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Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood
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The Friends
of Ruskin's Brantwood support the work of The Brantwood Trust. By joining The
Friends you help to continue that support. In exchange, Friends receive
complimentary admission to Brantwood during public opening hours,
discounts in the bookshop, Jumping Jenny restaurant and on Coniston
Launch, 10% discount on most events, 10% discount on self catering accommodation at Brantwood, use of the Friends
Library for study, newsletters.
Give to Brantwood today
Text FORB10 £10 to 70070 to donate to The Friends of Ruskin's Brantwood.
Talks
Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds
15 March 2013
Brantwood 7pm for drink on arrival. Talk starts 7.30pm
John Ruskin and Ralph Waldo Emerson are among the `representative men` of the Victorian period. Considered prophets, sages, and gospel-makers in their own day, they have by now assumed a place alongside the sort of Great Men whom they esteemed, their books part of the `king's treasuries` of essential wisdom. Sara Atwood will explore the often complicated connections between these two eminent men.
£5 per person
10% discount for Friends of Brantwood
Pre-booking recommended
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Ruskin’s Brantwood: Contemporary Reminiscences, 1870-1900 by Professor Jim Spates
14 May 2013
Brantwood 7pm for drink on arrival. Talk starts 7.30pm
Explore the Brantwood of Ruskin’s time through the eyes of some of its eminent visitors: ‘Much "shoddier” than the image in my mind had ever admitted!’ Jim Spates is well known to Friends for his entertaining delivery, his important research and the long standing contribution he has made to Ruskin studies.
£5 per person includes a glass of wine
10% discount for Friends of Brantwood
Jumping Jenny restaurant is open for an early evening pre-talk meal. Tel. 015394 41715 to reserve a table.
"All Silk and Flame: John Ruskin and Wild Flora" by Professor David Ingram
22nd June 2013
Brantwood 7pm for drink on arrival. Talk starts 7.30pm
An accessible and well illustrated introduction to Ruskin's philosophy concerning gardens and wild flowers, his wildflower drawings and paintings and the gardens he (and Joan Severn and Sally Beamish) created at Brantwood. David Ingram is formerly the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, a distinguished horticulturalist and garden historian.
£5.00 includes a drink on arrival
10% discount for Friends of Brantwood
"Bird Song: a Celebration of Birds in Poetry and Prose" by Clive Wilmer
18th July 2013
Brantwood 7pm for drink on arrival. Talk starts 7.30pm
An evening celebrating birds in English poetry, from the Middle Ages to the present, and including a sprinkling of Ruskin. Readings and commentary by Clive Wilmer, poet and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, who is a well-known Ruskin scholar, Master of the Guild of St George and editor of the Penguin Classics edition Unto This Last and Other Writings. His New and Collected Poems were recently published by Carcanet Press.
Coincides with the exhibition `Heavens Company: Ornithological Art in the Collections of John Ruskin`on display in the Blue Gallery at Brantwood.
£5.00 includes a drink on arrival
10% discount for Friends of Brantwood
Jumping Jenny restaurant is open for an early evening pre-talk meal. Tel. 015394 41715 to reserve a table.
"For the Love of Birds: John Ruskin's Ornithological Collections" by Louise Pullen15th August 2013
Brantwood 7pm for drink on arrival. Talk starts 7.30pm
Louise Pullen, Curator of the Guild of St George Collection at Museums Sheffield, introduces the heyday of ornithological art in the first half of the nineteenth century. She details artists admired and collected by Ruskin, including such notable figures as Edward Lear, John James Audubon and John and Elizabeth Gould.
£5.00 includes a drink on arrival
10% discount for Friends of Brantwood
Jumping Jenny restaurant is open for an early evening pre-talk meal. Tel. 015394 41715 to reserve a table.
HOLD THE DATE
3rd August
Visit to the Watts Gallery - joint event with the Ruskin Society
Friends AGM and Study Day
19th October 2013
Details to follow
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