Fall 2002 Excursion Schedule:

Samuel Johnson once said that "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can shew." We'll see as much of life as London and the surrounding countryside can show us in the short space of a busy semester. Our itinerary includes art exhibitions, film festivals, and a bonfire; walks through modern Westminster and Jack the Ripper's East End; trips to castles, ancient villages, and the coast; and, of course, a Thanksgiving dinner.

This schedule is subject to minor adjustment. Watch this page for updates, and come to as many events as you can!.

Sunday, October 6: Jack the Ripper tour of London's East End

  • Tour begins at 7:30 pm. Meet outside the Tower Hill tube station at 7:15
  • Bring your student ID
  • This walk is guided by Donald Rumbelow, former London policeman, leading crime historian, and author of the best-selling The Complete Jack the Ripper.
  • The definitive web site on the Ripper murders is at Casebook.org. Not for the faint of heart.

Sunday, Oct. 13: Daytrip to Hampton Court

Tuesday, Oct. 15: Evensong at St. Paul's Cathedral

  • Take the Central line to St. Paul's tube station--or take the Circle or District line to the Mansion House tube stop.
  • Meet on front steps of St. Paul's at 4:45. The service starts at 5.
  • A history of St. Paul's
  • The great fire of London, 1666
  • BBC's flash presentation of London before and after the fire
  • Everything you always wanted to know about Christopher Wren but were afraid to ask
  • Wren's evolving design for the new St. Paul's

Saturday, Oct. 19: Daytrip to the southern coast of England; details TBA

Sunday, Oct. 27: "Masters of Color: Derain to Kandinsky" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts

  • How to get there
  • Meet out front at 11 am
  • From the web site: "Gabrielle and Werner Merzbacher's art collection is one of the greatest in the world--it is also one of the most sharply focused. Most of the paintings in the Merzbacher Collection, and in the selection from it on show at the Royal Academy, reveal the variety of ways in which colour has been used by European artists in the 20th century, particularly by Impressionists, Fauvists, Russian Constructivists and German Expressionists. Colour was one of the great driving pre-occupations of early Modernism--as can be seen in the my selection of favourite paintings which range from Van Gogh to the less well known Schmidt-Rottluff."
  • Some paintings we'll see: Paul Klee's "The Yellow House", Andre Derain's "Boats in the Port of Collioure, Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunny Lawn in a Public Park", Vasily Kandinsky's "Murnau, Kohlguberstrasse", and Fernand Leger's "Mother and Child (Dog Under Table)"
  • Here's a review

Tuesday, Nov. 5: Guy Fawkes bonfire at Primrose Hill

Saturday: Nov. 9: The Lord Mayor's Procession

  • The procession starts at 11 am. But people start staking out spots a lot earlier. We'll meet at 9:30 or 10, near a spot where we can procure plentiful supplies of the all-important coffee. Details TBA.
  • The history of the Procession goes all the way back to 1215
  • Here's a map of the procession's 1.7 mile route

Week of November 10: Regus London Film Festival.

  • We'll choose the night and the film together

Sunday, Nov. 17: Turner Prize Exhibition at the Tate Gallery.

Saturday, Nov. 23: Day trip to a medieval village; TBA

Thursday, Nov. 28: Thanksgiving

Sunday, Dec. 15: Farewell tea

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