Arts Society Halifax events at Halifax’s Square Chapel provide welcoming places and specialist knowledge from expert lecturers who share their specialist knowledge about the arts. The society’s vision is the belief that the arts have the potential to enrich peoples’ lives and is at the heart of their work. There is something for everyone! So why not come down to the Square Chapel’s Red Brick theatre connect and come and enjoy this high quality programme! There is something for everyone.
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The Hidden World of Canal History and Heritage: Presented by Roger Butler
Tuesday 9th May
A well-known architectural historian once described our canals as a ‘poor man’s art gallery’.
The Hidden World of Canal History and Heritage: Roger Butler – Presented by The Arts Society, Halifax
This lecture provides a colourful introduction to the secret world of our 2000-mile inland waterway network and looks at all aspects of their exceptional artistic, architectural and engineering vernacular. Features range from sweeping aqueducts to tiny bollards; from colourful historic narrowboats to ‘Roses and Castles’ artwork; from grand World Heritage Sites to quirky listed buildings. Roger will also include the Salterhebble canal in his talk.
Doors – 12:30
Start – 13:00
Finish – 14:15 approx.
Venice – from Canaletto to Monet: Jennifer Toynbee-Holmes
Tuesday 13th June
The festive works of Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, the last great eighteenth century painters of views, shaped the image of Venice in the minds of northern Europeans long after the city’s demise.
Important pictures of 18C and 19C were painted by progressives e.g. Turner, Manet Whistler, Sickert Singer Sargent,Signac and Monet. Captivated by the atmosphere and beauty of Venice, they were challenged by earlier visual stereotypes developing their own techniques was to mark a turning point in their own work and to the development of modern art.
Doors – 12:30
Start – 13:00
Finish – 14:15 approx.
Unreserved Seating – Seats are unreserved and you will need to choose your seat as you enter the venue. If you wish to sit together with people you have arrived with, we recommend arriving at doors open time tochoose consecutive seats although we do not guarantee this is possible. Ushers may also ask you to move or condense your group to free up seating for other audience members to be seated.
Where Have All the Women Gone?
Putting Self-Portraits of Women Back into the Frame: Aliki Braine
Tuesday 11th July
Marcia in antiquity to Eva Gonzalès 19C and Sofonisba Anguissola – Renaissance to Michaelina Wautier in the 17C are all celebrated women artists amongst others, who broke the norm of Western European society,making a name and living in a mans’ world. Celebrated and recognised in their own time for their talent andskill, they were subsequently erased from the mainstream art history narrative. Come and meet these artists and ask why and how their own paintings and self-portraits engaged with this fundamental problem of recognition.
Doors – 12:30
Start – 13:00
Finish – 14:15 approx.
Unreserved Seating – Seats are unreserved and you will need to choose your seat as you enter the venue. If you wish to sit together with people you have arrived with, we recommend arriving at doors open time tochoose consecutive seats although we do not guarantee this is possible. Ushers may also ask you to move or condense your group to free up seating for other audience members to be seated.