Some previous Social Events

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Below are some reviews and pictures from a few of our many social events.

Medieval Manuscripts with Mary Wellesley

We are delighted that Dr Mary Wellesley agreed to give such an interesting talk to the SLLA at our November social evening.

Mary is a scholar, historian and author who is an expert on medieval manuscripts and the people who wrote them. Having studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University she went on to complete a PhD at University College London. She has worked in the Department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library, where she continues to teach courses in medieval language and literature.

Silent Calligraphy

On Saturday 1st June 2019, a beautiful early summer’s day, 8 calligraphers from SLLA gather at St George’s Church in Bloomsbury for our second Silent Calligraphy event, organised by Eva Driskell. After the heat and traffic outside, the scribes were happy to be in the coolness offered by the church.

Toni Watts: Art & Illumination – Medieval Techniques in Modern Application

Toni Watts was the speaker for our final social evening of 2018.  Toni has a great interest in using natural colours and took us through how she makes her own paints and what she uses to produce them. She showed slides of some of the beautiful manuscripts belonging to Lincoln Cathedral and had also brought along some of her own work.

Clerkenwell Walk

Robert Dunn led another of his successful City walks, this time around the Clerkenwell area. Starting at the Barbican, members went first to Charterhouse Square, stopping on the way to admire Florin Court of Poirot fame, and its Art Deco capitals.

Displays in May

What a busy month for South London Lettering. On Saturday 19th May we set up a stall at SSI Lay Members’ Day. We put on display work from Founder Members of the association, samples of work from more recent workshops including the beautiful mandala poster, our travelling book project from 2017 and our brand new banner. We also had a table of all our 20th anniversary merchandise which proved to be very popular and the sales table was kept busy. Lots of visitors to the stand, lots of interest shown and an interesting day for SLLA.

Glagolitic to Gothic

Back in the Spring, Robert Weaver, a former Master at Dulwich College and currently Keeper of the Fellows’ Library, organised 2 visits for members of SLLA to the College. During these visits, he kindly showed us many examples of manuscripts from his personal collection. For our last social evening of 2017, Robert visited us at St Brides where he brought along several pieces from his collection and explained their history.

The Sacred Lettering of Tibet with Lama Rigzin

Lama Rigzin came all the way from his monastery in Tibet to say “Tashi Deleg” — a special Tibetan greeting — to the SLLA group when he came to give a lecture on Traditional Tibetan Art and Early Contemporary Script Styles. Professor Karen Littleton was also present to translate but Lama Rigzin delivered his lecture in English with great effect and humour. He has a huge knowledge of Tibetan religious art and scripts and has spent many years studying religious painting travelling to many monasteries. In particular, he talked of studying with his teacher Sonam Nyima in Tibet between 2009-2012.

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