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Apron Strings and Ginger Snaps is back!

Culinary, Events, Fashion, History, Lectures, News

 

Calling all Apron Lovers !!!

If you are a domestic God or Goddess, then this presentation is for you.

Aprons became the symbol of family and signified a cozy kitchen. Join this lecture + baking workshop event to help you through this Winter.

Come and be entertained and informed with the presentation on the uses and significance of aprons, covering over 100 years of history.

Refreshments will include baking of ginger snaps in the historic kitchen of Campbell House Museum and hot cider and treats.

Presented by the Costume Society of Ontario and co-produced by the Fashion History Productions.

 

Date: Saturday, January 12, 2019

Time: 1 pm – 3pm

 

Get your tickets HERE.

 

Image Credit: In the Dining Room, Berthe Morisot, 1886. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA

Dance the Upper Room: Art Workshop

Art, Dance, Events, Fashion, History, News

Sunday, June 10

3 pm – 6 pm

Spend your Sunday afternoon dancing your way through time in a Virtual Time Capsule’s “Square in the Round” and go back to 1822 when Sunday nights were spent dancing a Quadrille and not watching Netflix!

Move your body like the Georgians would have in this simple walking partner dance traditionally performed in a square or circle. We will teach you the dance and then film it in Virtual Reality/ 360 video.

The afternoon will have a history tour, fun games to meet your dancing partners, a lesson from Laura Harris from Atelier School of Ballet, and some celebration nibbles at the end of your performance!

To learn more, please visit the Facebook event page.

To get your tickets on Eventbrite, click here.

Drinking Tea with Fashion

Events, Fashion, History, News

Mary Cassatt, The Tea. Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Spend the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend at Campbell House, drinking tea with fashion. Join the Duchess of Bedford, the originator of afternoon tea, who will be our hostess and take us through five decades of Fashion and Afternoon Tea.

Learn about the history of tea, the historical ways to drink tea, and the fashions to wear for tea.

Come and enjoy this informative and entertaining afternoon, with refreshments.

The Costume Society of Ontario will present, with Fashion History Productions, a delightful afternoon for all.

Date: Saturday, May 12, 2018

Cost: $20.00

Times: 12 pm – 2 pm or 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

To register, contact Diane Reid by email at dhreid65@gmail.com

Just announced: EXTENDED HOURS on Thursday, March 15

Art, Exhibits, History, News

The museum will be open until 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 15. Don’t miss your chance to see WAR Flowers – A Touring Art Exhibition before it leaves for Vimy, France on March 16.

Buy your tickets at warflowers.brownpapertickets.com

About WAR Flowers:

During the First World War, Canadian soldier George Stephen Cantlie plucked flowers from the fields and gardens of war-torn Europe and sent them home to his baby daughter Celia in Montréal.

One hundred years later, his touching ritual has provided the inspiration for this innovative multi-sensory exhibit.

WAR Flowers examines human nature in wartime through artistic representations that combine Cantlie’s letters and pressed flowers with original scents, crystal sculptures and portraits of 10 Canadians directly involved in the First World War.

warflowers.ca

The WAR Flowers exhibition is a production of Reford Gardens. This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada.

WAR Flowers – A Touring Art Exhibition comes to Campbell House Museum

Art, Exhibits, History

 

 

 

 

 

WAR Flowers opens to the public at Campbell House Museum on January 24, 2018 and runs until March 16, 2018.

The exhibit explores the story of a Canadian World War I soldier, Lt Col. Cantlie and the connections with nine other people during that time. Lt Col. Cantlie collected flowers on European battlefields and sent them in letters, pressed between the pages, to his wife and children. 

The tickets will be available for sale on November 20, 2017.

“I believe people have an ability to find beauty and hope, even amidst the horrors of war. This exhibition examines human nature in wartime through a series of artistic representations, multisensory experiences and portraits of ten Canadians who were involved in the First World War. Optical crystal sculptures created by Mark Raynes Roberts portray scenes that illustrate different aspects of human nature while scents developed by Alexandra Bachand evoke personal memory. WAR Flowers is inspired by the pressed flowers picked by George Stephen Cantlie in the gardens, fields and hedges of war-torn Europe and sent to his baby daughter in Montreal. I examine these century-old flowers using floriography, a method of communicating emotion through flowers, to tell the story of human nature in the landscape of war.” – Viveka Melki, curator www.warflowers.ca