DOMINION ARTISTS' CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 12

DOMINION ARTISTS' CLUB

"USEFUL NEW MOVE: (FKOH ODE OWN COERESPOSDENT.) LONDON, 6th May. After a good deal of preliminary -work extending over several months, a committee representing the artists and writers from the British Dominions has decided to organise a Dominion Artists' Club in Jiondon. Musicians, actors, dancers, painters, sculptors, and writers (includj ing • journalists) coming to the Mother I Country from Canada. Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, actually engaged m their profession, are admitted to membership, and students from the Dominions will bo granted special terms. J-lio chief aims of the club are to make I available throughout the Dominions reliable information on the conditiou of art in England and on the Continent, (o advise and guide artists ajid students on their arrival and during their sojourn in Juirope, to give members every opportunity of appearing in public, and to promote social intercourse among its mem- | bers. It is intended to secure adequate club premises—if possible, with residential quarters—in a central position, and a ; general meeting of all Dominion artists inLondon will be called at an early date. Jhe lust meeting was held at the residence of. Miss N. Rosenwax, Kegenfs lark, and among those present were: Madame Kosina Buokman, Miss Daisy Kennedy, Mr. Peter Dawson, Dr. G. A. Pfister, Mr. Gibson Young, Mr. Joseph Kaye, and Mr. H. W. Braithwaite. Mr. 1 cter DaWson was in the chair. It was decided to give four concerts during July, at which, all the leading artists from each Dominion will give their services, the proceeds from these concerts to go toward the fund.