A Visit to The Palestine Exploration Fund Followed by Dinner at The Sail Loft

The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) was founded under the royal patronage of Queen Victoria in 1865 by a group of distinguished academics and clergymen, most notably the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Arthur Stanley, and Sir George Grove. The original mission statement of the PEF was to promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant. This all provides a rich background from which the three Abrahamic faiths emerged.

The Chief Executive & Curator, Felicity Cobbing, will introduce us to the PEF, and make available some of the most interesting highlights of its vast collection. She has excavated in Jordan with the British Museum, and worked throughout the Middle East, particularly Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Widely published on the archaeology and the history of archaeology in the Levant, she is co-author with Dr Raouf Sa’d Abujaber of Beyond the River – Ottoman Transjordan in Original Photographs, and with David M. Jacobson on Distant Views of the Holy Land.

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A Sion College Seminar Supper with The Right Rev’d Humphrey Southern

Many of us will be aware of the significant changes to the way senior appointments are made in the Church of England in recent years. Beginning with Gordon Brown’s surrendering of the Prime Minister’s involvement in 2007 and considering the influence of Lord Green’s report on ‘talent’ development in 2014, this Sion College Seminar Supper will explore the impact of these systems on culture and leadership in the Church today.

We are delighted that Bishop Humphrey Southern will be our speaker. He is currently Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and draws on a wealth of experience in parochial and episcopal ministry, and theological education, all of which make him particularly well-placed to reflect on this subject. Our venue for the evening is a private room at Brasserie Blanc Southbank.

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Vincent van Gogh - Faith, Love and Poetry with Marc Woodhead

This talk will offer an introduction to the blockbuster National Gallery exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (14th Sept 2024 -19th Jan 2025), the flagship autumn event to celebrate the National Gallery’s 200th birthday. This ambitious show will include 50 paintings and drawings from the artist’s extraordinary period in Arles (Feb 1888-May 1889) and at the asylum just outside Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (May 1889-May 1890).

Marc Woodhead studied Fine Art Painting at Carlisle College of Art and Design, and Cheltenham College of Art and Design, and lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery and Wallace Collection in London, and has also established his own company, Art History for Independent Travelers, leading tours of Italy, Spain, Holland and Germany for groups from the UK. Marc has a special interest in light, colour and line in Early Renaissance and Early Modernist painting.

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