Scarborough Museums Trust Jan Apr 2009 - Days Out Leaflets
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Scarborough Museums Trust Jan Apr 2009 - Days Out Leaflets
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Events &<br />
exhibitions<br />
<strong>Jan</strong>—<strong>Apr</strong><br />
<strong>2009</strong><br />
Discover<br />
Learn<br />
Experience<br />
Engage<br />
Interact<br />
Events &<br />
exhibitions<br />
<strong>Jan</strong>—<strong>Apr</strong><br />
<strong>2009</strong><br />
Discover<br />
Learn<br />
Experience<br />
Engage<br />
Interact
A word<br />
from Shirley<br />
Collier, Chief<br />
Executive<br />
Make learning fun!<br />
When we talk about learning<br />
in a museum or gallery,<br />
what we really mean is<br />
that type of learning which<br />
happens inside us when<br />
we’re doing something<br />
interesting and stimulating<br />
– a change in attitude, a<br />
greater understanding about<br />
ourselves, an increase in<br />
confidence, feeling brave<br />
enough to go off and try<br />
something for ourselves for<br />
the first time. Our events<br />
this season offer you plenty<br />
of opportunities for fun and<br />
exploration; from brand<br />
new exhibitions at the Art<br />
Gallery, and drawing classes<br />
at Woodend, to lantern<br />
parades and guided tours<br />
at the Rotunda.<br />
Inevitably, when a leaflet has<br />
to go to the printers with a<br />
two month lead in time, some<br />
things can’t be confirmed<br />
until nearer the day. One or<br />
two exciting opportunities<br />
presented themselves just<br />
last week, and we didn’t want<br />
to say no just because of a<br />
printer’s deadline! Keep your<br />
eyes open therefore for late<br />
entries which will be flagged<br />
up on our website – www.<br />
scarboroughmuseumstrust.<br />
co.uk<br />
Remember, the shortest day<br />
is now behind us! Here’s to<br />
lighter evenings, crisp clear<br />
weather and a season of<br />
exciting, stimulating events<br />
for all the family.<br />
Shirley Collier<br />
Chief Executive<br />
Diary dates<br />
<strong>Jan</strong> – <strong>Apr</strong><br />
Sat 17 <strong>Jan</strong> – Sun 22 Feb<br />
Sat 17 <strong>Jan</strong><br />
Fri 6 Feb<br />
Fri 13 Feb<br />
Fri 13 Feb<br />
Sat 14 Feb<br />
Sun 15 Feb<br />
Sat 21 Feb<br />
Sat 7 Mar – Mon 4 May<br />
Sat 14 Mar<br />
Fri 27 Mar<br />
Drawing on the Dramatic<br />
The school of Visual and<br />
Performing Arts at Yorkshire<br />
Coast College<br />
Launch of Rotunda Guided Tours<br />
‘Undressed’ Lunchtime Talk,<br />
Karen Snowden<br />
FREE Coastival events<br />
Burlesque Evening Workshop<br />
Victorians Undressed Workshop<br />
The Clock Strikes Three<br />
Workshop<br />
Big Paint Day Workshop<br />
East Coasting – Art & Design<br />
by Edward Bawden and Eric<br />
Ravilious with Mark Hearld<br />
Plesiosaur Party – at the Rotunda<br />
‘Bawden & Ravilious: Good<br />
Friends’ Lunchtime Talk,<br />
Lara Goodband<br />
Thurs 9 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
Peep Show Workshop<br />
Sat 11 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
The Hare and the Tortoise<br />
At Woodend Creative Workspace<br />
Thurs 16 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
Peep Show Workshop<br />
Sat 18 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
Dinosaur Discovery<br />
– at The Rotunda<br />
Fri 24 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
‘Being Inspired by…’<br />
Lunchtime Talk, Mark Hearld<br />
See centre pages for full details
Rotunda<br />
Museum<br />
We are closing the Rotunda<br />
Museum in February but<br />
only for four days.<br />
From the 3 February to the<br />
6 February we are shutting<br />
to allow us to deep clean<br />
and really spruce up the<br />
building and to make sure<br />
our displays are all in<br />
perfect condition.<br />
It is now ten months since<br />
the Museum opened its<br />
doors to the public and since<br />
then we have welcomed a<br />
large number of visitors. It<br />
becomes necessary every<br />
now and then that a well<br />
used public building has the<br />
