By Clare Ferdinando, Education Outreach Co-ordinator at Dulwich Picture Gallery
When I tell people about my job they always amazed at the range of community work the Gallery is involved in.
‘I had no idea. You do all this from an art gallery?!’
A day in the life of the outreach work may start on an estate [...]
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Posted in Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Family Activities, LATES, What's On, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, late, Late Opening, Family Fun, Donkey Rides, family event on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s loads to do at the LATE night opening at the picture gallery next week. Where to start? Well, there’s the donkey rides and fairground games. Who could resist giant Connect4, test your strength, or the chance to Milk The Cow?
There’s a bouncy castle, live music in the garden from DJ and Dulwich OnView [...]
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Anna Sayburn has an unsettling encounter
I round the corner of the narrow, unlit alleyway. He’s standing in the middle of the path, staring at me with an unmistakeably territorial challenge. The amber eyes are cool, arrogant. ‘Yes?’ they seem to say. ‘What do you want here?’ There’s a definite air of menace. My heart thuds.
I [...]
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Jackie Ralph, a trustee of Access to Art (A2A), talks about this charity which makes it possible for disabled and frail older people to enjoy London’s galleries and museums.
Marion Reading is an art lover, and has been all her life. She remembers visiting the National Gallery many years ago, standing as a teenager in front [...]
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Posted in Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Family Activities, Film, Theatre & Music, What's On, tagged Events, Shakespeare, theatre, Dulwich Players, Dulwich Picture Gallery events, Midsummer Night's Dream, Gallery Gardens on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare performed by the Dulwich Players
3 - 6 July
Jan Rae, director, reflects on past productions at the Gallery, and looks forward to Thursday
If you were down at Dulwich Picture Gallery on Sunday you may have seen the peace of the gardens being disturbed by a strange group of people who [...]
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Antonia Coonan, Head of Operations at Dulwich Picture Gallery, gives the background to the organisation of that amazing day.
Photos by Benedict Johnson
Friday 20th June. Knowing that the BBC Roadshow was coming to Dulwich Picture Gallery kept the Operations Department excited for weeks!
The preparations started months ago. I worked closely with the BBC Antiques Roadshow Directors [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Art, Books and poetry, Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Local History, South London, What's On, tagged Dulwich, Dylwich College, Canaletto, campanile, Jan Piggott, The Stonemason's Yard on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The Clock Tower at Dulwich College
by Dr J R Piggott, former Keeper of Archives, Dulwich College and author of ‘Dulwich College A History’
Canaletto’s painting THE STONEMASON’S YARD (1728) at THE NATIONAL GALLERY (right) in London shows the prominent campanile of S Maria della Carità at Venice. Although the magnificent tower had collapsed in 1744 – the [...]
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Posted in Art, Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, Film, Theatre & Music, LATES, What's On, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, Events, BBC Antiques Road Show, Antiques Road Show, Late openings on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Kate Knowles, Head of Communications at Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks forward to an amazing day on 19 June
You can’t imagine the excitement at Dulwich Picture Gallery when we got a phone call from the Antiques Roadshow…
I’d approached them over the years and once they did come and visit the Gallery, and then declared it was [...]
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Clare Ferdinando, Education Outreach Co-ordinator, talks about
‘Kennington Kids: Raw Urban’
an exhibition showing at Dulwich Picture Gallery in the Linbury Room
6 - 29 August -Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays 1 – 5pm
The Education Department has been sending professional artists out to a youth club on an estate in Kennington, one evening a week, for 5 years [...]
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Posted in Art, Community, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Exhibitions, New work - Exclusives, Videos, What's On, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, Education, Exhibitions, Kennington Kids: Raw Urban on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
