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.
Welcome Reception for New Members 2025-26
12 February 2026 at 12:30:00
Moor Park Mansion
Booking closes:
Moor Park Mansion main hall
ATTENDANCE AT THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY
The New Members' Reception is a great opportunity to meet other new members and begin making new friendships over an informal buffet lunch. The event is open to members who have joined The Arts Society Moor Park since the beginning of the 2025-26 season and also to those who joined during the 2024-25 season but were unable to attend last year's New Members' Reception.
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.