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The House of Fairy Tales initiative for Primary March 2018 schools We would love to invite your school Why Turkish Tulips? Everyone knows that tulips come from Holland. Except that they don’t. Have you ever... that your wished school could ... be more creative and inspiring? to take part in the first year of The Great Challenge Tulips actually originate in the mountains of Central Asia and were ... that the day could be more cross=curricular? first appreciated by Persian poets and first cultivated by Turkish Sultans This year we are piloting the Challenge to schools within a 50-mile in the Ottoman Empire. ... that students could take more charge of their own learning, radius of The Bowes Museum. It will subsequently be promoted Turkish Tulips is a fascinating project exploring the history, following their interests, talents and abilities? throughout the UK. geography, economics, science and philosophy of Europe, the Middle We would love you to pioneer it for us. East and Asia. Spanning all the curriculum subjects, the metaphor of ... that students’ experience in school was more relevant to their future lives? this simple but symbolic flower follows the Silk Road trade routes ... that it was possible to learn science through art and music through maths, established between the Chinese, Persian, Indian and Roman Why schools near empires, focuses on the incredible popularity of tulips during the history through physical exercise and vice versa? The Bowes Museum? Ottoman Empire and examines their arrival into Europe during The Museum will be hosting two exhibitions, created by the Dutch Golden Age, moving on to consider globalisation, ... that you could teach your students to occasionally fail gloriously, The House of Fairy Tales, from July to November 2017 ... migration and associated ecological and environmental challenges. instead of always succeed with mediocrity? We are inviting children, young people and their teachers to explore these ideas through a diverse array of material and then make a creative response to what they have just investigated. These responses will be exhibited in The Bowes Museum in County Durham, as well as on a Have you ...ever to throw wanted away the constraints ... of the curriculum for a day? dedicated website thinkingkits.org. At the end of the project we will have a very special celebration The Clockwork Garden is an immersive and interactive adventure trail of the results. This includes workshops where classes with brave and in the gardens of The Bowes Museum, with mechanical artworks, curious responses, selected by The House of Fairy Tales’s artists, whirring installations, strange animations and a puppet theatre. collaborators and provocateurs, work to develop their ideas. The If the answer to... thenany your of school these should takeis ‘yes’part in ... Broadly aimed at Primary school-age children and their families, celebration also launches all schools’ creative responses exhibition. it opened on 29 July, the same day as Turkish Tulips, an exhibition of Once these have been developed into plays, puppet shows, films, The Great Challenge contemporary tulip artworks curated by Gavin Turk. exhibitions, musical compositions, engineering models, etc., they will Turkish Tulips is displayed as an art trail throughout the spectacular be selected for national exhibition spaces as well as presented in the ... a glorious experiment for schools near The Bowes Museum collections of The Bowes Museum. schools themselves. Artists involved include Nancy Fouts Cornelia Parker TurkishFrom the 5–8 March Tulips 2018 our Thinklab, Week with its occupants Brave Thinking Kits are custom-made ‘creativity’What packs designed is by a our teamThinking of artists, in partnership Kit? with a particular organisation or institution. Sir Peter Blake Anya Gallacio Yinka Shonibare and Curious, will be on standby to work with schools to deliver MBE They bring inspiring history, stories, science and games into schools and homes throughout the country. Each Kit’s content is inspired by real events Rob and Nick Tom Gallant The Great Turkish Tulip Challenge. Carter Sarah Staton and places, with the option that children and their teachers/parents can visit the exhibitions to enrich the learning experience. Benjamin Grant Gavin Turk This is a brand new initiative for the charity but we have a history of delivering successful and exciting projects with schools, including Mustafa Hulusi For two days during that week each school will be transformed into a Gordon Cheung Philippa Waterwheel with The Thames Festival in 2010, where we worked with 104 schools across every Greater London borough. The project resulted in giant flower bed of learning. Every classroom will become a Thinklab van Loon 1,881 unique child-generated Think Spaces being uploaded to the website: www.waterwheel.org.uk Georgie Hopton Michael Jim Hollingworth where students investigate and refill their Thinking Rooms through Charles Jones cross-curricular and child-led sessions. Craig-Martin Paul Sakoilsky Adam Dant Liliane Lijn Dave Swindells Every student will be given different challenges in every different Rory McEwen Jojo Tulloh for eachWhat’s student in the Turkish Tulips Thinking forKit? teachers subject from literature, mathematics and science to drama and The Bowes Museum/Turkish Tulips edition of Teachers Thinking Kit Guide PE. All normal curricula will be suspended for a couple of glorious The HoFT Examiner newspaper making it easy to use the Kit in every classroom and helping teachers to immersive days filled with horticulture, economics, history and science. full of inspiring information, art, stories, facts, myths, legends, navigate through the Challenge. Students will find out about our fascinating European History investigations, challenges, puzzles and games – the results of our cross- from the perspective of the entrepreneurial traders who travelled the Project Advocate’s Booklet curricular research to enable learning through play Silk