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The Mcmanus Summer 2015 ACTIVITIES EVENTS SUMMER & 2015 THE MCMANUS DUNDEE’S ART GALLERY & MUSEUM THE MCMANUS COLLECTIONS UNIT MILLS OBSERVATORY BROUGHTY CASTLE MUSEUM THE OLD STEEPLE THE MCMANUS: EVENTS DUNDEE’S ART GALLERY & FESTIVAL OF MUSEUMS ‘SHACKLETON TO MUSEUM THE SUFFRAGETTES, DUNDEE 1901-1919’ Sat 16 May, 7-9pm FREE, but booking essential via Eventbrite CHILDREN & FAMILIES www.themcmanus.eventbrite.co.uk Enjoy an evening of music, stories, FAMILY SPACE & costume and games from Dundee’s GALLERY ART CARTS past and let famous characters like James Caird guide you through what Available Daily FREE. No need to book, just drop in! life was really like in Dundee in the early 1900s. This is one night at the Museum Drop in to the museum’s family space that will really bring history to life! and try out our fun drawing activities, themed costumes, books and games. Festival of Museums is an annual three day treat of extraordinary, exciting and surprising Also look out for our gallery Art events day and night in museums and galleries Carts packed with activity sheets, throughout Scotland. clipboards and art materials designed www.festivalofmuseums.com to help families explore the museum’s collections of objects and artworks. MCINTOSH PATRICK SMALL STORIES AWARDS 2015 Wed 26 - Sun 30 Aug, 1-5pm Mon 13 Apr, 11 May, 8 Jun, FREE. No need to book, just drop in! 13 Jul, 10 Aug & 14 Sept 10.30-11am & 11.30am-12noon Drop in to the museum’s Creative FREE. No need to book, just drop in! Learning space for this year’s showcase Listen to local tales, sing, play and of expressive artwork created by S6 explore in these fun, interactive Art & Design pupils from Dundee storytelling sessions for under 5s and City Schools. Established in 1999, their grown-ups. the Award celebrates the work of much-admired Dundee-born artist MAKE YOUR MARK AT THE James McIntosh Patrick, former pupil of Morgan Academy, alongside MUSEUM! Dundee’s creative talent of the future. Thur 16 & 23 July, 2-4pm FREE. No need to book, just drop in! The McIntosh Patrick Awards is a partnership Under 8s must be accompanied by an adult. between Dundee City Council Education Department and Leisure & Culture Dundee. Create art inspired by the secret symbols in McManus – from hieroglyphics to Pictish beasts. TALKING DUNDEE: MCMANUS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT The Museum’s Oral History Project provides a living history of the City by capturing the memories and life experiences of the people who live, work and play in Dundee. Talking Dundee Tours & Workshops are also available to book for Schools and Community Groups. For further information, please contact the Creative Learning Team at [email protected] NOW YOU’RE TALKING! DUNDEE STORIES Thur 7 May, 2pm Thur 27 Aug, 2pm FREE. No need to book, just drop in! FREE. No need to book, just drop in! Listen to a fascinating and entertaining What vital piece of equipment selection of audio clips from the did Dundee weavers keep in their Talking Dundee oral history archive, handbags? If you were a red leader in which Dundonians recall life in or a member of the black squad, the City from the 1930s onward. where did you work? According to the song, who’s the man ‘tae gie ye TALKING DUNDEE: ham an eggs’? Anecdotes from our oral history collection provide the Q&A DROP-IN answers, in this chatty and informal Thur 18 June, 2pm tour of our local history gallery. FREE. No need to book, just drop in! This relaxed and chatty workshop THIS IS TALKING DUNDEE session about the Talking Dundee Thur 17 Sept, 2pm archive explores the practicalities of oral FREE. No need to book, just drop in! history, from the art of interviewing and making recordings, to what the archive An informal presentation about our tells us about Dundee – and ourselves. Talking Dundee oral history collection reveals the range of recorded material in the archive. Find out about the material and how it was collected, then listen to a selection of memorable audio clips, including memories of the Odeon Cinema Club song, and growing up in an Overgate tenement in the late 1940s. MEET MCMANUS TALKS & TOURS Discover more about the THE 1745 JACOBITE UPRISING Museum’s displays and IN FOUR OBJECTS exhibitions through our Thur 9 Jul, 1-1.30pm informative lunchtime tours FREE. Booking essential on (01382) 307200. and gallery talks. What can a rebel flag, snuff mull, wine glass and oil painting tell us about the men (and women) who fought for and THE POWER OF MYTH against Prince Charles Edward Stuart? Thur 9 Apr, 1-1.30pm FREE. Booking essential on (01382) 307200. THE BATTLE OF LOOS Join us for a fascinating look at some Thur 13 Aug, 1-1.30pm of the Greek and Roman myths that FREE. Booking essential on (01382) 307200. have