What's On - Winter 2013-14

October 2013 to march 2014

www.durham.ac.uk/whatson

OCT Check website for locations and event times

Tue 24 Sept until Tue 29 Oct

CLUBS DURHAM ARCHAEOLOGY EXPLORERS Oriental Museum Children aged 7-11 years are invited to join Durham University Museums’ Archaeology Club. The group meets on the first Saturday of the month from 2pm-4pm at the Oriental Museum.

Through exciting hands-on experiments and activities, the club will investigate all aspects of archaeology and explore Durham’s own archaeological secrets.

LITTLE DRAGONS

WATCH

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

Little Dragons Club is the Oriental Museum’s group for under 5s, their parents and carers. Come along every Wednesday 10am-11am for fun crafts, messy play, object handling, stories and role playing.

WATCH is a wildlife and environmental club for youngsters and their families. Activities are aimed at children from 5 years and upwards. The group meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month (excluding August) from 10am-12 noon.

Places for the Durham Archaeology Explorers are limited and booking is essential. Please call 0191 334 5691 to reserve a place. No booking is necessary for Little Dragons, just drop in.

Places are limited and booking is essential. Please call +44 (0)191 334 5522 to reserve a place.

Charges apply.

For more information visit www.durham.ac.uk/oriental.museum

PLEASE NOTE

• C hildren under 16 MUST be accompanied by an adult

See website for further details: www.durhambookfestival.com

Sat 5 Oct

Colourful Korea

1pm - 3pm

Celebrate the opening of our new Korean gallery by decorating your own pair of Korean-style socks.

Sat 12 Oct

Super Soap Carving

1pm - 3pm

See the Museum’s very own soap sculptures and create your own masterpiece.

For more information visit www.durham.ac.uk/botanic.garden

Charges apply.

• Events are drop-in unless otherwise stated

The annual Festival returns offering a fun mix of interactive events, live performances and special events; all carefully chosen to create a festival engaging with a wide range of tastes and interests.

• A ctivities are generally suitable for children aged 5-11 years

Sat 12 Oct

The Big Draw

2pm - 4pm

Join us in the Garden to make big drawings using natural materials.

Sat 19 Oct

Beautiful Books

1pm - 3pm

Take inspiration from books and manuscripts in the galleries and create your own special book to record your adventures in.

Sat 26 Oct

PIG and Teddy Bears PICNIC

10am - 12noon

PIG: A family friendly show inside the belly of a giant pig. Shows run every 10 minutes from 10 am-12noon and 1.30-3.30pm.

Bring a picnic and share it with two Polar Bears at 12 noon.This event is part of TakeOff Festival www.takeofffestival.org.uk There is a charge of £2.00 per person to attend this event.

and 1.30 - 3.30pm

• P articipation in all activities is included in the usual admission price, unless otherwise indicated Sat 26 Oct

Joyous Japan Visit our new Japanese displays and create your own teacup.

Oriental Museum

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

Oriental Museum

Durham Castle

Oriental Museum

Sat 26 Oct Sun 3 Nov 12pm - 5pm

Sat 26 & Sun 27 Oct 10am - 4pm

Diwali Celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali with fun self-led activities in the Museum.

Traditional Crafts Weekend Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden.

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

Palace Green

Tue 29 – Thur 31 Oct 10am-4pm daily

Sun 3 Nov

Diwali – Special late night opening

6pm - 8pm

Celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali with fun self-led activities in the Museum.

Oriental Museum Oriental Museum

Sat 9 Nov

Exciting Writing

1pm - 3pm

Find out about script and writing from all over the world, and then have a go yourself with traditional materials.

Sat 9 Nov

Card Crazy

2pm - 4pm

Get prepared for Christmas by making nature-inspired Christmas cards.

Celebrate Science 2013 ‘Celebrate Science’ is here again! Children of all ages can visit the marquee on Palace Green, the heart of Durham’s World Heritage Site, to carry out crazy experiments and create their very own inventions! With a great range of interactive exhibitions designed to appeal to all the family, ‘Celebrate Science’ makes a great half-term day out.

Sat 16 Nov

Celebrating Lumiere Make a traditional Chinese paper lantern.

So what are you waiting for? Start celebrating science!

Celebrate Science – The Creative Chinese

1pm - 3pm

Discover some of China’s amazing inventions and make your own rocket or kite.

