Past events

The Gallery has a wide and varied calendar of events, from art classes to film screenings and classical recitals.

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7 December - The Dulwich Assembly

By candlelight and in costume, recalling the life and loves of Richard Randall and his musical career in Opera, on the Stage and as an Organist. Richard Randall was the chapel organist from 1763 to 1782.
Monday 20 July - Galleryfilm: Romeo & Juliet

Luhrmann’s radical approach incorporates lively, modern imagery with a throbbing rock soundtrack and hip actors. The film is beautifully shot with vivid and bizarre sets. Fast cars replace horses, guns stand in for swords and daggers. The resulting hybrid is startling.
Wednesday 1 July - London Visit: Canary Wharf Sculpture Walk

Canary Wharf was always far more than a group of skyscrapers. It represented the successful regeneration of London’s docks. The development’s American approach to the design of the public realm was unique in this country.
Thursday 25 June - Opera Night: Midsummer Mozart

The now traditional summer Opera evening this year was based on Mozart Operas, semi staged in the Gallery. An exciting young quartet of award winning singers with Pianist William Vann weaved together all those familiar arias from the four most famous operas.
Monday 15 June - Galleryfilm: The Station Agent

Sundance and BAFTA winner, The Station Agent is an offbeat and charming American film about a curious friendship between a dwarf, a hot dog guy and a ditzy divorcee. Superb acting and skilful direction make this film genuinely ‘feel-good’...utterly entrancing.
Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 June - Open Squares Garden Weekend

As part of the Open Garden Squares weekend the gallery was open to share the delights of the Dulwich Picture Gallery gardens.

Dulwich Picture Gallery is surrounded by peaceful, park-like gardens, which are enjoyed by visitors and local residents.
Friday 12 June - Graham Devine Guitar Concert

Graham’s growing reputation as one of today’s best young guitarists and winner of the Alhambra International Guitar Competition made for an exciting evening. He played Froberger, Villa Lobos, Castelnuovo, Tedesco, Albeniz and Contreras.
Tuesday 2 June - Hogarth's London Walk

This fascinating walk took us through Hogarth’s London, seeing a number of his pictures and some of their locations along the way. We started in Smithfield, walked past his nearby birthplace to St Paul’s Churchyard and on to the Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; Covent Garden, Leicester Square, ending the walk at the Foundling Museum
Wednesday 20 May - Visit to Government Art Collection

The Government Art Collection places works of art in British Government buildings and around the world. Developed over the past 100 years, it contains works by a wide range of artists. These works are primarily by British artists, and they range from the sixteenth century to the present day.
Monday 18 May - GalleryFilm: Sweet Smell of Success

An acerbic, dynamic and intense film that exposes the diseased under-side of New York City's glamorous night life, revealing brutality, capriciousness, greed, evil, psychological violence, corrupt American ambition, betrayal and cynicism.
Wednesday 13 May - Traversa: A solo walk across Africa by Fran Sandham

Critically acclaimed author and public speaker Fran Sandham took on the challenge of a lifetime, by walking across Africa, completely alone: no backup, no support team, no one to carry his gear, no sponsors, no film crew, no journalists, no fuss, no cheering crowds, and no strings attached.
Sunday 10 May - The Golden Compass & Special Effects Talk

Visual Effects Supervisor Sue Rowe talked about her work and showed examples included in her Oscar and Bafta winning film ‘The Golden Compass’. Followed by a screening of the film.
Friday 8 May - Special Events: Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion, multi award winning former Poet Laureate introduced his latest book of poems, The Cinder Path and a new collection of essays, Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets.
Wednesday 6 May - Visit to the Royal Academy of Music Museum

The museum displays material from the Academy's collections of instruments, archives, manuscripts and images.
Monday 20 - GalleryFilm: Il Postino

Directed by Michael Radford. A shy postman on an Italian island's only port of call is the residence of legendary exiled Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda.
Wednesday 15 April - Gallery Music: Vienna Piano Trio

The internationally renowned Vienna Piano Trio returned to Dulwich seventeen years after their debut concert here.
Sunday 5 April - Local Walks: Casino Estate

The Casino Estate, shortly to be listed, is often quoted as a classic example of 'Homes Fit For Heroes' estate built just after the First World War.
Sunday 5 April - Special Event: Easter Egg Trail

An Easter Egg trail around the Gallery garden and a opportunity to create something Easter-related in art room.
Wednesday 1 April - Visits: Benjamin Franklin House & Craven Street

Benjamin Franklin, one of the signatories of the American Constitution, spent many years in London between 1757 and 1775 and the house where he lived has been recently refurbished.
Tuesday 31 March - Lecture: John singer Sargent

Sargent (1856 - 1924) was the great society portraitist of the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.
Thursday 26 March - Special Lecture: Andrea Palladio

A talk about the Royal Academy show on the 'architects' architect' Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580)
Wednesday 25 - InSight Lecture: Shah 'Abbas: Remaking of Iran

A study of the Shah 'Abbas's artists with Dr. Sheila Canby.
Saturday 21 March - Special Event: Flamenco Supper

A breathtaking experience of dancing encompassing many different flamenco styles and Olayo Gimenez' haunting songs.
Tuesday 17 March - Lecture: Gwen and Augustus John

His work has been called brash and shallow, and hers dismissed as fussy and spinsterish. These assessments are not fair to either artist and this lecture looked at their eventful lives.
Monday 16 March - GalleryFilm: The Talented Mr Ripley

Nominated for five Oscars. Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith that introduced the character of Ripley - the amoral, sexually ambiguous con artist and erstwhile murderer.
Wednesday 11 March - Gallery Music: Malcolm Martineau & Friends

Featuring Wendy Dawn Thompson, mezzo-soprano & Malcolm Martineau, piano.
Sunday 1 March - GalleryFilm: Nanny MacPhee

Emma Thompson stars as a governess who uses magic to rein in the behaviour of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge.
Thursday 26 February - Visits: Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. He was also a celebrated thinker, writer and artist - a multi-faceted ‘Renaissance man’
February 4th - 26th - Exhibition: Drawn Together

A celebration of drawing in all its forms by the pupils of James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich.

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Wednesday 25 February - InSight Lecture: The Arts of the Abbasids, the Caliphs of Baghdad (750-1258)

A study of Islamic art under the Abbasids, developed With Dr. Anna Contadini, Reader in the History of Islamic Art, SOAS, University of London.
Monday 23 February - GalleryFilm: Far From Heaven

Directed by Todd Haynes, starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid. Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, then one night she catches her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her world starts spinning out of control.
Tuesday 17 February - Lecture: Art in Britain befor Van Dyck

Coinciding with Tate Britain’s Van Dyck and Britain exhibition, this series of lectures examined portraiture and other paintings by major artists working in Britain from the 16th to the early 20th century.
Monday 16 February - GalleryFilm: Housewives’ Choice

British women on the ‘home’ front, 1926-1955. Introduced by Jez Stewart from the curatorial team at the BFI National Archive.
Thursday 12 February - Curator's Lecture: Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece

Dr Xavier F. Salomon, the Gallery’s curator, gave a talk on the story of the altarpiece and how he discovered a new part of it in America, reuniting four pieces.
Sunday 8 January - Lecture: On the Street Where You Live

With Ian McInnes. A pictorial journey from Burbage Road to Herne Hill via Roseway, Stradella Road, Half Moon Lane, Carver Road and Ruskin Walk.
Saturday 7 February - Special Events: Hidden Gems: A Tour of the Gallery Furniture

Eleanor Tollfree, Curator of Furniture at The Wallace Collection, discussed the history and significance of the furniture at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Wednesday 4 January - InSight Lecture: Wildlife Photography, a Natural Eye

Heather Angel showed spectacular photos of pandas, Siberian tigers in snow and other rare animals taken during her 2007 trip to off-beat China.
Saturday 31 January - Special Events: Treasures Roadshow

Following the huge success of the Antiques Roadshow, Fergus Gambon, Keith Penton and Michael Cowley examined, explained and valued some valuable and less so treasures.
Thursday 29 January - Visits: Mansion House

One of the grandest surviving Georgian town palaces in London and the only purpose-built home of the Lord Mayor of London with magnificent interiors containing elaborate plasterwork and carved timber ornament.
Wednesday 28 January - InSight Lecture: Fashion Photography through the Lens of its Past

With Professor Penny Martin is the Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery at London College of Fashion.
Thursday 22 January - Gallery Music: ECO Ensemble

The ECO Ensemble performed a set including Beethoven’s famous Septet in E flat (op 20).
Monday 19 January - GalleryFilm: Good Night & Good Luck

'They took on the Government with nothing but the truth'. Directed by George Clooney, starring George Clooney, David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr.
Saturday 18 January - What Are You Like? ended

A collection of unconventional portraits by an eclectic group of people in the public eye.