The Literature Group
2017-10-04 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | The Athenaeum Liverpool, Church Alley, Liverpool, L1 3DD, United Kingdom
‘‘Evelyn Waugh: Put Out More Flags’ by John Morgan’

Athenaeum Film Nights - The Lady Killers
2017-10-05 18:15 - 22:00
‘The Lady Killers’
A customary Ealing comedy to start the season
‘Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians’.
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 ten o’clock.

'Little Boy Blue'
2017-10-13 18:30 - 22:00
‘Little Boy Blue’, Dinner with His Honour Judge Neil Flewitt Q.C. & Dr Paul Johnson.
Friday, 13th October at 6:30-7:00pm. £25.00 per person.

Many of you will have seen the recent highly-rated ITV series ‘Little Boy Blue’ about the terrible murder of the Croxteth youngster Rhys Jones. The leading prosecution barrister in the case was Neil Flewitt Q.C., now a Circuit Judge, and the consultant pathologist who gave significant evidence in the case was Dr. Paul Johnson. Neil and Paul will be joining us for dinner on Friday, 13th October and will be giving a joint presentation about the case.

Starter
Terrine de Hiver
Pressed game terrine with Duck, Pidgeon and Chicken livers
Served with Pistachio sponge and orange gel

Main Course
Roast Sirloin of Casterbridge beef, horseradish mash Yorkshire pudding
Served with roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables, red wine gravy

Dessert
Lemon Posset with Shortbread

Tea, Coffee & Mints

The Film Group
2017-10-18 14:00 - 16:00
I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (GB 1959)
Dir. by John Boulting.
After being demobbed the hero (Ian Carmichael) decides to go into Industry, little knowing that most of the workforce are strike-happy layabouts, and that the management are as bent as hair-pins. This wickedly cynical film marks Peter Sellers’ first great role as a bone-headed shop steward.

Athenaeum Debates: 26/10/17
2017-10-26 18:00 - 20:00
We are entering an new epoch, a time where technology, automation and machine intelligence has the potential to supplant human labour in all its forms. Not just physical labour and manufacturing, but also white collar industries such as banking and insurance, medicine, teaching, legal and professional services and even the creative arts. What is to become of all this “left behind” human capital? Does capitalism have the power to realign society or should the state intervene via a form of ‘Universal Basic Income’ for all citizens, freeing mankind to focus on life’s higher pursuits?

This is the subject of our next Athenaeum debate taking place on the 26th October 2017 at 6pm in the Newsroom.

If you would like to attend, please reserve your place via the Athenaeum booking system or contact Jack or Katie on reception. Please feel free to bring guests, just let us know how many will be attending.

We look forward to seeing you on the 26th October.

Athenaeum Debates Interest Group

The Literature Group
2017-11-01 14:00 - 15:30
Details to Follow…

Athenaeum Film Nights - Pygmalion
2017-11-01 18:15 - 22:00
‘Pygmalion’ (1938 film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same name)
A Victorian dialect expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
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 ten o’clock.

New Members Informal Dining
2017-11-03 18:30 - 22:00
New Members Informal Dining.
Friday, 3th November.
Service will be between 7:00 & 8:00pm. Predinner drinks will be available in the Newsroom from 6:30pm for anyone who wishes to gather before the meal. £25.00 per person.
Informal Dining evenings are what they say—Informal! There are no speakers—just good food, company and wine. At the dinner those who have joined the Club recently, and also older members who have yet to, have the opportunity to sign the share register. You may wish to bring along family and friends with you or join one of our larger club tables; please specify this upon booking. Spaces on these larger tables are subject to availability

Remembrance Sunday Lunch
2017-11-12 12:30 - 16:30
Remembrance Sunday Lunch.
Sunday, 12th November at 12:30 for 1:00pm.£25.00 per person.
Traditional Sunday lunch following 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.
Menu
STARTER
Soup of the Day (v)
Warm bread roll
MAIN
Traditional Beef roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings
DESSERT
Appple Pie with custard
Tea, coffee & mints

The History Group
2017-11-14 14:00 - 15:30
“Why not drown Liverpool? Welsh water for an English City”, by Dr Graham Jones.

All meetings commence at 2:00pm in the Library.

