Drawing Workshop and Guided Tour: Live events at Classical Museum, UCD

Welcome to Classics Now, an exciting cultural festival online, in Dublin and beyond.Now in our sixth year, the weekend will showcase the current burst of exploration and re-engagement with Classics and the ancient world. Artists, writers and thinkers, international and Irish, are taking Classics as a lens to examine our contemporary cultural and political preoccupations and challenges.Our programme in February 2025 will present inviting encounters including performances and readings, both online and live, in public spaces - art galleries and cultural centres - with a number of events appealing to second and third-level students. In interviews, discussions, film screenings, dance and musical theatre performances you will see and hear from artists working in different genres and art forms, in thought-provoking and imaginative ways.Come and join the new Renaissance.https://www.classicsnow.ie/

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Drawing Workshop and Museum Tour at Classical Museum, University College Dublin

University College Dublin

Join us at the Classical Museum, University College Dublin for a guided tour with Museum Curator, Dr Joanna Day followed by a Drawing Workshop with artist Genevieve Harden.Tour of Museum, 11.00am - 11.45am.Drawing Workshop, 12pm - 1.30pmGuided Tour of MuseumThe Classical Museum in UCD holds the largest collection of Classical antiquities on display in Ireland. The collection was started early in the twentieth century by Professor Henry Browne and has been added to through donations and loans over the past century. Artefacts include Roman and Greek coins, magnificent Greek pottery ranging from the Neolithic period to the first century BC, glass, jewellery, inscriptions and funerary sculpture, Cypriot ceramics and a small Egyptian collection. Thematic exhibitions change regularly.Drawing WorkshopClassicsNow is offering a rare chance to look at this fascinating collection of artefacts up close and to respond creatively through your own artwork. Our highly popular drawing workshop will be facilitated by multi-talented and inspiring visual artist and teacher, Genevieve Harden. She is keen to invite those with little or no previous art experience.Paper, pencils and erasures will be provided.From 12 noon -1.30 pm. Booking is required and spaces are limited.This ticket books your place on the drawing workshop and the guided tour.If you wish to attend the guided tour only, please book here:<a href="https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/classical-museum-a-guided-tour-tickets-801252466697" title="https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/classical-museum-a-guided-tour-tickets-801252466697" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/classical-museum-a-guided-tour-tickets-801252466697</a>

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Guided Tour of Classical Museum with Dr Joanna Day

Drawing Workshop with Genevieve Harden

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