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Academy of Ancient Music Handel Festival
17 November 2012, 19:00 - 21:30
Join the Academy of Ancient Music as they celebrate the rich musical life of Handel and his contemporaries, including Geminiani.
Foundling Fellow Project: Soup for 100
05 November 2012
In a celebration of our 2012 Foundling Fellows, we are hosting Soup for 100, a project to form links between the emerging and the established in arts and education.
Clock Watching Weekend
27 October 2012 - 28 October 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
To mark the end of British Summer Time, the Foundling is celebrating all things horological. Watch conservation in action, join in family workshops, watch the film Hugo and take part in a special event with our 2012 Handel Fellow, soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.
The Passage of Time with Dame Emma Kirby
27 October 2012, 10:00 - 12:00
Dame Emma Kirkby is the Museum's 2012 Handel Fellow. In this special performance Dame Emma will explore the theme of passing time. In conjunction with Clock Watching Weekend.
An Evening with Michael Morpurgo OBE
26 October 2012, 18:00 - 20:30
Join us in the Museum's beautiful Picture Gallery for an evening with 2012 Coram Fellow Michael Morpurgo OBE as he discusses his life and work, including his new publication, A Medal for Leroy.
Bloomsbury Festival
20 October 2012 - 21 October 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
To celebrate the Bloomsbury Festival the Foundling Museum will be opening its doors for free and until 21:00 on Saturday evening. Includes Dickens Performance Pieces and Handel's Anthem for the Foundling Hospital.
Discovering Vivaldi: A London Perspective
17 October 2012, 18:00 - 21:00
The Amadè Players will be performing the recently discovered violin sonata by the prolific Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. The Sonata in D major will be given its first performance in modern times at this exclusive concert; it may be the first time that the Sonata in D major has been heard for more than 250 years.
Received, a Blank Child: Dickens, Brownlow and the Foundling Hospital
27 September 2012 - 16 December 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
Received, a Blank Child: Dickens, Brownlow and the Foundling Hospital explores the facts and fictions that link the life and work of Charles Dickens and Secretary of the Foundling Hospital in the 1850s John Brownlow.
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In Focus Display: Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
27 September 2012 - 16 December 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
This display marks the 250th anniversary of composer and violinist Francesco Geminiani's death and includes the Museum's portrait of Geminiani, manuscripts and printed music.
Autumn Café Exhibition: Wild New Territories
18 September 2012 - 16 December 2012, 10:00 - 17:00
Premiering in London at the Foundling Museum, 'Wild New Territories' brings together many well-known international artists to examine the world’s unresolved relationship between urban growth and our diminishing natural resources.
