Friday, 9 July 2010
- 9th July 2010 Events
- Meadows full of brightly-coloured wildflowers and butterflies were once a familiar sight in Cumbria. Today these glorious displays are few and far between. But Cumbria still has a variety of spectacular wildflower grasslands from coastal dune and marsh, to upland hay meadow. This collaborative...Date : 24th April 2010 - 9th July 2010
Location : Tullie House Special Exhibitions Gallery - Upcoming Events
- Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled With Jackie Cooper, B.sc.(Hons) MNIMH Herbal medicine is the most widely practiced form of medicine in the world. This introductory day will start with a Herb Walk in Bitts Park (weather permitting) to identify some of the local herbs,...Date : 11th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseUnfortunately this workshop has been cancelled With Rob Fraser This workshop is for those who are familiar with their cameras and want to improve their skills. We will meet at Tullie House for a short presentation by the tutor, before taking a trip to the east side of...Date : 11th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseCome along and join us in our Family Friendly drop-in sessions to mark the end of an enchanting exhibition, make a toadstool home to keep a fairy warm over winter!Date : 12th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseDir: Stephen Soderbergh, Spain/France/USA, 2008, 135 mins. With Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro and Benicio Del Toro It is 1967 and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight the ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia. With few troops, limited...Date : 13th September 2010 7 45 pm - 10 00 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreOur Family Friendly Sundays are a great way to explore our collections and exhibitions in fun and imaginative ways. Join us for this drop-in session and learn which animals hibernate at this time of year and create your own cute creature!Date : 19th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseThe White Ribbon (Das weisse Band-Eine deutsche Kinderschite) (15) Dir: Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy, 2009, 144 mins. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi and Leonie Benesch Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany is a superb and disturbing film described as...Date : 20th September 2010 7 45 pm - 10 25 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreWith Clive Holmes Sunday 26 September Learning to Accept Learn how to overcome resistances to the truth and see how it is not only acceptance that is so helpful but also the way we accept. Saturday 16 October Cultivating Kindness We can be so driven and restless,...Date : 26th September 2010 12 00 pm - 5 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Paul Nichol Autumn is a lovely season for walking, and is the best time to look for wild mushrooms and toadstools. In this weekend workshop you will explore woodlands and find, collect and identify a wide range of fungi, from delightful edible types to those best left alone. No...Date : 25th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 26th September 2010 12 00 pm - 4 30 pm
Location : Tullie HouseTo celebrate World Architecture Day, join Rod Hughes of 2030 architects ltd., and construct your own craftwork in our family friendly drop-in session.Date : 26th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseDir: Sophie Barthes, USA/France, 2009, 101 mins. With Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn and Dina Korzun In this amusing, intelligent and superbly-acted film, Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, a troubled actor agonising over his current stage role in ‘Uncle Vanya’. To...Date : 27th September 2010 7 45 pm - 9 45 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreJoin artists and wordsmiths Sowerby and George to make up and illustrate your own rhyme as part of the Big Draw and National Poetry Day. Our family friendly drop-in sessions are fun and exciting.Date : 3rd October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseMid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto) (U) Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008, 75 mins. With Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis and Marina Cacciotti Gianni, a bachelor in his late fifties, is the cash-strapped carer for his 90-year-old mother. In exchange for the...Date : 4th October 2010 7 45 pm - 9 55 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreCome along to our informal half hour lunchtime talks. There is no need to book, but please arrive promptly as we can't let you in if you're late. This month Melanie Gardner, Keeper of Fine & Decorative Art looks at this unique Pre-Raphaelite collection, focusing on artists such as...Date : 5th October 2010 1 00 pm - 1 30 pm
