Christmas Social   at   The Palace, Canon Lane, Chichester, PO19 1PY Thursday 5th December 2024,   7.30pm - 9.00pm,   Members £14.00,  Guests £16.00 A social gathering with wine and cheese in the historic Sherbourne Room at the Bishop's Palace

10.30 – 12.00 (First Tuesday of month) At the Petit Cercle you need not be fluent to contribute to the conversation or to just come & listen😊.  

 5.30 – 7.00 pm  (2nd Monday of month)   For the Cercle Avancé, you need to be reasonably fluent.  Otherwise, try the Petit Cercle or just come and listen 😊.

New Park Cinema New Park Rd., Chichester Sunday Jan 19, 2025  –     Film  TBC

Restaurant 64,  Chichester College,   6.00pm Three course meal to include welcome drink and gratuity.  Members £28   Guests £30 Booking essential by Friday Jan 3.     Contact organiser re: dietary preferences

For lovers of the hapless M. Hulot, we are showing 'Mon Oncle' directed by Jacques Tati.   This film is Jacques Tati's satire of the socially awkward and accident-prone M. Hulot and his struggle with postwar France's infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency, and the consumerist society.

Wednesday, February 26  at  7.30pm  in The Old Court Room    Members £10,  Guests £12 This talk by Richard Whincop looks at the innovations of Manet and the Impressionists as they abandoned time-honoured practices, working 'en plein air' and emulating photography as they developed a new approach to painting both the landscape and the nude.

At the Petit Cercle you need not be fluent to contribute to the conversation or to just come & listen😊.