
Sherlock(s): Holmes and Watson and Us Through the Ages
August 29 @ 5:30 pm
From Victorian opium dens to modern crime scenes, this lively lecture explores how Sherlock Holmes has been everyone’s favorite high-functioning sociopath longer than your great-great-grandmother has been dead. This lecture promises more plot twists than a Conan Doyle story, more conundrums than even a Watson might wish for, and more libations than a Victorian medicine cabinet.
This lecture coincides with the theatre production Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B showing from September 18–October 5, 2025.
Themed Cocktail: Elementary, My Dear
Lecturers: Dr. Steven Hayward, Professor of English & Director of Journalism Institute, Colorado College
Tickets: $24 ($18 for FAC Members), includes your first drink. Bar opens at 5 p.m.
About Libation Lectures
Libation Lectures is lecture series offering an educational twist to the traditional happy hour. Each lecture explores an aspect of the amazing art and artists from various FAC exhibitions and theatre shows, served up with a themed drink to help you really dive deep into the topic!
This lecture is part of the Libation Lectures Fall Series, which includes four lectures:
- Squaring the Circle — with Quilts!, Friday, August 15, 2025
- Sherlock(s): Holmes and Watson and Us Through the Ages, Friday, August 29, 2025
- What Makes an Artist? The Art Students League of New York at the FAC, Friday, September 19, 2025
- Practically Perfect in Every Medium: Mary Poppins from Page to Screen to Stage, Friday, October 17, 2025
Tickets: $84 ($60 for FAC Members), includes your first drink.
- Image caption: Cover art of Sherlock Holmes #1, Oct 1955, Charlton Comics