WELCOME TO THE ARTS SOCIETY SHERBORNE
Our activities
LECTURES
Our lectures, by internationally acclaimed presenters on a wide variety of topics take place in the Digby Hall, Sherborne on the first Wednesday of each month (except January and August) at 3 pm and 7 pm.
Visitors are welcome
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STUDY DAYS
Each year we hold 2 or 3 Study Days in which the lecturer explores a subject in more detail over a series of 3 lectures Coffee is served between two morning lectures, then a lunch with wine or soft drinks is enjoyed followed be a third lecture after lunch.
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VISITS
We organise both residential visits, both in the UK and overseas, and day trips to places of cultural and artistic interest.
We are very pleased that, after residential visits, in particular, were necessarily restricted during the Covid pandemic, we are now able to move back towards a full programme.
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SOCIAL
A very sociable and friendly Society, we arrange special lunches and dinners during the year.
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ARTS VOLUNTEERING
We have organised events for young people under our former “Young Arts” scheme now incorporated into a wider “Arts Volunteering” heading.
In 2022 we sponsored arts projects in two local primary schools.
Funding may also be available for sponsoring other projects in support of the arts in the local area.
CHURCH RECORDERS
Members can get involved in the “Church Recorders” programme which records every detail in local churches and which is becoming a record of national importance in the UK.
TASS Forthcoming events
From Errol Flynn to Bottles of Gin
Literary Potraits and their Afterlives
Digby Hall, Sherborne
4th October 2023 at 3pm and 7pm
Lecture by Annalie Talent
Wells Cathedral
Digby Hall, Sherborne
1st November 2023 at 3pm and 7pm
Lecture by Jonathan Foyle
Bring an Object
Audience participation talk based on artefacts brought in for the talk
Digby Hall, Sherborne
6th December 2023 at 3pm and 7pm
Lecture by Marc Allum
Christmas Parties
Also on 6th December we will celebrate the coming of Christmas with Drinks and Nibbles in the Digby Hall
Following both the AFTERNOON and EVENING Lectures, members are invited to stay in the Digby Hall and enjoy a glass of wine and a few nibbles
AGM
6th December Digby Hall at a time as yet to be decided
“A Crisis of Brilliance”
The Slade school and the Revolution in British art, 1910-1945
Digby Hall, Sherborne
16 November 2023 10:15am to 3:15pm
Study Day by David Boyd Haycock