July Events at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

What better way to spend those rainy summer weekends than with a trip to the Gallery? There are lots of activities to interest and inspire you, including a talk with Literary Archivist Sarah Prescott (14 July), showing unique manuscripts from Special Collections' fantastic literary archives by writers and poets including the Brontës, Elizabeth Gaskell, Graham Greene, Tony Harrison and Simon Armitage.

Later into the month, there's a felt-making workshop (21 July) with Hayley McColl and an origami-making workshop (28 July) to celebrate the end of the Gallery's 'Paper Trails: Treasures on Paper' (2 May - 28 July) exhibition, where we'll be throwing down the gauntlet to visitors as we attempt to make something close to one thousand paper cranes!

So why not get involved or check the website for further details: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

June Events at the University Gallery

We've got a real mixture of events at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery this month to coincide with the opening of our new exhibtitions, 'Paper Trails', showing highlights from the Gallery's works on paper, and 'Rough Draft', a celebration of the drawing process.

Our life drawing workshop (9 June) with the artist Karen Babayan is an extension of that celebration, focusing on a variety of different approaches and techniques. This will be followed by 'Making Trails' (16 June), a dance and movement workshop in the exhibition space, led by experienced tutor, Gerry Turvey

If you're more literary minded, why not try 'Write Me a Picture' (30 June), our well-established creative writing workshop with award-winning poet, Suzannah Evans. In a follow-up to our popular 'Archives for the Future' event, Brotherton Fellow Chris Sheppard and Digital Content Coordinator Beccy Shipman are also back, for a talk on the future of the collections, accompanied by a tour of the Library's digitisation studio (23 June).

For more information, please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

Febuary Events at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

Bookings are now open for our February events! We've got lots of fun activities lined up this month, including a Kashmiri dance workshop (11 Feb), inspired by the Michael Sadler Shawl Collection and a special recital (4 Feb) to celebrate former VC Sir Michael Sadler's initiation of the concert series.

Also, coming up a talk to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth (7 Feb), not to be confused with Pip Dickens, who's work is currently on show in the Gallery, and a talk from former Deputy Head of Special Collections, Dr Oliver Pickering (18 Feb).

Find out more now: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

Image: 19th Century Kashmiri shawl (detail), University of Leeds International Textile Archive, ULITA