Petroleum Women's Club of London

PWC Activities

PWC London is pleased to offer a variety of activities each month, with details published in a bi-monthly newsletter and/or weekly email updates. The chairmen of the committees arrange the events and members reserve a place by forwarding the appropriate participation fee to the chairman prior to the event. A waiting list is kept and guests are welcome if the event is undersold. The types of activities offered each month are dependent on the interests and event organizers within the club membership.  The activities and events offered from 2006-2011 include:

Discussions on the books "Crimson Petal and the White", "The Desert Queen", "The Summer Guest", "Annie Freeman's Fabulous Travelling Funeral", "Kate Adie: The Kindness of Strangers", "Stuart: A life Backwards", "The Glass Castle", "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", "Suite Francaise", "A Fine Balance", "The Girls", "Water for Elephants", "The Islamist", "The Orientalist", "Holidays on Ice", "Year of Wonders", "Half of a Yellow Sun", "Out Stealing Horses", "Careless", "Old Filth", "A Town Like Alice", "Lachlan's War", "Through a Glass Darkly", " Brooklyn", " Nothing to Envy", "Oxygen", "February", "Yes, My Darling Daughter"

Sargent and the Sea; European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele; Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals; Evolving English; Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead; Miro; Foundling Museum; Handel House Museum; Impressionists by the Sea; Renaissance Siena; The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army; Courtauld Institute of Art;German Renaissance Stained Glass; From Russia at the Royal Academy of Art; guided tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum; Tutankhamun at the O2 Centre; The Camden Town Group at the Tate Britain; Van Dyck and Britain at the Tate; Magnificence of the Tsars at the Victoria and Albert Museum; Hadrian at the British Museum; Turner and the Masters at the Tate Britain, The conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life at the Queen's Gallery, The Real van Gogh exhibit at The Royal Academy; The Quilts at Victoria and Albert Museum; Fra Angelico to Leonardo at the British Museum

Book Club

Camden Passage; 'Newark International Antiques and Collectors Fair'; Ardingly Antique Fair; Bushwood Antiques

Antiques

Golf Clinic for all levels at Dukes Meadows Golf Club, games at Stockley Park

Indian Cookery Demonstration at "La Porte des Indes"; The Wells, Henley-on-Thames, Spice Journey Cookery Workshop, Whole Foods Market, The Thomas Cubitt Pub, The Courtyard Brasserie at The Wallace Collection, Afternoon Tea at the Dorchester Hotel, Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, Amaya, Hereford Arms Pub, Blue Elephant, Charity Luncheon at a Member's Home, La Trompette, Afternoon Tea at The Ritz, Pasta Making Master Class, Bleeding Heart Bistro, Texture, Soup Making Class, Mystery Lunch, High Tea at The Savoy

Golf

Cooking and Lunching

Spring and Holiday Luncheons, Cheese Tasting Couples Social at The Vicoria Pub; Tapas, Amuse Bouche and Meze; Couples Evening at Colbeh Persian Restaurant, Vinopolis Brunch and Wine Tasting Tour, Dover Street Restaurant and Bar, Royal China Riverside, Jazz at Ronnie Scots

Social

Quilting Demonstrations, needlework encouragement and advice

Pins and Needles

Take advantage of the best of British Stage--Comedies, Dramas, and Musicals in London's West End: Wicked; Monty Python's Spamalot; Evita, Cabaret; The Glass Menagerie; The Entertainer; The Drowsy Chaperone; Lady Be Good; Lord of the Rings; Woman in Black; Hairspray; The History Boys; Jersey Boys; Gone with the Wind; Calendar Girls; Wicked; Billy Elliott; War Horse; Enron; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Zorro; Merry Wives of Windsor; Lion King; The Caretaker

Theatre

Wisley; Chiswick House; Freemason's Hall; Royal School of Needlework; WWT London Wetland Centre; Red House; William Morris House; Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum and Stadium; Buckingham Palace; Cliveden Manor; Clarence House; Waddesdon Manor; Sir John Soane's Museum; The Geffrye Museum; BBC Television Studios; Royal Albert Hall; Hughenden Manor; Apsley House; Wellington Arch; Marlborough House; Royal Opera House; Blenheim Palace; Highgate Cemetery; Chelsea Flower Show; Stratford-upon-Avon, Ashmoleum Museum; Loose Women TV show; British Museum; Kew Gardens

Town and Country

Ricmond to Kew; Regent's Canal from Camden Town to Little Venice; Tower Hill to Fleet Street; Russell Square to Somerset House; Green Park & St James's Park; City of London

Walking

Art