Further to our letter of 15th March (see below), the gravity of the situation in the United Kingdom, and indeed most of the world, has become ever more severe. We are now all in isolation in our own homes. Rest assured we are thinking about you.  If you would like to send us an email about any concerns you may have, we shall use our best endeavours to help.  No-one in our Henley Arts Society should feel they are all alone. Click here to get started.
 
As more and more establishments close and every kind of festivity is postponed or cancelled for the foreseeable future, sadly we too must postpone our entire programme for the next few months. However, we have every intention of re-arranging them for later in the year or early next if possible and will let you know as soon as we are in a position to do so. The list is as follows:

Wednesday 1st April     - Annual General Meeting

26th - 30th April             - Trip to Cornwall  (all participants have been notified)

Thursday 21st May         - Lecture (a.m. and p.m.): The Great Twelve Revisited

Thursday 4th June         -  Special Interest Day: Why Paris? 1900 - 1947

Thursday 11th June        - Day Visit: Sudeley Castle

Thursday 18th June        - Lecture (a.m. and p.m.): The Art of 1935

Thursday 16th July          - Day Visit: Henry Moore Sculpture Garden

Presuming all will be well again, we hope that the visit to the Henry Moore Sculpture Garden will take place in September (date to be agreed). We shall, of course, notify you when things are clearer.  Had we been going in July, booking would have taken place at the lectures on Thursday 21st May. In order to gauge interest for the proposed September trip, we would be grateful if you would email Judith Stephenson-Hodges on or near 21st May (please click here). This preliminary email will not bind you to attend.

We hope that the Day Visit to St Pancras and Kings Cross with Andrew Davies originally planned for Wednesday 23rd September will now take place in October.  More details will be sent as soon as we have them.

As mentioned above, we have had to defer the Annual General Meeting due to take place on Wednesday 1st April.  This will now take place later in the year.  We are hoping that we may be entertained with the lecture "A Brief History of Wine", due to follow the original AGM, either then or sometime soon thereafter.

Our next scheduled event is the lecture on Thursday 17th September entitled "The Rise of Portraiture in Renaissance Italy". This will be confirmed nearer the time.

On 20th March we received further guidance from The Arts Society governing body in London.  If you would like to read it please click here.

If you would also like to look at their website please click here.

We hope you are managing under these difficult circumstances.  If we follow Government rules and stay at home, we are in the best possible, safest place.

Once more we send our very best wishes and hope that you may all stay fit and well until we meet again before too long.

Evelyn McQuater

Chairman