Monday 16 June  
Member’s Lunch 1.00pm
All welcome – please leave word on the ansafone 0208 748 9338 if you expect to come.

Monday 16 June  
Roger Steare “Making the world a better workplace” 7.00pm
All welcome – and we need help greeting guests that evening -  please do let the office know if you can help with this.
 
Sunday 22 June  
Sunday Meeting “Music and Consciousness”
Followed by a shared lunch. We expect to finish around 3.30pm.
 
Wednesday 25 June  
Science and Medical Network talk  by Dr Peter Fenwick
All welcome – there is a charge, places can be reserved via the office.

Paul Robertson is making good progress in hospital, and has sent word that he plans to perform John Tavener’s new work at Colet House in summer 2009. 

Colet House has always been a great centre for the arts.   Of the many famous individuals who used the studios, one of the most distinguished was Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98).   He was painting there until within a couple of hours of his death.

Sir Edward was a leading Pre-Raphaelite and friend and associate of Sir Coutts Lindsay, the first occupant of Colet.    Sir Edward hired the top studio to complete his great work “Last Days of Arthur at Avalon”  - a huge canvas, 2.8 metres by 6.4 metres.   It was purchased by a Puerto Rican millionaire in the 1960’s and has its current home in the capital, Ponce.    But for the first time it is to go on loan exhibition in London, at Tate Britain.   This opens on April 15 2008.    The previous day, April 14, at 11 a.m. BBC Radio Four will have a programme about the painting, including the time it was at Colet.   The Study Society contributed to the recorded discussion.

A book is being written about Burne-Jones and the painting and the author, Fiona McCarthy, visited Colet recently.   An article by her can be found here.

An account of the history of Colet House is in preparation to supplement the major article by Helen Wright in an early edition of The Bridge.

Initiations are on Sunday 11th May

A new group for beginners in Sanskrit on starts on Monday 21st April 4.45 – 5.45 in the Blue Room and will be followed by the usual chanting in the Top Studio at 6.00.

The Bhagavad Gita group meets at 6.45 -7.45 in the Blue Room beginning on Thursday 10th April.

A one-time resident of this house was Sir Edward Burne-Jones who hired the top studio to complete his great work “Last Days of Arthur at Avalon” – a huge canvas. It was purchased by a Puerto Rican millionaire in the 1960’s and has its current home there. It is to go on exhibition in London for the first time at Tate Britain from
April 15 2008. The previous day, April 14, at 11 a.m. BBC Radio Four will have a programme about the painting, including the time it was at Colet. The Study Society contributed to the recorded discussion.