Lectures
Tuesday 08 September 2026
Rodin: the Flight of the Soul
Michael Howard
“What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs, with his clenched fist and gripping toes.”
Tuesday 13 October 2026
The Changing Face of Contemporary Glass Art
Susan Wood
“We have had a long love affair with glass. It inspires us with its beauty, surprises us with its versatility, challenges us with its complex physical properties. Glass is performance art…from its fluidity to the way it scatters light in space.”
Tuesday 10 November 2026
Raphael, a god amongst painters
Chantal Brotherton Ratcliff
Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo—the trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance. But Raphael leaves questions behind him. Why has he been over-shadowed by his peers? How can we distil his magic? And most poignantly, had he lived, what would have come next?
Tuesday 08 December 2026
Christmas Ghosts: the Tradition of Winter Tales
Kirsty Hartsiotis
We’ve told supernatural tales at midwinter for a very long time. In this talk Kirsty Hartsiotis takes us back to the earliest winter tales of the Middle Ages and the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe. We then explore the…
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2027 lectures
Coming next year
We’ll be announcing our 2027 lectures on 10 November. Expect anything and everything! If you’d like us to email you next year’s programme, drop us a line — info@tasdag.org.uk.
TASDAG Visitor ticket booking form
This form is for visitors to a TASDAG lecture or for members to pre-book tickets for their guests. If you’re booking for more than one lecture, we’d be grateful if you could complete a separate booking form for each. All tickets are £10 each. Lectures are held in the Gilchrist Room of the Easterbrook Hall, DG1 4TA, and start at 11:00am; coffees from 10:30am. Book here.
Past Events
A list of our past lectures and events is available here.