Tales of Creativity that Speak to us Today
Presenter Sonya Baksi. 10am Lewes Town Hall Lecture Room. Fortnightly.
This series will look at creative work from late 19th and early 20th Centuries in painting, literature, handiwork, film which carries strong meaning for the times in which the creator worked. This will be reviewed from our current perspective and ask what we might learn today about the issues that so concerned their creators then.
The second half of these talks will look further at creative work in painting, literature, handiwork, film with strong meaning for the times in which the creator worked. This will be reviewed from our current perspective and ask what we might learn today about the issues that so concerned their creators then. We will visit Russia again, then the UK and finally India.
Each session will be fully illustrated with issues presented for discussion.
2026
Jan 16th Anton Chekhov: doctor into writer
Jan 30th Sylvia Pankhurst: creative artist with social feelings
Feb 13th E.M. Forster: capturing the troubled Indian Raj
Feb 27th Satyajit Ray : bringing poetic focus on the unseen
Mar 13th Vikram Seth: capturing Eastern and Western music
2025
Sept 26th Turner paints the Slave Ship 1840
Oct 10th Pitman Painters depict their lives
Oct 24th Klimt's commission from Vienna University
Nov 7th Mucha creates the Slav Epic
Nov 21st Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina