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Apr. 21 - Jun. 24, 2012 : Local Heroes

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:10:01 +0100

Local Heroes: The Holburne Portrait Prize Commissions
21 April to 24 June
Free

We celebrate the wealth of talent in the south west with the unveiling of our most recent commissions by prize-winners David Fisher and Sally Muir. These will hang alongside all of our winners to date, shown together for the first time since the prize began in 2002. The heroes of the title include musicians, festival organisers, comedians, actors and of course, Wallace and Gromit.

May. 17, 2012 : Lyrical Ballads

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:00:42 +0100

Summer Evening Recitals
Tickets £15/£12

Thursday 17 May, 7.30pm
Lyrical Ballads 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge performed by Muse

Andrew Bannerman (actor and writer)
Richard Frewer (tenor)
David Price (piano)

An evening of music and poetry to celebrate the birth of Romanticism. The programme tells the story of how William Wordsworth and S.T.Coleridge came to create the revolutionary volume Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and links key poems with masterpieces of the early Romantic lieder repertoire.

‘The Lyrical Ballads was magical and everyone was quite entranced. The intimacy of the piece – the three of them as if friends composing together.’ Christopher Woodward

To book Tel 01225 388569

May. 18, 2012 : Toddlealongs

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:55:31 +0100

Fridays, 20 April-1 June and 15 June-20 July
Toddlealongs – 2 to 5 years
10.30am-12noon and 1-2.30pm in the Gardener’s Lodge, £7.50

Sing songs, watch stories come to life and get arty with a new museum-related theme every week.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk

May. 18, 2012 : Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:52:21 +0100

Friday 18 May, 10.30am-3.30pm
Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop
Frances-Anne King
Ticket £25 / £20

Local poet, Frances-Anne King leads a workshop that explores the different ways in which poems can be written in response to art. Through a series of exercises including handling objects from the Museum’s collection and close reading of poems, participants will be encouraged to ‘shrug off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description’, and to interpret, inhabit, confront, and speak to a chosen piece of art through their writing.

To book Tel 01225 388569

May. 18, 2012 : Toddlealongs

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:55:54 +0100

Fridays, 20 April-1 June and 15 June-20 July
Toddlealongs – 2 to 5 years
10.30am-12noon and 1-2.30pm in the Gardener’s Lodge, £7.50

Sing songs, watch stories come to life and get arty with a new museum-related theme every week.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk

May. 19, 2012 : Saturday Art Club

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:32:44 +0100

21 April-26 May, 16 June & 7 July
Saturday Art Club for 5-7 year olds and 8-13 year olds
Saturdays 10.30am-12.30pm in the Clore Learning Space, £8

A weekly workshop for aspiring young artists. Expand your skills and discover new techniques, exploring the Museum’s permanent collection or temporary exhibitions with our experienced team of artists, creating something special to take home or add to your portfolio.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk

May. 21, 2012 : Yearlings

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:29:42 +0100

Mondays and Tuesdays, 16 April-29 May and 11 June-17 July
Yearlings – 8 to 24 months
10.30am-12noon in the Gardener’s Lodge, £7.50

Have fun with sensory and creative activities, meet other children and their adults and learn new favourite songs and stories.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk

May. 21, 2012 : Zoffany the final years

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:12:05 +0100

Monday 21 May, 6.30pm
Penelope Treadwell
Johan Zoffany (1733-1810): The Final Years
Ticket £7 / £5

Art historian, author and Zoffany’s biographer, Penelope Treadwell explores the final years of Zoffany’s career. He returned from India in 1789 a rich but physically emaciated shadow of his formerly robust self. His final years, although emotionally testing and marked by ill health, were artistically productive and full of incident. Forced to recognize that his place in the market had been overtaken by a generation of younger artists, he nevertheless managed to produce some of the most exciting and innovative paintings of his career.

(Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer was nominated for Historians of British Art Annual Book prize in the US)

To book Tel 01225 388569

May. 22, 2012 : Yearlings

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:30:03 +0100

Mondays and Tuesdays, 16 April-29 May and 11 June-17 July
Yearlings – 8 to 24 months
10.30am-12noon in the Gardener’s Lodge, £7.50

Have fun with sensory and creative activities, meet other children and their adults and learn new favourite songs and stories.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk

May. 22, 2012 : Brilliant Babes

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:16:30 +0100

Tuesdays, 17 April-22 May
Tuesday, 19 June
Tuesday 26 June
Tuesday 3 July
Brilliant Babes – 0 to 8 months
1-3pm in the Gardener’s Lodge, £8

Come along and meet other parents and their babies, share your experiences and learn new skills creating beautiful toys and craft projects for you and your baby.

To book or for further information: Tel: 01225 388568 or email v.fear@bath.ac.uk