Events

Alamire. Via Anglica - Latin church music from Renaissance England

Friday 1 June 2012 at 7pm, Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Directed by David Skinner.  In support of the Friends of the Bodleian.

Tickets £20 (£14 for Friends of the Bodleian, also when you become a Friend at the time of booking). Prices include a pre-concert glass of Pimm's. 

A selection from the Bodleian collections of early sources of the music performed will be on display in the Proscholium.

To purchase tickets please contact the Friend's office at fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 277234.

Alamire's recordings will be available for purchase at a discounted price of £10.   

The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution

Dr William Poole (John Galsworthy Fellow and Tutor in English, New College, Oxford)

Tuesday 1 May 2012 at 1pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Dr Poole will present the Bodleian and the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution in terms of its contributions to Oxford and to British science in the period.  He will discuss the Bodleian as its repository of other Oxford institutional libraries central to this movement, namely the Savile and Ashmole collections.

 

Admission to lecture free.  All welcome.

Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £7 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.

 

RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG.  Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The choice of Paris: picking historic film locations 

Michael Pickwoad (Film Production Designer) 

Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 1pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford

Michael Pickwoad is a Production Designer who has worked on numerous films and TV dramas, including Poirot, Lost in Austen, Withnail & I, Longford, and most recently Doctor Who. His talk will use the process of choosing and filming in historic and otherwise intriguing places - including Oxford and its Colleges - as basis for expanding the nature of the various locations and what it took to find them, along with the stories behind the filming and indeed of the houses and their occupants. 

Admission to lecture free.  All welcome.

Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £7 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.

 

RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG.  Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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