Upcoming Events 2024

Join us for a series of talks and events in Central London over the next twelve months. Whether in-person, Zoom, or hybrid, our diverse lectures cater to all preferences. We’re building a program covering fine art, music, architecture, and more, led by talented speakers. Everyone is welcome to learn and socialise in our relaxed environment.

As part of The Arts Society, we’re part of a leading arts education charity. Individual societies nationwide collaborate under this umbrella to deliver cultural events. Stay tuned for upcoming event details, including venues and dates.

Forthcoming dates for your diary…

Tuesday 16 April 2024, 630pm
Dr Anja Shortland – ‘Lost Art: the dark side of the Art Market’

Please note the change of Venue to: St Stephen’s Church,38-42 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LE (just up Rochester Row from Greycoat Hospital School)

Anja is going to talk to us about ‘Lost Art : the dark side of the Art Market’.

Her book ‘Lost Art’ tells the story of what happens when a famous painting disappears into the underworld of stolen art and how it makes its way back in to the legitimate world of auction houses and museums.

Tuesday 7 May 2024, **Change of venue** – ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH, ROCHESTER ROW, LONDON, SW1P 1LE, 630pm
Catherine Moorehead – Recollections of RumDoodling – a mountain explorer’s adventures

Catherine is an intrepid mountaineer who has successfully taken climbing groups to conquered hitherto uncharted and unclimbed mountains in China, India and Nepal.

She has also completed all the Munros in Scotland and is, therefore entitled to be called a ‘Munroist’.

Catherine is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of the Alpine Club.

She has recently been commissioned by the London and New York publisher Phaidon to write a contribution to ‘The World Atlas of Mountaineering’ This is the biggest history of world climbing ever undertaken. It is due for publication in Autumn 2025.

In addition, Catherine has been shortlisted for the Kekoo Naoroji Prize (named after Kekoo Naoroji the distinguished Himalayan Club bibliophile)

This is the biggest award in Asia for mountaineering writing and one of the ‘big three’ global awards.

The winner will be announced in April in Mumbai.

She has written a number of other books on Mountaineering and this promises to be a really interesting event so please feel free to brings friends along …

Tuesday 4 June 2024 – Venue: House of Parliament – Member only event
Lt Gen David Leakey, CMG, CVO, CBE – ‘Being Black Rod’

An event with ex Black Rod, Lt Gen David Leakey. From a military family David joined the Royal Tank Regiment as a second lieutenant after attending The Royal Military academy at Sandhurst. He went on to study law at Cambridge and then served in the Army around the world. He has had a number of high-profile roles and became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in February 2011. He sings and is an amateur pianist. He was Chairman of the National Children’s Orchestra in June 2014.

Tuesday 3 September, Venue TBC
Richard Ovenden OBE – ‘Knowledge under attack – How libraries have fought back for 3,000 years’