Events

Prior to the world premiere performance of Gurney's A Gloucestershire Rhapsody, and Ian Venables' talk on Gurney, taking place at Cheltenham Town Hall during this year's Three Choirs Festival, the society are hosting a Gurney lunch. Booking is essential. Visit the Three Choirs Festival website for further information.

This autumn the society is organising its first ever trip to Belgium to visit the most important places were Gurney served in the Great War and where he wrote some of his finest poetry. Roderic Dunnett has devised an exciting and imaginative programme of tours and events for this four- day trip and it will be an excellent opportunity to explore the battlefield area with expert guides who know the area well. We will see at first hand the locations where GurneyÕs poetry originated and the landscape where he fought. Our trip will culminate in a visit to the recently raised memorial to Ivor Gurney in the Ypres Salient. This memorial has been placed near to the actual spot where he was in the line when he was asphyxiated by mustard gas in September 1917. This trip will cost approximately £300 per person, excluding supplements, but inclusive of travelling, hotel board and selected meals. Given that places on this trip will have to be limited to a maximum of 30 we have decided to allocate them on a strictly Ôfirst come first servedÕ basis.

If you would like to join us for this special visit then please contact our events manager, John Phillips, as soon as possible: telephoning 01432 363103, or email: johnl[dot]hay[at!]googlemail[dot]com. Once we have a firm idea of overall numbers, we will then be in a position to send you all the relevant information and booking details together with the final cost of the trip.

The provisional four-day programme is currently as follows: