PAUL COLDWELL: PRINTMAKING AT THE SLADE IN THE 1970s

Date: Wednesday 25 November 2009 | Time: 1.00-2.00pm
Location: Strang Print Room, South Cloisters
Price: Free | Age group: Adult

020 7679 2540 | college.art@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

THE WOLFMAN (1941) ON THE BIG SCREEN

Date: Thursday 26 November 2009 | Time: 6.30pm
Location: Christopher Ingold Auditorium, 20 Gordon Street
Price: Free | Age group: Family activities

Set in a fog-bound Wales, The Wolf Man tells the doom-laden tale of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), who returns to the estate of his wealthy father (Claude Rains). Bitten by a werewolf, Talbot suffers the classic fate of the victims of lycanthropy: at the full moon, he transforms into the very same beast. Dr Joe Cain, UCL Historian of Science will introduce the film, and afterwards a free glass of wine will be served in a private view of the Museum.

020 7679 2647 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

WORKERS AND/OR ARCHAEOLOGISTS: IN CONVERSATION

Date: Thursday 26 November 2009
Location: The Petrie Museum, Malet Place
Price: Free, Pre-book| Age group: Adult

Stephen Quirke, Curator of the Petrie Museum, talks about his recent research on the Egyptians who worked with Petrie on the archaeological excavations from the 1880s to the 1920s. He will look at how integral they were to Petrie’s work in Egypt and how the workers themselves have been lost from the landscape of the history of archaeology.

020 7679 4138 | d.challis@ucl.ac.uk

SOCK IT! MAKING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SOCKS FROM SCRATCH

Date: Saturday 28 November 2009 | Time: 11.30am-13.20pm
Location: The Petrie Museum, Malet Place
Price: Free, Pre-book | Age group: Adult

Over the next 5 months we are attempting to make two-toed ancient Egyptian socks from scratch in the museum. Today we go carding and spinning. We will try out two methods of spinning - rolling along the thigh and free spinning. There will be a brief introductory session!

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020 7679 4138 | d.challis@ucl.ac.uk

GREET WITH ART: MAKING SEASONAL CARDS

Date: Saturday 5 December 2009 | Time: 2.00-5.00pm
Location: Strang Print Room, South Cloisters
Price: Free, Pre-book | Age group: All ages welcome

Inspired by the Slade collection of greeting cards by artists such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton, create some original cards in time for the holiday season.


020 7679 4138 | d.challis@ucl.ac.uk

ADVENTURES OF A FOSSIL COLLECTOR

Date: Tuesday 8 December 2009 | Time: 6.30pm
Location: JZ Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building
Price: Free | Age group: Family activities

Geologists, like cats, have nine lives. Over the last 40 years, Richard Fortey has used up 8 of his in collecting trilobites around the world. In this lecture, he will describe some of his many adventures and misadventures in the cause of discovering and describing new species, in order to reach a better understanding of the Ordovician world and how to date it. Richard Fortey was a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum until his retirement in 2006. Following the lecture, there will be a drinks reception and a private view of the Museum. This event is free and there is no need to book.

020 7679 2647 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN JOURNEY

Date: Thursday 17 December 2009 | Time: 6.30pm
Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building
Price: Free | Age group: All ages

Who are we and where do we come from? Genetics, archaeology and fossils come together to provide some answers. Amazingly, we can all trace our ancestry back to Africa, where our species appeared around 200,000 years ago. Dr Alice Roberts, presenter of the BBC series, tracks the ancient migrations that took our ancestors to the corners of Earth: through stones, bones and genes, the story of our incredible human journey unfolds.

Following the lecture, there will be a drinks reception and a private view of the Museum. This event is free and there is no need to book.

020 7679 2647 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk

FRAMING THE ARCHAEOLOGIST: PORTRAITS & EXCAVATIONS

Date: Til Saturday 19 December 2009 | Time: Tue-Fri, 1-5pm & Sat 11am-2pm Location: The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Price: Free | Age group: Adult

This exhibition displays images of the people who worked on the excavations led by Flinders Petrie in Egypt, from formalised portraits of Petrie himself to the un-named and named members of the 'workforce'. A display of two portraits of Petrie in the pottery gallery puts them in context of the portraiture traditions of representing the archaeologist / antiquary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A second section displays 20 photographs from within the Petrie archive of different members of the excavation teams.

020 7679 4138 | d.challis@ucl.ac.uk

A TRIBUTE TO BARTOLOMEU SANTOS

Date: Til 22 December 2009 | Time: Mon-Fri 1.00-5.00pm
Location: Strang Print Room, South Cloisters
Price: Free | Age group: Any

This exhibition shows a selection of the prints of Bartolomeu dos Santos (1931-2008) to commemorate his long association with the Slade and UCL as a student in the 1950s and as a teacher and Professor of Printmaking from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996.

It will include early nudes, still-lifes and cityscapes made as a Slade student in the 1950s, and a series of spectacular imaginary architectural constructions from the 1970s inspired by the work of Piranesi and Jorge Luis Borges. More light-hearted works include menus and invitations to Slade parties from the 1990s.

CHRISTMAS CREATURES

Date: 22 & 23 December 2009 | Time: 1.00-5.00pm
Location: The Grant Museum of Zoology
Price: Free, Drop-in | Age group: Family activities

How do Arctic animals cope with the cold? Do penguins shiver and why don’t the fish freeze? From mountains to icebergs, and glaciers to tundra the Grant Museum’s specimen-based hands-on activities investigate the world’s snow-bound beasts. Interactive games will also look at ice-age animals and what will happen if all our ice melts.

This event is free and there is no need to book.

020 7679 2647 | zoology.museum@ucl.ac.uk