The Arts Society Chiswick Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
Party to be followed by talk on 'Old Wines in New Bottles' by Gillian Hovell
A painting depicting a Roman banquet
January 23, 2025
The Arts Society Chiswick’s starts its 10th Anniversary year with a lecture on the subject of “Discovering MacDonald Gill: Architect, Artist and Mapmaker”.
This month’s meeting of The Arts Society Chiswick will be a celebration of its 10th Anniversary as well as including a talk from a guest lecturer.
Appropriately, author, lecturer and archaeologist Gillian Hovell will be discussing “Old Wine in New Bottles” on Thursday 13 February at POSK on King Street in Hammersmith.
This talk is, in itself, a celebration of how the Ancient Greeks and Romans created our love of wine. How wine's popularity spread, how wine production has and has not changed and what wine connoisseurs 2,000 years ago thought made a wine great!
Gillian Hovell specialises in relating the ancient world to our modern lives, in person, in the field, online and in the media (most recently on BBC News Channel and Radio 4 Today programme). As an archaeologist who has excavated a Roman wine-producing warehouse, she promises that this talk will refresh your palette.
She begins speaking at 8pm but before that, beginning at 6.45pm there will be a celebration of the anniversary of the society which has hosted over 100 talks as well as visits and walks to places of interest over the last 10 year.
Olivia Freeman, Chair, The Arts Society Chiswick said, “We welcome members, old and new, to our celebrations of 10 successful years!” .
Membership of the Arts Society Chiswick includes ten expert lectures on the second Thursday of every month (except August and December) and the opportunity to participate in tours, visits, social events and Special Interest Days. Half year Membership available from 1 July. For more information see the society’s web site. For more information see the society's web site.
The Arts Society Chiswick brings people together through a shared curiosity for the arts, to create opportunities for everyone to be part of a diverse community in which they can enjoy, learn about, participate in, and preserve the Arts and Cultural Heritage.
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