"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
Memoirs of the only NHS Consultant to Command the Trauma Hospital in Afghanistan. Colonel Glynn Evans VR, is a charismatic speaker and has some tales from his time in Camp Bastion. The LMI is a splendid building full of beautiful paintings and artefacts. If you have never visited it, now is your chance. Come early ... 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
Further details to Follow in the New Year.
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
Artist Talk – Lynda Roberts Tuesday 24th April 2018 Location : The Athenaeum, Liverpool (Church Alley). Time: 1pm to 4pm Tickets : £12.50 each (includes tea, sandwiches & cakes at The Athenaeum, Liverpool). Lynda makes multi media colleges as a personal visual record of places she has visited both here and abroad. In her recordings of ... 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
Mr Brian Gill, will be giving a talk on ‘Shakespeare and Alchemy’.
"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