KEY UPCOMING EVENTS

As a Friend you receive exclusive discounts to the following events...

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Windrush Stories: An Exploration of Migration with Dr Panya Bankjoko

Thursday 22 June, 12.30pm

Museum and Art Gallery

Give What You Think / FREE to Derby Museums Friends

Booking essential, limited places

This talk will foreground how Black people negotiated and managed migration during the Windrush phase (1948 to 1972) of immigration to the UK. It will explore how the Black community developed organisations and systems to serve their needs in communities subjected to substandard education, racial profiling, and inadequate social provisions. Through oral history testimonies the stories of the Windrush generation and their impact on the East Midlands will also be explored.

Dr Panya Banjoko is founder of Nottingham Black Archive and has directed it since 2011. The Archive has recovered the stories of World War I soldiers in an AHRC-funded project, documented the experiences of World War II veterans, and the Windrush generation. It has a growing collection of oral history testimonies, books, political literature and photographs. Dr Banjoko is also a UK based writer and multi-award-winning poet. Her work features in numerous anthologies and exhibitions. Her debut collection, Some Things, was published by Burning Eye Books (2018) and her most recent work, (Re)Framing the Archive by the same publisher, launched in 2022.

Ann Featherstone ‘History of Circus’

Friday 15 September, 7.30pm

Museum of Making

£5 / FREE to Derby Museums Friends

Suitable for adults (over 18s only)

The spectacle of the Victorian circus - horses, tumblers, aerial acts, clowns and more! - appealed to young and old, rich and poor, sitting under canvas or inside a grand seaside building, marvelling at the equestrians and ropewalkers. Did you know that the Victorian clown told jokes - known as wheezes? That Derby had its own wooden circus on Exchange Street that was destroyed in a terrible fire? Join Ann Featherstone to discover more about the weird, wonderful and wheezy world of the Victorian circus! Presented as part of the Tiny World of Toy Theatre and Derby Feste’.

Raise Your Voice! – Your chance to sing with Derbyshire Community

Male Voice Choir and Rolls-Royce Ladies Choir

Saturday 1 July, 11am - 12.30pm

Museum and Art Gallery

FREE - Give What You Think

Booking essential, limited places

Join Derbyshire Community Male Voice Choir and Rolls-Royce Ladies Choir for a communal singing workshop. Raise your voice and your spirits in the beautiful surroundings of The Wardwick at Derby Museum and Art Gallery. No experience required, all ages and abilities welcome.

Booking essential unless stated otherwise. To book an event, visit bit.ly/DMBOOK , call 01332 641901 or email info@derbymuseums.org.

Coffee with Friends

Thursday 15 June, 10.30am - 12.30pm Pickford’s House

Join us for refreshments in the garden, followed by an opportunity to learn more about our current project at Pickford’s House to re-imagine the home in an inclusive, digital age with Head of Interpretation and Display Laura Phillips. Coffee, tea and cold drinks will be available on the day. Donations welcome.

Summer Social

Monday 25 September, further details coming soon Pickford’s House

Come together to soak up the last of the summer sun and celebrate the Friend’s achievements at the summer social. Held at Pickford’s House, enjoy some light refreshments as you listen to the Derbyshire Male Voice Choir perform. Keep an eye out in your inbox or post for further information, including how to purchase your ticket.

Derby Museums Friends - Membership price increase

Please note that from 1 September 2023, Derby Museums Friends membership prices will be increasing slightly. We hope you understand this rise is in response to the current economic situation and we thank you for being part of our thriving, supportive and generous community. All memberships renewed before the end of June 2023 will receive pre-July membership prices. For questions regarding your membership, please contact Helena Smith Parucker at: helena@derbymuseums.org

Individual membership - £32

Individual + Guest membership - £36

Family membership - £38

As a registered charity, Derby Museums relies on the generosity of its supporters to help keep its museums and collections fantastic and free for everyone. That’s why every Friend is important to us. With your support, we can continue to create opportunities for lifelong learning and enjoyment. Individual, Family or Lifetime Memberships available.

Become a Friend and enjoy:

• Free entry to our programme of Friends talks

• Discounts of 10% at our museum shops and cafés plus discounted entry to Museum of Making exhibitions

• Invitations to exclusive members’ events and socials

• Updates via a regular newsletter, including articles, news and behind the scenes information

Complete the membership form on page two and return to Laura Dudley at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, DE1 6BS, or purchase your membership online by visiting: bit.ly/BuyDMFriendsMembership.

Exhibitions

With thanks to Derby Museums Friends, whose ongoing support helps us to continue bringing exhibitions like these to Derby.

Hogarth’s Britons: Succession, Patriotism, and the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion

Friday 10 March - Sunday 4 June

Museum and Art Gallery

FREE - Give What You Think

A nation divided. A kingdom at stake. Hogarth’s Britons explores how 18th century artist William Hogarth defined British nationhood and identity at a time of division and rebellion at home and conflict abroad. Major loans include Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley (Foundling Museum), Marriage-a-la-Mode, The Shrimp Girl (National Gallery) and The Beggar’s Opera (Birmingham Museums), alongside iconic portraits of the Stuarts from the National Portrait Gallery and Allan Ramsay’s newly discovered portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Scottish National Galleries), which will be returning to Derby for the first time since 1745.

FORMAT 23: Oliver Frank Chanarin

Thursday 16 March - Sunday 3 September 2023

Museum of Making

FREE - Give What You Think

FORMAT International Photography Festival - organised in partnership between QUAD and the University of Derby - aims to transform the historic city of Derby into a vibrant showcase of the very best photography and lens-based media being produced today. Featuring exhibitions in key Derby cultural organisations, the Museum of Making will be displaying a new body of work by award-winning photographer Oliver Frank Chanarin.

History Makers Reprise (Working Title)

Friday 21 July 2023 - Sunday 3 March 2024

Museum and Art Gallery

FREE - Give What You Think

This exhibition and project lab will continue the conversation that began in 2016 about how we might better represent Derbyshire’s past and present. We asked, you spoke, and we listened. The History Makers Reprise will be a chance to see what we have done as a team since then, how we have done this and who we have worked with so far. We hope as many people as possible will join us again as we pick up the conversation.