equivalent of a spring clean.<br />
Still a little early in February<br />
but the building is definitely<br />
ready for our eagle eyed team<br />
to go in and wield feather<br />
dusters and hot, soapy water.<br />
The Rotunda will re-open on<br />
7 February.<br />
From <strong>Jan</strong>uary on we see<br />
the return of activities<br />
and events in the Rotunda<br />
building. On 17 <strong>Jan</strong>uary we<br />
offer guided tours round the<br />
Museum and its displays.<br />
We have events in March<br />
and <strong>Apr</strong>il where you can<br />
party with plesiosaurs or<br />
discover dinosaurs.<br />
This is a promise of the best<br />
of fun in a sparkling museum<br />
for the whole family.<br />
Project Part-Financed<br />
by the European Union<br />
European Regional<br />
Development Fund<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
Art Gallery<br />
This is the season for<br />
celebrating design.<br />
We kick off on Saturday,<br />
17 <strong>Jan</strong>uary and run until<br />
Sunday, 22 February, with<br />
an exhibition, Drawing<br />
on the Dramatic, curated<br />
by <strong>Jan</strong> Bee Brown and<br />
costume design students<br />
from the School of Visual<br />
and Performing Arts at<br />
Yorkshire Coast College.<br />
This is followed by an<br />
exhibition, East Coasting<br />
(Sat 7 Mar – Mon 4 May),<br />
presenting the work of<br />
Edward Bawden and Eric<br />
Ravilious, who were among<br />
the most accomplished<br />
watercolourists of their<br />
period as well as being<br />
successful commercial<br />
designers, both with<br />
unique styles.<br />
Their commercial clients<br />
included Shell, Fortnum<br />
and Masons, <strong>Scarborough</strong>’s<br />
Royal & Pavilion Hotels<br />
and Wedgwood.<br />
Bawden and Ravilious were<br />
very close friends whose<br />
skills were honed in the<br />
Design School of the Royal<br />
College of Art. In the early<br />
1920s the craft ethic was<br />
very strong at the college<br />
and Ravilious’s specialism<br />
was wall murals while<br />
Bawden was assigned to<br />
book illustration.<br />
Through their painting and<br />
design Bawden and Ravilious<br />
greatly influenced both<br />
their peers and succeeding<br />
generations of artists and<br />
designers. Mark Hearld is<br />
a York based painter whose<br />
work clearly shows this<br />
influence and adds a current<br />
interpretation of their style.<br />
Nigel Armstrong and the Speeton Plesiosaur he discovered Edward Bawden, The Pond, Great Bardfield, 1933
Events and<br />
Learning<br />
Activities<br />
It is looking like an<br />
activity packed few<br />
months with <strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
<strong>Museums</strong> <strong>Trust</strong>.<br />
We have put together a<br />
programme with something<br />
for everyone on the menu.<br />
We are launching our new<br />
guided tours of the Rotunda<br />
on <strong>Jan</strong>uary 17; these free<br />
tours will be given by our<br />
own staff throughout the<br />
year to highlight some of<br />
the Rotunda’s treasures!<br />
On the same day Drawing<br />
on the Dramatic opens at<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
and we have teamed up<br />
with Yorkshire Coast<br />
College to put on a series of<br />
workshops and events that<br />
explore costume, drawing<br />
and much, much more,<br />
be sure to book a place.<br />
Other highlights include<br />
two family fun days at the<br />
Rotunda, one exploring our<br />
Jurassic dinosaurs and the<br />
other all about our collection<br />
of plesiosaurs – the long<br />
necked reptiles that look<br />
like the Loch Ness Monster!<br />
Staying on the theme of<br />
giants, at Easter we are<br />
running a day at Woodend<br />
Creative Workspace that will<br />
give you the chance to meet<br />
our very own Galapagos<br />
Giant Tortoise; as part of the<br />
year long celebration of the<br />
birth of Charles Darwin this<br />
should be a fun packed day<br />
for all!<br />
Finally if you are a teacher<br />
or work in education be sure<br />
to check out our re-launched<br />
education programme.<br />
