Burgh House - What's On this Spring

 

What's On this Spring? Good afternoon from a very blustery Hampstead. In our last newsletter we wondered if it was too early to say that we could feel Spring in the air... Perhaps we spoke a little too soon. However, we are continuing to look forward to the Spring and to all of the events and exhibitions we have planned. We are just about to send our new Spring What's On Guide to the printers and will have these dotted around the House and mailed out to all of our members in the next couple of weeks. We're excited for you to see a What's On Guide chocablock with exhibitions, talks, concerts, workshops and even a chess tournament! In the meantime, a selection of those events are listed in this week's newsletter, and more information and tickets are available on the What's On page on our website (link below). We will also be sending out new membership keyrings to all our members that will be valid for the rest of 2022 so keep an eye out for those in the post. They will still provide you with a discount in our shop, café and with special event offers. If you are not a member of Burgh House and would like to support us, there is still time to do so before we send out our newly-designed keyrings. Please follow the link below for more information.

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Final Weeks - Knots: Jonny Briggs x Burgh House

Jonny Briggs' experimental exhibition is coming to an end on Sunday, 6th March. The exhibition has proven to be extremely popular will a diverse range of visitors and we are glad that you have enjoyed it and found it both thought-provoking and intriguing. This exhibition has been the first of its kind here at Burgh House and we're over the moon with how our visitors have responded to it. If you would like to see it again, or haven't yet had the chance, be sure to pop in for a visit before it closes. To round off the exhibition, we have two events which will give an insight into Jonny's work. Tickets for both events are available in the links below. Family Workshop with Jonny Briggs  Sunday 27th February, 11:00am-12:30pm Put on your surrealist hat with this creative workshop inspired and led by artist Jonny Briggs. Families will enjoy a tour through his artwork and will have the chance to make their own creations in response to our exhibition. This activity is suitable for children 5 and over, children must be accompanied by an adult. Advance booking is required. Knots: Behind the Scenes Q&A Sunday 27th February, 1:30pm Join artist Jonny Briggs and curator Nicola Baird for informal insights into the origins and development of the exhibition, Burgh House's first collaboration with a contemporary artist. Conceived as an intervention, the exhibition reflects not only on Briggs' own family history set within a pine forest in rural England, but also on the human history of Burgh House and its past inhabitants, deconstructing the artist's past and reconstructing it in the context of another home.

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The Map is not the Territory: A Psychogeographical Evening with Geoff Nicholson and Travis Elborough Wednesday, 9th March 2022, 6:30pm

First published by J G Ballard in the legendary counter-cultural art and literary magazine Ambit, Geoff Nicholson is the author of over twenty books, including the acclaimed novels Bleeding London, Gravity's Volkswagen and The City Under the Skin and such classics of psychogeographical non-fiction as The Lost Art of Walking and Walking in Ruins, saluted by the Los Angeles Review of Books for doing 'for perambulation what Robert Burton did for dejection in The Anatomy of Melancholy'. Acclaimed by the Guardian as 'one of the country's 'finest pop culture historians', Travis Elborough is the award-winning author of A Walk in the Park, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, Atlas of Vanishing Places and Atlas of Forgotten Places. Join them for an evening celebrating maps, memory, place, ruins and the pleasures of putting one foot in front of another and getting lost in urban and, indeed, suburban spaces.

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John Burningham: An illustrated life Wed 9 Feb - Sun 4 Sept 2022

This is a model made by illustrator and author John Burningham of the magical car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Burningham was asked to illustrate the story by its author, Ian Fleming, who also wrote the James Bond novels. ⁠ ⁠ In his autobiography, Burningham wrote: 'One of the problems I had in the illustration was how to make the car fly in the way it does in the story. I got round this by making a model of the car and suspending it from the ceiling on a fishing line. Then I took photos of the car from many different angles.'⁠ You can see this model, and many other original pieces, in this fantastic exhibition.

Alan Reid Folk Concert  Thursday, 7th April 2022, 6:30pm

lan Reid has performed Scottish folk music all over the world since 1975. He joined Battlefield Band in 1969, recording almost 30 albums with this influential, innovative and enduring Celtic band while garnering plaudits for his original keyboard work and song writing both strong in storytelling and firmly rooted in the Scots folk tradition. In 2010 he left the band to concentrate on his duo with singer/guitarist Rob van Sante, recording a further 5 albums and continuing to tour worldwide. Now solo, Alan is delighted to bring to Burgh House his engaging concert featuring songs from his long career.

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Coming Soon - John Cecil Stephenson: A Modernist in Hampstead  Wed 30 March - Sun 18 September 2022

John Cecil Stephenson was an artist, craftsman, and engineer. He lived and worked at Mall Studios in Hampstead from 1919 until 1965, a neighbour and friend to celebrated modernists including Hepworth, Nicholson, Mondrian and Calder. Stephenson was a steadfast part of Hampstead's artistic community and we are delighted to be able to once again show his works in Hampstead, including many that are being displayed in public for the first time. This exhibition is in collaboration with Liss Llewellyn.

Burgh House Chess Tournament  Sunday, 10th April 2022

The tournament will be set up as a “Swiss Format”, which means that this is not a knockout style, you get 6 games of chess! The top board will then be broadcast live on the internet and on the projector screen in the Music Room. On the day, the tournament will provide: International tournament standard tournament chess clocks Boards Sets Scoresheets and pens provided for the event courtesy of Chessable.com International Arbiter for the event is Adam Raoof of www.chessengland.com, former England Olympiad Team Captain and World Championship Candidates Referee Prizes include: 3 x Burgh House membership Chess equipment from Chess and Bridge Baker Street

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