Dulwich Winterlights
DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
December 2016
Exhibitions
Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch Master of Landscape
The world’s first major exhibition devoted to one of the finest landscape artists of the Dutch Golden Age, Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672). Bringing together 60 of his paintings and drawings, the show will offer not only a survey of the artist’s oeuvre but also a rare glimpse of a seventeenth century master at work.
12 October 2016 – 15 January 2017
Am I Rembrandt?
Explore how curators and conservators work together to investigate a painting’s authorship. X-ray and technical analysis of two paintings by Rembrandt – A Young Man, perhaps the Artist’s Son Titus, and the National Trust’s recently re-attributed Self-portrait wearing a White Feathered Bonnet – will demonstrate how stylistically different works can be attributed to the same artist.
8 November 2016 – 5 March 2017
A Dulwich Christmas
Dulwich Winterlights
After dark the Gallery will light up and come to life for an experience like no other, the perfect way to spend a winter’s evening!
Enjoy spectacular lighting across the front of the Gallery’s historic building as well as a winter lights trail around the grounds. Create your very own festive family photo at a giant magical frame in the grounds, visit the enchanted cottage where Christmas storytelling* awaits and listen to choirs as they delight your ears with seasonal song.
Wrap up warm and enjoy mulled cider, hot chocolate and other festive treats from our Christmas Cabin and other vendors on-site.
6 – 18 December (Tuesday to Sunday)
6 – 10pm £12/£14; £10/£12 Friends; £7/£8 Children; £40 Family (2 Adults, 2 Children)
*Storytelling is an additional £3 per child. Time slots booked online.
Artisan Christmas Market
Wander the pathways of the Gallery’s beautiful grounds and browse over fifty high-quality stalls selling handmade crafts, jewellery, local produce and lots more. Stock up on Christmas presents and then take a break to indulge in some warming mulled cider or hot chocolate as you soak up the lively atmosphere.
Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 December
Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 December
10am – 5pm (Free) 6 – 10pm (included in your ticket to Dulwich Winterlights)
Family Events
Christmas Printing
with artist Francesca Centioni
Sunday 18 December
2 – 4pm
Free with Gallery Ticket
Gallery Stories
Selected Sundays of every month. Participate in interactive storytelling in the main gallery. Please meet the storyteller at the gallery ticket desk.
Sunday 11 December
Two sessions per day, 2.30pm & 3.10pm.
Free with Gallery ticket
Lectures & Talks
Taking Liberties: Contextual Lecture Series
The series will explore some of the most challenging issues facing the UK and world today, from free speech to equal rights to mass-surveillance. Expect informed debate and critical insight from a renowned panel of speakers.
Magna Carta and the Fight for Freedom
Thursday 13 December
10.30 – 11.30am
£12, £10 Friends
Gallery Film
Each sociable evening includes a complimentary glass of wine, snacks and film notes
Bar opens at 7.00pm
Screenings at 7.30pm
Linbury Room
£9; £7 Friends
Carmen Jones
Oscar Hammerstein’s 1954 contemporary version of the Bizet opera, starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.
Monday 12 December
Practical Art
For Adults:
Elements of a Dutch Seascape
Each week we will consider a different seascape in the Gallery’s collection and focus on the different elements in each scene. Throughout the course you will create your own seascapes using a variety of scale and media. With artist Jo Lewis
Five Tuesdays from 15 November – 13 December
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150; £145 Friends & Concessions
Creative Mosaics
Learn to cut and assemble ceramic and glass tiles, as well as selected elements from old decorative plates and cups, to make unique wall pieces. During this course we will consider line, pattern, colour and texture to create finished and mounted works. We will look to blue and white Delft style pottery to help inform the design and style of our artworks. Students will be required to collect and bring old china to include in their mosaics. With artist Jo Veevers
Five Mondays from 14 November – 19 December (no class on 21 November)
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150; £145 Friends & Concessions
Off the Wall
Discuss, debate and have your say in creative sessions led by you!
This workshop provides an opportunity for young people to work with a professional artist and engage in lively discussions and debate that challenge perceptions of what galleries are and who they are for. Working together, participants will explore the Gallery’s collection and its universal themes such as power, love, inequality and war whilst addressing what is going on in the world around us.
Saturday 17 December
2 – 4pm
Free
To book your place contact Emma Hollamby – [email protected] / 020 8299 8753 /
You can book tickets to all forthcoming events online at www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