There is something there<br />
for all levels of education<br />
and it is expanding all the<br />
time. For more details<br />
contact the learning team<br />
on 01723 384 511 (email<br />
learning@smtrust.uk.com)<br />
or check out the website.<br />
Coastival<br />
Fri 13 –<br />
Sun 15 Feb<br />
Starting life outside the<br />
Rotunda Museum<br />
As the first event of its kind<br />
to be staged in <strong>Scarborough</strong>,<br />
Coastival <strong>2009</strong> – Yorkshire<br />
Goes to the Seaside, will<br />
set the February half term<br />
holiday alight.<br />
Coastival is a three-day<br />
celebration of music, dance,<br />
theatre, film, visual arts,<br />
spoken word and comedy,<br />
and Festival of Light events.<br />
With the support of patrons<br />
Sir Ben Kingsley and Sir<br />
Alan and Lady Ayckbourn,<br />
Coastival is set to be one of<br />
the major arts and cultural<br />
experiences of <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
Coastival is a 3 day event<br />
with 21 venues and 66 gigs,<br />
performances, exhibitions,<br />
readings, screenings<br />
and activities.<br />
On Fri 13 Feb two fabulous<br />
FREE events featuring<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong>’s Finest will<br />
get Coastival off to the best<br />
possible start; the Lantern<br />
parade starting at the<br />
Rotunda at 5.30pm and<br />
later on a free concert at<br />
the Spa Theatre.<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> have also teamed up<br />
with Coastival for a selection<br />
of workshops following the<br />
theme of the Drawing on<br />
the Dramatic Exhibition<br />
at the Art Gallery. Check<br />
out our events listings for<br />
further details.<br />
Photograph by Tony Bartholomew
Beach<br />
How to<br />
find us<br />
Information<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
The Crescent, <strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
YO11 2PW<br />
Tel: +44 (0)1723 374 753<br />
www.scarboroughartgallery.<br />
org.uk<br />
Opening times<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm<br />
Rotunda, the William Smith<br />
Museum of Geology<br />
Tues – Sun, 10am – 5pm<br />
Rotunda, the William Smith<br />
Museum of Geology<br />
Vernon Rd, <strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
YO11 2NN<br />
Tel: +44 (0)1723 353 665<br />
www.rotundamuseum.org.uk<br />
Woodend<br />
The Crescent, <strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
YO11 2PW<br />
Tel: +44 (0)1723 384 503<br />
www.<br />
scarboroughmuseumstrust.<br />
org.uk<br />
Britain’s most enterprising<br />
place 2008<br />
Admissions<br />
Adult charges apply<br />
Under 18s admitted free<br />
Full Price Concessions<br />
Art Gallery Annual Ticket £2 £1.80<br />
Rotunda Day Ticket £4.50 £4<br />
Rotunda Annual Ticket £8 £7<br />
Joint Annual Ticket £9 £8<br />
(Annual pass for<br />
both venues)<br />
Disabled access<br />
The Rotunda Museum is fully<br />
accessible. The Art Gallery<br />
has wheelchair access to<br />
ground floor. Support<br />
dogs welcome. Induction<br />
loops available.<br />
Trains &<br />
Buses<br />
Brunswick<br />
Shopping<br />
Centre<br />
Westborough<br />
Vernon Rd<br />
The Crescent<br />
Falconers<br />
Rd<br />
Vernon Rd<br />
TM<br />
TM<br />
Foreshore Rd<br />
Parking<br />
Shopping<br />
Pay & Display facilities are<br />
available nearby.<br />
Our shops offer a variety<br />
of quality books and gifts,<br />
plus cards, prints and locally<br />
produced ceramics.<br />
We do not have a café within the Rotunda Museum or Art<br />
Gallery. The nearest café to the museum is The Gala Café on<br />
Museum Terrace and we can recommend it. The Art Gallery<br />
does have a coffee lounge where you can sit and contemplate<br />
the latest exhibition over a coffee and biscuit.<br />
A165<br />
Valley Bridge Rd<br />
Valley Rd<br />
Ramshill Rd<br />
Please note the day ticket is just that and lasts for a whole day<br />
allowing multiple re-entries. You are free to take a break for<br />
lunch or find your own fossils on the beach and return later<br />
in the day to examine them at our ID station.