Road and our wonderful legacy from Rumi and the philosophers, supporting school management and project champions to lead the cultural thinkers and horticulturists from Turkey, Syria and what we in Thinking Guide school through the Challenge Enter The House of Fairy Tales to discover a series of the West call The Middle East or Arabia. In the regions of the world for the school Thinking Rooms. From sound studio to stage, laboratory that now more often symbolise oil, war and refugees we discover the Posters, stickers and tulip-related promotional material to library, there is a room for everyone, each full of rich heritage of the Arabic and Turkish world. for use within the school They will learn about the foundations of the Enlightenment Thinking Experiments – challenges, tasks and Information sheet in Europe and the Dutch Golden Age, when traditional religious suggestions for further exploration for parents and carers to involve them in the Challenge teachings were challenged by the new discoveries of scientific thinking, Think Space astronomy and evolution, leading to the establishment of our culture of A sheet for each student to show how they Pack of cards learning through museums and universities. can think for themselves about what they’ve learned custom-made by artist Adam Dant and experienced Yinka Shonibare MBE, Tulip Field, 2016, digital print with hand-applied gold foil, 42 × 30cm TULIPS AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE

TULIPS IN THE EAST TULIPS IN THE WEST TULIPS AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE As we have just seen, the mood in was the beating heart of this financial of intellectual, cultural, scientific as our humble flower took root in Europe Europe from the end of the 16th century and cultural wealth accumulation thanks well as military knowledge with the and sprouted within the intellectual, through the 17th was one of insatiable to the Dutch East India company lead universities and institutes fed by the aesthetic and colonial thinking of the OVERVIEW curiousity, mixed with an appetite for by the van Loon Family. The by-product entrepreneurial spirit of the middle class Dutch identity. private trade and commerce. Amsterdam of this financial wealth was a blossoming traders. It was against this backdrop that Thinking Rooms TULIPS ARRIVE TWO OF EUROPE’S FIRST BOTANISTS: How will it work in my school? IN EUROPE ‘A strange and outlandish plant!’ The Great Turkish Tulip Challenge would work fantastically well if After students have explored the subjects and themes they are Conrad Gesner – a controversial polymath ‘I never managed to TULIPS IN THE EAST grow such a good beard Born in 1516 Gesner was a Swiss the tulip. as Rembert – but my naturalist, botanist, physician, classical Born, in 1516 in Zurich, he tulips were always linguist and bibliographer as well as attended the Cathedral School of his more spectacular.’ a fine plantsman. He is also a serious hometown where his best friend was During the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent, the entire school took part because there will be more excitement and invited to make a creative response through one of the following contender as the father of modern Georg Joachim Rheticus. Rheticus Rembert Dodoens the Turks began to cultivate the tulip and mountaineering. would gain everlasting fame as the The renowned scholars Rembert breed more varieties. These Istanbul Tulips In 1559 he first saw the tulip flowering man who persuaded Copernicus Dodoens (Dodonaeus) and his younger looked much more elegant than their wild in the garden of a magistrate in Ausburg, to publish De Revolutionibus – the colleague Carolus Clusius were among Carolus Clusius predecessors. The most sought after tulip Germany. His painting and description seminal work where he described his the first to treat the study of plants Clusius (1526-1609) travelled widely in was almond shaped with six slender petals. of the flower, which he called Tulipa controversial theory that the earth as a true science. Dodonaeus’s most search of unknown plants and maintained To enhance their beauty the tulips were inclusion throughout the school. Thinking Rooms. There are suggestions and ideas on every page of turcarum, is the first known illustration revolved around the sun not the other important book is his Cruydeboeck. contacts with botanists all over Europe. In given evocative names such as ‘The Light of of a tulip in Europe. way around. The edition of 1568 shows us the first addition to the tulip, he gave Holland the Paradise’ and ‘The Matchless Pearl’. Many A bluffer’s guide to the Ottoman and Persian Empires That flower was short, bright red, and The two remained life long friends and illustration, a woodcut of a tulip in the ranunculus, the anemone and many other of these varieties were fragrant (unlike waisted like the Lily Flowered Tulips of Gesner provided a refuge for Rheticus Netherlands. bulbs. While he exchanged his bulbs with contemporary tulips) and sadly are now THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE much of Southern Europe, parts of time the geographical area expanded today. Later it was crossed with other when he suffered a mental breakdown He informs us that the tulip is not a others, it is fair to say that he helped to extinct. was created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia Central Europe, Western Asia, the (FORMERLY KNOWN AS PERSIA) and contracted through much of what wild tulips to produce the vast range later in life. Gesner was poor and could native of this our country nor even in lay the foundation for cultivation of the The materials are aimed at key stage 1 and 2 but would work well their Thinking Guide that will inspire the students to come up with (Asia Minor) in the 13th century and Caucasus, North Africa and the Horn The name Iran comes from the Middle we know of the Middle East as well as of different tulips we now have in our not afford an education but his obvious Italy and we can also read how the tulip tulip in