Events

Quarterly meetings

There’s no business like Magic Lantern show business!

Our quarterly meetings are lively affairs with presentations, shows, a market and the occasional sing-along.

These meetings provide a great opportunity to meet like-minded people while learning about the lantern. Members and guests entertain us with magic lantern performances and share the results of their latest research or investigations.

In a typical year our Winter meeting, held in January, takes place in a London venue. This is also when we hold our Annual General Meeting. The Spring and Autumn meetings are generally held either in London or Birmingham. For our Summer meeting, usually a less formal event, we move between different venues away from the major cities.

Not yet a member? You’re welcome to attend a meeting as our guest. Contact us for more information.

Lantern event

Recordings of Meetings

One of the benefits of Society membership is access to video recordings of lantern shows and other presentations at our meetings since the 1980s.

The Members’ Area of our site includes a full list of our events over the years, with details of the presentations available as recordings in different formats.


Sales and Wants

If you don’t find what you’re looking for amongst the stalls at the quarterly meetings, don’t despair. The Society publishes a monthly ‘sales and wants’ newsletter, Connect, for members.

If on the other hand you seek the thrill of the auction these are held at every International Convention and very occasionally at our quarterly meetings.


Next events

Spring meeting 2024

13 April 2024, Birmingham, England

The programme and further details will be sent to all members, and posted in the Members’ Area of the website, about a month before the meeting.

If you are not a member and would like to attend as a guest, please Contact us for more information.

Special meeting: Turbulent Times 2024

15-16 June 2024, Den Haag, Netherlands

Registration is now open!
Places are limited, and pre-registration is essential. Please see the information sheets for details of the event and how to register:

Summer meeting 2024

27 July 2024, Brighton and Hove, England

The programme and further details will be sent to all members, and posted in the Members’ Area of the website, about a month before the meeting.