The Society engages in a range of cultural projects and presents academic and entertaining events. These include the biennial International Conference and Festival and, in each year, a programme of music, lectures, suppers, poetry readings, walks and tours.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2010:
Autumn Walking Weekend Saturday 9th - 10th October
Saturday 9th October A combined event with the Jurassic Coast Trust
10.15 am - Meet at Abbotsbury village main car park, Rodden Row (NGR SY853581) for a circular walk with some gentle climbing. We will climb to the ridge then follow a westerly route before descending to the Chesil Beach. Lunch stop at Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens Restaurant. Return to the village via St. Catherine's Chapel. Led by Sue Clarke.
6.00 pm - Tour of the Brewery Square development site, led by Andrew Wadsworth, founding director of Brewery Square Ltd.
7.00 pm - Evening meal at Panini's restaurant, 11 Weymouth Avenue (in the Brewery Square development); followed by a farewell presentation to Andrew & Marilyn Leah - to mark the ending of their 16-year tenancy and stewardship of Max Gate; the evening will conclude with a programme of Hardy’s poetry, as recorded by Argo in 1968. Tickets: £10 (members) - £12 (non-members). Please book by 1st October
Sunday 10th October Outer Casterbridge : A Tryst in 3 Ancient Earthworks
10.00 am – Meet at the Hardy Statue near Top-‘o-Town for an eight mile circular walk to Pummery, Mai-dun and The Ring, visiting en route the Barracks, the Cemetery and the Workhouse. Bring refreshment or packed lunch. Led by Tony Fincham and Rebecca Welshman, who will provide archaeological input.
Thursday 11th November The 2010 Thomas Hardy London Lecture
7.30pm - at Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Square, London WC1, sponsored by Birkbeck School of English and Humanities. Professor Julian Wolfreys from Loughborough University: 'English losses: Thomas Hardy and the memory of Wessex'. Admission FREE
Saturday 4th December 'Going The Rounds'
6.00pm for 6.30pm . Meet at Thorncombe Wood car park (NGR SY726921). A walk, with music and singing, in the footsteps of the Mellstock Quire, led by Furse Swann, Mike Bailey and ‘The Madding Crowd’; via Higher and Lower Bockhampton, progressing to St Michael’s Church, Stinsford, where the Valley Morris Mummers will perform, and mulled wine and mince pies will be served.
(Full details of the carols and hymns to be sung will be posted on the THS website well in advance).
Sunday 16th January 2011 A Hardy Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey
Meet at 12.15 pm at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (just inside the main west door) for a short service of poetry and prayers in Poets’ Corner, during which a wreath will be laid - to mark the 83rd anniversary of Hardy’s funeral at the Abbey on 16th January 1928. Participants are welcome to attend the Eucharist service in the Abbey at 11.15am.
Friday 25th to Sunday 27th March 2011 A Weekend in Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh, most famous now for Benjamin Britten, was visited several times by Hardy. He went there to stay with his friend, the writer Edward Clodd; to attend the 150th anniversary celebrations for the poet George Crabbe, a native of Aldeburgh; and, most famously, to spend some time with Florence Dugdale.
Clodd lived at Strafford House, on the seafront, which the Society is hiring for this weekend. Events will include a welcome supper followed by Hardy readings on the Friday evening, walks along the River Alde and the coast, a talk on Hardy and Crabbe, a talk by Dr Claire Seymour on Benjamin Britten, and a musical evening focusing on Britten's settings of 'Winter Words'.
Accommodation can be either in Strafford House or you can arrange your own from the wealth of holiday lettings in the town.
Contact the Society for further details.
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