The Athenaeum Liverpool

Literature Group
2019-04-03 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | The Athenaeum Liverpool, Church Alley, Liverpool, L1 3DD, United Kingdom
Wednesday 3rd April 2.00.pm-3.30 pm.
‘Translating Foreign Poetry’ with HH Richard Hamilton. Dick Hamilton was nine when he translated a LaFontaine fable from French verse into English verse. Since then he has dabbled in Spanish and Medieval French. He will discuss this while quoting from famous translators who handled Ancient Greek, Chinese, Arabic and even Sanskrit. Be warned: the Troubadour verses are rather naughty!
Later in the year we will be varying our format for two ‘meet the writer’ sessions, These meetings will take place in the early evening with an optional light supper (for which there is a charge), which can be booked through the website. I hope that many of our regulars as well as those who have been unable to attend afternoon meetings will be able to come. I have been to several of the early evening meetings/meals organised by the Library and Archive group – they are great fun as well as intellectually stimulating (and you won’t have to cook when you get home!).

The Athenaeum Annual Dinner (Black Tie)
2019-03-22 18:30 - 23:00
Friday 22 March, 6:30 for 7:00pm, £40.00 per person
The most prestigious event in the Athenaeum Calendar, the President, David Roscoe, invites you the attend the Annual Dinner. The dinner is over half capacity at present, please book your places early to avoid disappointment. This event is black tie. A reception drink is included in the ticket price.
Schedule
Reception from 18.30 to 19.00
Dignitaries photos at 18.30
Dinner Service from 19.00 to 21.30
Newsroom Manned at 21.30
Last Orders from 21.30 to 23.00
Club Closes at 23.30

The Athenaeum Film Nights - Irish Film Night
2019-03-20 18:15 - 22:00
Irish Film Night TBC
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.
1 Course Supper Menu TBC
Tea, coffee & mints
Sweeties During Film

History Group Meeting
2019-03-20 14:00 - 15:30
Title is “Female Drunkeness in Victorian Lancashire.” Speaker Dr Craig Stafford of the University of Liverpool

Joint Supper with the LMI—At The Athenaeum
2019-03-14 18:30 - 23:30
Angela Samata, In Conversation with Roger Phillips
Thursday 14 March, 6:30 for 7:00pm, £25.00 per person

Our special guest this evening will be Angela Samata. Angela will be in conversation with Roger Philips who will talk to her about her career in the Arts and TV but also into the sensitive area of the untimely loss of her husband. She has since done a great deal to help other people who have suffered such loss and she has a very compelling story.
Her charity work, together with the making of the documentary were recently recognized as Angela was named as the Merseyside Woman of the Year 2015. As a freelance arts professional for over a decade, Angela continues to work with individual artists and arts organisations, while also speaking publicly about mental health issues.
Schedule
Reception drink from 18.30 to 19.00
Supper Service from 19.00 to 20.30
Angela Samata – In Conversation from 20.30 to 21.15
Newsroom Manned from 21.15-22.30
Last orders from 22.15 – 22.30
Club closes at 23.00

The Film Group
2019-03-13 14:00 - 16:00
13th March, 2019 The General (1926) Our classic film from the silent era is directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton himself. Johnnie Gray (Keaton), a train engineer, visits his fiancée Annabella (Marion Mack)in Georgia when the Civil War breaks out. Gray hurries to join the Confederate Army, but is rejected, because his job is too valuable. However, everyone believes it is because he does not want to fight, including his fiancée, who says she will not speak to him until she sees him in uniform. A year later Gray’s train “The General” is stolen by Union soldiers and Gray pursues them by various means to Chattanooga. Suffice it to say that after many adventures, Gray is hailed as a hero and reunited with Annabelle.
Based on a true story, “The Great Locomotive Chase” by William Pittenger, a Union soldier, Pittenger was one of the first people to receive the Medal of Honor, the American equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Although not well received by both critics and public alike on its release, it is now ranked as one of the greatest American films ever.
(Running time 75 mins)

Literature Group Meeting
2019-03-06 14:00 - 15:30
David Charters on Wilfred Owen. Local writer and proprietor David Charters will talk about the war poet, Wilfred Owen. As part of the recent commemoration of Owen and his association with Birkenhead, David’s play ‘A Dream of Wilfred Owen’ was performed to great acclaim at the Williamson Art Gallery. His entertaining talk will include extracts from this play about the about the poet and his work.

Artist Talks, with the Bluecoat Display Centre.
2019-03-05 13:00 - 16:00
Ceramicist—Attila Ollah.
Tuesday 5 March, 1:00 for 1:30pm, £15.00 per person

As part of Bluecoat Display Centre’s ongoing programme of exciting artist’s talks, the next event will feature ceramicist Attila Ollah. Attila will speak about his artistic career in ceramics and making but also his involvement in creating ice sculptures. He has recently established his own workshop and runs pottery classes at Altar Pottery.
Attila’s work explores the power of the vessel: over thousands of years, through association with birth, nourishment, ritual, celebration and death, the vessel has become deeply rooted in the human psyche. Attila explores the vessel as the archetypal symbol of the body through which the Self and that which is beyond the Self can be realised.
Attila has worked with Glacial Art to produce ice sculptures for global TV phenomenon Game of Thrones. After applying for a summer placement with world renowned ceramicist Claudi Casanovas, he was also offered a year-long apprenticeship opportunity with Casanovas in Catalonia. Attila then applied what he had learned about the mediums of both ice and ceramics to inform his work, which includes ceramic bowls suspended in ice.
Followed by Afternoon Tea in the Newsroom.
Schedule
Arrivals from 13.00 to 13.30
Talk starts in the library from 13.30 to 15.00
Afternoon Tea Served in Newsroom from 15.00 to 16.00
Building closes at 16.00

The Library Dinner (Black Tie)
2019-03-01 18:30 - 23:30
A Club Through Time’, with Dr Ian Cubbin
Friday 1 March, 6.30 for 7.00pm £35.00pp

Chairman of the Library Sub-Committee, Dr Ian Cubbin, will be guiding the audience as they embark on the journey of ‘A Club Through Time’. From the Athenaeum’s inception in 1797 to present day, via a change in premises, the characters that have shaped the Athenaeum and the city beyond, and perhaps a murder trial for good measure?

A number of newer Proprietors, and even some long standing ones know very little of our origins and history, this will be a great opportunity to learn more in a pleasant and conducive environment surrounded by fellow members and guests.

This ever popular Black Tie dinner is likely to sell out early, it is recommended to book well in advance to avoid disappointment. Tickets include dinner, reception drink and a donation to the Library Fund.
Schedule
Reception from 18.30 to 19.00
Presentation from 19.00 to 19.45
Dinner Service from 19.45 to 21.30
Newsroom Bar Manned from 21.30 to 23.00
Last Orders from 22.45 to 23.00
Building Closed at 23.00

Lunch with Investec
2019-02-26 12:00 - 15:00
Tuesday 26 February, 12:00 for 12.30
Talk and Lunch presented by our corporate member Investec. Following the talk a light lunch for attendees will be provided. Numbers are limited so please book early for this event. There will be no charge for this event.

Brexit, Trump and Winne –the-pooh by Stephen Trowbridge
Stephen is a Senior Investment Director responsible for a client bank of over £200million, overseeing the investment strategy and management of funds for individuals, trusts, charities, offshore bonds and pension funds. Stephen also sits on the firm’s Global Investment Strategy Group, and Asset Allocation Committee. After leaving Oxford Stephen spent ten years in the City of London and in Guernsey before joining Rensburg Sheppards (now Investec Wealth & Investment) in Liverpool in 1990.

Cutting-Through inheritance Tax Complexity By Paul Brokenshare
Paul has been a Financial Planner since 1991 and provides bespoke, independent financial advice tailored to an individual’s requirements. He specializes in advising high net worth clients and their families across the full spectrum of wealth management matters and in particular, with regard to retirement planning, pensions, general tax planning and inheritance tax planning needs. Paul has held the coveted Chartered Financial Planner status since 2008. He is a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. Paul is also an Affiliate Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and, as such, operating within an elite group at the forefront of his profession.
Schedule
Reception in the Library from 12.00 to 12.30
Presentation from 12.30 to 13.30
Light Lunch from 13.30 to 14.30

Dinner with Professor David Lalloo
2019-02-21 18:30 - 23:00
Thursday 21 February, 6.30 & 7.00pm, £25.00 per person

LSTM was founded in November 1898 by Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a influential shipping magnate, when Liverpool was a prominent port city with extensive trade with overseas regions such as West and Southern Africa. The number of patients in the region admitted to hospital with ‘tropical’ diseases soared. Sir Alfred Jones set up a School of Tropical Medicine to investigate these outbreaks. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), founded in 1898, was the first institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching in the field of tropical medicine.

