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| Programme of Films, Talks and Events
January - April 2012 
Leigh’s Panorama and the Georgians
| Friday, 20th January | 14.00 Exhibition Talk: The Great Georgian Appetite A talk by Norman Radley on food in Georgian times. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Saturday, 21st January | 14.00 Exhibition Talk: George IV in Brighton and Richmond An illustrated talk by Alan Field. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Wednesday, 25th January | 18.00 Film Season: Three Men in a Boat (1956; certificate U); (84 mins approx) Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required . | | | Celebrations and Commemorations | | Saturday, 28th January | 11.00 – 15.00 Bounteous Bunting Workshop Join us in making some bunting to be displayed in the Museum’s exhibition celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. Free, no booking necessary. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information | | Monday, 13th February | 11.00 – 12.00 The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by: Valentine’s Day With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem. Free, no ticket required
| | Tuesday, 14th – Friday 17th February | 10.00 – 12.00 Half Term Family Workshops A week of art and craft activities inspired by the current exhibition. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information or visit www.museumofrichmond.com | | Thursday, 23rd February | 14.00 Special Talk: Three Years in the Somme Trenches in WW1 An illustrated talk by Nigel Hepper whose father kept a diary that has now been published as Captain Hepper's Great War Diary. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Wednesday, 29th February | 18.00 Aging Monarchs Film Season: The Queen (2006; certificate 12A); (103 mins approx) After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. Starring Helen Mirren and James Cromwell. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required. | | Thursday, 1st March | 14.00 Exhibition Talk: Happy and Glorious A talk by exhibition curator, Sue Barber. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Monday, 5th March | 11.00 – 12.00 The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by: Jubilee Royals With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem. Free, no ticket required | | Tuesday, 13th March | 11.00 – 12.30 (meeting at the Museum for tea and coffee at 10.30) Royal Richmond Walk Led by Jo Coombes of the Richmond Heritage Guides. £3 Supporters/ £4 non-Supporters including refreshments Ticket required | | Saturday, 24th March | 14.00 Exhibition Talk: Painting the Queen A talk with portrait painter, Isobel Peachey, who in 2010 produced an official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. A fascinating insight into the artist’s practise and the commissioning process. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Wednesday, 28th March | 18.00 (with a free introduction by Dr Sian Barber, Postdoctoral Researcher in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, at 17.45)Aging Monarchs Film Season: Mrs Brown (1997; certificate PG); (105 mins approx) While on an extended stay at Balmoral Castle and still in mourning over the death of her beloved Prince Albert, Queen Victoria meets Mr. Brown, a member of her household staff who thinks the time has come for her to start living a normal life. He quickly gains the Queen's favour and friendship and his authority and status in the household are soon on the rise. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required. | | Tuesday, 10th April | 11.00 – 12.00 The Museum of Richmond and Libraries Poetry Reading Group present a morning of poetry inspired by: Dickens With Fiona Pearson. Feel free to bring along your own poem. Free, no ticket required | | Tuesday, 3rd – Thursday, 5th and Wednesday, 11th – Saturday, 14th April | 10.00 – 12.00 Easter Family Workshops
Two weeks of art and craft activities inspired by the current exhibition. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information or visit www.museumofrichmond.com | | Friday, 13th April | 14.00 Dickensian Richmond Family Workshop An object handling and art and craft activity at Richmond Lending Library. Call 020 8332 1141 for more information. | | Wednesday, 25th April | 18.00 (with a free introduction by Dr Sian Barber, Postdoctoral Researcher in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, at 17.45) Aging Monarchs Film Season: Sixty Glorious Years (1938; certificate unrated); (95 mins approx) A film to storm your heart and sweep your senses . . . Drama behind palace doors . . . Drama on the battlefield . . . A world of conflict and emotion, brought to you in a picture that for sheer beauty and magnitude stands alone. With Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and C. Aubrey Smith. Free but £3 donation welcomed, ticket required | | Thursday, 26th April | 14.00 Exhibition Talk: Dickens: Life and Times An illustrated talk with Phillippa Heath commemorating the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth. £2 donation welcomed, ticket required. |
Booking Information for Events
Event tickets are available by post or collection from the Museum of Richmond, Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, TW9 1TP. Tel: 020 8332 1141. Please complete the attached booking form and return it to the Museum with a stamped addressed envelope. For more information on any of the events, please call Phillippa Heath on 020 8332 1141. See here for the booking form. Return to top of page |
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