2014 timetable of trips and events

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Events 2014

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I’d like to know more about the benefits of upgrading Please reserve my place on (Where applicable, booking fees to be collected closer to event date) Installation of Henry Moore’s Vertebrae sculpture in the grounds Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Barber Institute (£10 pp) Pangolin Bronze Foundry & Gallery and Kelmscott Manor (£35 pp) Compton Verney Opera Gala (From £110 pp) Royal Collection and a gin tasting session Istanbul overseas trip (From £1350) Patrons’ Dinner The Blue Mosque, Istanbul

For more information please contact: Aly Grimes, Compton Verney, Warwickshire CV35 9HZ alexandra.grimes@comptonverney.org.uk 01926 645 547

Exclusive Events Guide

Dates for your diary 31 January—Opportunity to watch Henry Moore’s Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae installed Watch the blockbuster Moore Rodin come together with the installation of one of the largest pieces.* Benefactors and Patrons only

Kelmscott Manor

The Pangolin Foundry

14 February - Moore Rodin Private View A fabulous opportunity to see this extraordinary exhibition first.* Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters.

3 April - The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and The Barber Institute of Fine Art An exclusive welcome and introduction at BMAG with Birmingham Museums’ Director, Ellen McAdam, followed by a curator-led tour of the Staffordshire Hoard and lunch in the spectacular Edwardian tea rooms (at own cost). The we’ll head over to the Barber Institute for a tour of the collections with Director, Nicola Kalinsky. Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters. (£10)

10 May - Pangolin Gallery & Bronze Foundry and Kelmscott Manor Join us for the last tour being offered by the Pangolin Foundry and Gallery to learn about the unique process of bronze casting in light of our Moore Rodin exhibition. In the afternoon we’ll visit William Morris’s beautiful Kelmscott Manor with the curator of our upcoming Arts and Crafts House exhibition. Benefactors and Patrons only. (£35) *This event is free of charge for qualifying members Last year’s overseas trip to Vienna

“Our trips are planned with great care and attention to detail to ensure that they are interesting and entertaining, and we endeavour to organise one which will be relevant to one or other of our current exhibitions. Above all, they are fun.”

Min Willoughby de Broke, Chairman of the Patrons and Supporters

12 September - The Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, and Gin Tasting by Dr Steven Parissien An exclusive tour of the Royal Collection’s ‘The First Georgians’ exhibition led by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, will be followed by a gin tasting session by expert on Georgian social life, Steven Parissien, in Lord and Lady Goodhart’s elegant Regency home on Clarence Terrace.* Benefactors

Dinner with Don Giovanni On 12 July, join us for dinner and a performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Britain’s foremost chamber opera company, Diva Opera. Ticket options vary to include a formal seated dinner, hand-crafted picnic boxes or self-catering. Funds raised through the evening go toward our landscape restoration project.

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26 September - Autumn Exhibition Private View * Benefactors, Patrons and Supporters 1-5 October - Overseas Trip to Istanbul, Turkey The visit includes a four night stay in the 4-star Armada Hotel and private guided tours of the Topkapi Palace, Haghia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Dolmabahçe Palace, Chora Museum, Mosque of Rustempasa, Galata Tower, Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Archaeological Museum as well as a boat trip on the Bosphorus, and two dinners, three lunches and two drinks receptions. Benefactors and Patrons only.

(From £1350)

27 November - Benefactors’ and Patrons’ Dinner*