Location : Tullie house LEcture TheatreWith John Pilkington Travel writer, broadcaster and photographer John Pilkington recounts his potentially dangerous epic adventure in the Middle East. He unravelled a picture quite different from the news stories as he followed a winding route from Beirut to the Persian Gulf, meeting a...Date : 7th October 2010 7 30 pm - 9 00 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture Theatre - Family Friendly Sundays
- Come along and join us in our Family Friendly drop-in sessions to mark the end of an enchanting exhibition, make a toadstool home to keep a fairy warm over winter!Date : 12th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseOur Family Friendly Sundays are a great way to explore our collections and exhibitions in fun and imaginative ways. Join us for this drop-in session and learn which animals hibernate at this time of year and create your own cute creature!Date : 19th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseTo celebrate World Architecture Day, join Rod Hughes of 2030 architects ltd., and construct your own craftwork in our family friendly drop-in session.Date : 26th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseJoin artists and wordsmiths Sowerby and George to make up and illustrate your own rhyme as part of the Big Draw and National Poetry Day. Our family friendly drop-in sessions are fun and exciting.Date : 3rd October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseJoin Tullie Mouse and learn about winter food as part of the Tree Council’s Seed Gathering Season. Create artwork with natural materials in our family freindly Sunday drop-in session.Date : 10th October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseCome along to our family friendly Sunday drop-in session and meet some local members of the Guide movement and take part in a variety of activities!Date : 17th October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseMark Remembrance Day by making a poppy wreath and handling some special World War I mementos. Our family friendly Sundays are fun and imaginative.Date : 7th November 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tulie HouseJoin us at our family friendly drop-in session 'Lake District Archaeology and unearth the secrets of Stone Age Cumbria. The sessions are fun and imaginative.Date : 14th November 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseExplore festive traditions and make a Christmas craft at our free family friendly Sunday drop-in session. Have fun while you explore our collections and exhibitions on this 'Stir Up Sunday and Christmas Customs' drop-in.Date : 21st November 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseBe inspired by our exhibition of work by local artists. Create your own artwork to go on our website at this Family Friendly drop-in.Date : 5th September 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Date : 28th November 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie House - Family and Friends
- The Big Draw: ‘Cumbria: Beneath the Surface’ Join creative practitioner Rosie Alcock in Carlisle city centre and create a collaborative large scale multi-media drawing as part of The Big Draw 2010. Using images from the Tullie House collections and lots of imagination, use...Date : 9th October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Carlisle City Centre - Film Season: Monday Alternative
- Dir: Stephen Soderbergh, Spain/France/USA, 2008, 135 mins. With Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro and Benicio Del Toro It is 1967 and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight the ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia. With few troops, limited...Date : 13th September 2010 7 45 pm - 10 00 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreThe White Ribbon (Das weisse Band-Eine deutsche Kinderschite) (15) Dir: Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy, 2009, 144 mins. With Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi and Leonie Benesch Michael Haneke's vision of pre-first world war Germany is a superb and disturbing film described as...Date : 20th September 2010 7 45 pm - 10 25 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreDir: Sophie Barthes, USA/France, 2009, 101 mins. With Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn and Dina Korzun In this amusing, intelligent and superbly-acted film, Paul Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, a troubled actor agonising over his current stage role in ‘Uncle Vanya’. To...Date : 27th September 2010 7 45 pm - 9 45 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreMid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto) (U) Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008, 75 mins. With Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis and Marina Cacciotti Gianni, a bachelor in his late fifties, is the cash-strapped carer for his 90-year-old mother. In exchange for the...Date : 4th October 2010 7 45 pm - 9 55 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreNowhere Boy (15) Dir: Sam Taylor-Wood, UK/Canada, 2009, 98 mins. With Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Anne-Marie Duff Artist Sam Taylor-Wood makes her directorial feature debut with this affecting