Events
Thursday 16 January, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
£8 per sessionLit by the soft flickering glow of candlelight, enjoy a slightly slower-paced flow session led by Alli Stevenson.
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Saturday 18 January, 1.30pm to 1.50pm
Gallery 1, Free drop-inJoin Towner’s Exhibition Coordinator Laurel Pearce for some behind-the-scenes insights into the process of exhibiting a Towner Collection artwork display.
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Sunday 19 January, 9.15am to 10.15am
£8 per sessionLit by the soft flickering glow of candlelight, enjoy a slightly slower-paced flow session led by Alli Stevenson.
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Tuesday 21 January, 10.00am to 12.00pm
Studio 1
Wriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their caregivers. Our fun and creative sessions are developed by our new Lead Artist Tanvi Kant and Towner’s Learning team, building on a three-year early years’ partnership with Willingdon Trees Community Centre.
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Thursday 23 January 2025, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Blue Monkey Network is delighted to have been given out of hours access to the current Drawing the Unspeakable exhibition at Towner.
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Thursday 23 January, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
£8 per sessionLit by the soft flickering glow of candlelight, enjoy a slightly slower-paced flow session led by Alli Stevenson.
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Sunday 26 January, 9.15am to 10.15am
£8 per sessionLit by the soft flickering glow of candlelight, enjoy a slightly slower-paced flow session led by Alli Stevenson.
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Tuesday 28 January, 10.00am to 12.00pm
Willingdon Trees Community Centre
Wriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their caregivers. Our fun and creative sessions are developed by our new Lead Artist Tanvi Kant and Towner’s Learning team, building on a three-year early years’ partnership with Willingdon Trees Community Centre.
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Thursday 30 January, 1.30pm
Gallery 2. Free with exhibition ticket, drop-inJoin Towner staff member Terry Henson in discussion with Vivienne Roberts, curator and former archivist at The College of Psychic Studies, speaking about the work of the pioneering artist Madge Gill.
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Thursday 30 January, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
£8 per sessionLit by the soft flickering glow of candlelight, enjoy a slightly slower-paced flow session led by Alli Stevenson.
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Saturday 1 February 2025, 2.30pm to 3.30pm, Galleries 2 & 3
Free, booking requiredJoin artist Alison France on a tour of Drawing the Unspeakable, curated by David Dimbleby and Liza Dimbleby
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Tuesday 4 February, 10.00am to 12.00pm
Studio 1
Wriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their caregivers. Our fun and creative sessions are developed by our new Lead Artist Tanvi Kant and Towner’s Learning team, building on a three-year early years’ partnership with Willingdon Trees Community Centre.
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6 February, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Free to attend, booking advisedClimate Café is a chance for you to share how the climate emergency and related biodiversity crisis are affecting you in a safe and hospitable environment.
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Tuesday 11 February, 10.00am to 12.00pm
Willingdon Trees Community Centre
Wriggle Room is a free drop-in workshop for under-5s and their caregivers. Our fun and creative sessions are developed by our new Lead Artist Tanvi Kant and Towner’s Learning team, building on a three-year early years’ partnership with Willingdon Trees Community Centre.
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Saturday 15 February, 1.30pm to 1.50pm
Studio 2, Free drop-inIn this lunchtime movement session in Nigel’s Here and Now, There and Then exhibition, we will listen and – if you so wish – move to a piece of music that Nigel sees as an influence on his work.
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Free, Online
Wednesday 19 February, 6.30pmJoin artist Gerard Byrne to discuss his moving image work: Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image currently on display at Towner until 21 April 2025.
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SOLD OUT
26 February to 2 April**
This six–week course offers an introduction to modern British art by exploring a selection of predominantly British artists and artistic movements, and their response to the dramatic societal changes which occurred during the first half of the 20th- century. Themes and artists have been included to tie in with selected works from the extensive Towner Collection.
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6 March, 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Free to attend, booking advisedClimate Café is a chance for you to share how the climate emergency and related biodiversity crisis are affecting you in a safe and hospitable environment.
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The Birley Centre
Sunday 9 March 2025, 2.30pm to 3.30pm, £15 (Concessions available)*A question time – but not as you know it! David Dimbleby surrenders his role as host to be a panelist with his daughter Liza and others in this special question time answering audience questions about the exhibition themes.
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Saturday 22 March, 10.00am to 4.30pm
£80*Join us for an introduction to wood engraving with Emily Johns, a printmaker, and experienced wood engraving teacher based in Hastings, Sussex.
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Friday 4 April 2025, 10:30am to 1:00pm
£80/ £75 (Towner Members)*Create bespoke hanging decorations and little gift toppers, decorated with festive foliage!
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