We are a friendly society with over 180 members that meets in Grayshott Village Hall on the first Thursday of the month at 2:00pm to hear talks on many aspects of the arts given by world-class lecturers. The lectures cover a wide spectrum of subjects including art, architecture, music, sculpture, design, crafts and the performing arts.
Twice a year we run more in depth days on subjects of special interest. We also run regular visits to exhibitions, houses, gardens and other places of interest and in the winter arrange on-line visits to places around the world that we can view from home. Through voluntary work or donations, we also support the arts in local schools and elsewhere and run projects to preserve and promote our local heritage. For more about us click here.
Do come and join us. You’ll find lots of like-minded people and a warm welcome. Click here for membership details or just come along to a lecture as a visitor to sample what we offer.
Here are our forthcoming events:
Visit to the National Gallery, London – Monday 21 October 2024
Copies, Curtains and Ways of Looking by Chantal Brotherton – Ratcliffe – Thursday November 7 2024
Special Interest Day – Monday 25th November 2024 – ‘The Medici ‘Bankrolling the Renaissance’ by Douglas Skeggs
Dingley Dell to ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Vicky Bailey – Thursday December 5 2024
Christmas Lunch at Waverley Abbey House – Tuesday 10 December 2024
The History of the Royal Parks by Paul Rabbitts – 9th January 2025
The Art of Courtship in Renaissance Italy by Lydia Goodson – 6th February 2025
Britain as Workshop of the World. The Founding of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Anna Warrillow – Thursday March 6 2025
160 Years of the London Underground, Design and Architecture by Mark Ovenden – 3rd April 2025
Art Deco: Celebrating the Centenary of the 1925 Paris Expo by Pamela Campbell-Johnston – 1st May 2025
Michael Harris: Mdina Glass & Isle of Wight Studio Glass by Mark Hill – 5th June 2025
Art and Craft of the Pewterer by Andrew Spira – 4th September 2025
Great and Small: Writers Their Pets and Other Animals by Annalie Talent- 2nd October 2025
The Influence of Japanese Woodcut on Western Art by Carol Wilhide-Justin – 6th November 2025
A Very Ceremonial Christmas by Graham Jones – 4th December 2025