”Wine World Cup”

We welcome back our expert wine educator, Vivienne Franks, to share her knowledge of wine. Vivienne has travelled widely throughout the world’s wine regions, and regularly judges the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) and the International Wine Challenge (IWC).

This is the second Wine Tasting event in our series of six.

Wine World Cup
In this session we will sample a range of wines and deduce their origin. New world or old world? Single varietals or blends? Oaked or Unoaked? Organice versus non organic grapes? We will compare similar wines from different countries and vote our favourites.

Date: Wednesday 18th November
Time: 19:00-21:00
Location: The Council Room, Strand Campus,
King’s College London
Price: £25.00 per person per session

Registration for this event is open at the Modern Language Centre. We can accept payment by cards and cheques, but not cash.
Online enrollment: www.kcl.ac.uk/mlc/evening/timetable
Modern Language Centre
King’s College London, 170 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Tel: 020 7848 2890 Fax: 020 7240 0035

Wine Tasting with Vivienne Franks

We welcome back our expert wine educator, Vivienne Franks, to share her knowledge of wine. Vivienne has travelled widely throughout the world’s wine regions, and regularly judges the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) and the International Wine Challenge (IWC).

This is the first Wine Tasting event in our series of six.

Food and Wine Matching

The art of matching food and wine is a delicate balance. Lightly cooked food works with light elegant wine.  Rich flavours in cooking work with more robust wines. We will taste samples of food and wine to assess what works and what does not. We intend to have fun and experiment, come and join us!

Date: Wednesday 21st October
Time: 19:00-21:00
Venue: The Council Room, Strand Campus,
King’s College London
Price: £25.00 per person per session

Registration for this event is open at the Modern Language Centre. We can accept payment by cards and cheques, but not cash.
Online enrollment: www.kcl.ac.uk/mlc/evening/timetable

New Workshop: Italian through Art

 Italian through A rt with Emilia Maggio

 

During the summer term, the MLC welcomes an established Art Historian and Language teacher, Emilia Maggio, to run a series of Italian Workshops with a flavour of Art. 

These workshops are designed for Intermediate level Italian learners and aim to revise some basic Italian structures, learn new vocabulary and practise speaking and listening skills. Each session will start with an introductory slide show, during which images in relation to Italian Art will be presented by the tutor. Study materials will be distributed and explained in connection with the masterpieces. Workshops will include practice in pairs/groups and will end with a final discussion about the paintings and the Artists.

Thu 30th April        Michelangelo
Thu 21st May         Leonardo
Thu 18th June        Raffaello

Time:            18:30-20:30
Location:      Strand Campus, King’s College London
Price:           £25.00 per person per workshop

Registration for these workshops is open at the Modern Language Centre, 170 Strand. We can accept payment by cards and cheques, but not cash. Online enrollment: www.kcl.ac.uk/mlc/evening/timetable

Wine Tasting with Vivienne Franks: Rose Wine

We welcome back our expert wine educator, Vivienne Franks, to share her knowledge of wine. Vivienne has travelled widely throughout the world’s wine regions, and regularly judges the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) and the International Wine Challenge (IWC).

This is the final Wine Tasting event in our series of four.

“Rose Wines”
“Summer is coming and Rose wines are perfect with picnics and outdoor eating. Different grape varieties are vinified to produce an assortment of wine styles and flavours. We will taste examples of wines from all around the world and look at the extremes of light fresh fruity wine styles and also rich full bodied wine styles. We will look at single varietals as well as blends of different grapes to see which tastes and styles we prefer.”

Date:   Wednesday 10th June
Time:   19:00-21:00 
Venue: The Council Room, Strand Campus,
            King’s College London
Price:  £25.00 per person per session

Registration for this event is open at the Modern Language Centre. We can accept payment by cards and cheques, but not cash.
Online enrollment: www.kcl.ac.uk/mlc/evening/timetable

International Film Club: A Touch of Spice

“Politiki Kouzina– A touch of Spice” (2003) by Tassos Boulmetis

The International Film Club is inviting you to a free movie screening of the Greek film “Politiki Kouzina”. The film won best director, best cinematography, best editing, best fiction film, best music, best screenplay, best set design, and best sound in the 2003 Greek Competition Awards. 

“A Touch of Spice” is a story about a Greek man torn between his Greek ethnicity and his emotional roots in Turkey, the country of his birth. Using the device of cuisine as a metaphor for national identity and personal feelings, we see Fanis grow from a boy, whose grandfather imparts culinary and philosophical expertise from his spice shop, to a young man with a true passion for food. At the time of Cypriot Intercommunal violence in 1963, Fanis and his parents were deported to Greece, leaving his grandfather, who is a Turkish passport holder, behind.

Fanis returns to Istanbul after 35 years for an emotional reunion with his grandfather… and his first love. A bitter sweet journey of the senses, set against the historical backdrop of the deportation of thousands of Greeks from Istanbul, this is one of the biggest Greek films of all time.

The screening will take place on the 17th June 2009 at 18.00 in the Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre.

To reserve a place for this free movie screening, please send an e-mail to eleni.markou@kcl.ac.uk