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Events at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
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HISTORY REWRITTEN: POST REVOLUTIONARY GRAFITTI IN CAIRO Date: 2 May | Time: 5.30pm-6.30pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free drop in event | Age group: ANY | Soraya Morayef -Journalist and blogger from Cairo, will introduce images of of street art in Egypt after the revolution before focusing specifically on the artist Alaa Awad, who made magnificent murals that replicated ancient Egyptian temple murals and symbols, yet changed some elements to make them more relevant to the political events unfolding in Egypt over the past two years.
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TIMEKEEPER WORKSHOP: ALTERNATIVE CV-WRITING Date: 4 May | Time: Workshop starts 2-4pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free but booking essential http://alternativecv.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: ANY | Museum timelines, Facebook’s timeline format and the traditional CV all represent the past as a line of events. But do they really represent time as it is lived? Do they too often edit out the events that count most? By modelling what life should look like, do they even shape what it is to be human? In response, can we reinvent the CV form so that it liberates our thinking and helps us respond better to future challenges? Join Petrie’s Timekeeper Cathy Haynes to find out how artists and thinkers have subverted the linear life map in the past, and spend the afternoon experimenting with inventing better ways of mapping your life.
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THE GORGON Date: 9 May | Time: Doors open at 6pm talk and film start at 6.15pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free but booking at http://gorgon.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: 12 and over | Join us in unique ancient world surroundings to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of actor Peter Cushing's birth for a screening of this classic Hammer Film. Ancient evil and early twentieth century science collide as Cushing battles both Christopher Lee's archaeology professor and the baleful gaze of the Gorgon herself. Introduced by John J. Johnston.
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TOMB RAIDERS Date: 14 -30 May 2013 | Time: Tues-Sat 1-5pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free drop in exhibition | Age group: ANY | An exhibition from the students at Central St Martin's UAL working in response to the Petrie Collection. Petrie may be described as the founder of modern archaeology, developing mehtods and techniques still emplyed today and, in so doing, attaching value to objects of daily use in order to better inform our understnading of the lives of the ancient individuals who uilised thse artefacts.
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TOMB RAIDERS Date: 16 May | Time: Doors open at 6pm presentation starts at 6.30pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free but booking essential at http://tombraiders.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: ANY | An opening event to mark an exhibition from the students at Central St Martin's UAL working in response to the Petrie Collection. Students will be on hand to present their work, offering a chance to talk to them and view the exhibition with drinks.
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IT'S ELEMENTAL! UCL MUSEUMS TREASURE HUNT Date: 17 May | Time: 6:30-8:30pm | Location: Chadwick lecture theatre, Chadwick Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Adults | Hunt up a storm of objects related to the four elements in UCL Museums. Solve the clues to discover the rocks formed in the fires of the planet, the animals that glide through the air, the treasures dug from the earth and the water(colours) of art. There are prizes to be won by the team who solves and collects all the elements and locates every artifact required from art, geology, Egyptian archaeology and zoology. The event is followed by a free drinks reception and a private view of the Grant Museum of Zoology. This event is part of Museums at Night and is free, there is no need to book.
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STATUS, LUXURY AND CELEBRITY- ANCIENT EGYPT THROUGH A NIGHT OF PERFUME EXPLORATION Date: 23 May | Time: Doors open at 6pm and event start at 6.30pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free but booking essential at http://odetteperfume.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: ANY | Take a trip back to Ancient Egypt and relive the Pharaoh's time with fragrance expert Odette Toilette and Archaeologist and aromatherapist Sian O'Flynn. Find out which incense was so favoured for importing by Queen Hatshepsut and match the perfumes to Egyptian personalities with nose on activity !
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Date: 8 June | Time: 1.30- 4pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: Free but places limited to 12 booking essential at http://artefact.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: 18+ | Be inspired by one of the many ojects in an object handling session in the Petrie Collection to write a short story led by writer and journalist and former BBC scriptwriter Lucy Blincoe with an introduction to Egyptian writing by PHd researcher Max Pinarello.
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TIMEKEEPER IN RESIDENCE INSTALLATION Date: 11 June - 2 August | Time: Tues -Sat 1-5pm | Location: The Petrie Museum | Price: FREE | Age group: ANY | Petrie's temporary Timekeeper's installtion explores the many different ideas from across history and culture about what time is and how to picture it.
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TIMEKEEPER IN RESIDENCE Date: 22 June | Time: 1-4pm | Location: Wilkins Roof Garden | Price: Free drop in | Age group: ANY | Mark the turn of the year with seasonal rites on Wilkins roof garden in celebration of the temporary Timekeeper installation in the Petrie Museum.
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PETRIE'S SET: A WALKING TOUR EGYPTOLOGICAL BLOOMSBURY Date: 6 July | Time: Starts at the Petrie Museum at 12noon and ends at around 2pm at The Petrie Museum. | Price: Free and places limited so booking essential at http://petriewalk.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: 18 + | Join Egyptologist John J Johnston as he takes you around the regular haunts of Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and his fascinataing academic circle during the 'Golden Age' of British Egyptology where you will be introduced to tales of the Egyptologists who lived and worked in Bloomsbury between 1882 and 1933.
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