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Lifelines with Piers Plowright
Thursday 1 March
7pm for 7.30pm
With the Lifelines series at Burgh House spanning beyond 20 years, it has gained a great reputation for its personal andinsightful style, thanks to the sheer excellence of the interviewers as well as interviewees. Legendary BBC broadcaster and producer Piers Plowright has been questioning and obtaining delightful stories from all his guests over the years. It is, therefore, only fitting for Piers to be in the spotlight himself, by popular demand, and with a great new interviewer, Clare Lynch, to shine light on his truly wonderful career. Tickets £12 (£10 FoBH & u25s) plus an additional buffet of cheese, charcuterie and nibbles with wine after the talk for £12. Tickets available here or by calling 020 7431 0144
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An Underground Adventure
Sunday 4 March
12 - 2pm
Someone has been robbed on the Tube! Help the British Transport Police to find and return all the missing items. A drop-in activity suitable for ages five and over.
FREE
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The Making of an Englishman:
Fred Uhlman, a Retrospective
Wed 24 January - Sun 27 May
The Making of an Englishman is the first UK retrospective of Uhlman’s work in 50 years and the first exhibition of the artist’s work in Hampstead, where he lived for many years and was so influential in establishing a refugee community. The exhibition brings together paintings and drawings dating from 1928 to 1971, most notably a selection of early Mediterranean scenes, a number of drawings executed whilst in internment on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, loaned from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Welsh landscapes for which he became well known. The exhibition will also include previously unseen archival material and objects of his personal collection including a number of items from Uhlman’s 72-piece collection of African sculpture, the majority of which is now on permanent display at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, as well as representations of the artist by celebrated Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, fellow Hampstead resident Milein Cosman, Polish-Jewish painter and printmaker Jankel Adler and sculptress of luminaries Karin Jonzen.
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Hampstead Music Club: Baroque Evening
Tuesday 6 March
8.05pm
A vocal and instrumental evening with club members performing music from the Baroque era.
Suggested donation £3.
For more details contact Dulcie Onway on 020 7272 7845.
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Middlesex University Singers' Ensemble
Wednesday 7 March
7pm
Join the Middlesex University Singers’ Ensemble as they celebrate the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth in a programme of songs and instrumental pieces by Bernstein and composers who have been inspired by his compositions.
Un-ticketed, free admission, but charitable donations welcomed.
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Solarek Piano Trio: The Schumann/Brahms Triangle
Sunday 11 March
2pm
The Solarek Piano Trio present an hour of romantic piano trios. Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasiestücke two years after marrying his beloved Clara Wieck in 1840. This is followed by the beautiful Andante from Clara Schumann’s piano trio of 1846 written whilst pregnant with her fourth child. Some intriguing readings from letters between Clara and Johannes Brahms will precede the third piece: Brahms’ C Minor Trio. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions) on the door, or by emailing solarek@btinternet.com
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Laura Beaumont: The Cut
Wed 14 - Sun 18 March
Exhibited around a moving installation, The Cut will feature a range of limited edition prints. These explore the worlds that Laura has created using the pre-existing media of antiquarian books. By simultaneously deconstructing and reconstructing, she fashions small dioramas within the pages. The absurd, the comic and the ironic; scandals, traumas and sorrows are all depicted using small figures in miniature tableaux. www.laurabeaumontartist.com
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The Tyler Ugboma Trio
Sunday 18 March
2pm
The Tyler Ugboma Trio - Esi Ugboma (clarinet), Elizabeth Dockrell-Tyler (piano) and Marianne Tyler Brown (cello) make their first appearance at Burgh House. The trio will explore works from Beethoven, selected works from Max Bruch's wonderful and poetic Eight Pieces and Bach's suite for solo cello in D minor and concert pieces for Trio. Tickets £12 (children free) www.mariannetylerbrown.com
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Walking in the Steps of Fred Uhlman
Sunday 25 March
10am
Marilyn Greene will be leading a free walk inspired by artist Fred Uhlman, retracing his artistic and personal experiences of Hampstead. Meet at Burgh House at 10am. Includes before-hours view of the current exhibition, The Making of an Englishman: Fred Uhlman, A Retrospective. More information available at www.burghhouse.org.uk or by calling 020 7431 0144 FREE
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Alexander Debenham
Wed 28 March - Sun 8 April
Alexander was trained in Florence under Charles H. Cecil. This exhibition brings together a collection of portraiture, still life and landscape paintings, inspired by 18th century British and 17th century Dutch artists. www.alexanderdebenham.com
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London Bird Club
Thursday 29 March
6.30pm
Nirosh Perera will speak about of his adventures to the hill country, the wet zones rainforests, and the dry zones of the north and south, to photograph Sri Lanka’s colourful birds. He will also showcase the fruits of his ‘passionate labour’ – the many photographs and the paintings! Entry £2 (free for under-18s and students) More information available here.
