Winter 11 Featuring: The Buckingham Palace Awards Ceremony ...

January – May 2012
JANUARY
Welcome to another year of ESU
Dartmouth House events. Your
attendance at these events is an
essential part of our fundraising initiative
and I am very grateful to all of you who
supported us last year. Not only did we
raise a significant amount for our
charitable activities, we attracted new
members and even a new sponsor for
the London Debate Challenge!
The profit made from each event goes
directly to the charitable activities of the
ESU, enabling young people in the UK
and internationally to benefit from public
speaking and debate training, exchange
scholarships and career development
opportunities. ESU alumni and nonmembers
are very welcome at our
events; however, we would be very
grateful if you could make an additional
voluntary donation to the member
ticket price.
Thank you for your support. I look
forward to seeing you at Dartmouth
House.
Jo Wedderspoon
Director of Fundraising and
Development
Tickets to all events can be booked via:
Susan Conway
Events Manager
Dartmouth House
37 Charles Street
London
W1J 5ED
T: 020 7529 1582
susan.conway@esu.org
The dress code for all ESU events is
smart casual, unless otherwise specified.
Wednesday 11 January, 6.30 – 8 pm
Meet the Author
Herta Von Stiegel: The Mountain Within
In July 2008, international business executive
Herta Von Stiegel led a group of disabled
people to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise
money for charity.
The story was captured in the award-winning
documentary The Mountain Within and now
the expedition has inspired this remarkable
work, which blends the gripping tale with
powerful leadership lessons and
conversations with many of the world’s most
influential business leaders including, Kay
Unger, Sung-Joo Kim, Baroness Scotland of
Asthal, Hon Al Gore and David Blood.
Tickets: £15 to include one glass of wine and
a selection of nibbles.
Copies of The Mountain Within will be on sale
at the event.
Tuesday 24 January, 6.30 – 8.00 pm
Meet the Author
Roger Rosewell: Medieval Wall Paintings in
English and Welsh Churches
Wall paintings are a unique art form,
complementing and yet distinctly separate
from other religious imagery in churches.
Unlike carvings or stained glass windows,
their support was the structure itself, with the
artist’s ‘canvas’ the very stone and plaster of
the church. Notwithstanding their dissimilarity
from other religious art, wall paintings were
also an integral part of church interiors,
enhancing devotional imagery and inspiring
faith and commitment in their own right, and
providing an artistic setting for the church’s
sacred rituals and public ceremonies.
Join the ESU for a fascinating talk by Roger
Rosewell, former journalist, director of a
private European art foundation and the news
editor of the online stained glass magazine,
VIDIMUS, as he journeys through many of the
best surviving examples of medieval church
wall paintings today, bringing the imagery and
iconography of the medieval church vividly to
life.
Tickets: £15 to include a glass of wine and
selection of nibbles.
Copies of Medieval Wall Paintings in English
and Welsh Churches will be on sale at the
event.
Wednesday 25 January, 6.30 – 9.00 pm
Burns’ Night supper
Come and help us celebrate the birthday of
Scotland’s bard with a reception and
traditional bill o’ fare buffet in the Revelstoke
Restaurant. Don your tartan and enjoy Burns’
poetry recitals, the “Immortal Memory” and of
course, the famous toast to the haggis!
Tickets: £25
Dress code: lounge suit (tartan optional)
The buffet will be served at 7 pm.