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Thursday, 30 June 2011
Alice’s Day - A brillig day of stuff and nonsense to entertain little and big alike!
Oxfordshire will come alive with topsy turvy antics as July 9th brings the fourth successful year of Alice’s Day, celebrating the summers afternoon when Oxford don, Lewis Carroll, told Alice Liddell the fantastic tale that became Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This year’s city-wide celebration is set to be a frabjous day of family fun at more than a dozen popular and historic venues.
Create
Show your creative side at these workshops across the city.
Between 1 and 4pm at the Ashmolean, take part in hat making fit for the hatter himself, and create Red Queen inspired crowns at the Museum of Oxford between 10.30 and 5.30. Blackwell’s bookshop is offering a day of Alice-themed fun and activities, including nonsense verse writing and illustration sessions. Between 2 and 4pm at the Museum of the History of Science learn about the processes behind early photography, explore the museum with a camera and even create your very own Alice’s album.
Film your own stop-motion animation at StopMoGo’s wondrous animated tea party. You will make teacups appear to dance, bizarre teapots pour in unusual ways and cakes appear by magic! You can then watch your animation played back to you at the end.
Join the authors of Everything Alice at Oxford Castle between 11.00 and 2.00pm and make a Cheshire Cat or White Rabbit Mask inspired by the brand new book, and later at Waterstones between 3.00 and 4.30pm where you can create your very own giant rose light.
Join Creation Theatre Company at the Museum of Oxford for a two hour workshop from 10.00am and create your own short Alice performance, and later at Oxford Castle. Creation’s youth theatre groups will be holding smaller afternoon workshops with performances and games, again at the Museum of Oxford.
Explore
This year will see the launch of a Snark Hunt Geocache, a high-tech hide and sneak where, using just a list of coordinates and a GPS tracking device you can locate secret capsules hidden all over the city, more information and coordinates available from our website.
Head to the Discovery Zone at Science Oxford and try to solve the trail of Wonderland challenges and Mad Hatter riddles between 1 and 5pm. Explore the Ashmolean with an Alice tea party and rabbit trails all over the museum, between and 1 and 4pm.
Watch and Listen
Join the characters of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic for your very own Wonderland adventure, sit back while Alice delights you with her tales and play hide and seek with a very curious White Rabbit as the Scandalmongers present topsy-turvy antics in the courtyard of the future Story Museum from 10.30am. Expect the surreal and the absurd (and an accordion!) from Xanthe Gresham’s teacup of tales, again in the Story Museum courtyard from 11.15am.
Let storyteller Peter Chand take you on a magical carpet journey to faraway places inspired by the adventures of Alice, at the Ashmolean 11.00am and 12.00 am, and in the Bodleian Quad at 1.00pm. Join the Queen of Heart’s, and bring your own picnic, for an unbirthday tea party at the Natural History Museum, where everyone can be an Alice or an Alistair for the day, at 11.00am, 12.15pm and 1.30pm.
Join in promenade performances with Under Construction Theatre Company at the Oxford Castle, as they bring Oxford as Wonderland to life on a walking tour with a difference, with the characters from history that inspired Lewis Carroll, leaving every half hour from 1.00pm.
For full information and times see the Story Museum website.