account of Beatle, John Lennon’s teenage years. It is the 1950s on...Date : 11th October 2010 7 45 pm - 9 28 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreDir: Mat Whitecross, UK, 2010, 115 mins. With Andy Serkis, Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone and Naomie Harris This fast moving biopic begins with punk hero, Ian Dury, rehearsing with his band at home, blithely indifferent to the fact that his wife, Betty, is in labour upstairs. Andy...Date : 18th October 2010 7 54 pm - 10 00 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreDir: Lee Daniels, USA, 2009, 109 mins. With Gabourey Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton and Mariah Carey It is 1987 in Harlem and an illiterate and obese 16 year old black girl, known as Precious, suffers both the torments of fellow classmates and the physical and verbal abuse of...Date : 25th October 2010 7 45 pm - 9 40 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreDir: Tom Ford, USA, 2009, 101 mins. With Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood and fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut, ‘A Single Man’ follows a day in the life of the unhappy George...Date : 1st November 2010 7 45 pm - 9 30 pm
Location : Tulie House - Lunchtime Talks
- Come along to our informal half hour lunchtime talks. There is no need to book, but please arrive promptly as we can't let you in if you're late. This month Melanie Gardner, Keeper of Fine & Decorative Art looks at this unique Pre-Raphaelite collection, focusing on artists such as...Date : 5th October 2010 1 00 pm - 1 30 pm
Location : Tullie house LEcture TheatreFrom 19th to 21st Century - The Border Regiment In Afghanistan Stuart Eastwood, Curator of The King’s Own Border Regiment Museum, talks about the Regiment’s service on the NW Frontier and in Afghanistan, from the Third Afghan War in 1919 to the present day. Another popular...Date : 2nd November 2010 1 00 pm - 1 30 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreEleanor Kingston, Archaeology and Heritage Adviser, Lake District National Park Authority, will give a talk about the archaeology of the Lake District National Park from Prehistory onwards. This will provide a snapshot of the wide range of archaeological remains that exist in the National Park....Date : 7th December 2010 1 00 pm - 1 30 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture Theatre - Workshops for Adults
- Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled With Jackie Cooper, B.sc.(Hons) MNIMH Herbal medicine is the most widely practiced form of medicine in the world. This introductory day will start with a Herb Walk in Bitts Park (weather permitting) to identify some of the local herbs,...Date : 11th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseUnfortunately this workshop has been cancelled With Rob Fraser This workshop is for those who are familiar with their cameras and want to improve their skills. We will meet at Tullie House for a short presentation by the tutor, before taking a trip to the east side of...Date : 11th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Paul Nichol Autumn is a lovely season for walking, and is the best time to look for wild mushrooms and toadstools. In this weekend workshop you will explore woodlands and find, collect and identify a wide range of fungi, from delightful edible types to those best left alone. No...Date : 25th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 26th September 2010 12 00 pm - 4 30 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Paul Nichol Autumn is a lovely season for walking, and is the best time to look for wild mushrooms and toadstools. In this weekend workshop you will explore woodlands and find, collect and identify a wide range of fungi, from delightful edible types to those best left alone. No...Date : 25th September 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 26th September 2010 12 00 pm - 4 30 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Amanda Simmons Create a unique cameo engraved glass bowl in this workshop with a difference! You will learn how to cut and use coloured glass to produce a square, round or rectangle bowl or platter then add texture to your bowl using fibre paper. The bowls will be taken away and...Date : 9th October 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith The Taoist Tai Chi Society of Great Britain Tai Chi involves gentle movements promoting health and well-being for people of all ages and in all health conditions. This particular form consists of a set of 108 movements designed to improve health and “tame the heart”,...Date : 23rd October 2010 10 00 am - 12 30 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Katrin Joost Fingerless gloves – from chunky to lacy, elegant designs are popular fashion statements which serve a functional purpose. Learn to make woolly arm warmers yourself and surprise your friends with a lovely Christmas gift – or you might want to make a truly unique...Date : 6th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Karl Lee Flint knapping