The Colour Group logo is based on NEWTON's experiment using a prism to break white light into its constituent colours MEETINGS FOR 2008-2009


Advice to Speakers

Other Colour events, not part of our program, are listed separately

Programme details for the last year (2007-2008)


The table below lists the meetings scheduled for the year. 
Click on the Date for more details.
Please note that not all details are confirmed - for meetings later in the programme, please check the details again nearer the date.
Unless otherwise stated, admission to the meetings is free.

Meetings at the City University take place usually (but do check in right hand column of meeting list above) in:
    The Birley Theatre
    Centenary Building
    City University
    Spencer Street
    London, EC1

Day Date Time Topic Place
Thursday 11 September 2008 14.00 hrs When Vision Explores Art
Part of the British Association Festival of Science in the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool
An all day meeting in the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool.  Event fee payable.
Victoria Building, University of Liverpool
Friday 19 September 2008 10.00 hrs PUPIL INFORMATICS:  Pupil Response Mechanisms,
Visual Performance & Clinical Applications 

All day meeting jointly sponsored by the Colour Group: registration required
Applied Vision Research Centre,
City University,    
London, EC1V 0HB.  
Wednesday 8 October 2008 14.00 hrs Colour Conservation at the V & A
V&A experts describe the problems they face and the solutions they adopt.
Registration before 26 September 2008 is required
V&A Museum, South Kensington
Wednesday 5 November 2008 14.00 hrs WD Wright & MacDonald/Green Awards: An Educational Exercise
Holders of the Awards for 2008 will describe their work with feedback from a panel of experts 
Registration is essential but free
Bradford University
Wednesday 3 December 2008 14.00 hrs Teaching Colour
The two new Colour Group Teaching Fellows will deliver their presentations and it is hoped there will be more colour demos from Messers Tarrant and Hanson
London venue to be announced
Wednesday 7 January 2009 10.00 hrs One-day Vision Meeting
and Palmer Lecture  by  Prof Ken Knoblauch
Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, Bron, France.
A registration fee is required for this meeting
Institute of Ophthalmology
Bath Street, London EC1

Thursday

5 February 2009 early evening
Turner Medal Lecture and Presentation
John Gage  will receive the Turner Medal

Royal College of Art
London
Wednesday March 2009 14.00 hrs Applied Colour Science
Aspects of  real-world colour
tba
Wednesday April 2009 tba
Camouflage and Display
To be seen or not to be seen: material from those who know how to answer this question
City University
Wednesday May 2009 14.00 hrs Annual General Meeting (Members only)
Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of the Colour Group (Great Britain).  This will be held at the City University, London EC1 at 14.00 hrs
At 14.30 hrs (open to all) Prof Lindsay MacDonald will deliver the "Retiring Chairman's Address"
City University
June or July Revival of the traditional summer visit to a place of colourful artistic and scientific interest tba



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