Our Annual Summer Party will took place on Wednesday 17th June. 

We managed to maintain our record of bright sunshine and enjoyed the garden, with a glass of Prosecco, strawberries and cream, and some harp music from Emma Yates. There was a brief talk from Jacob Bolda, a PhD student from the University of York - a postgraduate History of Art student. He has been assisting in cataloguing the extensive collection of old medical instruments and artifacts that you may have noticed in the display cases in the YMS rooms.  

The Christmas Party in the Belfrey Hall, Stonegate will be on Wednesday 10th December from 3 - 5.30pm. There will be mulled wine, mince pies and ‘nibbles’, some seasonal background music – and, of course another prize quiz! Cost £15pp. Please book your place with Peter Burnett: drpburnett@btinternet.com  Pay by BACS if you can, using your surname and Xmas as identifier.

We return to the York Medical Society for our Summer Party on Wednesday 18 June from 3-6pm. Enjoy strawberries and cream with a glass of prosecco in the garden. Cost £17.50pp. Payment by BACS preferred (use surname and party as reference).

Contact Peter Burnett to book your place: drpburnett@btinternet.com

The Christmas Party in the Belfry Hall, Stonegate will be on Wednesday 18th December from 3-6pm. There will be mulled wine, mince pies and ‘nibbles’, some seasonal background music – and a quiz! Cost £15pp.

To reserve a place, contact Sheila Bartlett:  sheilabartlett@btinternet.com. Please pay by BACS if you can, using your surname and Xmas as identifier. BACS payments to: The Arts Society Ebor, HSBC, Sort Code: 40-47-31, A/c: 54600754.

Our next post-lecture supper will be in November. This will be held at Mama Mia restaurant in Gillygate.

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The Arts Society Summer Party will be on Tuesday 25th June 2024 from 3pm - 6pm at the York Medical Society garden.

The price will be £17.50 perperson to include prosecco (or wine) and strawberries. There will be a harpist to entertain us.

Please contact Joanna Heywood to book your place: joannaheywoodleeds@yahoo.co.uk

Please join us at St Anthony’s Hall, Peasholme Green, YO1 7PW on Wednesday 13th December 2023 from 4pm – 7pm. Our evening will include refreshments – mulled wine/fruit juice and mince pies while we explore this medieval Guild Hall and take an opportunity to socialise.

The regional collecton of quilts is stored at the Hall and some will be on display for us to see, and also to handle.

We will be offered a short talk about Guild Halls by historic buildings specialist Keith Knight, and later a talk about quilts by Heather Audin, Curator of the Quilters Guild.

Cost - £15pp. Pay cash at the next lectures, or online to HSBC, account number 54600754, Sort Code 40-47-31. Use your surname and Xmas as reference. If you can only pay by cheque (we have to pay bank charges for cheques), make it out to The Arts Society Ebor, and bring it with you to the next lecture.

Please let me know if you will be attending – sheilabartlett@btnternet.com or text to mobile 07745 347338.

Closing date Wednesday 6th December 2023. Thank you.

You are invited to the Arts Society Ebor summer party on Friday 23rd June 2023 from 4pm- 6pm at the York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, YO10 5AJ.

Full details are available as a pdf here.

Payment of £15pp, preferably via Bacs (as the bank charges us for cheques), to HSBC account number 54600754, sort code 40-47-31 using your surname and ‘Party’ as reference.

You could also pay by cash at our next lectures, or by cheque. (Make cheque payable to Arts Society Ebor and post to the treasurer, John Cuckson, 4 Postern House, York YO23 1PH.)

Please contact Sheil Bartlett to book a place/or places – sheilabartlett@btinternet.com and let her know of any dietary requirements.

Closing date – 31st May 2023.

We will be holding a study day on 18th March 2023 at the Belfry Hall, off Stonegate in York when Dr Anne Anderson will be talking to us about all things Art Deco.

This overview traces the development of Art Deco and the impact of Modernism in the 1920s and 1930s, through architecture, interiors, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, dress and jewellery.  There will be three sessions covering:

Art Deco- High Style in the Roaring Twenties,
Art Deco- Paris 1925, and
Art Deco London and beyond- Iconic Art Deco Buildings

For our annual Christmas social gathering this year we arranged a return visit to the Hiscox building in Peasholme Green, near the former site of York’s wool market, on the evening of Wednesday 14th December from 6.30pm.

We heard about the design and architecture of the building and the history of the site, followed by a guided tour to include the eclectic art collection housed inside.

All enjoyed a glass or two of mulled wine with light refreshments before the tour of each of the floors housing the art and sculpture.

There were many significant works, including delightful Henry Moore sketches of sheep using ball-point pen, some significant paintings by Eduardo Paolozzi and colourful works from David Hockney's iPad creations.

Of course, the visit included a close look at the the famous Russian missile, the centrepiece of the ground floor collection.

Thanks go to John Edmonds of the Arts Society Ebor and to John Jobling from Hiscox.

Christmas 2019 social event at York Cemetry Chapel from 4.30pm.

Further details are contained in the flyer.