Please note all events listed are FREE unless stated below.
As well as the following public events, Kingston Museum and Stanley Picker Gallery are delivering an extensive programme of activities and events aimed at local schools, families and other groups, including our fortnightly Stanley Picker Saturday Art Club and a special online Learning Resource for teachers. Visit our Education & Learning page for more information.
John Lewis Art Prize Photography Competition
from 8 September
The Place to Eat, John Lewis Kingston
Celebrating 20yrs of their building in Kingston, John Lewis showcases entries from their open photography competition, inspired by Muybridge’s own outstanding photographs of buildings and place. Supported by Kingston Arts Council and Canon.
Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain
8 Sept - 16 Jan
Tate Britain, Millbank
First major UK retrospective of Muybridge’s entire career.
Tickets £10/£8.50 from www.tate.org.uk/britain
Muybridge in Kingston Launch Day
Sat 18 Sept 12.30-7pm
Kingston Museum & Stanley Picker Gallery
Public launch of the Muybridge in Kingston exhibitions with special events for all the family, including a magic lantern show from Professor Heard, shadow puppetry from Zannie Fraser and an evening launch lecture on Muybridge’s links to the history of the moving and projected image by Muybridge expert Stephen Herbert.
Launch Day Programme:
Official Opening: Muybridge in Kingston
12.30pm Kingston Museum
Curatorial introduction to Muybridge Revolutions and Contemporary Commissions.
All welcome, no booking necessary
Contemporary Commissions Launch: ‘Dance of Ordinariness’ by Trevor Appleson
2-4pm Stanley Picker Gallery.
All Welcome, no booking necessary
Zannie Fraser - Shadow Puppetry
2.30-3.30pm Kingston Museum Family Event
The rich history of shadow puppetry told with fascinating 2D and 3D examples from Fraser’s long career as a puppeteer working with Trestle Theatre and many other famous groups.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Professor Heard’s Peerless Magic Lantern Show
4-5pm Kingston Museum Family Event. Ages 7 and up
Entertaining guide to the history of the magic lantern featuring an array of stories, sights, frights and amazing mechanical moving pictures from before the age of cinema.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Inaugaural Lecture: Stephen Herbert Eadweard Muybridge: The Father of the Motion Picture?
6-7pm Kingston Museum
Is Muybridge really ‘the father of the motion picture’ as many theorists suggest? Leading Muybridge scholar and film historian Stephen Herbert examines the validity of this perspective in his talk, which investigates Muybridge’s work in the context of the history of the moving and projected image.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Barkman Computers Showcase & Rose Theatre Nocturnal Projections
18 Sept – 11 Feb
24 & 30 High Street, Kingston
The site of Muybridge's childhood home celebrates his achievements with spectacular evening projections from the Rose Theatre, and a rolling programme of Muybridge-inspired work by school pupils and local groups, displayed in the windows of Barkman Computers.
Park Nights at Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Becky Beasley & Chris Sharp
Fri 24 Sept 8pm
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens
13 pieces, 17 feet is a monologue in thirteen parts that finds its point of departure in Muybridge’s extraordinary1878 San Francisco panorama.
Tickets £5/£4 from www.serpentinegallery.org
Muybridge in Translation
Sat 25 Sept 11am -12.30pm
Kingston Museum, Day-long Event
A community outreach project with Kingston residents who speak English as a second language. Fifteen participants are working with Museum staff and an ESOL tutor to produce a multi-lingual guide to Muybridge Revolutions.
All welcome, no booking required.
Late at Tate: Eadweard Muybridge
Fri 1 Oct 6pm -10pm
Tate Britain, Millbank
An evening of Muybridge-inspired events.
Visit www.tate.org.uk/britain for further details.
In Conversation: Trevor Appleson
Wed 6 October 7pm
Stanley Picker Gallery
Exploring Muybridge’s influence on contemporary arts practitioners.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8417 4074
Muybridge & Moving Image History - Lecture I
Excavating the Moving Image: From Muybridge to Early Cinema
Dr. Pasi Väliaho, Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Thurs 14 October 7-8pm Kingston Museum
This talk examines how mechanistic movement in cinema and pre-cinematic technologies came to shape our perception of ourselves.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Muybridge & Moving Image History - Lecture II
Muybridge and Chronophotography in the Context of Early Cinema
Deac Rossell, Lecturer in European Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
28 Oct 7pm Kingston Museum
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Muybridge & Moving Image History - Lecture III
Muybridge and the Optics of Animation
Dr. Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck College University of London
Thurs 11 Nov 7pm Kingston Museum
This talk will explore Muybridge’s moving image and projection work in relation to other animation practices of the 19th century and today.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Becky Beasley 8th May 1904, Kingston
Wednesday 24 Nov 6-8:30pm
Stanley Picker Gallery
Launch of Muybridge in Kingston Contemporary Commissions exhibition.
All welcome - no booking required.
Recital: The History of Photography in Sound
Dr. Michael Finnissy, Composition Professor, Southampton University
Sat 11 Dec 12-1.15pm
The Rose Theatre Culture Cafe, Kingston upon Thames
Professor Finnissy plays an excerpt on the work of Muybridge from his contemporary classical composition on the history of photography through sound. The piece will be accompanied by projected images, and followed by a short presentation and questions.
All welcome, no booking required.
In Conversation: Becky Beasley
Wed 12 Jan 7pm
Stanley Picker Gallery
Exploring Muybridge’s influence on contemporary arts practitioners.
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8417 4074
Friends of Kingston Museum Lecture
Experiments in Moving-Image Projection: The Extraordinary History of the Skladanowsky Brothers in Berlin
Prof. Stephen Barber, Visual & Material Culture Research Centre fellow, Kingston University
Tues 25th Jan 6.30pm
Kingston Museum
A talk exploring Professor Barber’s recent early-cinema research on the Skladanowsky brothers, their audiences, projectors and films, which makes comparative reference to Muybridge and other moving-image pioneers. Limited availability - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Roundtable Discussion: Paradigm Shifts in Vision
Thurs 27 Jan 7pm
Knights Park Campus, Kingston University
Speakers from the Muybridge in Kingston programme return for an exciting group discussion examining how Muybridge’s work formed part of a wider 19th Century shift in vision as a way of understanding the world. Speakers will include Dr. Pasi Valiaho, Prof. Esther Leslie, Deac Rossell and Professor Stephen Barber.
Booking Essential - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8547 5006
Muybridge, Movement & Me
12-26 March / Open Tues -Fri 12-6pm
Stanley Picker Gallery Studio 1
A group ranging from experienced artists to complete beginners was drawn together in the winter of 2010-11 by Kingston Museum to produce a response to the Muybridge Revolutions exhibition at the Museum. Working alongside photographer Crispin Hughes, filmmaker Susi Arnott and the Museum’s Learning and Access Officer Caroline Burt, the group studied photography and time lapse techniques. Using inexpensive compact stills cameras, each member produced work on the cusp between still and moving images. Their work uses Muybridge’s techniques and themes of time and movement to explore their lives in Kingston, London. You can see their work at www.muybridge.co.uk or come along to the exhibition showing at the Stanley Picker Gallery Studio 1.