SPECIAL EVENTS
In any given season we run a number of special events, usually at Moor Park Mansion, for example an Afternoon Lecture followed by Afternoon Tea, or a supper followed by an Evening Lecture. We also hold a Reception for new members, traditionally in the spring. Details are published on this page as soon as available.
A Gala Concert to Welcome New Year 2026
8 January 2026 at 18:00:00
Moor Park Mansion, Rickmansworth
Booking closes:
22 December 2025
Tables laid for our 2025 Gala New Year Concert in the Grand Hall, Moor Park Mansion
Join us in the Grand Hall at Moor Park Mansion for our annual Gala evening of fine dining, congenial company and superb musical entertainment from four of the most gifted classical musicians in the UK today - singers Milly Forrest and Ryan Vaughan Davies, violinist David Juritz and pianist Lynn Arnold.
A Kiss for all the World - Gustav Klimt and the Viennese Secession
26 March 2026 at 14:30:00
Moor Park Mansion, Rickmansworth
Booking closes:
19 March 2026
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, 1907-8 - detail
The fears and anxieties of Vienna in the final years before the outbreak of the Great War found expression in the writing of Freud, the music of Gustav Mahler and the haunting paintings of Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele. Shimmering portraits flecked with gold; hypnotic landscapes of vibrant brushstrokes; erotic dreams of decadence and death reveal a society in search for salvation at a time when mankind had lost faith in its future.
This special Afternoon Lecture traces the course of this brief, often dark, but always dazzlingly inventive period of art.