The Arts Society Isle of Wight are planning a trip to Liverpool in September 2025

You are invited to join the TAS Isle of Wight in their annual holiday.  Just 4 nights and 5 days.  This year Lovely Liverpool.  We can scoop you up in Portsmouth as we come off the ferry!

For full details of the trip go to the Isle of Wight web page by clicking here.

A booking form and itinerary is attached - you can join in with as little or as much as you like.  Please complete the form and send to Glenys LLoyd-Williams at 9 Scotchells Close, Shanklin, PO37 7EL with the cheque for £30 made out to Opal Travel, asap.(or email and BACS).  This is to secure the room (they go fast).  We have negotiated a really good deal this year with a central hotel.  We have some great trips out arranged too.

We hope to have around 25 on the coach, and hope some of you will decide to spread your wings too.  We are a friendly bunch.

Friends and family are welcome so do pass on to anyone you feel may be interested. 

Glenys Lloyd-Williams can be contacted on 07486 914456 for further information 

The Whitchurch Silk Mill is a working museum which preserves traditional heritage silk weaving skills, weaving on looms that date back to the 1890s. By weaving exclusive fabrics for today's luxury market, the Mill is securing the future of the methods, skills, traditions and knowledge that have existed there since 1815.

Our visit will include tea / coffee and biscuits on arrival at 10:30am and a light lunch.

We will have a guided tour to include the waterwheel and Mill building with its Victorian machinery.

We will also have the opportunity to visit the Riches to Ribbons exhibition which showcases the stunning collection of silk ribbons woven in a creative collaboration with Jane Austen's House at Chawton.

The cost of the visit will be £24.50 plus a small booking fee. This includes all refreshments, group entry plus the guided tour.

Participants will need to make their own way to the Whitchurch Silk Mill. 28 Winchester Street RG28 7AL

There are 3 free car parks within easy walking distance, 2 non-reservable Blue Badge spaces at the Mill and 2 more in the adjacent car park.

A minimum of 20 people will be required for the trip to run.  Booking opened on Tuesday, 15th April and will close on Tuesday, 27th May 2025.

Please book your tickets via the Homepage of the SOUTHAMPTON website:

https://theartssocietysouthampton.org.uk

The Arts Society SOLENT is planning a visit to The Peak District in June 2025,

For information about the visit, including dates and cost, click here

Additional informatiomn about how to book a place on this visit is found at the bottom of page 2 of the Information sheet mentioned above.

Note: The final date for booking a ticket through Success Tours is 25th February 

The Arts Society NEW FOREST is planning a visit to Barcelona in April 2025

Success Tours is taking us to Barcelona for 5 days and 4 nights. We will explore the breathtaking architecture of Gaudi, see the masterpieces in the Picasso Museum, and visit the Fundacio Joan Miro. The city's vibrant street art scene adds another layer of creativity to a cultural landscape, while galleries and exhibitions showcase the local and international luminaries. Whether wandering the labyrinthine streets of the Gothic Quarter or strolling along the bustling La Rambla, Barcelona pulsates with an energy that ignites inspiration and captivates the soul. 

If you are interested in joining us please contact Janet Handley, Residential Visits secretary, via the website, then click on Whats On followed by Visits & Tours or email to membershipnf@outlook.com

Why not join The Arts Society Winchester on a visit to the Royal Academy in London to see the works of three masters of the Italian Renaissance.

Further details and booking form

Please note: the closing date for applications is 20 December 2024

Sadly this visit has had to be cancelled due to insufficient numbers.

However the Elizabeth Frink exhibition is on until 21st April 2024.

For anyone wishing to go independently the standard entry fee is £14.00 with discounts available.  For more information see their website by clicking on the following link 

Exhibitions and Events Archives - Dorset Museum

Experience the inner world of famous sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) in a major new exhibition exploring her artistic and personal life in Dorset. Showcasing over 80 sculptures, drawings and prints, this exhibition will explore her artistic process, personal life, and the influences that shaped her work.

The Arts Society Southampton are organising a visit to Sandhill Farm Garden on Thursday, 12th October, to view the Autum Colours in this award winning garden

For full details, click on the link to The Arts Society Southampton.

The cost is £11 per person (plus a booking fee).  This includes tea/coffee and cake on arrival and a guided tour. Note - you will need to make your own way there.

If you are interested, please book a place via the Southampton website. 

DO NOT USE THE BOOKING BUTTON TO THE LEFT BUT FOLLOW THE LINKS ON THE AREA WEB PAGE

Stratfield Saye house has been the elegant, but intimate, home to the Dukes of Wellington since 1817.  The house and gardens offer an intriguing and informatuive insight into the life of the Great Duke of Wellington.  We can view the fascinating collection of paintings and furniture and see the wonderful Wellington Exhibition featuring his magnificent funeral carriage and charting his militry and political life.

Cotswold Manor was the inspirational Cotswold retreat of William Morris, Victorian textile designer, poet, novelist and Father of the Arts and Crafts Movement.  Described as a 'Heaven on Earth' by Morris, he loved the Manor House and adjoining farm buildings as a work of true craftsmanship, totally unspoilt and unaltered, and in harmony with the surrounding countryside.

The New Art Centre is a sculpture park and gallery set in over sixty acres of parkland in the Wiltshire countryside.  It specialises in 20th and 21st century works of art that are on view both in the park and in contemporary indoor spaces.  They have long standing relationships with the artists that they show, many of which stretch back over the past six decades.

Roche Court Educational Trust was founded in 2005 as a registered charity based in the park.  The trust works with teachers, children, young people, adults and specialist groups, encouraging them to look, think and speak about art

Longford Castle, south of Salisbury, one of the most magnificent of all English houses, has been the residence of one family for almost 300 years.  The Longford Castle collection, formed by successive generations of the family, is one of the finest in the United Kingdom.  It includes paintings by van Dyck, Claude, Teniers and Hals, together with British pictures by Reynolds and Gainsborough, as well as oriental porcelain, Brussels tapestries, and exceptional 18th century English and continental furniture.  Usually there is a 2-year waiting list for group visits to the Castle so we were fortunate to be offered the opportunity to visit.

Winston and Clementine Churchill bought Chartwell in 1922; it would be their family home for the next forty years.

The rooms in the house remain much as they were when he lived here, with pictures, books and personal mementoes.  Chartwell's hillside gardens reflect his love of landscape and nature.