New Members Informal Dining: Friday 6 April – Service between 7:00pm and 8:30pm. £25.00 per person We are pleased to announce the next New Members Informal Dining Evening has been scheduled for Friday, 6 April. You can book your place now via the Members’ Area or with reception. New Member’s Informal Dining evenings ... Read more
"Out of Africa II” By Eva Cookey Enjoy a specially prepared West African meal and a presentation on the success of last year’s efforts to provide books for the Groves Library in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Come and see where your books and money went! It’s quite a tale Tuesday 10th April 2018-02-27 at 12.30 in ... Read more
'United 93' - United 93 is a 2006 biographical drama- thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Greengrass, that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks of 2001.
‘James Dickson Innes : 'Beauty Most wild', a talk by Professor Rhiannon Evans MBE Athenaeum, Liverpool, April 20th 2018 2pm. J D Innes was a Welsh painter (1887-1914) and a close friend of Augustus John. In his short life he painted landscapes in Wales and France of extra-ordinary power and originality. Bio Professor Emeritus ... Read more
Friday 20 April, 7:00 for 7:30pm, £25.00 per person. We are very fortunate to be joined for dinner on 20th April by Sir John Timpson CBE. He founded the well-known chain of Timpson shops, of which there are now over 1,300, and which provide shoe-repairing, key-cutting and many other services. It has been his ... Read more
'The Producers' (1967 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder) 'Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop'. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go into the ‘cinema’ by about quarter to eight. All our films have a suitable intermission and we empty out no later than ... Read more
"On the Town" (1949) On the Town - three sailors have 24 hours' shore leave in New York. Gabey (Gene Kelly) falls in love with "Miss Turnstiles", a woman on an advert and the three man race around New York trying to find her. Starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, the film was directed by Gene ... Read more
We have recently and most regrettably lost three Past Presidents of the Athenaeum, namely Frank Moran, John Cook and Ian Fisher. On Friday 11th May at 6.30 for 7.00 pm there will be a dinner in their memory. The dress code will be lounge suits. Thursday 10th May would have been Frank's 90th birthday, and ... Read more
Bob Thurlow will speak on"Inn Liverpool" a history of some Liverpool pubs.
The Albert Dock, Architectural Gem and Jewel in the Crown Time: 4 PM Thursday, 17 May 2018 Venue: Athenaeum Library, followed by discussions in the Newsroom. Presented by: David Roscoe, Athenaeum Vice President Those that attended the last architectural group meeting on “Lighthouses” which ended with the festive gathering in the Newsroom will be ... Read more