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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Edward Lear: Art and Nonsense - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jenny Uglow</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Curator's Eye: Stories of Fashion, Craft and Community - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scott William Schiavone</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/the-arts-society-cumbria-annual-general-meeting</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-24</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/50th-anniversary-celebration-lecture-with-bendor-grosvenor</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - 50th Anniversary Celebration Lecture - with Bendor Grosvenor - Make it stand out</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/christmas-lunch</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-06</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/arts-and-crafts-architects-in-the-lake-district</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Arts and Crafts Architects in the Lake District - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Broad Leys, Windermere</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/what-did-the-egyptians-ever-do-for-bolton-egyptian-textiles</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - What Did the Egyptians Ever Do for Bolton? Egyptian Textiles</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Jacqueline Hyman is a freelance accredited Conservator-Restorer who gained her textile conservation experience with the Museums' Service. She has lectured widely for The Arts Society, Embroiderers' Guild, Lace Guild, Antique Collectors' clubs and has appeared on Channel 4, BBC 2 and the Discovery Channel.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/infinity-and-impossible-worlds-the-art-of-m-c-escher</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Infinity and Impossible Worlds: The Art of M C Escher - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Infinity and Impossible Worlds: The Art of M C Escher</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Rupert Dickens is an art historian based in south London with a special interest in Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th century painting. He works at the Wallace Collection as a guide conducting public and private tours and lecturing on aspects of the collection.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/the-brilliance-of-british-architecture</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Brilliance of British Architecture - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Riverside Museum, Glasgow, designed by Zaha Hadid, built 2011, Wikipedia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Brilliance of British Architecture</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Ian Swankie. A Londoner with a contagious enthusiasm for art and architecture, Ian is an official guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral. He is also a freelance London tour guide.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/the-hidden-wonders-of-orkney</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Hidden Wonders of Orkney - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ring of Brodgar, Orkney; photograph by Steve Kereitsu, Wikipedia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Hidden Wonders of Orkney</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Elaine Hansen splits her year between Italy and Scotland, researching her specialist interests in each location and lecturing in the UK and abroad. Previously a guide at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, for the past four years Elaine has been delivering lectures on cruises in Scotland and around the Mediterranean.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/introducing-the-scottish-colourists</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Introducing the Scottish Colourists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Still Life, Apples and jar, Samuel Peploe, c.1912-16 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wikipedia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Introducing the Scottish Colourists</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Julia Marwood; Julia became an Accredited Lecturer of The Arts Society in 2020. Using her experience as a tour guide in the city’s art gallery she specialises in the art of Manchester, and also in Scottish art from 1880. Julia also has a love of teaching and language.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/iconoclasm-and-the-art-of-destruction</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Iconoclasm and the Art of Destruction</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Aliki Braine; after working for the National Gallery for 20 years, Aliki Braine now teaches for Christie’s Education and the Wallace Collection and is an Associate Lecturer for the Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London. Aliki is also a practicing artist who regularly exhibits her photographic work internationally.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/how-to-paint-a-northern-renaissance-masterpiece</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-11-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - How to Paint a Northern Renaissance Masterpiece - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Self-Portrait, Hans Memling c. 1478, National Gallery, Wikipedia</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - How to Paint a Northern Renaissance Masterpiece</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Anna Bianco is a freelance curator, writer, lecturer, tour guide and art historian. She has been an accredited lecturer of The Arts Society for 11 years and her focus is the medieval and renaissance periods. She particularly enjoys telling the stories behind art works and museum objects and is currently researching and writing her first book.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/environmentalists-and-innovators-j-m-w-turner-and-olafur-eliasson</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-11-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Environmentalists and Innovators: J M W Turner and Olafur Eliasson - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Breathing Earth, Eliasson Olafur, 2024, from https://olafureliasson.net/artworks/</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Environmentalists and Innovators: J M W Turner and Olafur Eliasson</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lecturer Susan Wood, (PhD), is a cultural historian who, after retiring from her career as a University lecturer, volunteered as a Guide at Tate Modern and Tate Britain and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Now living in the North-East, she is Tyneside Arts Society's Programme Secretary and is also a practising artist who regularly exhibits at Northern Print.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/cumbria-young-arts</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-07-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Cumbria Young Artists - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some of the artworks in our 2025 Exhibition at Rheged, Penrith</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/muncaster-castles-wartime-secret-protecting-the-tate-gallery-picture-collection-during-the-second-world-war</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-06-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Muncaster Castle's Wartime Secret: Protecting the Tate Gallery Picture Collection during the Second World War - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Drawing Room at Muncaster Castle</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/winfred-nicholson-and-friends</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-04-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Winfred Nicholson and Friends - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bedroom Window, Bankshead by Winifred Nicholson, date unknown, Wikiart.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/autumn-trip-to-northumberland</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-04-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Autumn Trip to Northumberland - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alnwick Castle</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/annual-general-meeting-and-lecture-the-mystery-of-giorgione-by-guy-lawson</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-05-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Mystery of Giorgione - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Young Woman (Laura) by Giorgione, 1504, Google Art Project</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - The Mystery of Giorgione - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>At our AGM 29th April 2025: (l-r) Linda Ivison, Chairman; Guy Lawson, Lecturer; Hazel Jacobs, President</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/she-died-too-soon-a-study-of-joan-eardley-an-exceptional-and-original-artistic-talent</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-03-29</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - "She Died Too Soon" - A Study of Joan Eardley, an Exceptional and Original Artistic Talent - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Self-portrait, Joan Eardley, 1943, from Wikipedia</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/troy-the-city-in-art-and-myth</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-02-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Troy: The City in Art and Myth - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Achilles kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea, c.530 BC, Athenian amphora, ARTUK</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/british-art-today-the-different-major-approaches-to-art-making</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-30</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64ffabc17e437c5c015f82a0/1726425414738-OMPAHY8DPRDYC2OYNTQP/My+Parents%2C+by+David+Hockney</image:loc>
      <image:title>Events Calendar - British Art Today - The Different Major Approaches to Art Making - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>My Parents, by David Hockney</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/hilma-a-f-klint-the-first-abstract-painter-of-the-20th-century</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-12-02</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Hilma Af Klint: The First Abstract Painter of the 20th Century? - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Primordial Chaos, No. 16, Hilma Af Klint, 1906-7, Wikipedia</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/saint-chapelle-in-paris-the-jewel-in-the-crown</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-10-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Saint-Chapelle in Paris: The Jewel in the Crown - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sainte-Chapelle, view from the south west</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/rembrandt-from-two-to-one-and-now-three-and-two-halves</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - Rembrandt: From Twelve to One and Now Three and Two Halves - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Titus by Rembrandt, c. 1657, The Wallace Collection</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.theartssocietycumbria.org.uk/lecture-programme/st-george-in-england-a-visual-legacy</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-06-22</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Events Calendar - St George in England: A Visual Legacy - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>St George and the Dragon (Wikipedia)</image:caption>
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