CONCERT: The Earth laughs in Flowers
Friday 18 March (£32.50, members £28.50), Royal Pavilion
Celebrate the beginning of spring with a joyful evening of words and music with mezzo-soprano Pippa Dames-Longworth and Nicholas Bosworth at the piano. Enjoy pieces by Handel, Fauré, Bizet, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ivor Novello, Joyce Grenfell and Rudyard Kipling all in the perfect setting of the Music Room.
PHOTO AND BROADCAST OPPORTUNITY: Heritage Learning Celebration Day 2016
Friday 18 March, Museum Lab, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Children from primary schools that participated in 2016’s flagship Heritage Learning Brighton & Hove project will present gifts they have made for the dragon rumoured to have lived in the Royal Pavilion until 1967, which will be displayed alongside Royal Pavilion & Museums collection items in the newly launched Museum Lab. There will also be a prize-giving ceremony of the children’s dragon whisperer ‘graduation’ certificates.
- full press release and images of the project are available on request
http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/2016/01/14/dragon-hunt-in-the-royal-pavilion/
http://www.heritagelearningbrighton.org.uk/
Heritage Learning 2016 Showcase
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 March (free with museum admission, residents free, drop in), Museum Lab, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Brighton Museum’s new interactive space the Museum Lab hosts a public showcase of local children’s work in 2016’s flagship project by Heritage Learning Brighton & Hove. Pupils from Brighton & Hove primary schools and the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital will present art, craft and digital gifts they have made for the dragon rumoured to have lived in the Royal Pavilion until 1967…
http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/2016/01/14/dragon-hunt-in-the-royal-pavilion/
Star Wars toy display
13 February half-term to 17 May (*FREE*), Hove Museum
Hove Museum is now displaying rare Star Wars items loaned from private collections, including very early figures and ‘dioramas’ (displays) from the first series of Star Wars movies released by toy company Kenner in the 1970s. The new display has been loaned by two of the museum’s staff and includes unusual items, in particular figures, from the second Star Wars trilogy, which demonstrate how merchandising developed between the two film series. The display also brings things right up to date with a recent Disney Star Wars/Cars crossover range and has been designed to appeal to all, from vintage collectors to those new to the world of Star Wars.
http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/star-wars-toy-display/
*We can supply images of the toys displayed, but please note that these have not been cleared for use by Lucasfilm/Disney and are therefore used at your own risk.*
LAST CHANCE TO SEE : Exotic Creatures EXTENDED TO 6 MARCH
To 6 March 2016 (admission payable, members free), Royal Pavilion
This exhibition explores animals in royal collections, menageries and early zoos, and political beasts, in the period 1750 to 1850. Discover the fascinating story of the first living giraffe in the UK, given to George IV as a diplomatic gift in 1827, and the history of travelling menageries performing in London and Brighton. http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/exhibitions-and-displays/exotic-creatures/
- a full press release and images are available on request.
