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Farleys 75th Anniversary August Week of Celebrations
To celebrate Farleys 75th anniversary this year, we are hosting a very special week of events during the last week of August that culminates with our annual Surrealist Picnic on Sunday 25 August. Most of the week’s events are free, our way of saying a heartfelt thank you to our valued visitors and our local community. In what is a really significant year in the history of Farleys, the core of our celebratory focus is to continue to make engagement with the arts accessible to a diverse community of visitors living in varied economic circumstances. Our program this year includes free lectures, film screenings, performance, and galleries and sculpture garden visits.
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Free Galleries and Garden Entry with Free Performance by Applause
Thursday 22, Friday 23, Sunday 25 August 2024To celebrate 75 years of Surrealism at Farleys we are offering free galleries and garden entry for all during one week this August. Your free visit can be enjoyed in either the morning or the afternoon of Thursday 22 and Friday 23 August, or the morning of Sunday 25 August. And to mark our anniversary with real festive fun, there will be free garden performances by the fantastic Applause rural touring group. Choose to either see Cracking the Crinoline or Emoto-Matic. Both performances last 20 minutes each, and will be in Farleys Sculpture Garden.
We highly recommend booking in advance to avoid disappointment.
House Tours are not included in this celebratory offer.
Farleys Garden and Galleries Book Now.
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Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary. A free talk given by Joanna Moorhead
Thursday 22 August 2024 6pmJoin us in the Lee Miller Gallery for an informative talk given by Joanna Moorhead about Leonora Carrington.
Joanna Moorhead is an award-winning journalist and author. She writes and broadcasts on the arts, particularly, the role of women in the arts, for a wide range of major UK newspapers and magazines, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Observer, The Times and The Art Newspaper. Furthermore, she has made arts documentaries for BBC Radio, is arts editor of The Tablet magazine, and is currently researching the life of Renaissance painter Plautilla Nelli.
Lee Miller Gallery More Info. and Book your free ticket
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Annual Surrealist Picnic
This event takes place rain or shineOur Annual Surrealist Picnic takes place each year in Farleys beautiful, spacious, sculpture garden on the Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend.
This year’s picnic will be on Sunday 25 August 2024.
This unique, fun event includes live jazz, surreal performance and dance. Slip on your surreal costume, create your surreal picnic food and let your imagination run wild!
Farleys Sculpture Garden Book Now.
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