The Film Group
2017-11-15 14:00 - 16:00
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (USA 1951)
Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock
On a train journey a tennis champion (Farley Granger) meets a homicidal obsessive man (Robert Walker) who suggests that he should murder the champion’s tiresome wife in return for the murder of his own hated father. The champion tries to back out of the deal, but too late; the obsessive man murders the wife, and now insists on the champion keeping his side of the bargain. One of Hitchcock’s most electrifying films.

Supper with Nisha Katona
2017-11-21 18:30 - 22:00
In November we will be joined for supper by Nisha Katona, the former barrister who went on to set up the well-known ‘Mowgli Street Food’ Indian restaurants, and who also writes books about Indian cookery and recently appeared on Chanel 4. She will be in conversation with our own renowned broadcaster Roger Phillips.
The evening will commence 6:30 for 7:00pm.

Main Course
Slow cooked rump of Lakeland lamb with coconut and kaffir
Braised rice and Thai Slaw

Dessert
Yogurt and Mandarin Pannacotta
Glace Kumquat

Tea, Coffee & Mints

The Athenaeum Christmas Lunch
2017-12-05 12:30 - 16:30
Tuesday, 5th December at 12:30 for 1:00pm. £25.00 per person.
We begin the festive period early in December with our Annual Christmas Lunch, always a popular addition to the calendar. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
MENU
STARTER
Cream of Butternut Squash soup
Aioli, tomato & Sage Salsa
MAIN
Roast Crown of turkey, chipolata sausage wrapped in bacon, sage and onion stuffing, seasonal vegetables & Potatoes, turkey gravy.
DESSERT
Christmas Pudding with brandy butter sauce
Tea, Coffee & mince pies

The Literature Group
2017-12-06 14:00 - 15:30
Details to Follow …..

Athenaeum Debates
2017-12-06 18:00 - 20:00
The next Liverpool University / Athenaeum joint debate will take place next Wednesday (6th December) commencing 6pm in the Newsroom.
This debate takes on a festive theme … the role of Christmas in an increasingly secular society.
As always, it should be a great evening of informative discussion, good humour, great audience participation and some jolly festive socialising in the bar both before and after!
The debate is open to all proprietors and their guests. Please book on the Athenaeum web site events page or contact reception. The debates are proving very popular so please book early.
We look forward to seeing you all on the 6th December.
The Athenaeum Debates Interest Group.

The Film Group
2017-12-11 14:00 - 16:00
MEET JOHN DOE (USA 1941).
Dir. by Frank Capra.
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
Everyone knows Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, but what about his forgotten earlier film with a very similar theme? The hero is just an ordinary guy whom the press and the politicians take up, and then betray. He faces death on Christmas Eve in a howling blizzard. But Capra’s film is full of his warm humour and philosophy of life.

Athenaeum Film Nights - Christmas In Connecticut
2017-12-13 18:15 - 22:00
‘Christmas In Connecticut’ (1947 Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison)
‘A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas’.
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 ten o’clock.

'A Christmas Carol'
2017-12-14 18:30 - 22:00
‘A Christmas Carol’, performed by John Bromley-Davenport Q.C.
Thursday, 14th December at 6:30 for 7:00pm. £25.00 per person.
John Bromley-Davenport Q.C. will be at the Athenaeum on Thursday 14th to give us his brilliant one-man performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Dickens.
MENU
Honey and mustard sausages, olives and crisps on arrival in Newsroom
FIRST ACT to take place

following first act, guests to go to Dining room for Beef Bourgignon

SECOND ACT in Newsroom

Tea,c offee and Mince pies to follow

Carols at The Athenaeum
2017-12-18 18:30 - 22:00
Monday, 18th December at 6:30 for 7:00pm. £25.00 per person.
Price includes a light supper, minced pies and mulled wine.
Further details are to follow.

Christmas Informal Dining
2017-12-21 18:30 - 22:00
Thursday, 21 December. Service will be between 7:00 & 8:00pm. Predinner drinks will be available in the Newsroom from 6:30pm for anyone who wishes to gather before the meal
£25.00 per person.
We finish 2017 in relaxing fashion with an ever popular informal dining occasion. There are no speakers – just good food, company and wine. You may wish to bring along family and friends with you or join one of our larger club tables. Please specify this on booking.

Athenaeum Film Nights - The Ghost & Mrs Muir
2018-01-10 18:15 - 22:00
‘The Ghost & Mrs Muir’ (1967 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder)
‘In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted…and forms a unique relationship with the ghost’.
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 ten o’clock.

