Welcome to the Home Page of the Bromley Evening Decorative and Fine Arts Society (BEDFAS).   We are one of three NADFAS groups in the London Borough of Bromley, the others being North Kent and Beckenham;  we celebrated our 25th anniversary last year.

Our aim, in line with that of our parent society, is to promote an appreciation and understanding of the decorative and fine arts. These arts range across the fields of paintings, sculpture, architecture, furniture, porcelain and jewellery.

We have nine illustrated lectures per year, covering a broad range of topics.  We meet in the evening, and our lectures commence at 7.45pm, generally finishing at about 9.15p.m. 

The visiting speakers who come to talk to us are enthusiastic and qualified in the wide range of subjects covered by the term Decorative and Fine Arts.  They are assessed by NADFAS and are all experts in their field.  You will find information about each of them, together with the title and subject of their talk on our lecture page 

In addition to the monthly meetings, we make visits to museums, galleries and historic houses in London and the Home Counties.  There are opportunities for volunteers to keep active and make new friends, as well as doing something useful,  by joining projects whose aim is to conserve and preserve our artistic heritage.  We arrange Study days, when we look at subjects in greater depth than is possible in a one-hour lecture, and 4-5 day guided tours, both in the U.K. and overseas. In the last few years we have visited Cardiff, Glasgow, Nice, Normandy, Dresden, Krakow, Belfast, Munich, Northern Ireland and Umbria to name a selection.  In 2011 we went to Oxfordshire in June and to Lisbon in September. We hope to go to Berlin in April (22nd - 25th) but the viability of this tour will depend on the number of people wishing to join us.  If you are one, do contact Diane Chorley, our foreign Tours representative, soon since a decision has to be made before early December. 

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If you have comments on lectures, tours or other activities please speak to a Committee member at a meeting, or fill in the form on the Feedback page.  This is helpful to the Committee at the planning stage and is always welcomed. 

We are always glad see new members.  Guests may come to individual lectures on payment of a small fee.

See the following pages for more information about the individual events listed above.

The National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts ( NADFAS ) is the umbrella organisation of over 340  societies and promotes the  arts  and heritage conservation.  NADFAS opens up the world of art in the widest sense for everyone, and in the words of the founder, Patricia Fay, wants NADFAS activities 'to be fun'.