Wed 30 Oct

Wicked Witches and Spooky Spectres

2pm - 4pm

Create a spooky mask to scare the witches away.

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

NOV Fri 1 Nov

Tremendous Tiles

1pm - 3pm

Decorate your own Islamic tile.

Sat 2 Nov

Marvellous Medieval

1pm - 3pm

Investigate where the Black Death originated and how it travelled along the Silk Road, then make a plague doctor mask.

Oriental Museum

1pm-3pm

Experts will be on hand to answer questions on everything from lasers to the Lindisfarne Gospels. There will be exciting live demonstrations and visitors can even step inside a Planetarium to see the stars. You can also sit back, relax and soak up the scientific atmosphere in the marquee’s YUM café.

Wed 30 Oct

Botanic Garden

Oriental Museum

Oriental Museum

Sat 16 & Sun 17 Nov

Traditional Crafts Weekend

10am - 4pm

Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden.

Sat 23 Nov

Amazing Amulets

1pm - 3pm

Have a look at some ancient Egyptian amulets in the Museum’s collection and then create your own to take home.

Sat 23 & Sun 24 Nov

Facebots and Cybermasks

1pm - 3pm

Ever fancy being assimilated? Or being a robot with super-human strength? Design your own mask to be whatever robot or cyborg you want!

Sat 30 Nov

Dreadful Dinosaurs

1pm - 3pm

Make your own dinosaur fossil and footprint to take home.

Sat 30 Nov & Sun 1 Dec

Dancing Robots

1pm - 3pm

Piece together your dancing robot and watch it dance as it dangles in your window.

Botanic Garden

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

DEC Fri 6 Sun 8 Dec Friday: 10am - 6pm Saturday: 9am - 5pm Sunday: 10am - 4:30pm

Durham City’s Traditional Christmas Festival Durham’s award-winning, annual Christmas Festival will return in 2013 with a wide range of festive entertainment for all the family in and around the World Heritage Site of the Cathedral and the Castle.

Palace Green & Durham City

The huge, heated Craft and Gift Marquee on Palace Green features over 190 stalls across all three days of the event.

In the Cathedral Cloisters, a Local Food Producers Market featuring another 30 traders will operate on both Friday and Saturday. In the Cathedral itself, Carols for All services take place on both Saturday and Sunday.

Sat 14 Dec

Celebrating Christmas

1pm - 3pm

Find out how Christmas is celebrated in China and Egypt and make fantastic Christmas tree decorations.

Oriental Museum

Sat 14 & Sun 15 Dec

Traditional Crafts Weekend

Botanic Garden

10am - 4pm

Sat 14 & Sun 15 Dec

Weekend entertainment on Palace Green, between the Cathedral and the Castle, will include live reindeer, a static falconry display, juggling and balloon-modelling, a lantern procession and St Nicholas children’s service, the Seven Stories reading chair and performances from a wide range of local entertainers and musicians throughout the city centre.

Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden.

Robot Rhymes

1pm - 3pm

Come and listen to some robot poems and stories. Take inspiration and see if you can write your own.

Sat 21 Dec

Bling Bling Bling

1pm - 3pm

Take inspiration from the museum’s stunning jewellery and create your own necklace, bracelet or ring.

Sat 21 & Sun 22 Dec

Robot Reflections

Charges apply. See website for more information.

Palace Green Library Oriental Museum

www.durhamchristmasfestival.com

1pm - 3pm

Using a technique called ‘embossing’ on some special foil, you can create your own metal robot image to take away and frame.

Palace Green Library

JAN Sat 4 & Sun 5 Jan Sat 7 Dec

Playful Pandas

1pm - 3pm

Explore pandas in Chinese culture and make a panda puppet or panda mask to take home.

Sun 8 Dec

Dress a Mini Tree & Festive Face Painting

11am - 3pm

Celebrate (a little bit late) national tree dressing day by decorating your own mini Christmas tree. Have your face painted as Santa or Rudolph and enjoy a glass of mulled wine* to get you into the festive spirit!

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

*non-alcoholic mulled wine

Sat 7 & Sun 8 Dec 1pm - 3pm

Festive Robot Cards With the holidays approaching, what better way to send season’s greetings than with a festive robot card?

Palace Green Library

Futuristic Spaceships

1pm - 3pm

There are lots of robots in space – there might even be a planet full or robots that we don’t know about. Design a space ship that could carry robots to Planet Earth.

