Calendar

Calendar of Gaddesden Society Events

This calendar shows Gaddesden Society events, including talks, film nights and other events run by GadSoc.

Feb
23
Thu
Film Night – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Feb 23 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways. [IMDB]

 

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Poster

Mar
23
Thu
Talk – Roger Bolton on Before Modern Ideas
Mar 23 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm

‘Before Modern Ideas’

Roger Bolton

Little Gaddesden during a time of rapid change between 1870 and 1935

Apr
27
Thu
Film Night – Casablanca
Apr 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

Casablanca

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. [IMDB]

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this classic film from 1942.

Casablanca Poster

May
25
Thu
AGM and Talk – Workaid
May 25 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm

(The May talk is following the The Gaddesden Society AGM at 8:15pm)

Roger Lane of WorkAid

Workaid (https://workaid.org/) are a charity based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire empowering young people in Africa (and the UK) to help themselves by developing the skills and knowledge needed to find gainful employment or start their own business.

Workaid do this by refurbishing donated tools to a high standard and shipping them to training centres and self-help organisations.

 

Jun
22
Thu
Film Night – The Duke
Jun 22 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

The Duke

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. [IMDB]

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this 2022 film based on the true story. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history.

The Duke Poster

Sep
28
Thu
Talk – Katrina van Grouw on Art, Science and the Unfeathered Bird
Sep 28 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm

‘Art, Science and the Unfeathered Bird’

Katrina van Grouw

A history of avian anatomy

Oct
26
Thu
Film Night – Quartet
Oct 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

Quartet

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. [IMDB]

Director Dustin Hoffman and a cast including Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Michael Gambon make this a film not to be missed.

Quartet Poster

Dec
6
Wed
Talk – Lyn Hyde et al on Vicars Bell, ‘The Man Who Thought He Was a Dodo’
Dec 6 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm

Lyn Hyde, Jane Dickson, Roger Bolton and Sandra Oakins, on their recently published book on Vicars Bell ‘The Man Who Thought He Was a Dodo’

Mar
28
Thu
Talk – Geoff Selley: Shackleton – ’The Greatest Survival Story Ever Told’
Mar 28 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Apr
25
Thu
Film Night – Postponed (More Details Later)
Apr 25 @ 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm