ARTS COMMITTEE The Club’s newest committee held its inaugural meeting on November 4 of last year, with a mandate to develop Club events related to all aspects of the Arts. Its first major initiative was the drafting and circulation to Club members of a survey designed to see what types of events would be of interest to all of you, and the response rate to that survey was gratifyingly high. Since then the Committee has been doing its best to respond to what we learned from the survey, and has developed a number of successful events. Besides the ongoing and popular monthly Book Club, we organized a tour of the (literally) subterranean vaults of Museum London – with pre- and post-tour wine, of course – a walk over to see Colours in the Storm at the Grand Theatre, preceded by a dinner at the Club at which the Grand’s new Artistic Director, Dennis Garnhum, spoke about his plans for the future of the Grand, and a series of Paint Nights, where members did, indeed, paint. An appraisal of the Club’s art collection was recently undertaken under the Committee’s aegis, and we will be developing a Collection Policy for the Club, to be presented to the Board in the near future. We have a number of other events scheduled and in planning for the coming year, but the primary source for event ideas is all of you. Please feel free to pass on to anyone on the Committee any thoughts you may have about future arts-related events. Al Slivinski, Chair
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