The Film Group
2018-01-17 14:00 - 16:00
Life with Father, director Michael Curtiz.
Clarence Day (William Powell, is the headstrong father of a family of four children, used to running the house in his own way. His wife Vinnie, Irene Dunne, knows that he is head of the household, but although he thinks he is in charge, the question is he? Both Powell and Dunne are delightful, especially Dunne as the seeming dizzy airhead. [Running time 118u mins]

History Group Meeting
2018-01-18 14:00 - 15:30
Z Cars 1839 – Fact and Fictionalisation in the early years of the Liverpool Constabulary Force
(Dr Nick Foggo, Department of History, University of Liverpool)
“In the late 1830s policing in Liverpool was transformed to an extent not experienced again until the Z cars era in the 1960s.In the talk we look at the pioneering of concepts such as statistics,cost-benefit analysis and linking crime with social deprivation.Sources drawn upon include newspapers,memoirs of an early police constable and the first novel about Liverpool life.From this mix emerges the extraordinary tale of a fallible human who tried to make a career in the new police.”

Cheap & Cheerful Supper
2018-01-19 18:30 - 22:00
Join us for our ever-popular cheap & cheerful get together. a fabulous evening of good food and good company! A two-course menu for £12.00 and great offers on wine. bring friends and family but be sure to book early.
MAIN
Chicken Madras curry with basmati rice & naan bread
Yoghurt and pickles on the table

DESSERT
Passion Fruit panna cotta

Tea, coffee & biscuits

Arts Group Meeting
2018-01-23 02:00 - 15:30
Details to Follow.

Burns Night Supper
2018-02-02 19:00 - 19:30
We will celebrate the life of Robbie Burns, with all his associations to the Athenaeum, at our Black-Tie Event. A piper, the haggis, the Immortal Memory and whisky galore!
MENU
STARTER
Scotch Broth
INTERMEDIATE
Haggis, Neeps & Tatties
MAIN
Roast Aberdeen Angus beef with all the trimmings
DESSERT
Whiskey Mac Cheesecake

The Literature Group
2018-02-07 14:00 - 15:30
Proprietor, Mrs Fiona Martin, will be giving a talk entitled, ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’.
All are welcome.

Young Members Dinner
2018-02-07 18:30 - 22:00
Young Members Dinner Wednesday 7th February 2018
6:30-7:00pm £20.00.
A dinner for our Young Members and their guests. Price includes a welcome drink and two course meal. The dress code will be smart casual, so men will not be obliged to wear ties.
Main Course

A selection of traditional hot and cold Tapas Dishes to share over Conversation
Albondigas (slow cooked veal and pork meatballs in tomato sauce)
Croquetas de Jamon y Queso (deep fried ham, cheese and potato dumplings)
Tigres or Mejillones Rellenos (stuffed mussels)
Patatas Bravas (bravas potatoes)
Gambas al Ajillo (garlic prawns)
Tortilla Espanola (Spanish omelette)
Pollo Espanola con chorizo y aceitunas (baked chicken with chorizo and olives)
Jamon, Queso y aceitunas con Pan (cured ham, cheese, olives and bread)

Dessert

Crème Catalan (baked custard with Almond)

To book your place, please contact Jack Birley (jack@theathenaeum.org.uk ) or Katie Hodson (katie@theathenaeum.org.uk) or call reception on 0151 709 7770.

Athenaeum Film Nights- Oliver Twist
2018-02-08 18:15 - 22:00
‘Oliver Twist’ (1948—David Lean)
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
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 ten o’clock.

Main Course
Beef Pie and Mash with Liquor

Dessert
Choc Ice and sweets

Artist Talk & Afternoon Tea with the Bluecoat Display Centre
2018-02-13 13:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 13 February @ 1:00 for 1:30pm.
Artists Talk & Afternoon Tea, joint function with the Bluecoat Display Centre. – £12.50 per person.
As part of Bluecoat Display Centre’s ongoing programme of exciting artist’s talks, the next event will feature ceramicist Sian Hughes. Sian will speak about her artistic career and her involvement in our outreach work. Her focus has recently been porcelain paper clay, using its strength and fragility to work directly with text, narratives and freehand painting. She has previously created sets of vessels such as tea spoons, cups and bowls displayed in groups. Her work is often very sculptural. Sian has also taught stroke patients at Broadgreen Hospital how to create works of art using paper clay. The patients thoroughly enjoyed discovering creativity and learning new skills. This event will be followed by afternoon tea in the Newsroom.
