The Athenaeum Liverpool

The Christmas Lunch
2019-12-16 12:30 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | The Athenaeum Liverpool, Church Alley, Liverpool, L1 3DD, United Kingdom
Monday 16 December—12:30 for 1:00pm
The Christmas Lunch
We enter the Club’s last week before the Christmas period with the Annual
festive lunch. Christmas jumpers optional!
£25.00 per person, including three-course lunch.

The Christmas Ball
2019-12-14 19:00 - 23:00
Saturday 14 December—7:00 for 7:30pm
The Christmas Ball
Dress: Lounge Suits Ticket Price: £50.00
The main event of the Christmas season is The Christmas Ball. This will be a special occasion to enjoy The Athenaeum in its Christmas splendour. A gourmet Christmas carvery buffet will be accompanied by music provided by the Phil Shotton Big Swing Band.

Saturdays Opening
2019-12-14 12:00 - 16:30
The Club will be open from 12:00pm for Members, with the Club’s Christmas Ball taking place in the evening. Food will be available in the Newsroom until 4:30pm with the Ball commencing at 7:00pm that evening.

The Christmas Carol Concert
2019-12-11 18:00 - 23:00
Wednesday 11 December—6:00 for 6:30pm
The Christmas Carol Concert
Our Annual Carol Concert. Festive hits in the Newsroom will follow a supper in the Dining
Room. Mince pies and mulled wine will be available during the evening.
£25.00 per person, including supper and refreshments.

Theatre Group
2019-12-07 19:30 - 22:00
Saturday 7 December—Miracle on 34th Street
7:30pm at the Playhouse-£17.00 per person
Conjure up the perfect Christmas. Think of tinsel and tingles, whispers and wishes, those thrilling hours when childhood dreams take flight. Now imagine if Christmas was all common sense. No whispers, no secrets. Just cold hard facts wrapped in paper destined for the bin.
That’s Christmas for sensible six-year-old Susan and her mother. But as New York’s cash tills ring out their money-making chimes and shoppers join a race that lasts from Thanksgiving until New Year, an old bearded gentleman turns their rational world – and the city’s cut-throat commercial spirit – upside down.
Tickets to be collected from the Athenaeum
£17.00 per person—booking deadline
Wednesday 27 November 2019

Saturday Opening
2019-12-07 12:00 - 19:00
The Club will be open between 12:00pm and 7:00pm on each of the Saturday’s listed (except Saturday 14 September), with Newsroom services available throughout. Whether you are attending the matinee or an evening show, guests are encouraged to take part in lively discussion in the Athenaeum.

The Athenaeum Film Night
2019-12-06 18:15 - 22:00
Friday 6th December—The Bishop’s Wife
An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and
repair his fractured marriage. 1947—Directed by Henry Koster, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young
and David Niven.

The Literature Group
2019-12-04 15:00 - 16:00
wed 4th December. ‘Bring Your Own – Christmas’. If you can, please bring along a poem or piece of prose on a seasonal theme to read to and discuss with the group.

The History Group
2019-11-27 14:00 - 15:30, 2019-10-30 14:00 - 15:30
details TBC

Cookery Demonstration with Russell Hough
2019-11-21 18:00 - 20:00
Full Details to Follow in due course.

The Film Group
2019-11-20 14:00 - 16:00
HMS Defiant – (UK 1962). 1797; the country is at war with Revolutionary France, and they depend upon the Royal Navy. A captain (Alec Guinness) takes possession of his new ship Defiant, at a time when there are mutinies as Spithead and the Nore. He also has to deal with a cruel and despotic First Lieutenant (Dirk Bogarde) and a potential mutiny led by the Bosun (Anthony Quayle). This is one of the best portrayals in film of life in the Royal Navy at this era. Directed by Lewis Gilbert, this is a really good yarn. (101 minutes)

Saturday Opening
2019-11-16 14:00 - 17:00
The Club will be open between 12:00pm and 7:00pm on each of the Saturday’s listed (except Saturday 14 September),
with Newsroom services available throughout. Whether you are attending the matinee or an evening show, guests are encouraged to take part in lively discussion at the Athenaeum.

Theatre Group
2019-11-16 14:00 - 17:00
Saturday 16 November—Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
2:00pm or 7:30pm at the Playhouse-£22.00 per person
An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster
whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations
to come. A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein
breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent
world, Frankenstein’s creature desperately seeks out his true
identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push
him into darkness. Dangerous and vengeful, the creature
threatens to obliterate Frankenstein and everyone he loves, in a
ferocious and bloodthirsty hunt for his maker.
Rona Munro’s brilliant new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic
masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she
wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing
revolutionary young women, then and now.
Tickets to be collected from the Athenaeum
£22.00 per person—booking deadline Wednesday 6
November 2019

The Athenaeum Film Night
2019-11-13 18:15 - 22:00
Wednesday 13 November—The African Queen
In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary
to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. 1951—Directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey
Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Morley.