Sat 11 Jan

Hooray for Hieroglyphs

1pm - 3pm

Make an ancient Egyptian cartouche and print your name with hieroglyph stamps.

Sat 11 Jan

Counting the Days

2pm - 4pm

Make a calendar that reflects the changing nature of the seasons.

Sat 11 & Sun 12 Jan

Robot Control

1pm - 3pm

Create your own control panel and wear it home with pride.

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

Palace Green Library

Sat 18 Jan

Muhgal Miniatures

1pm - 3pm

Create your own Indian-style miniature painting.

Sat 18 & Sun 19 Jan 1pm - 3pm

Robot Pen Friend Ever fancied a robot to help you hold all your pens and pencils?

Now is your chance with our crafty pen friend activity.

Sat 25 Jan

Magnificent Moon Jar

1pm - 3pm

See one of the Museum’s newest acquisitions - a fabulous Korean Moon Jar - then create a mini one from clay.

Sat 25 & Sun 26 Jan 1pm - 3pm

Technical Tiles Taking inspiration from the mechanical parts of a robot, decorate your own technical ceramic tile to take away.

Oriental Museum

Sat 1 & Sun 2 Feb 1pm - 3pm

Palace Green Library

See how creative you can be today and create your own art print by printing lots of different parts to form a whole robot design.

Sat 8 Feb

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

Sun 2 Feb

Palace Green Library Oriental Museum

1pm - 3pm

Terrific Tudors Handle some real Tudor objects, try on some replica costumes and make a ruff to wear.

Sat 8 Feb

Magic Modelling

2pm - 4pm

Celebrate the arrival of Spring by creating a Green Man out of clay.

Sat 8 & Sun 9 Feb

Lovebots

Botanic Garden

FEB

CUPrint2

1pm - 3pm

There’s no better way to show somebody you love them than by creating a unique ‘Lovebot’.

Botanic Garden

Palace Green Library

11am - 3pm

Stick Your Neck Out For National Storytelling Week!

10am - 5pm

Chinese Lantern Festival

6pm - 8pm

A special late night opening at the Oriental Museum to mark the Chinese Lantern Festival, the end of the New Year festivities.

Oriental Museum

For one night only see the Museum lit only by lanterns. Try fantastic Chinese crafts, storytelling and a gallery hunt. First 100 children receive a free lantern.

Popular North East author Ingrid Sylvestre will be telling stories featuring her intergalactically famous giraffe family The Neckmanns!

Sat 1 – Fri 14 Feb

Fri 14 Feb

Chinese New Year Visit the Museum and enjoy self-led Chinese New Year activities in the galleries.

Oriental Museum

Sat 15 Feb

Magical Mosaics

1pm - 3pm

Follow in the footsteps of the ancient Greeks and Romans and create your own mosaic from glass tiles.

Sat 15 & Sun 16 Feb

Drawing Droids

1pm - 3pm

Fri 2 Aug Sat 1 Feb

Victorious Vikings

1pm - 3pm

Make a Viking long-ship and warriors to sail in it.

Oriental Museum

1pm-3pm

Tue 18 & Thur 20 Feb

1pm - 3pm

Robots, androids and cyborgs appear in cartoons throughout the world. Try creating your own character or even a whole comic strip using the Japanese Manga technique.

Bristlebot Art Use our Bristlebots to create your own piece of art.

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

Palace Green Library

Wed 19 Feb

Year of the Horse

1pm - 3pm

Start the Chinese Year of the Horse with some horse-related craft activities.

Wed 19th Feb

Whizzing Windmills

2pm - 4pm

Make a windmill and see how fast you can make it spin.

Fri 21 Feb

Extraordinary Egypt

1pm - 3pm

Find out about ancient Egyptian life and make your own pyramid - covered with real sand.

Sat 22 Feb

Fabulous Feet

1pm - 3pm

See some of the beautiful shoes from the Oriental Museum’s collection then make your own Chinese lotus shoes or Egyptian sandals.

Sat 22 & Sun 23 Feb 1pm - 3pm

Robogami Paper folding doesn’t have to be all swans, frogs and flowers.

Why not make your own paper robot?

MARCH Sat 1 March

Celebrate Japanese Girls Day

10am - 4pm

Celebrate Hinamatsuri - the Japanese festival known as Girls day or Dolls day.

See our amazing collection of Japanese Hina dolls and try out traditional Japanese crafts.