Holland. grew into one of the most powerful of Africa. ‘Eran’. In 1935 Reza central Asia. gardens. One still can read his scribbled great intelligence and abilities led a got its name: from the bonnets or head- In 1593 Clusius became professor states in the world during the 15th and In 1922 it came to an end, when it was Shah asked the world to call Persia ‘Iran’ notes about the flower, reproduced two series of prominent scholars to act as dresses of the Saracen (i.e. Turks). of botany and prefect of the Hortus 17th centuries. The term Ottoman, replaced by the Turkish Republic and rather than the westernised version. years later in 1561, as a wood block print his patrons enabling him to study at the In 1582 he was appointed professor of Botanicus at Leiden University, where is derived from Osman, the nomadic several successor states in south eastern This Iranian leader came to power in in his De Hortis Germaniae Liber universities of Zurich, Straßburg and medicine at the University of Leiden, a he laid out a botanical Thisgarden. was Here very unlike the warlike Admiral Mustafa Pasa, son-in-law of the The Tulip Period did not merely infuriated his subjects. But it was Turkmen chief who founded the dynasty Europe and the Middle East. 1925 and founded the Pahlavi dynasty Recens: the first European illustration of Bourges. position he held until his death in 1585. tulips bloomed in thebehaviour spring of which 1594. the Ottomans had been Grand Vizier during the Tulip Period, describe the preoccupation with this Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha’s apparent original pieces of work. and empire circa 1300. that had a constitutional monarchy famous for (they had been besieging is remembered for forty-four new tulip particular flower, as this was also a time indifference to state affairs and the adapted to younger and older students. In 1453 Mehmed the Conqueror (7th that lasted until the Iranian Revolution Vienna in 1683), as the Empire pursued breeds!) The obsession with novelty of relative political tranquility when Sultan’s hesitation in defending the ‘What joy… to marvel at Sultan) ended the Byzantine Empire of 1979. As a bibliographer, Gesner published a policy of peace and diplomacy with and quality in tulips led to ever-greater the Grand Vizier (who effectively ran empire that led to an insurrection – the the mighty masses of with the conquest of Constantinople Iran is heir to one of the world’s the mountains, and lift his Bibliotheca Universalis Europe while indulging in hedonism and demand and a dramatic rise in prices the government) expanded diplomatic Anti-Tulip Rebellion – led by a former (now known as Istanbul). With control oldest civilizations and has had a up one’s head… among (1545-55) in four volumes, in pleasure: ‘Let us laugh,’ wrote Ahmed’s which peaked in 1726-7. History does relations with Europe and oversaw a Janissary soldier, Patrona Halil. of the city and lands around the succession of powerful and influential the clouds… strangely which he attempted to include all closest companion, the court poet, repeat itself: this was 90 years after flowering of all aspects of Ottoman 52·276355°, 4·557080° Mediterranean basin, this multinational empires from the Achaemenid Empire excited at the amazing known literature. He feared all of Nedim, ‘Let us play, let us enjoy the the Dutch Tulip Mania but in the culture, artistically, commercially and BACK TO THE CAGE WITH HIM Every year, tulip fields in Lisse, Netherlands begin to bloom in March and are in peak bloom by late Sixth form students would be great facilitators of this experience and multilingual empire was central to of 550–330 bc through the Parthian, April. The Dutch produce a total of 4·3 billion tulip bulbs each year, of which 53% (2·3 billion) is grown altitude… carried away this knowledge would be lost to delights of the world to the full.’ Ottoman Empire the state successfully technologically. Both Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha and into cut flowers. Of these, 1·3 billion are sold in the Netherlands as cut flowers and the remainder is all east and west interactions and trade Sasanian, Samanid, Saffarid Empires to the contemplation of posterity, especially after the Ottomans sacked Buda (the intervened to regulate prices, with The Tulip Period is sometimes seen Grand Admiral Mustafa Pasa were exported: 630 million bulbs to Europe and 370 million elsewhere. the Great Architect of for over six centuries. of the first millennium and then the capital of Hungary) in 1526, and the famed libraryTHE TULIP of Mathias PERIOD & FLOWER POWER harsh consequences for anybody who as the Ottoman counterpart to the strangled and decapitated, their heads Sound Studio: music, instrument-making, sound the Universe.’ During the 16th and 17th centuries, at Safavid, Afsharid, Zand, Qajar Corvinus was dispersed. Ironically, Gesner’sEveryone Bibliotheca from wasbarbers and butchers to overcharged. Even so, the Empire Rococo era in Europe – some of the presented to the mob by Ahmed III in the height of its power under Suleiman and Pahlavi Dynasties of the second used as a primary source for the Vatican’sthe IndexSheikh-ul-Islam Librorum (the most senior) could no longer satisfy the Sultan’s own public festivals and entertainments were order to save himself. The Sultan was the Magnificent, the empire held sway Millennium with the Mongol Empire Benjamin Grant’s Overview project to appreciate our home in its entirety, to developed, or the devastating impact a massive scale, or the vibrant colors Prohibitorum, (the Pauline Index of bannedcultivated works of bulbs, 1559), and the demand led demands for tulips, and millions of bulbs modelled on those which took place forced to abdicate (and obliged to return and this would help their personal and social development. over a huge territory. This included invasion in the 13th century. In that seeks out the effects of man on the reflect on its beauty and its fragility all at on our planet. Beholding these forces captured attract attention. Then