Friday 6 Sepetember 6.30pm for 7.00pm One of the great benefits of Membership is of course fine food and fine beverage. This Presidential Year will be no different as Catering continue to bolster the Club’s social programme with food and drink based events. During the coming months, we are trialling grouping these events under one ... Read more

Saturday 14 September—Nigel Slater’s Toast 2:00pm or 7:00pm at the Playhouse-£17.00 per person The Club will NOT be open on this day. A play about growing up. With Food. Nigel Slater’s award-winning autobiography is adapted for the stage by Henry Filloux-Bennett. Toast vividly recreates Nigel Slater’s childhood through the tastes and smells he shares with ... Read more

  Les Diaboliques (1955) Dir. by H-G. Clouzot. With Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, and Charles Vanel. This was a film Hitchcock wanted to make, but the French got there first. The headmaster of a third-rate boarding-school is murdered by his wife and mistress - they drown him in the bath, and dump the body in a ... Read more

Thursday 19 September 7:00pm for 7:30pm The Royal Institution—with Ann Marie Passey We mark the unveiling of the latest addition to the Athenaeum’s collection, the Seal and Royal Charter granted to the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1821, with an after-dinner talk by Proprietor, Ann Marie Passey, who will be offering a look at the passage ... Read more

Tuesday 24 September, 1:00 for 1:30pm Artist Talks, with the Bluecoat Display Centre In conjunction with the Bluecoat Display Centre, the next Artist talk will feather enamel artist Ruth Ball who will speak about her artistic career. Ruth first spoke at the Athenaeum in 2014 about her practice, she now returns as her career has ... Read more

Friday 27 September, 6:30pm for 7:00pm The Roscoe (Call My Bluff Wine Tasting) One of the great benefits of Membership is of course fine food and fine beverage. This Presidential Year will be no different as Catering continue to bolster the Club’s social programme with food and drink based events. During the coming months, we ... Read more

Thu 3 Oct. 5.30 meeting followed by optional supper at 6.30. Catherine Hayes on writing for television. Proprietor Cath Hayes has had a distinguished career writing for stage and television (including Coronation Street). She will talk informally about her experiences and the rewards and challenges of television writing.

Friday 11 October, 6:30pm for 7:00pm Opera At The Athenaeum We are delighted to announce the next ‘Opera At The Athenaeum’! Following on from our last two concerts our new President has commissioned David Cox to produce a third Opera Concert which will be performed on Friday, 11 October. The evening’s performance will once again ... Read more