Museums at Night 2013

Taking part in this years Museums at Night we will be open late until 20.00 on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th May.

On Friday 17th May join us for an evening with the photographer Stephen Champion who will be on hand to talk about his work in the current exhibition COLOURS OF CHANGE - SRI LANKA and answer any questions you would like to ask him about it from 17.30 – 19.30

The exhibition ‘Colours of Change’ is a retrospective of work by Stephen Champion that illustrates and catalogues the rapid changes that have taken place during the last 28 years that Stephen has been photographing Sri Lanka. From the delicate co operation between villager and nature taken from his book ‘Dharmadeepa’, published in 2009, to the brutality of war in ‘Sri Lanka War Stories’ published in 2008 and the post war culture of construction and shifting landscapes in his latest work, ‘Colours of Change’.

Saturday 18th May 2013, Brunei Gallery Suite 13.00 – 16.30

Accompanying the current exhibition 1000 YEARS OF THE ART OF JAPANESE BOOKS there will be a Gagaku Performance & Japanese Tea ceremony:

Gagaku - Gagaku is the background music of the Tale of Genji, the world’s oldest novel written by a woman, the lady Murasaki, which is included in the exhibition. The workshop includes explanation of the music theory and opportunity to play some musical instruments.

Japanese tea ceremony – Enshuryu School presented by Master Mineko Miura from Holland, includes the explanation of the history, equipment, protocols and the manners of the tea ceremony.

This exhibition is the first time - in this country – that some of the finest and most interesting Japanese antiquarian books, manuscripts and documents held by the Tenri Central Library are presented together. Visitors can experience the one thousand year long history of Japanese classical texts and highlight their bookbinding style, format, paper quality, illustration and calligraphic style so that Japanese book culture can be appreciated in all its beauty.

Take the opportunity to also visit our permanent collection OBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION and our other exhibition BEHIND, A CAMERA IN FRONT, A HAWZA A photographic exhibition by Massimiliano Fusari that shows you inside the personal and social space of the Hawza, the Muslim Shi’a seminaries, taken in Syria and Bahrain in 2010.