our and was itself banned! to the most prized specimens changing were actually imported from Holland at Versailles, following an Ottoman to live in the cage!), while his successor, The Janissaries were infantry troops that formed the Ottoman Breaking the fast at Ramadan – Sultan’s household bodyguard the strange ritual of the counterfeitsurface spoons of the planet as seen from space. once. That’s the cognitive shift that this as they shape our Earth is necessary thoughts go beyond the aesthetics, Conrad Gesner hands for hundreds of gold coins. Grand and France. mission to Louis XV’s France in 1720, Mahmud I, all but closed the Tulip It was inspired, and derives its name, project hopes to inspire. to make progress in understanding contemplate just exactly what it is that but it also featured the introduction of a Period’s cultural openings and European 14 26 from an idea known as the Overview From a line of sight on the earth’s ourselves and what is needed to sustain a we are seeing, and consider what that new, delicate architecture (particularly links. The tulip festivals carried on for a Laboratory: engineering, design, inventions Effect. This term refers to the sensation surface, it’s impossible to fully appreciate safe and healthy planet. means for our planet. in garden houses and buildings like the while but the flood of manuscripts listing astronauts have when given the the beauty and intricacy of the things The mesmerising flatness seen famous Ahmed II fountain); new styles hundreds of varieties of the Istanbul This is all explained and elucidated in the Teachers’ Thinking GAVINopportunity TURK to look down and view the that humans have constructed, the sheer from this vantage point, the surprising of ceramic art, and the introduction in tulip was soon reduced to a trickle, Earth as a whole. They have the chance complexity of the systems that have been comfort of systematic organisation on 1727 of the first Islamic printing press. while the renowned blooms gradually All good things come to an end disappeared into extinction. It wasn’t The Tulip Period, as you’ve probably until the creation of Turkey after the 12 realised, didn’t end well, at least not First World War that the tulip was Garden: food, horticulture, ecology THE AESTHETICS OF TULIPS for the infatuated tulip fanciers. In reinstated as the national flower. 1730, when the Persian General Nader, Kit Guide which has sections on each year group and how to Cave (Edition) 1995, silkscreen on plastic, 48cm (diameter) attacked Ottoman possessions in What is Aesthetics? western Persia, the Ottoman leadership Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good taste. was clearly unprepared. The inordinate Mechanical Turk It has also been defined as ‘critical reflection’ on art, culture and nature. luxury enjoyed by the Sultan and the 2008–15, 14 mins film loop on monitor, framed, 65 x 75 x 8cm excesses of court society may well have Cinema: film, animation, digital ARTISTSThe Istanbul Tulip Festival with the Sultan& Ahmed MosqueTULIPS beyond (thanks to vegetariantraveller.com) encourage the students to get the most from the Challenge. SAY IT WITH FLOWERS 19 Coded language, high poetics and kitsch Mistresses of a genre The lady and the Tulip Book in primary schools class teachers will deliver the content Turkish Tea MARIA van OOSTERWIJCK Of Stage: puppetry, drama 2017, giclée print, 30 x 42cm PRoPeRtIeS WaTEr Vase of Tulips, Rose, and Other Flowers with Insects 1663, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum There are three states of water: Portrait of the Sailor Gentleman Jim 2009, oil on canvas, 58 x 45cm Floriography or ‘The Language of and freethinker. Though very Flowers’ is a form of cryptological much a figure of her class and time, through their usual classroom practice – focusing each curriculum (coded) communication through (with ideas one may find troubling Amsterdam nurtured two important female 17th century flower Workshop: fashion, textiles, costumes, craft the use or arrangement of flowers. from today’s standpoint) she can still life painters: RACHEL RUYSCH and MARIA van MeaningsBox have been attributed to be seen as a proto-feminist. She OOSTERWIJCK. The latter and elder of the two was active in ...it’s always moving between states and forms, sometimes as a gas in 2002–03, paintedflowers bronze, 32 xfor 31 x 46cmthousands of years, and is responsible for introducing the Delft and, from 1673, in Amsterdam. She never married and was clouds, a solid snowflake, a liquid part of plant, an animal’s body, rock, in some form floriography has been smallpox inoculation (which she used never a member of a guild. and so on... practised by traditional cultures on her own children) to England, As a painter Maria (1630-1693 enjoyed great renown – for her subject on the tulip for two days – a fantastic opportunity for child- across continents. We find flowers having also discovered this in Turkey. art, naturally but also because of her gender as a painter. She JUDITH LEYSTER Over a 100 year period a drop of water spends 97 years in the H.M.S. Pequod Spent Match Odyssey put to symbolic use in the Hebrew Her Turkish Letters, published after received commissions from the highest circles at home and abroad. Self Portrait 2014, painted bronze, 1.5 x 3.7 x 3cm 2005, painted bronze, 2 x 3 x 3cm 2005, painted bronze, 5 x 5 x 70cm 1633, oil on canvas, 75 x 65cm Bible, most obviously in Solomon’s her death as per her request, is still Her clients included the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold, Louis XIV of ocean, two years as ice, two weeks in lakes and rivers, and a week in Attic: collecting, museums, archives Song of Songs. regarded as a classic of travel writing, France and William II Stadholder of Holland and King of England. Born into a family of weavers in the air. Sometimes it can stay in an underground pool for hundreds of Shakespeare’s writings are full and an important historical account Haarlem, Judith Leyster (1609–1660) Gavin Turk is a British artist born in commonplace but are détourned or shows in America, Asia, Australasia and bronze objects including Odyssey of flowers put to symbolic purpose of the Ottoman Empire. successfully pursued a profession years, before becoming something else and moving on in its journey. 