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.

                      GREAT NEWS!  2022 LECTURE PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE

Our new season  opens on 11 January 2022 with Jennifer Toynbee-Holmes' lecture:                    Venice - from Canaletto to Monet

Put recent travel restrictions behind you and travel with us to Marathon, British India and the Far East, inside a Roman villa, the Versailles of Louis XIV, the Balkans and 15th Century Florence, before returning home to visit British parks and Chatsworth , accompanied by Gilbert and Sullivan.

There is something for everyone in the programme which is held in the beautiful Square Chapel Arts Centre in the centre of Halifax, adjacent to the historic Piece Hall.  Do join us!

Individual lectures may be purchased at the Box Office at £10 per lecture