Activities

SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION 2026

WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2026

Performing students and judges

Winners of the Greenwich Branch Connecticut wide Shakespeare Competition on 4 March were

First place - Abby Kesmodel, Greenwich Academy

Second place - Rowan Simonelli, ACES

Third place - Kara Starkey, ACES

Honourable Mention - Roby Sickles, Brunswick

The winner will compete in the ESU NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION at Lincoln Center, New York City on 27 April. Winner of that Competition receives a scholarship to study at The Globe Theatre, London.

Wednesday 15 APRIL 2026

Luncheon and lecture by Dr Edward Town on JOHN CONSTABLE - 250th Anniversary of his birth. One of the greatest English landscape painters in the romantic tradition, he revolutionized the genre by his naturalistic approach to the English countryside. Dr Town is Assistant Curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art. The lunch and lecture will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.

TuesDAY 5 MAY 2025

Meeting of the Board of Directors will be held at The Belle Haven Club at 3 pm.

thursday 14 MAY 2026

Luncheon and lecture by Sally Bedell Smith - IN ALL HIS GLORY. The life of WILLIAM S. PALEY, the legendary tycoon who built CBS from a handful of radio stations to become the towering TV Network of Murrow, Cronkite, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny. With his socialite wife BABE, the beauty who defined glamour for three decades, they moved in the top circle of New York society. Sally Bedell Smith takes a hard look beneath the polished veneer - the shrewd, demanding egoist, the hedonist pursuing every pleasure - the ruthless corporate strongman. The lunch and lecture will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.

SUNDAY 14 JUNE 2026

Champagne celebration for the 78th Birthday of His Majesty King Charles III will be held at The Belle Haven Club at 3 pm. Winners of the Connecticut 2026 Shakespeare Competition will perform their winning monologues. HATS ON LADIES

Wednesday 16 SEPTEMBER 2026

Luncheon and lecture by Page Knox on the sweeping RAPHAEL retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which traces his rise from tiny Urbino to the Vatican. RAPHAEL was 37 years of age when he died in 1520. Lunch will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.

Thursday 15 octoBER 2026

Luncheon and lecture by Curt DiCamillo: AN EXPLOSION OF BEAUTY - THE ART, ARCHITECTURE & COLLECTIONS OF BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSES. The astonishing number of historic country houses in England is matchless for variety of architecture, richness of their art collections and furniture, spanning four hundred years. The occupants of these houses for centuries held a unique position in British life. Lunch will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.

THURSDAY 19 novEMBER 2026

Lunch and lecture on ADAM SMITH - WEALTH OF NATIONS, PUBLISHED IN LONDON, 1776 - LECTURE BY JAN DuBOIS on 250th Anniversary of publication of the classic which transformed economic thought from feudalism to economic policies that prevailed in the 19th century. Lunch and lecture will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.

FRIday 11 decEMBER 2026

Christmas luncheon by the fireside at The Field Club with Soprano Maureen McKay and Pianist Jonathan Vaughn performing Classical and Christmas favourites. Lunch will be at 12 noon.

Older Events

Thursday 21 SEPTEMBER 2023

James O'Donnell, LVO, British Organist and Master of Choristers at Westminster Abbey from 2000 to 2022, led the music at many royal and state occasions, including the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, lifetime Celebration for Prince Phillip, State Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II. Mr O'Donnell is now Professor at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Lunch and lecture will be at The Round Hill Club at 12 noon.