the most quintessentially English film studio. Run by Sir Michael Balcon, its annus mirabilis was 1949, with Passport to Pimlico, Whisky Galore!, and Kind Hearts and Coronets. With a reputation […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Simon Keable-Elliott: 1920s Tahiti – English-speaking writers and artists What was the attraction of 1920s Tahiti? Why did writers and artists such as Robert Keable, George Biddle Dean Frisbie, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, & William Alister Macdonald follow Paul Gauguin, and decide to settle there? What were they […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Dr Sam Moorhead: Ostia – Rome’s Best Kept Secret? West of Rome, at the Tiber’s mouth, the impressive ruins of Ostia, Rome’s principal port. Amazingly preserved streets, massive granaries and warehouses, tenement blocks (best in the Empire), grand town houses, bath-houses and taverns: a bustling city. Temples dedicated oriental […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… A Boy from Lowestoft: The Life and Works of Benjamin Britten Lecturer: Roger Askew, arts lecturer and former choral scholar at Magdalen College Oxford 2026 will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of one of this country’s most original and versatile composers, Benjamin Britten. Britten is internationally famous […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Les Trois Grandes Dames of Impressionism: Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot Lecturer: Sarah Burles, formerly of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Impressionists were an innovative and radical group of artists whose took Paris by storm in the 1870s. Using new colours and techniques, they created paintings of […]
Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Renoir: How someone so disabled could produce works of extreme beauty Lecturer: Alan Silman, Professor of Medicine at Oxford University with a particular research interest in famous people and their pathologies. A biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the leaders of the Impressionist style of painting. He has been […]
Showing at The Eric Morecambe Centre… Featuring the return of Harpenden’s favourite dame JOSH HANDLEY, get ready for a hair-raising adventure about the girl with the magical golden hair as Polka Dot Pantomimes and the Eric Morecambe Centre proudly present RAPUNZEL – A Tangled Tale! Pantomime at the Eric Morecambe Centre, Harpenden is always the […]
Showing at The Eric Morecambe Centre…With over 500,000 followers on social media and a host of sell-out shows across the country, Brian Bilston is one of the UK’s most popular poets. He has published several bestselling collections of poetry, including You Took the Last Bus Home, Alexa, what is there to know about love? and […]
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Showing at the Eric Morecambe Centre… Stars of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT sing the greatest musical hits in this spectacular stage show! Dreamcoat Stars are back again with their 6th UK tour. Bringing incredible live musical entertainment to the nation! Experience the UK’s biggest night of musical smash-hits in this star-studded concert With new songs and arrangements […]
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