• We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of the month (excluding July, August and December) at the Campus West Theatre, Welwyn Garden City. Lectures begin at 10.30 am, and members are requested to take their seats by 10.20 am. Coffee is available in the foyer from 10.00 am. Visitors are welcome, subject to availability of space, the admission charge being £5 per session.

    • 2010 Programme

    Date Subject Speaker
    20 January 2010 Picasso's "Guernica" and the Spanish Civil War Barry Venning
    17 February 2010 The landscapes of Gustav Mahler Eric Shanes
    17 March 2010 Lee Miller and Roland Penrose at Farley Farm Antony Penrose
    21 April 2010 NOTE CHANGE OF SPEAKER
    The History of the Royal Academy    		 Eric Shanes
    19 May 2010 Jewellery in ancient Egypt: gold of the Pharaohs Nicole Douek
    16 June 2010 From Greece to the Normans: the splendour of Sicily
    * Anniversary Lunch at WGC Golf Club*    		 Dr Paul Roberts
    15 September 2010 Art in Paris: the most decadent city in the world Linda Collins
    13 October 2010 From 1611 to 2011: art and the English Bible Professor Michael Wheeler
    17 November 2010 Queen Victoria: success through portraiture and her struggle for the throne Dr Kate Williams
    19 January 2011 The Shakers of North America: their beliefs, architecture and artefacts John Ericson

    Amphitheatre in Taormina, Sicily - June meeting <i>The splendour of Sicily</i>

    A brief history of Welwyn Garden DFAS

    With the 30th anniversary of the founding of our society in 2010, chairman Dianne Howes brings our history up-to-date.

    NADFAS Review

    NADFAS Review Spring 2010

    What is NADFAS?

    Founded in 1968 by Patricia Fay, NADFAS is an arts-based charity, with over 340 local Decorative and Fine Art Societies in the UK and Mainland Europe. All NADFAS Societies subscribe to the aims and objects of the National Association: the advancement of arts education and appreciation and the preservation of our artistic heritage. NADFAS promotes these aims through lectures on the fine and decorative arts in their widest sense, through study days, visits and tours and through volunteering activities, such as Church Recorders, Heritage Volunteers and Young Arts and the giving of grants.