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Members are requested to inform the office of their e-mail address, and any change of address or other contact information.

Annual Subscriptions. (Due April 1st, & to be paid within 42days.)

A single payment of four times the annual fee gives 5 years membership.
Corporate membership is available to businesses and other organisations. Particulars from the office.

Members should carry their current membership card whenever they are visiting the premises.

Non-members may attend Tuesday afternoon & Thursday evening lectures, £2.

Forthcoming Events.

*indicates advance booking essential  (Normally 1 week) 

 

2012 BI-CENTENARY YEAR

January 2012

3 rd

Tue

Re-open at 10.00 am

10.15am Art Group Workshop. Second session begins.

4 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

5 th

Thu

10:15 am Art Group Workshop. Second session begins.

8 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

9 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

10 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.30 pm Pleasure of Books. Romance of the Romans by Ann Hunt.

11 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

2.30pm Discussion. Is Facebook good or bad?

12 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

15 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

16 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

17 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

18 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

19 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

20 th

Fri

2.00pm Music Afternoon.

22 nd

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

23 rd

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

24 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2:00pm Play Reading. The Gioconda Smile from a short story by Aldous Huxley

25 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

26 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

27 th

Fri

12.30 pm *Members’ Light Lunch.

2:30 pm Friday Talk Plymouth Minster: The History of St. Andrew’s published for the 2012 celebrations By Jack Spence (Author).

Please note. This talk will now be given by the author at St.Andrew’s. It will start promptly at 2:30 pm followed by questions at 3:20 pm. Refreshments will also be offered.

29 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

30 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

31 st

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop.


February 2012

1 st

Wed

Coffee Morning

2 nd

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop.

7.30pm Lecture. The War Between the States – the name given by the Americans to their civil war by David Stark

3 rd

Fri

2.00pm Music Afternoon

5 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

6 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

7 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.30pm Pleasure of Books. Journal of Marianne North (Traveller & Artist) by Richard Wilcockson

8 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

2.30pm Discussion. Image is more important than substance.

9 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

10 th

Fri

2.30pm Friday Talk. Who was Ambrose Heath? By Sheila Wilcockson

12 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

13 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

14 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

15 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

16 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

7.30pm Lecture. The Great White Elephant? – the changing fortunes of the tin mine on Plymouth’s doorstep by Steve Roberts

17 th

Fri

2.00pm Music Afternoon

19 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

20 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

21 st

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.00pm Play Reading. Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn.

22 nd

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

23 rd

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

24 th

Fri

12.30pm *Members’ Light Lunch

2.30pm Friday Talk. Everest: an expedition to the highest place by Simon Dell MBE

26 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

27 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

28 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.30pm Poetry Please. Ballad Form with W.H.Auden

29 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning



March 2011

1 st

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

7.30pm Lecture Exploring the Interiors of some Historic Churches in North Devon & Somerset by Thomasin Westcott.

2 nd

Fri

2:00pm Music Afternoon

4 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

5 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

6 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.30pm Pleasure of Books An afternoon with …… by Judie Hardie.

7 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

8 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

9 th

Fri

2.30pm Friday Talk A Peek at Devon House Part II by Carole Vivian.11

11 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

12 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

13 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

14 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

2.30pm Discussion Can capital punishment ever be justified.

15 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

7.30pm Lecture From Plymouth to the Pole by Paul Davies.

16 th

Fri

2.00pmMusic Afternoon

18 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

19 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

20 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

2.00pm Play Reading

21 st

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

22 nd

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

23 rd

Fri

12.30pm *Member’s Light Lunch

2.30pm Friday Talk Shelterbox by Mike Gill.

25 th

Sun

4.00pm Greek Kafeneio

26 th

Mon

7.00pm Photographic Society

27 th

Tue

10.15am Art Group Workshop

28 th

Wed

10.30am Coffee Morning

29 th

Thu

10.15am Art Group Workshop

30 th

Fri

2.00pm Music Afternoon

EASTER CLOSURE

The Athenaeum close at 5.00pm on Friday 30th March 2012

Re-opens at 10.00am Monday 16th April 2012.



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