is one of the earliest forms of human technology, and the first known tools date back well over two million years. In conjunction with the ‘Archaeology of the Lake District’ exhibition, flint knapping specialist Karl Lee will be demonstrating this...Date : 6th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Amanda Simmons During this two day course you will learn all the basic techniques of designing and constructing a 30cm square stained glass panel, including cutting glass, leading, soldering, sandblasting and hanging options. Most materials will be supplied at a cost of...Date : 20th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 21st November 2010 12 00 pm - 5 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Howard and Tanya Unleash the passion within and learn to dance the Argentine Tango! 10.30am – 12.30pm Social Tango for Beginners Tanya and Howard make this sensual dance accessible to all ages and abilities. So come prepared to enjoy a challenge and you’ll soon be...Date : 20th November 2010 10 30 am - 12 30 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Amanda Simmons During this two day course you will learn all the basic techniques of designing and constructing a 30cm square stained glass panel, including cutting glass, leading, soldering, sandblasting and hanging options. Most materials will be supplied at a cost of...Date : 20th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 21st November 2010 12 00 pm - 5 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Ruth Lee Explore ways to construct small scale, decorative rag pots using traditional coiled basketry techniques. Learn how to transform unravelled knits, deconstructed fabrics, braids, ribbons and buttons, and use up materials from your stash of unused stuff. You can experiment with a...Date : 27th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tulie HouseWith Vida Hedley By emphasising the spine as the central structure in our bodies we can move with poise, enhance well-being and improve health. Using these themes as a basis for our explorations, we will spend time looking at movement habits and choices. The constructive rest position (semi-...Date : 27th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith ZoZo Shuaibu and Kuzari 11am – 1pm (African Dance) 2pm – 4pm (African Drumming) A fun, energetic workshop introducing a taste of Africa! Panlogo is a popular dance from Ghana, in which the drum introduces the steps. Uthando is from South Africa, and the drum is...Date : 27th November 2010 11 00 am - 1 00 pm
Location : Tullie House - Adult Courses and Day Schools
- With Clive Holmes Sunday 26 September Learning to Accept Learn how to overcome resistances to the truth and see how it is not only acceptance that is so helpful but also the way we accept. Saturday 16 October Cultivating Kindness We can be so driven and restless,...Date : 26th September 2010 12 00 pm - 5 00 pm
Location : Tullie HousePresent Mind – Flexible Approach Mindfulness Course With Angie Ball This is part of the course that started in September. When things don’t go to plan in our lives, we need to find a way around the difficulty. We are more able to achieve this when we train our minds to be...Date : 9th October 2010 10 30 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWith Clive Holmes In this meditation course we will be Cultivating Kindness. We can be so driven and restless, and never learn how to rest or slow down. We will learn simple self-soothing skills and how to be kind to ourselves and to others. Please bring a cushion and a rug or blanket...Date : 16th October 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HousePresent Mind – Flexible Approach Mindfulness Course With Angie Ball Patience and Kindness Patience is a form of wisdom. Why rush through some moments to get to other ‘better’ ones? This is the last of the three sessions When things don’t go to plan...Date : 6th November 2010 10 30 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseWe carry so much unnecessary baggage in the way of thoughts and harmful emotions, that it is useful to streamline our ways of thinking, feeling and living. Please bring a cushion and a rug or blanket and wear loose, comfortable clothing. Sessions are suitable for beginners or those...Date : 28th November 2010 12 00 pm - 5 00 pm
Location : Tullie House - Drop Ins
- The Big Draw: ‘Cumbria: Beneath the Surface’ Join creative practitioner Rosie Alcock in Carlisle city centre and create a collaborative large scale multi-media drawing as part of The Big Draw 2010. Using images from the Tullie House collections and lots of imagination, use...Date : 9th October 2010 1 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Carlisle City Centre - Illustrated Talks and Readings
- With John Pilkington Travel writer, broadcaster and photographer John Pilkington recounts his potentially dangerous epic adventure in the Middle East. He unravelled a picture quite different from the news stories as he followed a winding route from Beirut to the Persian Gulf, meeting a...Date : 7th October 2010 7 30 pm - 9 00 pm
