Events and visits

To see reports and photographs from recent events and visits click here

Forthcoming events

Please note: booking for events and visits opens when booking forms are distributed in advance at a lecture.

Tuesday November 19th 2024

Day of Special interest

Claude Monet, Regattas at Argenteuil. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Seine – River of Light and Artists’ Delight – Home of Impressionism. Three lectures by Carole Petipher. At: Royal British Legion Hall, Mickleover.

Thursday January 16th 2025

Visit to the RSC, Stratford-on-Avon

Matinee performance, Twelfth Night

Mid April – date to be confirmed*

Half-day Workshop on Ronald Pope (1920-1997)

Derbyshire Sculptor and Painter

With Professor Robert Burstow, Derby University

June 7th to June 11th 2025

The Art of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A 5-day visit with Tailored Travel

Visit the Kelvingrove Gallery, the Burrell Collection, the National Gallery of Scotland, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House and many other places of interest including the Royal Yacht Britannia

To download the Tailored Travel brochure, which gives full details of the tour, click here. To book, please complete and send the booking form on page 3 of the brochure to Val Murday (contact details are on page 2 of the brochure) by the end of November 2023.

Wednesday July 16th 2025

Day visit to RHS Garden, Bridgewater , Salford

Introductory talk & guided tour of this stunning new garden

November/December

Visit to the ballet or a concert

Details and date to be confirmed*

*Confirmed dates will be announced at lectures and on the Events page of the website