Literature Group

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Literature group meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 2:00pm in the Library Reading Room – any alterations will be notified in good time. There is no need to book for this interest group meeting, simply turn up and enjoy.   This week, Proprietor Ann Bates has agreed to lead the meeting, ... Read more

Sketching Club

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Sketching Club meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm to sketch portraits. Past models have included those in Tudor, English Civil War and Edwardian costume. It adopts the approach of the well-established Liver Sketching Club where individuals learn through practice rather than instruction. This is an informal club for sketchers of ... Read more

Remembrance Sunday Lunch

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Remembrance Sunday Lunch Sunday 12th November, 12:30 for 1:00pm A Traditional Sunday lunch will follow the Civic Remembrance Service at St George’s Plateau. The Club will be open from 11:30am for anyone who wishes to use the facilities before lunch, though guests will be gathering from 12:30pm ahead of lunch at 1:00pm. Book your place ... Read more

£28

Athenaeum Film Nights Presents: Major Barbara

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The next in the series of classic films takes place on Wednesday 15th November. The programme is being finalised by facilitator Dr Ian Cubbin and will be published shortly, though the dates for this seasons film nights can be found below.   Guests gather in the Newsroom from 6:30pm ahead of supper at 7:00pm. The cinema ... Read more

£16.50

Poetry Evening – Presidential Dinner

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Athenaeum is proud to present, as part of this year’s Presidential programme, our first Poetry Night, hosted by Athenaeum Proprietor poet, musician and wit John Gorman (formerly of the Scaffold). John will perform his own work as well as introducing two special guest poets, Keith Wilson (a regular on Radio Merseyside) and Hoylake-born Anna ... Read more

£40

Liverpool Salon: Designs for Living

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Join Michael Owens (researcher, writer and lecturer; author Play the Game: How the Olympics came to East London) and John Boughton (social historian, blogger; author Municipal Dreams:the Rise and Fall of Council Housing) to take a historical perspective on Britain’s current housing crisis. From the golden age of post war planning to the decades of decline from the ... Read more

The Signalman

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Athenaeum is delighted to welcome back ArtsGroupie CIC, to perform their new production of the Charles Dickens classic - The Signalman. A ghostly figure has visited the signalman twice already, each time preceding a terrible disaster. When the apparition appears for the third time, it’s up to the signalman to decode its meaning and ... Read more

£18

Library Dinner 2023

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Friday 24th November, from 6:30pm in the Newsroom The traditional Library Dinner showcases the importance of our library to the Athenaeum’s past, present and future. It is the first of the three formal events scheduled for this Presidential year and includes a reception drink, a delicious meal and talk from guest speaker Dr David Jordan, ... Read more

£65

History Group

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The President, Dr Paul Burns will be the guest speaker at November's History Group Meeting: Topic to be finalised.   Attendance of the talk is free for Members are guests. Talk: 2:30pm in the Library Reading Room  

Friday Evening Dining, New Members Welcome Evening

The Athenaeum Liverpool Church Alley, Liverpool, United Kingdom

At least once a month the Club hosts Friday Evening Dining, where the Dining Room is open to members on a Friday Evening. Typically this will take place on the first Friday of the month, though where this is not possible it will be moved to another Friday. This December we have a special edition ... Read more

£36