Talks
Munch and Listen
Enjoy our free monthly lunchtime talks programme - just bring your lunch and listen! All welcome.
Please note: there are no talks in August and December.
Please note there is no Munch and Listen in May due to the late Bank Holiday
Windrush Generation Event - title tbc
- Monday 24 June, 12.15pm
Doors open 12 noon.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Friends of Bruce Castle.
Hear Here
Our free evening monthly talks programme is on the last Wednesday of each month. All welcome.
Please note: there are no talks in August and December.
Black Britons in Art, 1780 - 1840
By Dr Jan Marsh, writer, curator, and 19th century portraiture specialist
- Wednesday 5 June, 7.30pm
Please note this change in date - there is no May evening talk, which is now arranged for 5 June.
In the long decades of the Abolitionist campaigns against British and American slavery during the late 1700s and 1800s, citizens of African ancestry were a very visible presence in London, and were depicted by white artists in a variety of visual images from oil paintings to illustrations. This talk by Jan Marsh, the curator of the Black Victorians exhibition, brings their images into view.
Dr Jan Marsh (website - external link) was the curator and author of 'Black Victorians: black people in British Art 1800-1900' (published by Manchester Art Gallery and Lund Humphries, 2005).
The talk accompanies the current exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum, 'Black Georgian Londoners: Portraits, People and Perceptions', which brings together a rare collection of black portraiture and shows the depth of the black presence and communities in this country.
Doors open 7pm.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Fellowship of St John and the Friends of Bruce Castle.
Windrush Generation Event - title and speaker tbc
- Wednesday 26 June, 7.30pm
Doors open 7pm.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Friends of Bruce Castle.
Bruce Grove, At Your Convenience
- Wednesday 31 July, 7.30pm
Join us for the premiere of Bruce Grove Stories, a new short film by BBC documentary-maker Alex Jones about the community and neighbourhood of Bruce Grove in Tottenham and the proposals to bring its beloved public conveniences back to life. Hear from community group The Last Elm, founded to save the loos, and their drive to restore and revitalise this Grade 2 listed building. Learn about a 'potty' history connected with Bruce Grove - from Bruce Castle's own Groom of the Bedchamber in the 16th century, as well as this 18th century fashionable household having one of the first flushing WCs in this country, to the ‘urinary leash’ and the feminist struggle for women’s public toilets in the 19th century.
Speakers include: Geraldine Turvey, of The Last Elm; Deborah Hedgecock, Curator - Bruce Castle Museum; others tbc.
Doors open 7pm.
Refreshments available.
Kindly supported by the Friends of Bruce Castle.