<strong>Jan</strong><br />
Sat 17 <strong>Jan</strong><br />
– Sun 22 Feb<br />
Sat 17 <strong>Jan</strong><br />
10.30am, 11.30am,<br />
2.30pm, 3.30pm<br />
Drawing on the Dramatic<br />
—Exhibition<br />
Rotunda Guided Tours<br />
—Event<br />
Yorkshire Coast College<br />
students have used our<br />
collections to draw inspiration.<br />
This subsequent exhibition<br />
brings together costume, fine<br />
Come along and join the first<br />
guided tours of the Rotunda.<br />
Tours are free but normal<br />
art, photography and<br />
new media to encourage<br />
you to draw, or simply<br />
draw inspiration.<br />
admission charges apply.<br />
Tours will continue throughout<br />
the year after this launch!<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Learn<br />
Rotunda Museum<br />
—Discover<br />
<strong>Apr</strong> Mar<br />
Feb<br />
Fri 6 Feb<br />
Fri 13 Feb<br />
Fri 13 Feb<br />
Sat 14 Feb<br />
Sun 15 Feb<br />
Sat 21 Feb<br />
Sat 7 Mar<br />
– Mon 4 May<br />
Sat 14 Mar<br />
Fri 27 Mar<br />
Thurs 9 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
Sat 11 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
12.30 – 1.30pm<br />
From 5.30pm<br />
6.30 – 8.30pm<br />
1 – 3pm<br />
1 – 3pm<br />
2 – 4pm<br />
10am – 5pm<br />
12.30 – 1.30pm<br />
2 – 4pm<br />
10am – 5pm<br />
‘Undressed’, Karen Snowden<br />
—Lunchtime Talk<br />
Coastival:<br />
Lantern Parade & Spa Concert<br />
—Event<br />
Burlesque Evening<br />
—Workshop<br />
Victorians Undressed<br />
—Workshop<br />
The Clock Strikes Three<br />
—Workshop<br />
Big Paint Day<br />
—Workshop<br />
East Coasting: Art & Design<br />
by Edward Bawden and Eric<br />
Ravilious with Mark Hearld<br />
—Exhibition<br />
Plesiosaur Party<br />
—Event<br />
‘Bawden & Ravilious:<br />
Good Friends’<br />
—Lunchtime Talk<br />
Peep Show<br />
—Workshop<br />
The Hare and the Tortoise<br />
—Event<br />
Karen Snowden, Head of<br />
Collections, will take you<br />
through the hidden side of<br />
At 5.30pm a sparkling<br />
Lantern Parade will set off<br />
from <strong>Scarborough</strong>’s iconic<br />
Rotunda Museum.<br />
This live drawing workshop for<br />
all ages features an opportunity<br />
to capture movement and life<br />
clothed in burlesque frivolity.<br />
Workshop details as<br />
above this time with a<br />
laced up Victoriana theme.<br />
Workshop cost: £10 and<br />
includes an annual Art<br />
Workshop details as 13 Feb but<br />
this time with the wonderful<br />
bias cut of the thirties as the<br />
central theme. Workshop cost:<br />
£10 and includes an annual<br />
Using massive paintbrushes<br />
people of all ages will<br />
create their paintings of the<br />
costumes in the ‘Drawing on<br />
the Dramatic’ exhibition.<br />
This exhibition brings together<br />
examples of the full range of<br />
Bawden & Ravilious, previously<br />
un-shown works and many<br />
with a special connection to<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong>.<br />
Come along and meet the<br />
Rotunda’s Plesiosaurs. Part of<br />
National Science & Engineering<br />
week this will be an activity<br />
Artist and Freelance Curator<br />
Lara Goodband discusses<br />
the relationship and work<br />
of Edward Bawden and<br />
Eric Ravilious.<br />
Eric Ravilious, View from Brick House, 1932<br />
Create a <strong>Scarborough</strong> peep<br />
show of your very own. Artist<br />
Mark Hearld will be on hand to<br />
help people of all ages create<br />
200 years after the birth of<br />