Sat 1 & Sun 2 March

Green Fingered Cyborgs

1pm - 3pm

Mechanical design meets gardening in this craft activity.

Design and build your own cyborg planter and watch how your creation grows.

Sat 8 March

Walk like a Pharaoh

1pm - 3pm

Step back in time to Tutankhamen’s burial chamber and create a death mask.

Sat 8 March

Paper Power

1pm - 3pm

Create your own beautiful Japanese parasol and master animal origami.

Oriental Museum

Sat 8 March 2pm - 4pm

Botanic Garden

Marvellous Mums Botanic Garden

Oriental Museum

Oriental Museum

Create a special present and card to say a big ‘thank you’.

Sat 8 & Sun 9 March

Android Actors

1pm - 3pm

Ever fancied making a film? Build your own set with mini characters to take home.

Sat 15 March

Tiger-Tastic

1pm - 3pm

Explore why this endangered cat is so important in Indian culture and make a tiger mask.

Palace Green Library

Sat 15 & Sun 16 March

Traditional Crafts Weekend

Oriental Museum

Sat 15 & Sun 16 March

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Oriental Museum

10am - 4pm

Silversmith Les Howe and his wife Vivienne, an artist and card designer, will be demonstrating their skills in the garden.

K9s and Astrocats

1pm - 3pm

Robots aren’t just for humans. Create your own robotic pet using craft materials. You could make a dog, a cat or even a hamster or a parrot.

Sat 22 March

The Romans are Coming!

1pm - 3pm

Try on some Roman helmets and armour and make your own sword and shield to do battle with.

Sat 22 & Sun 23 March

Robot by Numbers

1pm - 3pm

Are you ready to take up the challenge to build the smallest, tallest, widest or narrowest robot using only the parts given to you?

Sat 29 March

Marvellous Mosques

1pm - 3pm

Explore some of the most beautiful mosques in the world and create your own colourful cellophane mosque sun catcher.

Sat 29 & Sun 30

Design a Robot Challenge

1pm - 3pm

Can you design the ultimate robot? Test your design skills and produce a plan for the most amazing robot the world has ever seen.

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Botanic Garden

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

Oriental Museum

Palace Green Library

DURHAM WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Sat 29 March

World Heritage Site Tours

11.30am & 1.30pm

Enjoy a free World Heritage Site Tour. Participate in a guided architectural walk around Palace Green and the World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Site Visitor Centre

Places are limited and must be pre-booked. Please contact visitor.centre@dur.ac.uk or 0191 334 3805 to book your place.

Sat 29 March

Oriental Museum

12pm - 5pm

Enjoy free entry to the museum and come along and listen to a series of talks from the experts at the Oriental Museum.

Two talks will take place:

Oriental Museum

2.30pm - Korea at the Oriental Museum 3.30pm - Japan at the Oriental Museum No need to sign up for the talks; just turn up on the day.

Sun 30 March

Durham Castle Tours

10am - 4pm

Take part in English Tourism week by participating in a free Durham Castle tour.

Durham Castle

Places are limited and must be pre-booked. Please contact visitor.centre@durham.ac.uk or 0191 334 3805 to book your place.

Sun 30 March

Botanic Garden

10am - 5pm

Enjoy free entry to the Botanic Garden.

Visitors of all ages love discovering this unique Garden. Find something new around each corner, over the changing seasons.

The World Heritage Site Visitor Centre, on Owengate Palace Green, enhances the experience of visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral and Castle. The Visitor Centre provides visitors with an overview of what a World Heritage Site is, what makes Durham significant, and what there is to see and do on the peninsula.

The Visitor Centre also provides a central point of information about places to visit on the World Heritage Site including the Castle and the Cathedral with its Claustral Buildings including the Treasures of St Cuthbert. The Centre also complements the work of Durham University Palace Green Library on the opposite side of the green.

Like the rest of the World Heritage Site, the Visitor Centre provides interactive experiences for visitors including exhibitions, performances and hands-on family activities.

Botanic Garden

The World Heritage Site Visitor Centre can be contacted on visitor.centre@durham.ac.uk or on +44 (0)191 334 3805.

For more information on the Durham World Heritage Site visit:www.durhamworldheritagesite.com

DURHAM CASTLE GUIDED TOURS Discover the significance of Durham Castle through a guided tour and find out what it is that earned Durham its place on the World Heritage list.