Remembrance Sunday Lunch
2019-11-10 12:30 - 16:00

Library Archive Interest Group - Study Day
2019-11-09 10:00 - 16:00
Find My Shareholder

Study Day
10 am – 4pm November 9
(with buffet lunch, if booked)

AGENDA

Introduction – our Aim
Understanding our Share Registers – Ian Cubbins
Three Examples of Proprietors’ Research:

Maria McCann using Athenaeum resources

Lunch

Janet Hollinshead using External sources
David Brazendale on Dr Bostock

Summary of Resources available

Members' Reception
2019-11-08 18:00 - 22:00
Friday 8 November from 6:00pm
Members’ Reception
The next of our introductory event giving a platform for members to meet and expand their
circles within the Club. During the event, newer Members will have the opportunity to sign
their name into Athenaeum history when they sign their share in the 1809 Share Register. If
you know anyone who might be interested in joining the Athenaeum, invite them along for
what is sure to be an enjoyable evening.
£12.50 per person, including reception drink and canapes

The Literature Group
2019-11-06 15:00 - 16:00
Wed 6th Nov 3pm. ‘Something I found in the Stacks’. Proprietors are invited to explore the nooks and crannies of the Athenaeum’s library and bring something that they discover to the meeting.

Murder Mystery Evening - 'Death at the Dig'
2019-11-01 18:30 - 23:30
Friday 1 November—6:30 for 7:00pm
Murder Mystery Evening— ‘Death at the Dig’
Themed Dress—1920’s
For those of you who have always suspected that some of your fellow Proprietors have a shady past,
there will be an opportunity at the Murder Mystery Evening—Death at the Dig—on Friday 1
November for you to detect which of your fellow diners is responsible for the death of our eminent
colleague Professor Digson.
£30.00 per person, including three-course dinner.

The Roscoe (details to be finalised)
2019-10-23 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 23 October
The Roscoe (details to be finalised)
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 trialing grouping these events under one
banner, ‘The Roscoe’

Theatre Group
2019-10-19 14:00 - 17:00
Saturday 19 October—Amelie
2:00pm or 7:00pm at the Playhouse-£22.00 per person
Amélie is an astonishing young woman who lives quietly in the
world, but loudly in her mind. She secretly improvises small, but
extraordinary acts of kindness that bring happiness to those
around her. But when a chance at love comes her way, Amélie
will have to risk everything and say what’s in her heart.
Tickets to be collected from the Athenaeum
£22.00 per person—booking deadline
Wednesday 9 October 2019

Saturday Opening
2019-10-19 12:00 - 19:00
The Club will be open between 12:00pm and 7:00pm on each of the Saturday’s listed (except Saturday 14th September),
with Newsroom services available throughout. Whether you are attending the matinee or an evening show, guests are encouraged to take part in lively discussion at the Athenaeum.

'The Diaries of William Lloyd Holden'
2019-10-17 18:30 - 23:30
Thursday 17 October, 6:30pm for 7:00pm
‘The Diaries of William Lloyd Holden’,
Supper with Mr Jonathan Pepler.
In the history of cartography, William Lloyd Holden is not a familiar name; however, the chance
survival of his diaries provides unique evidence of the actual processes involved in producing the
county maps published by private surveyors and publishers in the period between the end of the
Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the Ordnance Survey. Holden worked for William Andrewes Bryant
in Cheshire – where he covered most of the northern part of the County from the Wirral to the
Longdendale panhandle – and in the West Riding, particularly in the Holmfirth area and the Dales. He
also spent the winter of 1829-30 in London, where he did odd pieces of work for Bryant as well as
spending time with his family. The dairies show that the ‘actual’ surveys of Bryant, the Greenwoods
and their contemporaries were primarily exercises in compilation and synthesis from existing
large-scale local mapping, rather than new surveys. The diaries also provide a fascinating picture of the
social life and activities, entertainments, flirtations and interests of an insatiably curious young bachelor,
and incidentally of the communities in which he spent time.
We are fortunate to be joined this evening by Mr Jonathan Pepler, the editor of the Diaries which were
published by the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, who will be giving a talk in the
Newsroom after supper. Jonathan Pepler has been a Council member from 1995, President 2003-2012.
A history graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Jonathan has pursued a career in archives mainly in
local authorities (Norfolk, Pembrokeshire and Cheshire) apart from a brief interlude in the NHS with
Tower Hamlets Health Authority, and was latterly Cheshire County Archivist 1997-2012. He has also
held various offices in national and local archival and historical organisations including Chair of the
National Council on Archives, and membership of the Railway Heritage Committee and the
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advisory Panel on Libraries and Archives. He has published a number of
articles in local historical journals and has a particular interest in maps and cartography.
£20.00 per person, including two-course supper