Charles Darwin come and<br />
meet our very own Galapagos<br />
Tortoise and other creatures<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Museum <strong>Trust</strong>’s<br />
costume collection. This event<br />
is free. Enquiries 01723 384 511<br />
Then there’s free fun for all<br />
the family with a concert at<br />
the Spa Theatre.<br />
Workshop cost: £10 and includes<br />
an annual Art Gallery pass.<br />
Booking is essential as places<br />
are limited, please book through<br />
Coastival: www.coastival.com<br />
Gallery pass. Booking is<br />
essential as places are limited,<br />
please book through Coastival:<br />
www.coastival.com<br />
Art Gallery pass. Booking is<br />
essential as places are limited,<br />
please book through Coastival:<br />
www.coastival.com<br />
The event is free but normal<br />
admission charges apply.<br />
Suitable for accompanied<br />
children aged 5 – 11 years.<br />
Mark Hearld, offers a<br />
contemporary take on<br />
their work. In association<br />
with the Fry Art Gallery,<br />
Saffron Walden<br />
packed drop-in event for all the<br />
family. Free event but normal<br />
admission charges apply.<br />
a peep show that will become<br />
a talking point in their homes.<br />
The event is free but normal<br />
admission charges apply.<br />
from our collections. This event<br />
is free. Something for all the<br />
family and a day to remember!<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> at Woodend<br />
—Learn<br />
Rotunda Museum<br />
& Spa Theatre<br />
—Experience<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> at Woodend<br />
—Interact<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> at Woodend<br />
—Interact<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> at Woodend<br />
—Interact<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Engage<br />
—Interact<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Experience<br />
—Learn<br />
Rotunda Museum<br />
—Discover<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Learn<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Learn<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> <strong>Museums</strong><br />
<strong>Trust</strong> at Woodend<br />
—Engage<br />
Thurs 16 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
2 – 4pm<br />
Peep Show<br />
—Workshop<br />
Lara Goodband will be on hand<br />
to help people of all ages create<br />
their own peep show that will<br />
become a talking point in<br />
their homes. The event is<br />
free but normal admission<br />
charges apply.<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Learn<br />
Sat 18 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
10am – 5pm<br />
Dinosaur Discovery<br />
—Event<br />
The Rotunda introduces you<br />
to the Jurassic residents of<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong>. From footprints<br />
to bones come along and see<br />
what was roaming <strong>Scarborough</strong><br />
160 million years ago! This<br />
event is free but normal<br />
admission charges apply.<br />
Suitable for all the family.<br />
Rotunda Museum<br />
—Interact<br />
Fri 24 <strong>Apr</strong><br />
12.30 – 1.30pm<br />
‘Being Inspired by…’,<br />
Mark Hearld<br />
—Lunchtime Talk<br />
Artist Mark Hearld talks about<br />
how he has drawn inspiration<br />
from Bawden and Ravilious<br />
and how it influences his life<br />
and work.<br />
<strong>Scarborough</strong> Art Gallery<br />
—Learn<br />
Mark Hearld, Pisanello.<br />
Image courtesy of Godfrey & Watt