Autumn Events at the NPG in conjunction with PLP
**Films**
Love is the Devil, Dir. John Maybury (1998) Free - Sunday 29 October 13.00
A Bigger Splash: Dir Jack Hazan (1974) Free - Sunday 12 November 13.00 –An intriguing and voyeuristic look at the life (and loves) of Hockney in LA Repeated again Sunday 7 January 13.00
Secret Knowledge, Dir. Randall Wright (2002) Free - Sunday 26 November 13.00 –
**EVENTS & TALKS**
FROM YORKSHIRE TO LA:
THE ALLURE OF WEST COAST AMERICA IN THE 1960S
Thursday 23 November 13.10
Drawing on the portraits in the David Hockney Portraits Exhibition, Ben Collins reflects on California\'s social
and sexual liberation in the 1960s.
DAVID HOCKNEY: THE LINEAMENTS OF DESIRE
Thursday 14 December 19.00
The acclaimed novelist and cultural critic, Edmund White, discusses the influences of literature, friends and
homosexual desire on Hockney's work. (BSL)
£5/£3 concessions
GALLERY TOUR: QUEER READINGS OF BLOOMSBURY PORTRAITS
Thursday 18 January 13.10
Cherry Smyth
GLYN PHILPOT: Simon Martin
Thursday 25 January 13.10
**STUDY DAYS**
SIMEON SOLOMON: DESIRE, MASCULINITY AND VICTORIAN ART
Friday 10 November
10.30-17.00
£35/£25 concessions
DAVID HOCKNEY AND HIS CIRCLE
Friday 24 November
10.30-17.00
£35/£25 concessions
**EXHIBITIONS & DISPLAYS**
DAVID HOCKNEY PORTRAITS
12 October 2006-21 January 2007
£9/£6 concessions
PET SHOP BOYS Exhibition in the Bookshop Gallery
30 October 2006-28 February 2007
More infomation can be found at www.npg.org.uk
The National Portrait Gallery ponders Queering the Portrait & The Dana Centre considers Queer Science.
National Portrait Gallery is the world\'s largest collection of portraits and celebrates its 150th year in 2006. The Portrait Gallery collects on the basis of sitter rather than artist, which means that it has a diverse collection of people portrayed in paintings, prints, drawings, cartoons, sculpture and photographs.
Queering The Portrait: Making and Reading
Sunday 4 June 14.00 – 16.00 FREE
Panel discussion with artists, Sadie Lee and Pascal Brannan, academics Catherine Grant and Emmanuel Cooper, author of The Sexual Perspective. Each speaker will address issues of queer identity and portraiture. They will also question how the sitters’ identity and pose informs the making and reading of an art work and asks whether contemporary readings of historic portraiture ignore or celebrates the role of sexuality. Chaired by Joshua Sofaer, research fellow at Middlesex University. Short films selected by Mike Wyeld, presented by Jason Barker. Free – Tickets are required and available on the day.
This event will be sign language interpreted
PLP is organizing more events in conjunction with NPG in the Autumn to coincide with Hockney’s Portraits and the Bloomsbury exhibition.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE. It is located behind the National Gallery, just off Trafalgar Square, entrance on Charing Cross Road. Tube: Charing Cross or Leicester Square
Box Office 020 7306 0055 Recorded Information 020 7312 2463 www.npg.org.uk
The Dana Centre is the Science Museum’s stylish adults-only bar and café dedicated to discussing science, medicine, technology and the environment.
This vibrant, controversial and experimental venue challenges public perceptions about science, health, medicine, the environment and technology.
Renowned for creating ground-breaking events, including live debates with some of the biggest movers and shakers in the science world, art installations, performance, live surgery and stand-up comedy, the Dana Centre is open to anybody over the age of 18 who wants a thought-provoking and, ultimately, different night out.
A Gender Box? Wednesday 7 June 12.00–19.00 FREE
A slide show to get you thinking outside of the gender box.
Gender: Who’s in the box? Wednesday 7 June 19.00–21.30 FREE
Do we all really fit into ‘a gender box’? How do we identify ourselves to others? How often is there no identity that suits our individuality? Are we really all just ‘the same’, or is there a scientific spectrum? This event is hosted by Ingo and his assistant Timbalina.
Queer Speed Dating Tuesday 13 June 19.30–22.30 FREE
Discover the subtle science of body language and the blatant biology of aphrodisiacs at a night of speed dating with a difference. For queer boys and girls ideally aged 25 to 40… but you won’t be asked to prove it, and it won’t matter which side of the table you sit on.
Stay tuned for more Queer Speed dating events specifically for younger and older queer folk.
Sourcing Sexuality Thursday 18 July 19.00–21.30 FREE
This event can be viewed as a webcast at http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2006/07/18/155
Come and tackle that nurture-versus-nature debate. With advances in our understanding of genetics and developmental biology, can scientists now offer an answer to sexual preference? Or is our sexuality socially constructed?
The Dana Centre, Wellcome Wolfson Building, 165 Queen\'s Gate, South Kensington, London SW7 5HD T 020 7942 4040 www.danacentre.org.uk Tube: Gloucester Road, on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines.