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Talia LeHavi: Japanese Calligraphy
Fridays 2, 9, 16, 23 March
12:45pm
The practice of Japanese ink painting echoes the way of the heart. In this short course students will learn to paint, using traditional Japanese brushes, ink and fine paper the ‘Four Princes of Ink’, known as bamboo, plum blossom, wild orchids and chrysanthemum. More details and booking here.
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Object of the Month
Wednesday 28 Feb – Sunday 1 April
London Underground Map (1931) by F. H. Stingemore
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Poetry and Hampstead
Wed 10 January - Sun 11 March
A capsule first-floor landing exhibition.
Hampstead has been, for upwards of 200 years, a crucible of creative development and discourse. A home to the avant-garde, liberal and intellectual, its original village status has morphed over the years to become a more urban space, yet still preserving within the lush open expanses of parkland and quiet streets a lingering memory of the past. This new exhibition, curated by work experience student
Molly Garnett, examines the ways these two phenomena - the outside landscape and the interior workings of the poet - have combined over the years to yield much of what has been celebrated in the English language in recent centuries.
As one of Hampstead’s most famous
literary residents, John Keats, wrote,
“The poetry of the earth is never dead”.
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Seascapes and Waterways: Moving Emotions
Wed 21 February - Sun 4 March
Waterways and seas are a fascination for most of us, whether one views them as places of beauty or menace, sites of pleasures or work, places to live or visit - they evoke emotion in us all. In this exhibition six artists with very individual styles illustrate what they see when they look at the coastlines and waterways they visit. Whatever emotion moving water stirs in you, it is likely to be represented in these stunning paintings. A collective exhibition including the work of Tony Foster, Tony Hatt, Tom Marsh, Archie Prentice, Jill Tattersall and Loraine Wilson. www.ecclestoneartagency.com
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Belinda Harding: I paint what I see, and I make what I feel
Wed 7- Sun 11 March
A retrospective exhibition of the work of Belinda Salmon Harding, showing the amazing breadth and depth of her artistic talents, from simple sketch books to large three-dimensional work in cast glass. More information here.
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Hampstead Music Club: Dorian Ford
Tuesday 13 March
8.05pm
Hampstead Music Club present pianist and composer Dorian Ford, with Salon Japan music ranging from the surrealism of Satie to the complex impressions of the late 1970s Bill Evans compositions. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions). Contact Claire on 020 7272 3903 for more details.
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A Totally Preposterous Parson: Evelyn Waugh and Basil Bourchier
Wed 14 March - Sun 24 June
Evelyn Waugh, the distinguished 20th century writer, grew up in North End Road, on the boundary between Golders Green and Hampstead. With his father, the publisher Arthur Waugh, he attended the newly opened church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, and came under the influence of its flamboyant and outspoken young vicar, Basil Bourchier. In later life, and after he had become a Roman Catholic, Waugh ridiculed Bourchier, calling him a "totally preposterous parson". This small landing exhibition curated by Reverend Alan Walker, seeks to reconsider their relationship and rediscover a local clergyman who performed on the national stage.
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Hampstead Music Club: Piano Masterclass
Tuesday 20 March
8.05pm
A piano masterclass lead by Emillie
Capulet, Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music.
Suggested donation £3, for more information please contact Masa Tayama on 07768520352.
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African Figures
Sunday 25 March
11am - 12.30pm
Inspired by Fred Uhlman’s collection of African artefacts, join us for a clay modelling workshop, exploring African patterns and figures. Suitable for ages five and over. £5 per child, available here.
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Life-Drawing Workshop
Sunday 25 March
1 - 3pm
What can be more therapeutic than a wonderful life-drawing class in our beautiful Music Room on a Sunday Afternoon, just up the stairs from the Buttery Café’s lovely tea, coffee, cakes and Sunday roasts? Precisely what we thought! Under the expert tuition of artist Rea Stavropoulos, there are only limited places available. £8 per person including a tea/coffee voucher for our café. Book tickets here or give us a call on 020 7431 0144 .
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Burgh House & Hampstead Museum open
Wed - Fri & Sun
12noon - 5pm
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Buttery Cafe open
Wed - Fri
10am - 5pm
Sat - Sun
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