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Welcome!
To travel around the site, please use the buttons at the top of the page or the images to the left of this text. You can find our "Next Lecture" which will take you to our upcoming lectures or try "BiteSize Events" which will take you to the upcoming tours around Birmingham and the local area. You can even leave a review for the last lecture given using the "Review Last Lecture" button also found on the left of this text!
NEW VENUE
Since the Barber Institute of Fine Arts will remain closed to us until at least September 2022, we have had to look for alternative venues. We are excited to tell you that we have moved to The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre of King Edwards VI School High School just across the road from the Barber. The Ruddock has two options for our lectures. Should the need for Social Distancing recur, there is a concert hall seating 400, but we have chosen the studio theatre which is well suited for our needs. There is also a bar, so you can have a glass of wine when you arrive from 6.30pm before the lecture starts at 7pm. To gain entry to the site it is best approached from the Bristol Road entrance - signed as the Park Vale Gate B5 7SP. Mostly the gates will be open for us, but there is a key code number which changes monthly and this will be released to members on request. ACTIVITIES
The Arts Society encourages each organisation to organise other activities for their membership. Our first is BiteSize, and we have had two outings, both in Bournville with a talk by Ian Jelf, and then on to a pub supper. Please keep looking at the website for more exciting activities! Heritage Volunteering is another activity, which we enjoy. Recently a Blue Plaque Walk which took interested walkers around any one of 4 walks featuring the plaques found in Edgbaston and Harborne. Maps can be found in libraries etc. To press there is no other project, so if you have an idea, please get in touch! MEMBERSHIP Because we haven’t had vast expenditure hiring the Barber etc, our membership fee remains at £60 for the year, renewal being January 2022. Should you wish to join us now, you can have membership for just £10 to cover the last lecture remaining for this year, or why not gift a membership for Christmas! "Finally, as Chairman of TASBE, I want to thank those who have stayed during the pandemic! It has cheered us to see how many of you remained faithful and I hope you have enjoyed our lecture programme, wait till you see what is coming up!! We will work tirelessly to ensure you are delighted, informed and want to join us for yet another year!" ~ Christine Marshall (Chairman) Click here to find out more about membership! |
Why not become a member?
Our society is operated entirely by volunteers. We are dependent on people's skills such as digital media, media promotion and sponsorship, secretarial, finance and accounting. If you would like to help in any way, we would welcome your assistance.
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Heritage Volunteering
In the past our Heritage Volunteering groups have completed a gardening project at Winterbourne House, and created a series of 4 Blue Plaque Walks in Harborne and Edgbaston with accompanying pamphlets, which can be found in local libraries. TASBE has supported Young Arts via a grant to the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts (RBSA).
We are currently looking for someone to head up this programme for the future. To apply, contact the chairman here.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye
through the mind.
― Pablo Picasso
Covid Updates
Dear members, please remember your safety is paramount to us, we want you to always feel safe at our Lectures. If you forget your mask, one can be requested at the door.