Our normal programme of around 50 events a year has been severely curtailed by COVID-19. Presently we have managed to arrange a small number of visits and trips over the next three months and are resuming our series of monthly talks at the M Shed Studio (with tea/coffee and cake); see below for details. Also, Bristol Museums service is offering a range of on-line events, some of which are listed here.
Bristol is well known for the richness of its street art and the city provides an outdoor exhibition space which makes it one of the best places in Europe to study it.
We are fortunate to have Charlotte Pyatt, creative director of Vanguard, as our guide.
To secure a place, please use the booking form that was sent with the September newsletter.
Contact: Carol Ouvry 01275 394621 carol@ouvry.myzen.co.uk
Underfall Yard’s exhibition of photographs of Bristol Harbour in the late 1970s by Jem Southam provides a unique and definitive portrait of the harbour on the eve of its transformation from a place of industry and work to one of leisure and recreation. One of Southam’s first major projects, the photographs were published in The Floating Harbour: A Landscape History of the Bristol City Docks (1983) and the majority of the works are being exhibited for the first time.
All proceeds will support the work of the Underfall Yard Trust.
To book a ticket via their website click here.
There will be a short AGM followed by some interesting short presentations by museum staff on some of their current projects, including an update on the Colston statue. We will finish with a cup of tea and cake and, at long last, an opportunity to meet up with friends again.
Do please come along as we like to get feedback from our members and this is an opportunity for you to express your views. New members are especially welcome.
Enclosed with the September newsletter you will find a notice of the AGM, a nomination form, and a copy of our annual report.
Fully booked.
Contact: Mary Bailey 0117 942 1944 events@friendsofbmga.org.uk
Wide-ranging collections housed in the 16th century building where Robert Blake, Bridgwater’s most famous citizen, was born in 1598.
Departure: Bristol Hotel: 9.45am; Clifton Triangle (Bathstore): 10.00am; Clevedon Road car park, Nailsea: 10.30am.
Cost £25 per person.
To secure a place, please complete the booking form included with the September newsletter.
Contact: Gary Gostelow 0117 971 1323 gary.gostelow@googlemail.com
ONLINE TALK: Isaac Blease, curatorial consultant on the Island Life exhibition, will discuss the many highlights within the Martin Parr Foundation collection – as well as the ones that got away.
Held over Zoom. To book a place with the museums service click here.
ONLINE TALK: Find out how the Early Black Presence Index at Bristol Archives was compiled and the glimpses it gives us into the lives of Black Bristolians from the 16th to 19th centuries.
Speaker: Allie Dillon, City Archivist.
This talk will be held over Zoom. To book a place with the museums service click here.
ONLINE TALK: Where are the Black poppies in the south-west of England? Find out what Black and Asian people within the British Empire contributed to Britain’s war effort during World War One.
Speakers: Dr Kent Fedorowich, Reader in British and Imperial Commonwealth History, University of the West of England, and Tony T – Arts & Heritage Practitioner with Sweet Patootee Arts.
This talk will be held over Zoom. To book a place with the museums service click here.
A talk on the current research into the collection of English delftware in Bristol Museum & Art Gallery by project curator Amber Turner.
Cost £7.50 per person including tea/coffee and homemade cake.
To secure a place please complete the booking form included with the September newsletter.
Contact: Roni Edwards 0117 949 4843 colinroni@hotmail.com
