Events

The Ivor Gurney Society hold an annual spring weekend, and occasionally other events. Recent events have included a tour of the Flanders battlefields, retracing some of Gurney’s steps whilst serving with the 2/5 Gloucester Battalion in Flanders, 1916-17, and events in Gloucester Cathedral and Churchdown, on the slopes of Chosen Hill. Other important Gurney events organised by bodies other than the society will also be listed here.

The Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend, 2014

3-4 May 2013
St. Andrew’s Church Centre, Station Road, Churchdown, Gloucestershire. GL3 2JT

Programme: SATURDAY 3 MAY 2014
11am – Foregather in readiness for:
12 noon – Society Anual General Meeting
12.30-1.30pm – lunch break: bring your own; or packed lunches available by prearrangement
1.30pm – Talks: Kelsey Thornton on Ivor Gurney’s set of ‘Hospital Pictures’, followed by Dick and Lisa Robinson talking on the First World War diaries of Sister Edith Appleton
2.30pm Short break
2.45pm – Recital: Philip Lancaster (baritone) with Ben Lamb (piano):
The Far Country: A Sequence of Poems and Songs by Ivor Gurney
3.40pm – Tea and cake
Exeunt

A Booking Form for Saturday’s events can be downloaded here.