Tours during University Terms Tours are normally available every afternoon of the week at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.

For full details of term dates visit www.durham.ac.uk/dates Tours during University Vacations Tours are normally available every morning of the week at 10am, 11am and 12noon, and in the afternoons when there are no events at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.

For daily information on guided tour times, please contact Palace Green Library on +44 (0)191 334 2932.

DURHAM UNIVERSITY VENUES

DURHAM UNIVERSITY PALACE GREEN LIBRARY: EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ROBOT!

Thus I am enriched Book binding from the Middle Ages to the modern day

23 November 2013 - 27 April 2014 Robots come in all shapes and sizes. Some are friendly, others helpful, and a few are simply scary...

Discover an exciting exhibition of robots, cyborgs and androids: • M eet some of the metal stars of the big screen face to face; • Track robots through time and space; and • E njoy classic Sci-Fi comics and books that have activated the imagination of readers for decades!

Coming in 2014 Explore the history of bookbinding through a range of incredible books. Discover how books are put together, just how recent the ‘ready-bound’ book really is, and how vast a range of circumstances can be reflected in a binding.

Drawing mainly from Palace Green Library’s collections, the exhibition also features unique bindings loaned by other libraries. At the centre will be the oldest book in Western Europe to survive in its original binding - the St. Cuthbert Gospel - on loan from the British Library.

ORIENTAL MUSEUM Elvet Hill, Durham DH1 3TH Tel: +44 (0)191 334 5694 Email: oriental.museum@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/oriental.museum Opening times: Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm Weekends & Bank Holidays: 12pm-5pm Admission: Adults: £1.50, Child (5-16) & 60+: £0.75, Family (2+3): £3.50, Students & U5s: FREE Additional information: Full wheelchair access.

Accessible toilet. Baby changing. Café. Shop. Free parking.

BOTANIC GARDEN Hollingside Lane, Durham DH1 3TN

New Gallery

Tel:+44 (0)191 334 5518 Email: botanic.garden@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/botanic.garden

Coming in 2014

Opening times: March – Oct, 10am-5pm. Nov – Feb, 10am-4pm.

A stunning new permanent gallery to showcase our outstanding collections from the Museum of Archaeology opens at Palace Green Library in 2014. This new, family-friendly gallery will use archaeological treasures, artworks and historic documents to set Durham and its University in their historic setting and to celebrate the lives of the people of the region.

Admission: Adults: £4, Child (5-16): £1.50, 60+, wheelchair users and reg. disabled: £3, Students & U5s: FREE.

PALACE GREEN LIBRARY: EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2932 Email: pg.library@durham.ac.uk www.durham.ac.uk/library/asc/exhibitions Opening times: Tues – Fri: 10am-4.45pm. Weekends: 12pm-4.45pm

OTHER ATTRACTIONS Durham University has a wealth of other attractions, offering a range of events, musicals, concerts, lectures and workshops for all ages. For the full listing visit www.durham.ac.uk/whatson or visit the individual sites below.

Institute of Advanced Study

Durham Student Theatre

Offering an extensive and thoughtprovoking programme of public lectures and seminars covering a myriad of topics, tackling themes of public interest. Talks are free and open to all. See website for more information: www.durham.ac.uk/ias

With an exciting variety of cutting edge drama, epic musicals, hilarious sketch comedy and intimate productions, DST brings the best of British and International theatre to Durham.

See website for more information and performance listings: www.durham.ac.uk/DST

Palace Green Library exhibitions will be closed during exhibition change over.

See website for details of programme.

Admission: For exhibition admission charges please visit website.

Musicon

The University’s Public Concert Series. Administered by the Department of Music, Musicon promotes twelve concerts throughout the year as well as a regular lunchtime concert series.

See website for more information and performance listings: www.durham.ac.uk/musicon.concerts

DURHAM CASTLE Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RW Tel: +44 (0)191 334 2932 Guided tours: Adult £5, Concessions (60+, students,U16s) £3.50, Family day ticket (2+2) £12, Group rates (10+) Adults £4.50, Child / Senior citizen £3.

Additional information: Limited wheelchair access, please speak to staff for specific details.

MAP

Botanic Garden

Palace Green Library

Durham Castle

Cosin’s Hall IAS Building

Oriental Museum World Heritage Visitor Centre

Assembly Rooms Durham Student Theatre Footpaths WARM/09/13/094