Members Events Below are some of the trips, Study Days etc that member societies are running and that are open to other East Midlands area groups.  Please contact the society direct. The Arts Society Stamford “L’ELISIR D’AMORE”  GLYNDEBOURNE TOURING OPERA  AT MILTON KEYNES THURSDAY 14th NOVEMBER  AT 2 PM        Last day to book June 3rd Click here for further details and a booking form. Art Society Stamford trip Cardiff’s Art & Castles & South Wales  Still a few places left! 5 days from £539 Departing 23rd June 2019 • 4* Cardiff hotel • Half board accommodation • All excursions & guided tours included • Blue Badge guide on Days 2, 3 & 4 • Executive coach throughout • Barber Institute of Fine Arts – guided tour • Cardiff – guided tour • Senedd – guided tour • National Museum & Art Gallery of Wales – guided introductory tour • Tredegar House                                                                                   • Castell Coch                                                                                        • Cardiff Castle – guided tour • Museum of Welsh Life – guided tour • Museum of Royal Worcester Click here for further details and a booking form. Sheila Simmons Tel: 01733 380675 Email: sheilasimmons675@gmail.com Castell Coch web site Background to Castell Coch Museum of Welsh Life The Arts Society Stamford Tuesday,15th October 2019 A Galaxy of Starchitects Lecturer  Clyde Binfield Santiago Calatrava,Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, I.M.Pei, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers: all these are starchitects. Starchitects are stratospheric. Their buildings straddle the world, if not as yet the universe. Their practices are vast and vastly cosmopolitan. Their creations are hailed as iconic and cutting-edge. Cities have been energised by them. Design has been stamped by them. Perhaps….but what about the quality? And whence came they? Who was the first starchitect? Le Corbusier? Frank Lloyd Wright? And are we about to see the last of them as personality implodes into team anonymity and explodes into a mass of initials? Who knows? Click here for further details and a booking form.