Bring Your Own Poem ! Following the success of November's Bring Your Own session on war poetry, we are having another meeting to which people are encouraged to bring their own favorite poems (or short pieces of prose). I am proposing that the subject this time should be memories - so either a piece about ... Read more

Thursday 6 June 2019, Guests will be gathering from 12:00pm —£35.00pp Ticket includes three course lunch, wine and charitable donation On Thursday 6 June, we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a special lunch in conjunction with the Alexandrians of Merseyside, who’s President, Dame Lorna E.F Muirhead DCVO DBE CStJ DL will ... Read more

Saturday 8 June 2019, Newsroom Service between 11:00am & 5:00pm No Dress code will be in operation for the Saturday opening. The Club will be open on Saturday 8 June for Members to use. Full Newsroom service will be available throughout the day from 11:00am, with last orders for food and beverage 4:00pm an 4:30pm ... Read more

Saturday 8 June—COOPED 2:00pm at the Playhouse £17.00 per person To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Spymonkey (A Christmas Carol) is offering Liverpool audiences an unmissable opportunity to catch this deliciously demented take on the pulp gothic romance - think Hitchcock’s Rebecca meets The Pink PantherTickets to be collected from the Athenaeum £17.00 per person—booking deadline ... Read more

12th June, 2019 Lady in the Van (2015) We finish our season with Alan Bennett’s comedy-drama about an elderly lady, (Mary Shepherd) who lived in a van which she parked on Bennett’s driveway, for 15 years. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, Mary is played by Maggie Smith and Bennett by Alex Jennings. Maggie Smith was nominated ... Read more

In the hope that summer will have arrived, the event on 12 June will focus on rosé wine.  In line with some of our earlier popular events, this will be an interactive affair, as we put well-known French rosés up against rosés from elsewhere – one of the pairings will be sparkling.  Rosé wine has ... Read more

The President David Roscoe is delighted to announce the inaugural Sir David Maddison Opera Prize presented by the Liverpool Athenaeum, and held in association with The Royal Northern College of Music, and produced by Athenaeum Proprietor David Cox. Five outstanding Singers from the RNCM have been selected from a shortlist of students who put their ... Read more

Jazz at The Athenaeum : The Melvin Peters Trio £5.00 per person (to be booked in advance) There will be 2 x 40 Minute Performances with Newsroom services available throughout. Melvin Peters is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, educator and church organist. He started classical piano lessons at the age of six and continued throughout ... Read more

Southport writer Kate Conlon has written many novels and short stories under the names of Kathleen Conlon and Kate North. Among them are My Father’s House, Face Values,Unfinished Business and The Best of Friends. She has ‘a talent for exposing the quivering tissues and raw nerves of life’ (Sunday Telegraph) and ‘writes warmly as well ... Read more