1967. He has pioneered many forms of transformed in often unexpected ways. Europe. The artist lives and works in (a dried poppy referencing John Keats’s THE SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY OF TULIPS – in Hamlet, for instance, Ophelia, Her and writing was centred, cross-curricular, theme-based teaching practice. Mondrian and the white painted tulip dominated by men. She became the only contemporary British sculpture now Turk’s installations and sculptures London. poem The Lotus Eaters), bronze cast of Imagine what the water you washed with this morning could have been explains the meaning of pansies, known in private circles, and a little abstracts. It could, of course, have been a female member of the painters’ guild taken for granted, including the painted deal with issues of authorship, As the inspiration for the Turkish ‘Ship’ matches and a painted bronze rosemary, fennel, columbine, rue, as with the Interflora ad copy – ‘Say Turkish Letters, a classic of travel writing was published during her lifetime. revenge for the agony that compromise with her own workshop. before it ended up in your bath or in your body. bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art- authenticity and identity. Concerned Tulips exhibition Gavin Turk has placed used match. These last few are high-art ...what’s under yours? daisy and violets. Other poets and it With Flowers’ – and often borders and the first important secular Western Some was with her say so (anonymously must have cost. More likely, it was simply After her marriage in 1636 she Hall of Cartography: mapmaking, navigation historical icon and the use of rubbish with the myth of the artist and a painted bronze facsimile of a tulip representations which call to mind both ATOMIC GARDENING IS THE BOMB Water is incredibly strong and can move rocks and shingle from writers, including novelists such as Jane on the downright kitsch. However, account of the Ottoman Empire. or under a pseudonym) but some a part of the general revulsion against moved to Amsterdam, where she and in art. authorship, Turk’s engagement with this box (see page 2), perhaps full of tulips human ingenuity and the vast distances It seems that exposure to radiation can poorly known, radiation breeding has Austen, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, its origins and early usage are more This avant-garde ‘floriographer’ was published publicly without her green and growth which made him, when her husband took up residence in the the riverbed, but a salmon swimming up the river to With an active international career modernist, avant-garde debate stretches about to be displayed in the Museum. travelled in the name of trade by the actually be a good thing... produced thousands of useful mutants also used floriography. interesting and exotic. was also a known and gifted wit, poet, permission. She felt it unbecoming, in line seated at a table beside a window through Gasthuismolensteeg. spanning over 25 years, the artist back through the lineage of art history. There is also a small collection of art Dutch East India Company and other Tulips flowering and flourishing in the and a sizable fraction of the world’s breed can remain stationary against the current with TULIPS IN THE EAST The interest in floriography in Floriography was introduced to with constraining ideas of her age (which which trees were visible, persuade first came to public attention in 1991 His work is held in important collections and artefacts placed around the gallery more contemporary organisations. ‘I instinctively tried to capture radiation-blitzed zone near Chernobyl’s crops...including varieties of rice, wheat, Britain begins in aristocratic and upper Britain by the English aristocrat, Lady ‘There is no colour, no flower, no in other aspects she speaks out against) someone to change places. very little effort due to special properties in the water with his degree show from The Royal around the world and he has exhibited including his Mechanical Turk artwork, weed, no fruit, herb, pebble, in my photographs the spirit nuclear reactor should actually come barley, pears, peas, cotton, peppermint, class circles in the 18th century, and Mary Wortley Montagu (1689- for a lady of her class to benefit in anyway ‘The artificial tulip fitted in, of College of Art. His work is a series of widely, with more than 50 solo shows his portrait sculpture of Gentleman Jim or feather, that has not of his paintings. He simplified, as no surprise. Since the 1930s there sunflowers, peanuts, grapefruit, sesame, and the salmon’s streamlined shape. Water under pressure is very became hugely fashionable in the 19th 1762) who travelled with her financially from literature. It was this, and course, with the legend of the studio as assisted readymade objects that seem alone as well as dozens of group museum (after Van Gogh) and some painted a verse belonging to it; simplified, simplified.’ have been programmes to harness the bananas, cassava and sorghum,’ wrote Library: storytelling, literature century, when a great variety of flower husband the British Ambassador also some of the subject matter that made laboratory or cell, the artist as scientist powerful and a fine jet can cut through metal. and voti. may quarrel, ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ transformational effects of radiation, William Broad in The New York Times. dictionaries were published. In the to the Ottomans between 1717- her decide to order her Turkish Letters, to or anchorite. Mondrian felt it mattered reproach, or send particularly on plants. It’s one method among many different Water always flows downwards, pulled down to the centre of the 8 Victorian era,in with Persian. its strict This public epic poemcodes was1718. written As an aristocratic woman only be published at her death. Say it with Chez Mondrian that an artist should present himself in a Letters of passion, 1926, photograph The process works like this. Plant forms of mutagenic breeding – seeds man-M of conduct andbetween morality, 977 one and can 1010 easily and consistsshe gained entry to the famed, friendship, or civility, flowers.... manner appropriate to his artistic aims. Her last painting dates to 1643 – 7 earth by Gravity. seeds are exposed to radiation in have also been exposed to chemicals and DOWN see how beingof able around to communicate 50,000 couplets – ifand you’re otherwise secret world of or even of news, Piet Mondrian did not appreciate at me through his glasses, he noticed ‘A photograph of him taken in a Judith Leyster Tulip Book in the Frans order that they develop mutations sent into space to experience cosmic wondering how long that is, the most without ever inking Some objects float and some sink in water depending on the secretly, especially for lovers and secret the Sultan’s harem, and it was fresh flowers and green trees, recalled my glance and said “I’ve arranged these 1908 shows a bearded floppy-haired Hals museum in Haarlem. POWER L with desirable traits (such as drought radiation – and every day you’re probably 2 recent scholarly edition was in eight your fingers.’ The temple bell stops ACROSS assignations, would gain popularity. here that she first discovered Charmion von Wiegand, who visited to make it more cheerful.” In his Paris “Victorian” man of sensibility. Tulip books were albums put together density of the object. For example apples float and pears sink—try this Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s resistance, higher yield or early-ripening) eating something which has benefitted Playroom: traditional, digital and virtual gaming volumes. Since then floriography has not floriography. She wrote about Turkish Letters 17(L, 389) But I still hear sound coming Mondrian’s New York studio in the studio he had used a flower – one tulip A photograph of 1911 shows a twentieth- by one or more artists and commissioned & INVeÑTIon CPD Training Day FARHAD & Farhad has a more significant ‘best that can be bred with other cultivars. from radiation breeding. yourself. entirely disappeared, but is really now a it in letters, which she would out of the flowers early 1940s: in a vase, an artificial one, its leaves century technologist, clean-shaven by bulb merchants or well to-to-do- A _ After the Second World War there So what about those Chernobyl Persian legends about tulips such as kind of secondarysupporting thought actor’ at the role florists, in ‘Khosrow later rewriteand as the famous BASHO ‘Everything was spotless white, like painted white. with centre parting and brilliantined flower enthusiasts. Although the book There are many ways to power Farhad and Shirin date back thousands Shirin’, a famous tragic romance by the was a concerted effort to develop tulips? Might they also have actually Water is the only substance that expands when frozen. Its density a laboratory. In a light smock, with his ‘As Mondrian was probably incapable hair; the spectacles were an inevitable bears her name, only one of the tulips – R peaceful uses of atomic fission energy as benefitted from irradiation? Sadly we of years, and also inspired the Iranian lyrical poet (1141– taciturn, clean-shavenOF face, wearing his of irony, the tulip was unlikely to be a wry accessory. Soft and hairy becomes De Vroege Brabantsson – can with our needs from the world around us... becomes less and so ice floats. This is how life can be preserved in lakes Revolution of 1979. 30 1209). The latter is an elaborate fictional THE SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY TULIPS part of the Atoms for Peace programme. didn’t get close enough to find out. But heavy glasses, Piet Mondrian seemed joke about his having hard and smooth; one of the great certainty be credited to Judith Leyster. ª It was called Atomic Gardening if anybody reading this is feeling brave solar power from the sun, horse power, and ponds during the winter because the water stays relatively warm Sir PETER BLAKE Was it the tulip’s blood-red colour version of the life of Khosrow Parviz more a scientist or priest than an artist. had to produce flower landscape-painters of his generation, Much of Leyster’s work was wrongly WateR CINEMA that made it such a symbolic flower for (the last great King of the Sasanian or Gamma Gardening, and it was enough to go and get another bunch, and under the ice which acts like a strange kind of blanket. D Gallery: pictures, sculptures and visual images The only relief from all the white were pieces between 1922 and one of the great flower-painters attributed to Frans Hals until 1893, when scientifically planned to help create and perhaps collect some bulbs, we’d really wind power, nuclear power, burning fossil the people who first saw it? Many myths Empire, who reigned from 590 to 628), large mat-boards, rectangles in yellow, 1925 when he no longer of his generation, comes to find Hofstede de Groot first attributed seven Calling all Film Directors and Animators develop new plant cultivars (cultivated love to see them. for Teachers and Management were told to explain the tulip’s beauty which made him into one of the greatest SCIENCE CAME LATER... Submarines and marine mammals such as whales and dolphins red and blue, hung in asymmetric wanted to, because there trees monstrous and green fields paintings to her, six of which are signed fuels, steam power (which kick-started the e varieties). It may sound crazy, but this in which it was often synonymous with heroes of the culture, both as a lover and arrangements on all the walls. Peering were no buyers for his intolerable.’ with her distinctive monogram ‘JL’. use SONAR to sense objectsAt theunderwater Circus we by are sending going outto have a sound a cinema powered by bicycles, so all the radiation breeding actually works. Industrial Revolution), but for this project 6 NaTu perfection or eternity. as a king. electricity will be generated by people power DOWNnot by using up the Earth’s The most famous fairytale associated One of the best known is the ‘Todd’s Wilson A. BeNtlEyand listening for the echo. On the 17 October 2017 there will be a Training Day for your team, Tulips were grown and propagated varieties and thus biodiversity for a future and cultural achievements and the we are interested in hydro (water) power... Mitcham’ (right) cultivar of peppermint resources. What we need from you is ideas for films to show on the screen. with the tulip is the legend of Farhad physically and culturally in a pre- age should they become extinct in ours. exchange of knowledge and take time 43 1865-1931 which is resist to Verticillium Wilt, that 17 and Shirin. The story goes that in sixth- scientific age. Even the smartest growers This last point gives us a clue to once again remember the aesthetic We are going to show water-related films and videos. But we also want to show was produced at Brookhaven National century Persia a young Prince named didn’t know what they were doing as to the very real scientific fears beauty of a simple tulip flower. Nicknamed Laboratory Atomic Garden in the USA. films made by you. ...and what’s the U-bend for? Farhad was love-struck by a beautiful except by instinct. of climate change, our altering of Rosalie and The Snowflake Man, maiden called Shirin. Farhad was so It’s one of many success stories: ‘Though These days we know a huge amount habitats, widespread unmonitored use ‘A garden is a this self-taught farmer from Come up with a storyboard for a short film that we could make. Do you deeply devoted to Shirin that when he more about the science of plants and of pesticides and fertilisers and other grand teacher... the tulips to launch the Challenge and get excited about its potential for the Bleach kills the good bacteria Washing soda used to be the most common household was (falsely) told that she had died of a KHOSROW AND SHIRIN horticulture. We are at the age of the human interventions into our world. above all it Jericho, Vermont, want to see the journey of water through the house? What about a film about a in ‘septic tanks’. cleaning product for kitchen floors and work surfaces. sudden illness, he was overcome with This is the story of Khosrow’s love for controversial genetic engineering of This exhibition should be a moment of teaches entire using pioneering ‘pooh stick’ floating down a stream, or what about an exciting plot that revolves A chance meeting with an elderly lady The suds in washing powder grief and he killed himself by hacking at the Armenian Princess Shirin, whom he crops. Our ability to transport plants reflection for us all as we look back and trust.’ photography, discovered Baking soda can be used as an oven cleaner. Tulip Tulip Tulip who, despite many official requests, Pesticides, meant for used on. When the bulbs around a glass of water? Maybe we couldhave make very a short little animationcleaning value, around your after Blancour, A Bowl of Flowers after van Os, Fruits and Flowers in a Terracottahis own Vase body with an axe. after Walscapelle, Flowers in a Glass Vase first sees when she is bathing and washing around the world and exchange ideas look forward with the tools of history, Vinegar is a good alternative to many cleaning products. 1995–96, acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21cm 1995–96, acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21cm 1995–96, acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21cm refused to leave her home in the attracting, seducing, are sold these pesticides get that no two snow crystals ideas. Where each drop of his blood fell her hair in a river. She finally becomes within the scientific community through geography, cultural curiosity and science but cause lots of pollution in can be used for cleaning toilets. Tulip stories, radioactive zone around Chernobyl. and then destroying distributed into thousands were ever alike... Lemon juice on to the barren ground, a scarlet tulip Khosrow’s queen after a long courtship ROBERT THORNTON the use of the internet has grown to help us to both understand and to hold rivers and streams. students. Borax can kill smells, prevent mildew and mould, and sprang up, a symbol of his perfect and strewn with mishaps and difficulties. In any pest, are a class of gardens internationally Make a cartoon strip or storyboard showing the different scenes you would Temple of Flora exponentially. We even have safety back the darker forces of our nature. myths and legends After we pulled off the weed-pocked and perhaps hoping for a little earthly of biocide. and there unwittingly the Detergents contain additives undying love. this tale Farhad is a sculptor ...CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 » published between 1798 and 1807 remove stains. We love borax! vaults with frozen seed banks to preserve We should also celebrate our human GERTRUDE JEKYLL 6 like to see in the film. Some of these which will encourage be made algæ, into an actual film. ‘Artist, Gardener, Craftswoman’ is inscribed roadon and begin tramping the winding romance in the cool of the evening. The most common uses of pesticides insects continue to be poisoned. Cornstarch can be used to clean windows, polish Well, that is one version. Different because it appears in two of the most Miss Jekyll’s grave. Designed by her friend path to her door, my memory drifted Igor reminded us that Rosalia doesn’t are as plant protection products, which There are great advances in organic using up oxygen and furniture, shampoo carpets and rugs, and starch clothes. back to the Dark Walks of old English often chat with strangers; he assured us destroy damaging influences on crop bulb production now – especially in the versions of this story appear time and famous works of and and collaborator Edwin Lutyens, it is a simple killing fish and plants. Tea tree oil has disinfectant properties. again in every culture from Turkey to culture, which influenced every person testament to a formidably accomplished pleasure gardens, some of which were that we were quite fortunate to meet production, such as weeds, fungi, or light of EU pesticide regulations so it is outfitted with freshly constructed ruins. her. And naturally we felt gratitude as insects. The trouble is, these are also vital important to choose 8 Salt is a mild disinfectant. We will be hosting a playful and brilliant day of action. We will India, (where five different films entitled who came into contact with it. woman. 