AGM Weekend 2010

The complete programme for the Brontë Society AGM Weekend 2010:

AGM Weekend 2010
Haworth
Friday 4 June - Tuesday 8 June

Friday 4 June

2.30 Donor's Event
To launch this year's AGM weekend and to show our appreciation of the support you give to the Society, we invite Donors to join us for a sparkling 'Champagne and Cake Reception'.
By invitation only. West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

3.30 pm: Victoria Brookland: Artist's Talk: Artist Victoria Brookland, in conversation about her work and current exhibition Wearer Unknown with Jane Sellars, Curator of Art at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate.
West Lane Baptist Centre

6.45 pm: An evening not to be missed. Join us for a very special event. The playing at the Parsonage of the Brontë piano.

The evening will begin with our now traditional meet and greet cheese and wine supper at The Baptist Centre. Moving upstairs we will hear from specialist instrument restorer Ken Forrest, in conversation with Virginia Rashton. Ken will describe for us the painstaking work he has recently completed to restore the Brontë family's beloved piano. We will then cross to the Parsonage, where we will be the first to hear the piano played there for more than a century and a half. What a moment for all Society members. The music has been selected from the archive at the Parsonage and feature songs once played and sung in the Parsonage by the Brontë children. Our pianist for the evening is Maya Irgalina from the Royal Northern College of Music and she will be joined by soprano Catherine MacDonald. Weather permitting, refreshments will be available at the Parsonage garden.
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

Saturday 5 June

10:00am Robert Swindells : Reading and in conversation.
Award winning young people's writer Robert Swindells discusses his writing including his Branwell-inspired novel, Follow a Shadow, which will be re-issued in Spring 2010.
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

11.00am Annual Lecture: The Influence of the Brontës on Emily Dickinson by Dr Lyndall Gordon.
Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford and author of the recent highly acclaimed Lives like loaded guns and prize winning biographies of Charlotte Brontë, T S Elliot, Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf.
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

2.00pm Auction of Books. Tribute to Charles Lemon
West Lane Baptist Centre

3.00 pm: Afternoon Tea
On the paddock, Ashmount Mews, Haworth

4.30 pm: Annual General Meeting of the Brontë Society
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

8.00 pm A Literature of Their Own: The Brontë Influence.
Elaine Showalter is at the forefront of feminist literary criticism and she is joined by Lucasta Miller to discuss the enormous impact of the Brontës on women's writing from the nineteenth century through to the present day.
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

Sunday 6 June

A Choice of Walks:
10:30am Walk 1: Led by Steve Wood, an expert on 'Historic Haworth'. Steve will take us around the pavements and steer us through the history of Haworth.
11:15am Walk 2: Led by Judith Bland. Amble to The Brontë Falls and back.

3:00 pm: Diane Simpson: The Brontës' handwriting.
Graphologist Diane Simpson discusses her research into the Brontës' handwriting and what it reveals about Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne.
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth

4.30 pm: Evensong: All welcome
Our or service of remembrance and celebration of the Brontë family will include hymns and will follow the order known by the Revered Patrick Brontë and his family. The service will be led by Rev. Peter Mayo-Smith and the address will be given by Dr. Robert Barnard.
Parish Church of St Michael's and All Angels, Haworth.

From 6.30 pm: An Informal Evening.
The Old White Lion, Haworth

Monday 8 June
9:30 am A whole day coach excursion in the Halifax Area.
Including Hebden Bridge, Luddenden, Law Hill House, Shibden Hall, High Sunderland Hall site, East Riddlesden Hall.

Tuesday 9 June
10.15 am Coffee and Cadence
Join Angela Crow, Riachard Wilcocks and Andrew Mitchell for coffee and entertainment at St James Church Hall, Thornton.

Categories: Brontë Society, Music, Talks