Athenaeum Film Night
2019-10-16 18:15 - 22:00
Wednesday 16 October—Whiskey Galore
Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship. Directed by Alexander
Mackendrick, starring Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood and Catherine Lacey

The Film Group
2019-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Saboteur – (1942) Dir. by Alfred Hitchcock. With Robert Cummings, Prunella Scales. The film starts with a major act of sabotage; the hero, wrongly suspected, is on the run till the final confrontation with the villain at the top of the Statue of Liberty! One of Hitchcock’s best films.

Sunday Lunch - Following the Judges' Service
2019-10-13 12:30 - 18:00
Sunday 13 October, 12:30 for 1:00pm
Sunday Lunch—Following the Judges’ Service
As is customary, Members of the Club are invited to attend the Judges’ Service, which takes place every
October. ‘Save the date’ information has been distributed and once formal invitations have been
received from the High Sheriff’s Office they will be circulated to the Membership.
As we did last year, the day, 13 October, the Athenaeum will be opening from 11:30am, ahead of a
special lunch for both Members who attended the service, and those who quite rightly wish to enjoy a
hearty Sunday Lunch at their Club!
£25.00 per person, including three-course lunch.

Opera At The Athenaeum
2019-10-11 18:30 - 23:30
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 feature some of the best-loved and most memorable arias from the world of Opera. Nick Hardy (Tenor) returns by popular demand and will be joined by Heather Heighway (Soprano), David Cane (Baritone) and the special guest appearance of Molly Barker (Mezzo-Soprano), the winner of the recent inaugural Sir David Maddison Opera Prize. These fantastic artistes will be accompanied on the Athenaeum Kemble piano by the renowned Composer and concert pianist Jason Ellis. So for another evening to long remember, please join us once again for an evening of OPERA AT THE ATHENAEUM on Friday, 11 October.
£33.50 per person, including two-course dinner, reception drink

Nick Hardy (tenor)
Nick Hardy has worked as a freelance opera chorister with Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Wexford Festival Opera, and Buxton Festival Opera. For London Festival Opera he has appeared as a principal in opera galas in Italy, Germany and Spain. For Scottish Opera and Buxton Festival he has had minor roles and major covers, whilst for semi-professional companies (including the Ahmadi Music Group, Kuwait) he has over 20 credits in major lyric and helden roles. As an oratorio soloist he has appeared throughout the UK and in France in major works by, amongst others, Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Stanford, Tippett & Verdi. He has taught singing for Shrewsbury School, Birkenhead School, Liverpool College, and The Hammond Theatre School, Chester. He has performed at The Theatre Arts Academy in St Petersburg, and is also a member of Waiters That Sing, specialising in society weddings around the north-west. He is the founder and director of Liverpool Italian Opera Co., and conductor of Wirral Community Choir. Recent and forthcoming appearances in 2019 include War & Peace with WNO at ROH Covent Garden, Götterdämmerung at Usher Hall for Edinburgh International Festival, Aida with Opera North at Birmingham Symphony Hall and other major venues, and gala concerts for London Festival Opera in Lancashire, Cheshire and The Midlands.

Heather Heighway (soprano)
Chester-born Heather Heighway graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with first class honours in 2013. She now studies Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where Ruby Philogene is her vocal tutor.
Whilst at the Conservatoire Heather was involved in many of their productions, playing a Fox Cub in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Rose Maurrant in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. Since leaving, Heather has played Susanna (Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro), Adèle (Strauss’ Die Fledermaus), Olympia (Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman), Tatyana (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin – for which she won both the district and regional NODA awards), Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Heather sings regularly with Heritage Opera, playing Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance. Heather has also performed with Flat Pack Music as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote and the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
Heather was the Chester Young Musician of the Year in 2011. Whilst at the Conservatoire, Heather won the Reginald Vincent Lieder Prize, gained second place in the Edwards Brooks English Song Prize and was a finalist in the Mario Lanza Opera Prize. Heather was also awarded the Ella Cheshire Scholarship and the Gordon Clinton English Song Prize.
Heather has been the soprano soloist in several choral works Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Finzi’s In Terra Pax, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Schubert’s Mass in G, Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s Saint John Passion.
Heather is thankful for the support of the Aspinwall Educational Trust, The Mario Lanza Foundation, the Split Infinitive Trust and the Guildhall Scholarship Scheme.

