After her last sell-out concert organised by the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Xue Fei Yang promised to return. She will also repeat one of her few Master Classes, a unique opportunity for every guitarist [...]
Friends Articles
Do you have any unwanted books?
This is the fifth year that the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery will be running a bookstall in Dulwich Park during the Dulwich Festival 2012. It is always a fun and people packed day, with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Flamenco – the most exciting dance form in the world
What is it with the Flamenco that inspires the British? Juan Ramirez has no simple answer. It is the most sought after word on Dulwich OnView and a Viva Flamenco’s evenings at St.Barnabas Hall in [...]
Peter and the Wolf – a musical fairytale introducing children to classical music
The day I met Paul Guinery, the musician and much admired BBC broadcaster at the Gallery Café, there were letters in one of the quality newspapers bemoaning the fact that many schools no longer introduce children to [...]
Paris 1924: Surrealism meets the Avant-garde
By the 1920s Europe was beginning to emerge from the nightmare of the First World War, and artistic life in Paris was recovering its vitality. Some artists had been pacifists; others had gone to war; [...]