Location : Tullie House Lecture TheatreWith John Harrison The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river in the lower 48 American states, and its course encapsulates the historical highs and lows of the history of the American West. Join traveller and adventurer John Harrison, with his tales of canoeing along the...Date : 4th November 2010 7 30 pm - 9 00 pm
Location : Tullie House - Exhibitions
- From the Golden Age of illustration from the 1860s to 1920s up to the present day, this exhibition explores the prevailing interest amongst story tellers, artists, film makers and illustrators in the world of fairies. The Truth about Faeries introduces mischievous and bad fairies such as brownies,...Date : 10th July 2010 - 12th September 2010
Location : Tullie House Art GalleryTullie House is delighted to welcome back the Carlisle Secondary Schools Exhibition following the success of ‘First Perspective’ in 2008. 'We Are Art' exhibition presents a snapshot of the diverse styles and media used by students in the creation of their GSCE, AS and A2 artworks, and...Date : 17th July 2010 - 26th September 2010
Location : Tullie House MuseumThe Eagles Have Landed is a dramatic new touring exhibition created by Tullie House Museum, which explores the impact on local people of the arrival of this Roman army and the Imperial administration in the north of England. In 69AD the Roman World acquired a new Emperor. His name was...Date : 7th August 2010 - 3rd October 2010
Location : Segedunum Roman FortThere is a wealth of artists in Cumbria producing vibrant, challenging and high-quality work across all media. Despite these artists having, in many instances, international reputations, their work has all-too-often had limited exposure in this region. Sedition is designed to address this...Date : 18th September 2010 - 28th November 2010
Location : Tullie House Art GalleryGirl Guiding has opened up many personal challenges to girls and young women since a small band of girls attended a rally for Scouts at Crystal Palace in 1909, and demanded that they be given the same opportunities as the boys to prepare themselves for life ahead. And so in 1910 Robert Baden-Powell...Date : 2nd October 2010 - 5th November 2010
Location : Tullie House Special Exhibitions Gallery‘Unlocking the Past, Understanding the Present.’ Think of the Lake District and you’ll probably think of nature at its most sublime. But this spectacular landscape is far from natural. People have lived here for some 12,000 years. Their actions have shaped the landscape we see...Date : 13th November 2010 - 12th December 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie HouseThis family-friendly exhibition will show some of Tullie House’s best-loved objects in a way you’ve never seen them before. Discover larger than life creatures, globetrotting artworks and tiny details that tell big stories. Using photography to reveal extraordinary...Date : 20th November 2010 - 16th January 2011
Location : Tullie House Special Exhibitions Gallery - Special Events
- 'Select' is a contemporary crafts shopping event. Tullie House hosts an exclusive shopping event 'Select' to ease you into the festive season. Set in the unique and relaxed atmosphere, we will be showcasing a truly inspirational mix of some of the finest contemporary designers and crafts people...Date : 13th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 14th November 2010 12 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie House'Select' is a contemporary crafts shopping event. Tullie House hosts an exclusive shopping event 'Select' to ease you into the festive season. Set in the unique and relaxed atmosphere, we will be showcasing a truly inspirational mix of some of the finest contemporary designers and crafts people...Date : 13th November 2010 10 00 am - 4 00 pm
Date : 14th November 2010 12 00 pm - 4 00 pm
Location : Tullie House - Whats On Brochure
- Double click on the attached brochure to download our latest copy of the Whats On brochure for August - November 2010 Exhibitions and Events.Date : 20th July 2010 - 30th November 2010
Location : Tullie House - Christmas Parties and Lunch
- Tullie Christmas Lunch - why not come and enjoy a two or three course Christmas lunch at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle's premier attraction. Christmas lunches available from 22nd November until mid January 2011 from only £16.50 per person. Tullie’s Christmas Lunch Menu Roasted...Date : 22nd November 2010 - 10th January 2011
Location : Tullie HouseThinking of somewhere to go for your Christmas Party night in Carlisle? Why not come to Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery to enjoy a three course Christmas dinner and disco with a complimentary drink on arrival for only £29.95 per person. Tullie House is in the centre of Carlisle. therefore...Date : 11th December 2010 - 18th December 2010
Location : Tullie House - October Half Term Events
- Encounter an owl! We are joined by staff from the World Owl Trust and a special feathered friend! Although this drop