Molly Barker (mezzo soprano)
Molly Barker is from Nottinghamshire, now living in the Peak District. She has just completed a two-year masters degree at the Royal Northern College of Music, studying under the tutorage of Hilary Summers, and looks forward to returning for a further year of study later this year. She has been generously supported by the Michael Kennedy Award, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, the Drake Calleja trust and the Annie Ridyard Scholarship awarded by the RNCM.
Molly is a newcomer to the professional singing world, having performed in her first opera in Summer 2018 in the chorus of Tisbe, with La Serenissima at the Buxton Opera House. Since then she has played the role of La Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica (Puccini) and Zita in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), in the RNCM winter productions.This year she has performed with the Birmingham Opera Company in their production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich) and again at the Buxton International Festival in a new opera called the Orphans of Koombu. She looks forward to returning to the RNCM in September and performing the role of Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmelites (Poulenc).
Alongside music, Molly maintains a strong interest in agriculture, having undertaken an undergraduate degree in Countryside Management at the University of Derby, Buxton. Alongside her current studies she still enjoys time spent with the dairy cows and keeping up to date with all the latest agricultural gossip.

David Cane (baritone)
David Cane began singing as a boy chorister in Leicester Cathedral and continued to sing there when his voice had broken. Subsequently he spent a year as a choral scholar singing in the choir of Gloucester Cathedral. Following this, he studied for a degree in Theology at the University of Cambridge whilst singing as a choral scholar at Kings College.
During his time at Kings, David took part in several International tours, CD and DVD recordings and TV and Radio broadcasts, including the famous ‘Nine lessons and Carols’ service broadcast globally on Christmas Eve.
David has recently completed three years of postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he gratefully received the support of the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust. Whilst at the RNCM, David won the ‘Bessie Cronshaw/Frost Brownson Song Cycle Competition’ and has been a finalist for the ‘Frederick Cox Award for Singing’ and the ‘Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the singing of Strauss’ He was given the ‘Brigette Fassbaender Award for Lieder’ David is currently continuing his studies with Peter Wilson.
Recent concert performances as a soloist include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozarts Requiem, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Bach’s and Bach’s Magnificat. On stage David has played the roles of ‘Death’ in Holst’s Savitri, ‘David’ in Sondheim’s Company, ‘Starveling’ in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ‘Bob’ in a production of The Old Maid and the Thief by Menotti, ‘Abraham Kaplan’ in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, and ‘Don Alfonso’ in the RNCM’s 2016 production of Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart. More recently, David has played the roles of Masetto in Rocket Opera’s production of ‘Don Giovanni’, Lord Dunmow in Manchester Opera Ensemble’s production of Lennox Berkeley’s ‘A dinner engagement’, Schaunard in Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, and Papageno in ‘The Magic Flute’
for Flat Pack Music. David created the roles of ‘Hans’ and ‘Cobbler’ in a new opera by Adam Gorb at the RNCM, ‘Path to Heaven’ directed by Stefan Janski in 2018.
David is also currently undertaking a PhD in musicology at the Royal Northern College of Music where he is supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council doctoral studentship.

Jason Ellis
Jason was born in Yorkshire and is a graduate of Leeds College of Music and Liverpool University where he trained in classical & romantic piano performance, composition, orchestration and arranging and is also an Associate of the Trinity College London (Piano Recital).
At the piano, Jason is able to give fresh and exciting performances of most styles of music. Whether he is performing in a Solo piano recital or providing suitable ambience in the local piano bar – the aim is to take care with each note channel his passion for the music into every performance. The music of Beethoven is his passion along with a sprinkling of Bach and Mozart!
Jason has been involved with choral music since accompanying the Liverpool University Singers during his studies and in 2013 Jason founded the Mersey Wave Choir. He directs and accompanies many community music groups across Merseyside and since 2010 has been the principal accompanist to the Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir. Since 2014 Jason can be regularly found at the piano at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and accompanying various concerts, competitions and festivals in the Merseyside area. Jason performs regularly on the concert platform as a soloist and accompanist, composes and creates musical arrangements and transcriptions on a freelance basis.

Literature Group
2019-10-03 17:30 - 18:30
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.

The Roscoe (Call My Bluff Wine Tasting)
2019-09-27 18:30 - 23:30
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 are trialling grouping these events under one
banner, ‘The Roscoe’. Whilst the events will be named the same, each will be unique in its own right.
The second ‘Roscoe Evening’ is scheduled for Friday 27 September and will be a Call My Bluff Wine
Tasting, hosted by our very own Michael Shankland. After the reception drink, there will be a glass of
wine served with each course along with
£35.00 per person, including three-course dinner, reception drink & a glass of
wine with each course.
