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Date & Time:

Begins Thursday 7 November 2024

  • • Our 2024 Term 4 Art Appreciation Café meets on Thursdays from 7:00-8:30pm beginning on Thursday 7 November 2024 (New Zealand time) and continues for four consecutive weekly sessions. The last class of the Term is held on Thursday 28 November 2024.

Description:

ART310: Art Appreciation Café

  • • Everyone is a potential artist, and everyone can appreciate and interpret art. At our Art Appreciation Café we meet for informal discussion about works of art, artists and artistic developments. Join us over a cuppa to view and talk about exemplary pieces of world art.

  • • During each of our 4 sessions we will discuss 4 very different works of art from diverse eras and geographical places of origin. After a brief introduction by an expert, we invite everyone to share their personal observations and insights.

  • • At our first session we discuss cave art from Lascaux, a painting from the Italian Renaissance, German Romanticism and a contemporary New Zealand sculpture.

  • • The workshop's convenors Peter Dornauf and Norman Franke look forward to seeing you for four evenings of spirited discussion about the arts in November.

  • • Coffee, tea & biscuits will be available during each weekly session.

Meet our Instructors:

German Instructor Dr Norman Franke , MA Hamburg, PhD Humboldt, Berlin

Dr Norman Franke is a New Zealand based scholar, poet and filmmaker. He has taught German as a second language for more than three decades to a wide range of learners, from refugees to academics. Norman has published widely about 18th-century literature as well as German-speaking exile literature (Albert Einstein, Else Lasker-Schüler, Karl Wolfskehl) and eco-poetics. Norman’s poetry has been broadcast on radio and published in anthologies in Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Norman also teaches other courses for EarthDiverse, including our new course on Sacred Poetry, and courses in Art, Literature and Philosophy.

History, Literature & Philosophy Instructor Peter Dornauf, MA Dip Tchg

Peter Dornauf has taught in secondary schools, Wintec and Waikato University collectively for over 25 years. He is a well know Waikato artist, art critic and a writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. His book “Days of Our Deaths” serves as the basis for one of Peter’s other popular EarthDiverse courses, “A Cultural History of Death.” Peter also teaches our “The Spiritual in Modern Art” course and continues to develop additional EarthDiverse courses for future Terms.

Location:

EarthDiverse, 401 Anglesea St, Hamilton

All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse offices and classrooms located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
Location

Distance Learning:

  • This course has no distance-learning option and meets in person at the EarthDiverse Centre only.

Pricing options:

• All prices are in New Zealand dollars and include GST

Notes:

  • This discussion group has no assignments, quizzes, tests or exams.

  • You will not need to purchase any additional course materials.

  • All sessions encourage questions and group discussion.

  • Course fee includes tea/coffee/snack at each session. Help yourself!

  • You are most welcome to come, sit back, relax, take part in and enjoy the discussions!

  • There are no refunds for missed sessions.

  • Guests of registered participants are welcome to attend a single session without registering.

Prerequisites:

A keen desire to discus art!

  • • There are no prerequisites for this course.

  • • This course is open to all learners aged 15 years and above