Browse by Tags

The Smallest Show on Earth

Published 28 January 9 5:48 PM | charlotte

The Little Theatre Cinema St. Michael's Place Bath BA1 1SF Tel: +44 (0) 7893 543113 'The Smallest Show on Earth' will take place to celebrate 70 years of fetaure films at the Little Theatre Cinema on Wednesday 4th February, with Q&A special guests Virginia McKenna & Leslie Phillips.

Filed under: bath, 4th feb, q&a, leslie phillips, virginia mckenna, the smallest show on earth, the little theatre cinema

A Place to Rest the Head: Traditional Headrests in Chinese Culture

Published 19 November 8 11:36 AM | charlotte

20 Dec 2008 - 30 Apr 2009 The Museum of East Asian Art Bath BA1 2QJ Tel: +44 (0)1225 464640 This exhibition will explore the use of pillows in Chinese cultures and the beliefs that surround the designs and patterns on the items. The objects in the exhibition will span the millennium from the 10th through 20th centuries. Pillows are used throughout the world as a way of elevating the neck. In China, headrests can be made from a range of materials. Cloth pillows stuffed with buckwheat chaff of other...

Filed under: bath, tombs, the museum of east asian art, bamboo, traditional headrests in chinese culture, leather, massaging effect, pillows, wood, patterns, cooling, stone, jade, designs, buckwheat chaff, ceramic, lacquered woven rattan, burials, han dynasty, a place to rest the head

17th Century Gloves - Exhibition - Bath

Published 18 November 8 5:35 PM | charlotte

Fashion Museum Assembly Rooms Bennett Street Bath BA1 2QH Tel: +44 (0) 1225 477173 The display at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run museum, includes nearly 20 examples of beautifully decorated gloves, ranging in date from the early years of the century when James I was King to the 1660s when his grandson Charles II was restored to the throne. All of the gloves are on loan to the Fashion Museum from The Gloves’ Collections Trust, a special body set up by the Worshipful Company of Glovers...

Filed under: bath, charles 2nd, 20 examples, spence collection, exhibition, bath & north east somerset council, robert spence, james 1st, the gloves collection trust, worshipful company of glovers of london, fashion museum, 17th century gloves, antiquarian, assembly rooms

King Bladud's Pigs - Bath (ending 30th Sep 08)

Published 17 September 8 3:14 PM | charlotte

From the 17th April, Kind Bladud's Pigs will begin to arrive in various locations throughout Bath city centre. One hundred individually decorated life-size pig sculptures will be displayed throughout the summer all around Bath - to celebrate the legend of King Bladud who together with his pigs discovered our hot springs and went on to found the city of Bath. Each pig will be sponsored. Each sponsor will select an artist to transform the blank "3D canvas" of a pig sculpture, made of...

Filed under: garnd auction, sustrans, reinforced fibreglass, sculpture, king bladud, 3d canvas, bath abbey, life size, two tunnels, bath, hot springs, pigs