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 11 MARCH, 2025

Shafts of Light: the Phenomenon of Mining Art

Lecturer: Dr Robert McManners 

For almost 200 years coal powered the industrialisation of Britain and transformed the landscape, working practices and social lives. The mines were filthy, dark and dangerous, yet many men found a beauty and a majesty underground, as well as in the pit yards, and in their homes and communities, that they wanted to express in art. This is an account of how miners told the stories of what it felt like to be a miner.

Membership enquiries : email: halifax@theartssociety.org