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WinterLight Festival |
Exhibitions
Journeys
and Explorations: Objects From New Worlds
ON NOW until
21 December
A display of GCSE artwork made by pupils of Larkmead
School, Abingdon, in response to the displays at the
Museum.
Venue: Museum of
the History of Science, Broad Street (next to
Sheldonian)
Tel: 01865
277280, www.mhs.ox.ac.uk
Open: Tues-Fri: 12.00 - 17.00; Sat: 10.00 - 17.00;
Sun: 14.00 - 17.00
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EVENTS
AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY
VIVIAN
RIDLER’S CHRISTMAS CARD COLLECTION
ON NOW to
24 December
A fascinating selection of Christmas cards sent by
artists to Vivian Ridler, printer to the Oxford University
Press over a period of 60 years.
HALLELUJAH!
THE BRITISH CHORAL TRADITION
ON NOW to
25 April 2009
The Bodleian Library winter exhibition
ranges over a thousand years of music making, especially
celebrating four composers with anniversaries in 2009
– Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, all
with links to the British choral scene. Local choral
foundations and choral societies are also featured.
Highlights from the Bodleian’s own collection
include the 13th-century Worcester Fragments,
Handel’s conducting score of Messiah,
and autographs of Purcell, Mendelssohn, Elgar, Vaughan
Williams, Walton and Maxwell Davies. Eton College
has lent the famous Choirbook, and the British Library
its score of the Tallis 40-part motet, and autographs
of Tippett (A Child of Our Time) and Britten
(War Requiem).
Venue: Bodleian
Library Exhibition Room,
Old Schools Quadrangle (entrance via Catte Street),
Oxford.
Open weekdays 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-4.30pm. Free entry.
Info: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/about/exhibitions
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CONNECTIONS:
PEOPLE AND PLACES:
OXFORDSHIRE'S
LINKS TO SLAVERY & THE SLAVE TRADE
11
January – 3 February
Based on
shocking new research, this new exhibition, curated
and researched by historian Anne Louise Avery, represents
the first examination of Oxfordshire's connections
to the Transatlantic slave trade.
It overturns the broadly held assumption that no such
links existed; that the long and complex history of
British involvement in African slavery was entirely
set in the bustling ports of Bristol or London.
Venue: The
Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock. Tel. 01993 814103
Free admission.
Opening
hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 2-5pm.
Closed Mondays. Last admission 4.45pm.
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