Poster for the Yale Center for British Art’s fall event series which is organized around the Mrs. Delany and her Circle exhibition. Mary Delany, née Mary Granville was born in 1700 and died in 1788. She used her craft activities and botanical knowledge to navigate aristocratic social life in England and Ireland.
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Yale Center for British Art, Fall 2009
This is a selection of events at the Yale Center for British Art. For complete listings, please visit yale.edu/ycba or pick up a copy of our Events Calendar in the Entrance Court.
Mary Delany, Embroidered skirt panel (detail), 1740–41, silk embroidery on satin, Private Collection
Films
Saturday, October 17, 2–4:30 pm
Aschenputtel (Cinderella), 1922, not rated, 13 minutes
The Castle of Otranto, 1977, not rated, 17 minutes
Northanger Abbey, 2007, not rated, 93 minutes
Saturday, October 24, 1–5 pm
Culloden, 1964, not rated, 69 minutes
Rob Roy, 1995, rated R, 139 minutes
Saturday, October 31, 2 pm
The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933, not rated, 97 minutes
Saturday, November 7, 2 pm
The Man in Gray, 1943, not rated, 90 minutes
Saturday, November 21, 2 pm
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, 2005, rated R, 94 minutes
Lectures
Wednesday, September 23, 5:30 pm
Mrs. Delany and her Circle: Exhibition opening lecture and reception
Tuesday, September 24, 12:30 pm ❦
Mrs. Delany and her Paper: Peter Bower, Forensic Paper Historian and Analyst
Tuesday, October 6, 12:30 pm ❦
Discuss installation with Jason Siebenmorgen Landscape Architect
Wednesday, October 14, 5:30 pm
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill: Exhibition opening lecture and reception
Tuesday, October 20, 12:30 pm ❦
“Are You Sure They Are All Horrid?” Finding Gothic in Jane Austen’s
Northanger Abbey: Stephanie Markovits, Yale University English Department
Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 pm
Walpole’s Shakespeare: The First Appearance of Second Life: Joseph Roach Professor of Theater and English Yale University
❦ Lunchtime talks, each about 30–45 minutes.
Events
Weekends
Student Guide Tours
Yale College students present interdisciplinary tours of the permanent collection Saturdays and Sundays at 1 pm. For details please visit facebook.com/ycbaguides.
Wednesday, September 30, 5:30 pm
Musical Tastes in 18th-Century London: Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
Sunday, October 4, 2 pm
Open Gallery Sketching
Tuesday, October 7, 12:30 pm
Yale School of Music students perform Classical Guitar Music
Tuesday, October 28, 12:30 pm
Yale School of Music students perform Chamber Music
Thursday, December 3, 5:30 pm
Sospiri and works illuminating William Blake’s Songs of Experience: Buglisi Dance Theatre
Tuesday, December 16, 12:30 pm
Yale School of Music students perform Chamber Music
Thursday, December 17, 5:30 pm
Samir Chatterjee, Tabla; Susan McKeown, Voice