inspired artists through the Casualties of the First World War Battle ages. This talk will include an informal of Loos affected nearly every family tour of the exhibition ‘Classical Art: and street in Dundee. We look at a The Legacy of the Ancients’. uniform belonging to a Dundonian who fought in the battle – and survived. SUFFRAGETTES IN DUNDEE Thur 14 May, 1-1.30pm SCOTTISH FREE. Booking essential on (01382) 307200. ARCHAEOLOGY MONTH ‘Votes for Women’ was the battlecry Thur 10 Sept, 1-1.30pm of the Suffragette movement. What FREE. Booking essential on (01382) 307200. part did Dundee play in the struggle What can human and animal for female suffrage in the early 1900s? archive explores the practicalities of oral NOW YOU’RE TALKING! bones tell us about the past? All history, from the art of interviewing and Thur 7 May, 2pm will be revealed in this talk for FREE. No need to book, just drop-in! making recordings, to what the archive EDWARDIAN EXPLORERS: Scottish Archaeology Month. tells us about Dundee – and ourselves. ListenSHACKLETON to a fascinating and entertaining selectionThur 11 Jun, of audio1-1.30pm clips from the TalkingFREE. Booking Dundee essential oral history on (01382) archive, 307200. in Thewhich famous Dundonians explorer recall Sir Ernest life in theShackleton city from the(1874 1930s – 1922) onward. was renowned for his leadership skills and expeditions to the Antarctic. Find out TALKINGabout the DUNDEE:natural history specimens Q&AShackleton DROP collected IN on his travels and later donated to the Museum. Thur 18 June FREE. No need to book, just drop-in! DUNDEE STORIES This relaxed and chatty workshop Thur 27 Aug, 2pm session about the Talking Dundee FREE. No need to book, just drop-in! DUNDEE ARTS CAFÉ A great opportunity to hear about and discuss the latest research in the Arts – from History to English, Education to Social Studies and Fine Art to Product Design. Café will be open from 5pm. www.dundeeartscafe.co.uk MAKING JEWELLERY WORK such as the web, and not just as a Kate Pickering, Vanilla Ink new tool, but as a medium - a place Tue 21 Apr, 6-7pm to make and share art, often outside FREE. No need to book, but please arrive of the museum. Although museums early to avoid disappointment. are catching up with our new digital Kate Pickering of Scotland’s unique lives (remotely-controlled robots have jewellery studio, Vanilla Ink, talks about been roaming the Tate Galleries at her work. The studio enables the UK’s night!) artists are still forging ahead. best new designers to develop and grow their businesses. Each ‘Inker’ is LAURENCE OLIVIER, given tailored mentoring and monthly VIVIEN LEIGH AND THE professional development workshops UNMADE MACBETH throughout the year – the perfect Dr Jennifer Barnes, University of Dundee starter package to ensure each ‘Inker’ Tue 2 Jun, 6-7pm develops confidence and business skills FREE. No need to book, but please arrive to last a lifetime. As Kate says: ‘At Vanilla early to avoid disappointment. Ink, we are making more than jewellery, we are Making Jewellery Work’. Jennifer Barnes tells the story of Laurence Olivier’s unmade film, RETHINKING WHAT ART IS Macbeth. Since Macbeth was shelved in 1958 it has gained a reputation as (AND CAN BE) IN A DIGITAL AGE representing a gap in the fabric of Dr Sarah Cook, University of Dundee Britain’s national cinema, with a variety Tue 5 May, 6-7pm of scholars and cultural commentators FREE. No need to book, but please arrive early to avoid disappointment. wondering just what exactly Olivier’s fourth and final Shakespeare film might Mobile technologies, computer have looked like, and how it would networks and new ways of accessing have fitted in alongside Henry V (1944), information and people across space Hamlet (1945) and Richard III (1955). and time has led to a revolution in art - one which museums have been reluctant to acknowledge. Artists have long experimented with new tools, but ‘New Media Art’ has over the last 30 years embraced technologies BROUGHTY CASTLE MUSEUM CHILDREN & FAMILIES TALKS SMALL STORIES SCOTTISH VICTORIAN ARTISTS Mon 6 Apr, 4 May, 1 Jun, Wed 15 Apr, 2-2.30pm 6 Jul, 3 Aug & 7 Sept FREE. No need to book, just drop in! 10.30-11am & 11.30am-12noon Join us for an informative talk in FREE. No need to book, just drop in! The Orchar Gallery and discover Listen to local tales, sing, play and the sitters and subjects captured explore in these fun, interactive story- by Scottish Victorian artists. telling sessions for under 5s and their grown-ups. FERRY HOLIDAY FUN! Thu 9 Jul, 2-4pm FREE. No need to book, just drop in! Create art to celebrate the start of the holidays! From amazing ice creams to Victorian bathing machines – Broughty Ferry is famous for holidays.
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