Archive for July, 2012
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Having a lovely day today running a silk flower making workshop with milliner Isabel Benavides as part of our Kensington Palace adult learning summer school. We’ve been taking inspiration from the orange blossom brooch and hair decorations Queen Victoria wore for her wedding on 1oth February 1840. Orange blossom was used as it symbolised fertility! [...]
Lucas Vale primary school, one of the Tower of London’s two partner schools in Lewisham, recently unveiled a fabulous display of children’s work based on the theme “Towering through time.” Throughout the partnership, children from each year group visited the Tower to hear tales of royal beasts, kings and queens and famous prisoners. Following their [...]
As part of our adult learning summer school at Kensington, RIBA curator Susan Pugh led a group of us on a walking tour of the architecture around Exhibition Road and South Kensington to see Prince Albert’s influence on the area. We braved the inclement weather and were very lucky only to catch a few drops of [...]
We are very pleased that the Hampton Court Palace team were the winners of this year’s Inspired Ideas event which is run by Kingston council and Southborough High School. A number of local businesses take part in the event, where they set a challenge to a group of Y12 students from the school. The students [...]
Last week, we were delighted to host our celebration for this year’s Take One project at Banqueting House, Whitehall. Over 100 teachers, school governors and parents attended our evening event, and 400 children came along to see their work on display at a special schools’ event. As one KS2 pupil said, “this is a once [...]
On Sunday 1 July 2012 chariots of fire came to the Tower in the form of Connaught Opera. The two singers and pianist performed a range of songs from stage and screen that took the audience around the world’s continents in celebration of the forthcoming London Olympics. And why the Olympics Theme? In a joint [...]
On Friday 13th July, Grinling Gibbons primary school – one of the Tower’s partner schools in Lewisham – pulled out all the stops with a spectacular, Tower-themed carnival. Following numerous visits to the Tower and follow-up work back in class, each child designed and made their own Tower costume, which they wore as the carnival [...]
In contrast to the Tower’s reputation of brutality and torture, this adult learning workshop revealed a Tower of ostentation, and bling through the traditional craft of gilding. Gilding is the ancient decorative art of taking precious metal beaten into thin sheets known as gold leaf and applying it to solid surfaces to give them a [...]
Myself and artist Kirsty Harris got very excited today when we received our order of colourful feathers for our Carnival Creations project starting next week! We’re going to be working with Year 6 from Colville Primary, RBKC to create carnival headdresses inspired by our Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection and 18th century fashion as well traditional and contemporary [...]
Returning for a seventh year, this free event for 13-19 year olds is a unique chance for young people to learn about their prospects in the creative industries. Organised by the Exhibition Road Cultural Group (ERCG), Creative Quarter provides a chance to meet professional artists, designers and scientists – as well as undergraduate and postgraduate [...]