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Established in 2000 in the heart of Pennine Yorkshire, our Society offers a high quality and wide ranging programme of lectures and visits and welcomes everyone with an interest in the arts and their history.

The Arts Society, Halifax meets monthly (except in August and September), for lectures at Calderdale Music, The Old Courthouse, Blackwall, Halifax, HX1 2DL

Lectures are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 1.00pm.

THE NEXT LECTURE IS ON TUESDAY 13 MAY, 2025

Vanessa Bell’s Art and her Tangled Bloomsbury Relationships

Lecturer: Ray Warburton 

Vanessa Bell was a founding and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. Despite producing some of the most important art of C20, and being matriarch of the Bloomsbury Group, her art and biography have been overshadowed by the renown of Roger Fry (her lover), the writings of Clive Bell (her husband), the paintings of Duncan Grant (her soul mate) and the books of her sister Virginia Woolf. This lecture will place Vanessa Bell’s paintings in context and tell of a life well lived, but according to her own rules

Membership enquiries : email: halifax@theartssociety.org