Strawberry Hill House & Garden - Online Activities Coming Up

 

Online Activities Coming Up Dear Supporter, Over the next few weeks, we have a range of online activities to get involved with. Starting this Thursday 19 November, we will launch a series of online talks as part of the 10 Year Anniversary celebrations to mark the restoration of Strawberry Hill House. The talks cover many of the activities and developments that have taken place over the past ten years, including our ​very successful Lost Treasures exhibition. More details can be found below and on our 'What's On' page. Festive online workshops will be taking place. Our friends at the DécorCafé, are running an Online Christmas Festival, with proceeds from the workshops kindly going towards our Outreach projects. On Saturday 12 December, we are partnering up again with Floral Artists Leigh Chappell and Jane Ford, who are running their fabulous wreath making workshop online this year - as always, the workshop is hugely popular! Finally, last week we launched our Digital Letters Library, with over 250 people responding to our 'Write to Horace' letter writing campaign, the catalogue shares our writers unique observations and experiences during this time. Read the letters on our website. Thank you for your ongoing support, The Strawberry Hill House Team Online Talk: Revisiting the Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill, with Co-curator, Silvia Davoli 19 November 2020 at 6pm - 7pm The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill, ran from October 2018 – February 2019. Over 150 objects from Horace Walpole’s famous and unique collection were reunited in the house for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.  Co-curator Silvia Davoli, discusses Horace Walpole’s collection, one of the most important of the 18th century and the journey in sleuthing for his lost treasures. Standard Adult Ticket: £8  Patrons & Members: Free Book Now Online Event: DecorCafe online Christmas Festival 24 - 26 November 2020  The DécorCafé has collaborated with Strawberry Hill House for the past five years to run the Christmas Festival, this year, as we cannot run the Festival at the House the DécorCafé team are running their own online event. The team are generously sharing their skills and ideas through a series of festive workshops, with donations raised going to the House. Book Now Online Talk: The Painted Glass of Strawberry Hill House, with Carole Tucker & Nevil Tomlinson 26 November 2020 at 6pm - 7pm One of the glories of Strawberry Hill House is its windows embellished with an eclectic range of painted and stained glass. Much of the glass is Flemish dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Carole will look at this glass; its history and some of the stories it tells, followed by Nevil who will explore the armorial glass and how Horace Walpole commissioned new works to create his family history. Standard Adult Ticket: £8  Patrons & Members: Free Book Now Online Talk: Restoring Horace Walpole’s ‘little gothic castle’, with Michael Snodin and Carole Patey 2 December 2020 at 6pm - 7pm 10 Years since its restoration, Michel Snodin and Carole Patey, both Trustees in 2010 and central figures in the restoration, discuss the hurdles and triumphs in restoring Horace Walpole’s inspirational ‘little gothic castle’. Standard Adult Ticket: £8             Patrons & Members: Free Book Now Online Workshop: Christmas Wreath Making 12 December 2020 at 10:30am - 12:30pm Strawberry Hill's popular sustainable wreath making workshop is back this year, but it's going online! Join Floral designers Leigh Chappell and Janne Ford for a step by step lesson on how to make your wreath with the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the session. Standard Adult Ticket: £28 Member and Patron Ticket: £25 Book Now