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Exhibition

Adriaen Van De Velde: Dutch Master of Landscape
12 October 2016 – 15 January 2017

Gallery Film

Bar opens at 7pm and screening at 7.30pm. Tickets £9, £7 friends – includes a glass of wine, snacks and film notes.

Blow Up (1966) Cert 15/110 mins
Monday 14 November

Starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. After taking pictures in the park, a London photographer is horrified to find an ambiguous image lurking on the edge of the frame. Blow-Up is a British-Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. It was Antonioni’s first entirely English-language film.

Special events

Christmas Bazaar: Saturday 12 November
10am-5pm at St Barnabas Parish Hall, Dulwich Village. Free entrance. Once again, wonderful local artists and artisans will be selling their beautiful crafts at the Christmas Bazaar – just right for presents. All-day catering with sandwiches, cake, tea and coffee and special treats for children.

Carnival of the Animals: Puppet Show: Sunday 27 November
10.30 & 13.30/Linbury Room. £5 per person; babies under one year free. Drew Colby will once again entrance your children. Live music and lots of fun. 

Visits and Walks

Strawberry Hill
Tuesday 15 November from 10.30-12.00. £17; Friends £15. Horace Walpole (1717-1797), son of Sir Robert, Britain’s first Prime Minister, built Strawberry Hill to house his vast collection of treasures. He called his castle a “plaything house”, and arched doorways, rose windows and carved screens were models for his fireplaces, windows, doors and ceilings.

Meet: Front entrance to the house, 268, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham at 10.15.

In Town Lecture Series
A series of lectures about major exhibitions in other London galleries. 19.00 for 19.30/Linbury Room. £12; Friends £10 incl a glass of wine.

Paul Nash
Thursday 24 November. The exhibition at Tate Britain will feature a lifetime of work by Paul Nash and reveal his importance to British modern art.

South African Art at the British Museum
Tuesday 29 November. This lecture illuminates the British Museum’s autumn exhibition that tells a long story of South Africa, beginning with artworks from the cradle of humankind and ending with work of living artists.

Lunchtime concerts
1.30-2pm/Christ’s Chapel. Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 November. Enter from the cloister in Dulwich Picture Gallery. Free lunchtime concerts with talented students from local schools in the impressive surroundings of Christ’s Chapel.

Tickets are available online at www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on or at the admissions desks in the Gallery.

For information call 020 8299 8750 or e-mail friendsticketing@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk