This spring the Horniman Museum is hosting a series of concerts in its beautiful Conservatory to celebrate The Art of Harmony exhibition which brings together instruments from the Horniman’s collection and those on loan from [...]
Shadow Puppets at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Children love puppets! Puppeteer Drew Colby and his hand shadow puppets will be at Dulwich Picture Gallery on 5 May. Hand shadows are possibly the oldest form of puppetry – created very simply when the hands, coming between [...]
Take yourself on a journey…
Travel Writing is a slightly odd category for any bookshop; should you put the books beside the travel guides, in biography or are they history books? What exactly is “Travel Writing”? What we do know [...]
Ragamala Concert – Poetry, Passion and Song with Surendra Kumar
Dulwich Picture Gallery is hosting an exclusive concert in conjunction with Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song. On Saturday 28 April, acclaimed vocal artist Surendra Kumar will serenade guests and the Gallery’s Old Masters [...]
Remember the Hepworth?
Barbara Hepworth, the first woman in Britain to become internationally acclaimed for her life’s work as a sculptor, died in a fire at her studio-home, Trewyn, at St Ives in Cornwall on 20 May 1975. [...]
Coldharbour London’s “Inception of Line”
Coldharbour London Gallery houses the installation “The Inception of Line” within its white-walled, airy, refurbished warehouse setting, perfect to view the works by artists Keke Vilabelda and Kate Terry. At first glance, you only see [...]
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Dulwich Players will be presenting ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ by Oscar Wilde, at Dulwich College in April. Sue Grindlay offers up her view from the Director’s Chair. It is sometimes a happy coincidence [...]
St James Quintet: An ensemble heading for the top
They might be a young bunch but the members of the St. James Quintet have played successfully since the group was formed in 2007 with the encouragement of Keith Bragg, head of wind instruments at the [...]
