Welcome to Wednesday Wishes. Art created from the only materials available is on show in Souls Grown Deep Like Rivers at the Royal Academy. What is family is explored via the collection of the Foundling Museum and rare and fabulous objects are on show at Strawberry Hill House in Treasures from Faraway. How are you with sharing? Thanks for Sharing this week’s book of the week looks at the growing economy of renting out the stuff that you rarely use.
London Art Week see’s London’s private art galleries flinging their doors open with a series of events in early June. Why am I telling you this now? Because there is currently a series of free online talks about all manner of arty topics available on the London Art Week website. A sort of amuse bouche for the upcoming feast in early summer.
Monday evening saw me heading to Middle Temple for a drinks soiree. I met many interesting people and saw an actual Christopher Wren drawing from the archives. Middle Temple hall is the place where the first recorded performance of Twelfth Night took place, with Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare in the audience. You can follow in their footsteps for lunch, non members need to book but it has long been a favourite of the Cultural Teens.
This week is National Lottery Open Week when hundred of places that have benefitted from Lottery funding throw their doors open to Lottery ticket holders for free. All you need is a lottery ticket of any date. Usefully the National Lottery website doesn’t seem to be loading. So instead here is a link to my friend Vyki’s, aka Museum Mum, really useful Instagram post.
Happy Culturing
Catherine