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OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
Franz Schreker: Kammersymphonie (1916) Lewis Coenen-Rowe: A Cosmic Joke (2014) Wassily Kandinsky/Thomas de Hartmann, orch. Gunther Schuller: Der Gelbe Klang (1909) 8.00pm, Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th May 2015 In this multimedia collaboration, four graduate[...]
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
From Italian Pre-Renaissance paintings to English Literature and contemporary poetry, discover how the medieval world inspired the young artists of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
This symposium offers an innovative and exciting ‘coming together’ of language teachers and teachers of the creative arts, asking the questions: What does creativity mean to me? What do I do about it as a[...]
William Morris and Edward Burne- Jones developed the Pre Raphaelite’s ideals into both mystical and moral associations. Find out how these associations contributed to the Art Nouveau movement
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford. At 7pm will be a play on Derrida in Oxford by John Schad and Fred Dalmasso. Tickets[...]
Enter a lost world of music and poetry as more than 300 years of Mughal rule approached its end at the hands of the British in 1857. William Dalrymple, award-winning historian, in performance with the[...]
How do the humanities engage with business, and vice-versa? And what might this relationship lead to in the future? This panel will explore the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities,[...]
#### This event is fully booked. #### The second of the College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures will be given by Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the 2012 Olympic Cauldron and one of Britain’s foremost design[...]
Six members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), including comedian and journalist Mark Thomas are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police’s monitoring and keeping of their information on a database that deals with[...]
Art critic and arts and culture journalist for The Guardian, Jonathan Jones will question whether art really is a civilising force.
The award-winning video journalist and campaign filmmaker, Zoe Broughton, has spent more than 20 years putting herself on the frontline – going undercover at an animal-testing lab, being chased by police while filming on a[...]
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. The documentary presents the personal narratives of young boys and[...]
A discussion about the ethics of Arts Sponsorship with Jeremy Spafford, Director of Arts at the Old Fire Station, and representatives from arts activists Art Not Oil – a network is dedicated to taking creative[...]
Renowned art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon will offer an insight into the world of art appreciation.
Special Turner Event at the Ashmolean Museum Turner’s High Street, Oxford: a Unique Townscape With Colin Harrison Wednesday 8 July, 11am-12pm, Lecture Theatre Find out more about Turner’s most significant townscape and the greatest painting[...]
Talk – Perspectives: Cheating A short series of talks on cheating, fakes and frauds to accompany the exhibition by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Speakers include: Nigel Warburton: The Ethics of Cheating Warburton discusses how and why[...]
Exhibition Tour with Paul Teigh Join Modern Art Oxford’s Production Manager, Paul Teigh, for a tour of the Lynn Hershman Leeson exhibition Origins of the Species (Part 2). Free, booking essential via https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/exhibition-tour-with-paul-teigh/
What the World is Losing, a talk with Dr Paul Collins, Dr Robert Bewley & Dr Emma Cunliffe A special talk with Dr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Near East Collections at the Ashmolean[...]
As part of OVADA’s current exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, WASTELANDS, we are pleased to present an Ink Painting workshop with artist Shoran Jiang. This workshop introduces the Chinese tradition of calligraphy and ink painting[...]
Join Curator Katie Hill for an exhibition tour of WASTELANDS, a group show of contemporary Chinese art at OVADA this summer. Katie will provide background to the project and will introduce work by each of[...]
Take a close look at some of the wonderful examples of works on paper fromt he Ashmolean’s Print Room this time looking at examples of what artists used to draw with; including silver/metal point, ink[...]
May Gaskell was the last of the Burne-Jones’s intimate women friends. Her descendant Josceline Dimbleby explores their friendship and discusses it with Great british Drawings exhibition curator Colin Harrison
Dr Ruth Barnese Senior Curator of Indo Pacific Art Yale University Museum talks about this remarkable collection of Ikat coats and other garments from central Asia collected by Robert Shaw 1868-9 on his travels in[...]
Dr Serena Dyer University of Warwick talks about the classically inspired muslin gowns that we see in the work of georgian painter Adam Buck, which typify the Regency period. Learn how these styles develop what[...]
A one-day free exhibit featuring powerful children’s drawings from Burma and Sudan. The event is co-sponsored by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and Waging Peace. The drawings from Burma were collected on visits by HART[...]
Artist Josh Kline will be in conversation with Frieze editor Amy Sherlock discussing the exhibition Freedom and his themes and ideas from media manipulation to 3D printing, which inform his work. The talk forms the[...]
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