Whilst Liverpool is no longer the major trading port it was in Victorian times the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is still world leader in its field.

As a registered charity, LSTM works across the world, often in very difficult circumstances, to fulfil its mission of reducing the burden of sickness and mortality in disease endemic countries.

Professor David Lalloo Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Tropical Medicine
Having undergone initial training in Newcastle upon Tyne, David Lalloo trained in General (Internal) Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, spending three years in Papua New Guinea. He undertook clinical and laboratory research in Oxford before moving as Senior Lecturer to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1999.

Since then he has focused on clinical trials in the tropics, particularly in HIV related infections, malaria and envenoming. He currently has collaborations and studies in a number of countries including Malawi, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, eSwatini (formerly known as Swaziland) and South Africa. He has worked with in Malawi for almost twenty years. He holds an appointment as an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and remains clinically active.

Prior to taking up the Directorship of LSTM in January 2019, David was Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health and was Director of the Welcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow Center for Global Health Research and the Liverpool Welcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme. He has a strong interest in identifying and supporting young UK clinicians interested in tropical research and strengthening scientific capacity in resource poor settings. He continues to supervise PhD and MD students in a wide variety of infection related areas.
Schedule
Arrivals from 18.30 to 19.00
Talk from 19.00 to 19.45
Dinner Served at 19.45
Newsroom Bar Manned from 21.30 to 22.30
Last Orders from 22.15 to 22.30
Club Closes at 23.00
Menu
Starter
Salad of Buffalo Mozzarella and beef tomato, melon pearls, pesto and rocket

Main Course
Breast of chicken with a smoked ham and ricotta mousse, creamed white wine and mushroom sauce
Served with panache of vegetables, buttered parsley new potatoes

Dessert
Tropical fruit salsa, coconut Panna cotta

Library and Archives Group Lunch
2019-02-14 11:30 - 14:00
11.30 am in the Library
12.30 pm informal lunch (reservation required )
Proprietor Jutta Hesketh: ‘Greek Myths:
The Very beginnings, Chaos to Zeus, seen through Literature and Art”.
(Based on works in the Library)

The Film Group
2019-02-13 14:00 - 16:00
13th February, 2019 Gaslight (1944). This is the second version of a mystery-thriller about a wife whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is becoming insane to distract her from his criminal activities. This version is directed by George Cukor and stars Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Jospeh Cotton. (See if you can identify the 18-year old maid.)
The film won a Best Actress Oscar for Bergman and was nominated for Best Picture. It received seven nominations in all.
(Running time 114 mins)

New Members Informal Dining
2019-02-08 18:30 - 23:00
Friday 8 February, service between 6.30pm & 7.00pm—£25.00pp
This Informal Dining Evening is open to both New and current members alike. 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 upon booking. Spaces on these larger tables are subject to availability. Informal Dining Evenings that are titled under the banner ‘New Member’s’ are also an opportunity for those to sign the historic 1801 Share Register for those who have not yet had the chance to do so. The signing ceremony following dinner is a special event and an important part of the process of becoming a Proprietor.
An a la carte menu will be available for guests to choose at the dinner.
Schedule
Drinks in the Newsroom from 18.00 to 18.30
Service in the Dining Room from 18.30 to 20.00
Newsroom Bar Open Through out from 18.30 to 23.00
Last Orders From 22.45 to 23.00
Building Closes at 23.30

The Athenaeum Film Nights - The Pickwick Papers
2019-02-07 18:15 - 22:00
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.
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.
1 Course Supper Menu TBC
Tea, coffee & mints
Sweeties During Film

Literature Group Meeting
2019-02-06 14:00 - 15:30
Of Human Bondage’: Diana Lane on Somerset Maugham’s semi-autobiographical novel. When ‘Of Human Bondage’ was published in 1915, Somerset Maugham was at the height of his popularity and fame as a writer of plays, short stories and novels. Since then he has rather fallen out of fashion. Diana’s talk will give us an insight into the writer and his work, reminding some of an old favourite and introducing others to him for the first time.

