Tuesday 8th September is the start of our 2026/2027 lecture season with the first lecture being Drawn from the Sea by Alison Bevan starting at 11.00am.

This will be preceeded by the AGM which will be at 10.50 am. The Agenda is in the documents section of the website, click here to view.

To remain an active and interesting society we need volunteers to help with a number of roles. We are still short of people offering to help and currently have vacancies for Vice-Chairman, Publicity and general Committee Members.

If you would like to help with any of these roles and ensure that the Society remains vibrant and interesting please look at the volunteer form in Documents (link here) and see how you can help us your local arts society or speak to the Chairman Rodney Salter or any other committee member.

in 2024/25 we sponsored Arnett Hills School art project. They invited an artist, who worked with the children and teachers to improve their skills and inspire their artwork. They found it a very rewarding and are coming to our lecture to show us their work and talk about the experience.

Moor Park's next lecture (in person and Zoom)  is on Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 11.00 am on Stories in Stained Glass. Click here for more information.

Bushey Arts Society lectures are generally held on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7.45 pm and are held at the Niland Centre, 93 Elstree Road, WD23 4EE. Click here for more information.

Amersham Arts Society next meeting is on the 4th September at 8.00 pm is on "Opium - Seduction, greed, art". Click here for more information.

This year's AGM was held on the 10th September, the Minutes of the AGM are available under the documents section of the website or click here.

The Annual Report is also available to download from the documents section

A hosted visit to the Koestler Trust's annual exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall was held on Friday 8th December.

2022/23 AGM

The 2022/2023 AGM was held on Tuesday 12th September 2023 in Sarratt Village Hall

2023 / 2024 COMMITTEE MEMBERS - The new committee members and those who were re-appointed may be seen in the minutes of the AGM which are available in the Documents Tab.

A new Publicity Manager is needed and also a Committee Member is needed at the moment (September 2023) and further Committee Members will be needed for the next year due to retirement of current Committee Members.

Anybody interested in standing as a Committee Member to help in the running and organisation of this active Arts Society should contact the Chairman Gill Gowing on info@tasrickmansworth.co.uk

The Arts Society Rickmansworth has helped to sponsor a major art exhibition of works created by prisoners and young offenders. These are on display until 18th December in an annual exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, created by Koestler Arts, which promotes art work in prisons. The great Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei has expertly curated this terrific exhibition.

This is the second year that the Arts Society Rickmansworth has sponsored Koestler Arts. The art work has been distilled from more than 6000 entries from all over the UK, and some has come from the Mount prison in Bovingdon.

At a recent viewing of the exhibition by TASR Members, expertly guided by ex-prisoners, the Chairman of TASR, Rickmansworth resident Gill Gowing, said; “My Society is really pleased to support the Koestler Trust in this important work. The exceptional quality of the paintings, sculpture and poetry displays the skill and dedication of those who have produced it. I know that many prisoners feel real pride and renewed purpose from participating in this creative work.”

Koestler Arts (formerly The Koestler Trust) was established in 1962 and is the best known prison arts charity. It encourages people in the criminal justice system to change their lives by participating in the arts. Search Koestlerarts.org.uk.

Click here to see a selection of photographs of the art and of TASR Chairman Gill Gowing shown with Mali Clements, Koestler Arts Development Director at the Royal Festival Hall ‘Freedom’ exhibition.

For a leaflet produced by The Koestler Arts Centre on the support that TASR has given the project and the help the project has provided to people in 3 criminal justice establishments in Hertfordshire go to documents and scroll down to 14th March 2023 or CLICK HERE