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THE ARTS SOCIETY BATH WELCOMES YOU

Established nearly 40 years ago and enjoying The Arts in all its forms.

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ABOUT US

The Arts Society Bath has a friendly, active membership who share an appreciation of and commitment to the arts.

Our 2022/23 season of monthly lectures will be delivered in a hybrid format (both in-person and online via Zoom). In-person lectures will be at our venue, Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Members accessing lectures online via Zoom will be sent a link a few days in advance. (Our January lecture will be via Zoom only.)

To ensure that we are as safe as possible in our new venue, we have put a Covid-Safe Protocol in place. Please click here to view the Protocol.

 

The Arts Society Bath promotes its aims through lectures (nine per season running from October to June) on fine and decorative arts in the widest sense and through Special Interest Days, as well as visits and trips away. We also promote arts for the young through Young Arts and the not so young in Community Arts. Our members are also involved in other volunteering activities such as Church Recording and Heritage Volunteers.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Rembrandt's Eyes: Portraits and Self-Portraits by Rembrandt van Rijn
    03 Apr, 11:30 – 12:30
    Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath BA2 6AA, UK
    This talk concentrates on Rembrandt's revealing portraits and painfully honest self-portraits which helped forge his reputation as one of the finest artists of any era.
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  • The Explosive World of Cornelia Parker
    Mon, 15 May
    Widcombe Social Club
    15 May, 11:30 – 12:30
    Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath BA2 6AA, UK
    Contemporary sculptor and installation artist Cornelia Parker is best known for her large-scale installations like Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View where she took a typical garden shed, had it blown up then installed the debris around a light bulb creating the effect of an explosion frozen in time
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  • What really happened in the Bateau Lavoir? Picasso in 1900s Paris
    06 Mar, 11:30 – 12:30
    Widcombe Social Club, Widcombe Hill, Bath BA2 6AA, UK
    The poverty, crowds, artists and performers of Paris transformed Picasso from a precocious, talented teenager into a charismatic leader of the young Turks. Together with his intensely disturbing “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, he almost single-handedly unleashed the 20th century's cultural revolution.
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BECOME A MEMBER

Become a member of The Arts Society today and enjoy all of these benefits.

 

The cost for our 2022 - 2023 season is £54.

Membership

Access to 9 lectures on the Arts given by professional art historians and art lecturers, once a month in the Widcombe Social Club.

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Opportunities to attend study days arranged by The Arts Society Bath and other societies.

Opportunities to go and visits and city walks arranged for members and guests.

Membership of the national organisation, The Arts Society.

Quarterly magazine covering the arts and activities of the national and local arts societies.

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Access to The Arts Society's talks and activities of the national and local arts societies

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