History Group Meeting
2019-01-30 14:00 - 15:30
Details TBC

Burns Night
2019-01-25 19:00 - 22:00

Music Evening
2019-01-18 18:30 - 23:00

Restaurant Dining Evening
2019-01-11 19:00 - 22:00
Restaurant Dining Evening
Friday 11th January, service between 7:00 & 8:30pm, please specify your desired time to sit down for dinner, time slots will be filled on a first come first serve basis.
Our next ‘Restaurant’ evening of fine dining will be held on Friday 11th January. There will be options at every course, priced individually in a la carte style. As well as our standard wine list, there will be specially selected fine wines on offer, at least one white and one red, priced in line with the Club’s competitive rate. Why not bring a guest or two to sample the delights of the Athenaeum?
The dress code for the evening will be smart casual.

The Athenaeum Film Night -The Count of Monte Cristo
2019-01-10 18:15 - 22:00
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous “friend”, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
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.
1 Course Supper Menu TBC
Tea, coffee & mints
Sweeties During Film

The Film Group
2019-01-09 14:00 - 16:00
9th January, 2019 Song of Summer (1968) This is a joint presentation with the Music Club (and we hope that it will not be the last.)
Written and directed by Ken Russell for BBC’s Omnibus, this black and white TV film covers the last six years of the life of composer Frederick Delius, when he had become blind and paralysed. Based on the memoir “Delius As I Knew Him” by Eric Fenby, it describes Fenby’s life with the composer and his wife, transcribing music from the composer’s dictation. Russell said that this was the best film he ever made and that he would not have done a single shot differently.
Delius is played by Max Adrian, Fenby by Christopher Gable and Jelka by Maureen Pryor.
(Running time: 72 mins)

Christmas Informal Dining
2018-12-20 19:00 - 22:00
We finish 2018 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.

Christmas Carol Concert
2018-12-13 18:30 - 22:00
Our Annual Carol Concert this year will feature the Formby Silver Band who will be performing some festive hits following a supper in the dining room. Mince pies and mulled wine will be available during the evening.
Further details to follow.

The Athenaeum Film Nights - Meet Me in St Louis
2018-12-12 18:15 - 22:00
Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
In the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
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.
1 Course Supper Menu TBC
Tea, coffee & mints
Sweeties During Film

The Film Group
2018-12-11 14:00 - 15:30
11th December, 2018: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) A musical which could only be on film, it was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and choreographed by Busby Berkley. The gold diggers in question are four aspiring actresses: Polly (Ruby Keeler), Carol, an ingenue (Joan Blondel), Trixie, a torch singer (Aline MacMahon) and a glamour puss, (Ginger Rogers). Made during the Great Depression, the film is about a production which is ready to be shown, but is closed for non-ppayment of bills. The producer Barney Hopkins (Ned Sparks) despairs, because he has everything except the money to put on the show, but Plly’s boyfriend, Brad, (Dick Powell) comes to his rescue.
The film was selected in 2003 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the US National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
(Running time: 96 mins)

Christmas Saturday Openings
2018-12-08 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-12-01 10:00 - 17:00
The first two Saturday’s in December the Club will be open for Members to enjoy. The Newsroom will be opening and fully serviced with last orders for food taken at 5:00pm.
No dress code will be in enforced during these two special openings, ideal for having lunch in between Christmas shopping!

The Literature Group
2018-12-05 14:00 - 15:30
Euripides by Brian Gill.
THE BACCHAE:
An Ancient Play With Timely Warnings For Today.
The Ancient Greeks had an astonishing understanding of human psychology. Their literature was frequently tasked with demonstrating the disastrous consequences of pursuing our ‘blind’ and unconscious motives in the service of egoic ambition
Taking the plays, The Bacchae and Oedipus Rex as a starting point we can use them to assess the formidable extent of their psychological understanding and gain invaluable insight into the potential disaster that awaits us today, both collectively and individually, should we continue to act in ignorance of basic human psychology. Our flagrant disregard for a wisdom and foresight that became the foundation of western civilization cannot continue with impunity.
Should anyone feel drawn to read these plays, perhaps it would be better to wait until after this presentation.

Athenaeum Christmas Lunch
2018-12-03 12:30 - 14:00
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.
