JULY 2025 – NO LECTURE
AUGUST 2025 – NO LECTURE
Thursday 18th September 2025 -
Stories in Stained Glass
Stained glass tells stories. It has been used to play politics, bribe bishops, recruit soldiers and tell jokes.
Thursday 16th October 2025 – Pepe Martinez
Banksy, Fraud or Genius
The lecture will trace the story of Banksy’s humble beginnings as a tagger on the streets of Bristol in the 1980’s to one of the most recognisable names in the art world.
Thursday 20th November 2025 -
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields -
Welcomed at first with open arms and bringing luxury skills, the fortunes of the Huguenots fluctuated wildly. Sue will discuss the fashionable patterned silk dresses – who designed and made them and how, finally the trade died out, with some weavers literally dying in poverty at their looms.
Thursday 11th December 2025 -
Christmas with Giles, Grandma and the family
For a great many members of The Arts Society, the cartoonist Carl Giles was as much a part of the festive season as the Christmas tree, crackers and the Queen's Speech. So popular were the Giles annuals as Christmas presents that they helped to make him Britain's best loved, most successful and wealthiest cartoonist.
Followed by Christmas Lunch