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Up Late – Live Art Event!

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Art as Social Activism! Friday 25 November 5-9pm  Take part in creating a large-scale mixed-media artwork inspired by Nalini Malani’s My Reality is Different. Respond to and reinterpret the Holburne ’s 18th century collection, challenging perceptions of gender, nationality, empire, and colonialism. Come, respond and create inspired by the Holburne’s collection of 18th century paintings and feel safe...

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A Winter’s Tale Concert

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Doors open at 6:30pm. Refreshments available in the café. Concert begins at 7.30pm in the Ballroom. A Winter’s Tale - after their sell-out yuletide performance last year, this year’s talented crop of Dowland Youth Works musicians return to the Holburne for a winter’s evening of music, songs and skits from Tudor times. Directed from the...

£24

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Illustrating the World: Woodcuts in the Age of Dürer

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection This is a rare opportunity to view the complete set of woodcuts known as The Great Passion, produced by the most famed artist of the...

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Alberta Whittle: Dipping below a waxing moon, the dance claims us for release

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. If you're a member there's no need to pre-book. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the collection Listen to Alberta Whittle’s recording of ‘Spell for Release' and explore her suggested reading list for adults and children Fresh from representing Scotland at the...

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Alberta Whittle In Conversation with Curator Will Cooper

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Join artist Alberta Whittle In Conversation with curator Will Cooper for a discussion about the artist’s latest exhibition, Dipping below a waxing moon, the dance claims us for release. Drawing on their long-term working relationship, the conversation will explore Whittle’s practice of promoting self-compassion and collective care as key methodologies in fighting anti-Blackness, and how...

£15.00

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Making a Museum: Crafting a New V&A for East London

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East, will talk about one of the world’s  most significant new museum projects, comprising of two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. As a platform for new kinds of  creative excellence, V&A East will strive to shift the canon and celebrate work that truly demonstrates the dynamism and complexity of global creativity, highlighting under-represented movements and voices by presenting a diverse...

£15.00
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Dürer and the Power of the Printed Image

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer was an artist of prodigious skill and ingenuity. As one of the leading printmakers during a time of great change, his images had an enduring influence on both artistic and religious thought. Join assistant curator Eleanor Hutchison for a talk that...

£7.00

Holburne Gardeners’ Questions

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

The Holburne Museum welcomes gardeners to a special occasion: Gardeners' Question Time. This will be a rare opportunity to pick the brains of our panel of experienced gardeners: Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, a garden designer and author; her books include Peonies - The Imperial Flower and The Garden, an English Love Affair. Jane has also won two...

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An Enlightened Heart

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Galliarda’s An Enlightened Heart project highlights the music and performing traditions of women in the eighteenth-century. With the inclusion of new pieces for early instruments commissioned by group members from young female composers (Jenni Pinnock and Rebecca Rowe) connect with the developing tradition of female composers today. We aim to raise awareness of the music,...

£20.00

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The Legacies of the Ball’s Plantation (ZOOM Lecture online)

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Alberta Whittle, Dr Jill Sutherland, Natalie McGuire and Allison Thompson discuss the legacies of the Ball’s Plantation, owned by Sir William Holburne’s great-grandfather, Guy Ball. The conversation will be chaired by Dorothy Price. Alberta Whittle is a Scottish-Barbadian artist; she won the Turner Bursary in 2021 and in 2022 represented Scotland at the 59th Venice...

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Unlimited: Art for Everyone in the 1960s

Bath Assembly Rooms Bath Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath

Bath Assembly Rooms are open from 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday and 11am - 5pm on Sundays and public holidays, admission is free. Entrance via Saville Row Courtyard.   The first ever retrospective exhibition devoted to Jeremy Fry’s ground-breaking Unlimited. In 1966, Bath based inventor and entrepreneur Jeremy Fry established Unlimited as an antidote...

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Michael Simpson: Drawing towards painting – selected works on paper

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries. Winner of the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize, Michael Simpson, who lives and works locally, has been the subject of solo exhibitions at major galleries and museums in London,...