Museums at Night 2012

Friday 18 and Saturday 19 May

There are lots of activities happening across the Museums for Museums at Night 2012. Including FREE events at Norwich Castle, all the Great Yarmouth Museums - Elizabethan House, Time and Tide and The Tolhouse and a Victorian evening of entertainment at Cromer Museum.

There is also a WWII Whodunit at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse (charges apply). For more info on all the events, click here>> or on the image.

New Exhibition at Norwich Castle
Battle of the Eyes Presents: Planet of the Jackanapes

Saturday 12 – Sunday 27 May

As part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, the exhibition gallery will be transformed into the Planet of the Jackanapes, a world of real and imaginary creatures, created by artists Edwin Pouncey and Chris Long – collectively known as ‘Battle of the Eyes’ or Savage Pencil and Eyeball. Live action drawings will take place throughout the exhibition and recorded footage projected across the gallery space. More info>>

Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2012 – Vision & Reality

Call for Entries!
Closing date Friday 8 June

Artists are invited to submit recent work for the third Norwich Castle Open Art Show. Selection of works will be made, by an experienced panel of distinguished artists, chaired by John Wonnacott.

For more information including conditions of entry, download a Call for Entries leaflet here>> (A printer friendly, A4, entry form can be downloaded here>>)

Symposium at Norwich Castle

Friday 25 May 1.30 – 5pm

A symposium exploring the recent partnership project Material Response that brings together museums, artists and craftspeople in an international residency exchange connecting Norwich, Luton, Cambridge and Ipswich & Colchester with India, Pakistan, China and the Bahamas. Contributions will be made by the participating artists and museums, as well as speakers offering a response to the art infrastructures abroad. Tickets are free, but advance booking is recommended. More info>>

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Coming Soon to Norwich Castle:
Norman Connections Castles Conference

Thursday 17 & Friday 18 May 2012

Find out about the fascinating influence of the Normans on our towns and countryside, at this conference on Anglo-Norman castles.

The event includes French and English presentations on Norman archaeology, architecture and artefacts. Plus a keynote lecture by Professor David Bates, author of the leading biography of William the Conqueror, ‘Living in the 12th Century Cross-Channel Empire’.

Click here>> or the image for more info.

The Bridewell Museum is creating a giant photo-mosaic, comprised of your photos of Norwich. It will form part of a permanent display in the museum when it reopens in the summer of 2012. We want to make you part of it, we hope to collect over ten thousand photographs, spanning the invention of the camera to the digital age, we need your help!

Click here>> or on the image for more information and to find out how to submit your images.

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