30 ACROSS ‘Shirin Farhad’ were made between 1926 Elements of the story are based in Occasionally, their owners would install she picked us tulips from her garden and for the wider eco-system. your variety and and 1975). It is not only because it is a reality. Farhad is a famous character a real live ‘hermit’ whose job was to presented a bag of bread for our day, The most insidious products contain supplier wisely. tragic tale of pure and selfless love that in and literature, GROWING YOUR OWN offer benedictions of ‘Memento mori’ reminding us (via translation) how Jesus neonicotinoids, compounds which get As a charity we can keep costs low through cross-subsidies so the price this story is known and retold by appearing as a minor character in to revellers wandering the pathways, fed the multitudes with a few loaves. into the system of the bulbs that they are How much does it cost? and Kurds, Georgians, Afghanis, Parsis, ’s ‘’ or ‘King of We’ve read the top tips from the master growers... now it’s your turn... Thanks to woodlandshoppersparadise.blogspot.co.uk be exercising our capacities for being brave and curious collaborators. Pashtuns and many others, but also Kings’, the most renowned poetic work Tulips Tulips 41 after van Huysum, Flowers in a Terracotta Vase after Van Brussel, Flowers in a Vase Did you hear the old joke about the 1995–96, acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21cm 1995–96, acrylic on canvas, 21 x 21cm The seventeenth-century French traveller JEAN CHARDIN bulb? The bulb is a potential flower Plant the bulbs in an area which gets properly cold in the winter and keep Now… wait until the springtime wrote of tulips and his travels in Persia: which is buried in the autumn, never full sunlight, as tulips perform best with cooler in the summer. parade! For a repeat performance the is an affordable Sir Peter Blake is one of the most loved artists of his generation During his residency as associate artist ‘Whenat The a National young man presents one to his mistress, he gives her to understand, by to be seen again. 4–6 hours of sunlight. Ensure that the Water the bulbs after planting, which following year, it’s best to top-feed the alongside his contemporaries David Hockney and RB Kitaj. Gallery from 1994 to 1996 the artist paintedthe generalportraits colour of tulips of the flower, that he is on fire with her beauty; and by the black soil is well drained (tulips really don’t will activate the growth process. If you tulips with some bone-meal fertiliser in Playing a crucial role in the emergence of Pop Art in Britain, his isolated from a series of famous European flower arrangementsbase of it, that his heart is burnt to a coal.’ To help make sure that your bulbs do like getting their feet wet). If you have don’t get an inch of rainwater in the first the autumn, forking it into the top few 39 Between us we will be build a ‘Brave and Curious Museum’ that later work draws on a wide variety of sources, ranging from fairgrounds (see below). re-appear in the spring, here are some fairly heavy clay-based soil, dig in some week then make sure you water them inches (10cm) of soil. 15 and comic books to playfully referenced images from the history of These very specific portraits were shown at Tate Liverpool in guidelines to get your garden (or plant organically-rich compost and maybe also some more to give them a good start. Hey presto! art. He is known for co-designing the iconic cover for the Beatles’ 2007 in Peter Blake: A Retrospective and have been loaned to us for pot) tulips blooming. some sand. If you’ve got the time and the Now, that was easy wasn’t it? Sgt. Pepper album cover with his then wife Jann Hawarth. the Turkish Tulips project. Once you have chosen and ordered As a general rule, bulbs should be patience, then consider over-planting Sample pages from edition of your tulips, store the bulbs in a cool, dry planted three times the depth of their large-leaved perennials such as peonies place, ideally in a shed or in a fridge own height (so larger bulbs get deeper around the tulips, as these will in the day we will explore as the foundation for a conversation about “Under the microscope, I found (make sure bulbs are not placed next to holes), and four to six inches (10–15cm) keep the plants cooler The HoFT Examiner that snowflakes were miracles Students’ Think Space contributions ripening fruit as these release a gas that apart. If you prefer precision, aim in summer. of beauty; and it seemed a could destroy the bulb’s flower bud). to plant the bulbs 8–9 inches (20–23 shame that this beauty should Aim to plant the bulbs about two centimetres) deep. This will ensure . not be seen and appreciated months before the first hard frost, that the bulbs get newspaper produced by others. Every crystal was a on the Waterwheel website, so between late September and mid- masterpiece of design and no how we can bring these capacities to bear in the classroom and how to which covers all resources,£2 teachers’50 per packs child and promotional material as November, depending on one design was ever repeated. your location. When a snowflake melted, that for the Turkish Tulips design was forever lost. Just that and pages from the Waterwheel much beauty was gone, without 5 36 leaving any record behind.” exhibition in Amsterdam 16 Thinking Guide inspire them in students. well as delivery charges – including all content detailed above. 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