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UoBe Festival
25 - 29 January 2021
Join our UoBe Festival student events as we focus on wellbeing, relaxation, and contemplation...
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Drawing in the Dark
Wednesday 16 December, 7 - 8.30pm. Free; online via Zoom.
Join artist and Student Engagement Coordinator Kirsty Clarke for a relaxing and introspective drawing workshop.
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Creative Horror Writing
Wednesday 25 November, 7 - 8.30pm. Free; online via Zoom.
Join writer Adrian B Earle for a thrilling horror writing workshop, as he leads us into the shine-chilling and inky depths of Francisco Goya.
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Worm: art +ecology
Monday 7 December 6 - 7.30pm. Free; online via Zoom.
How is art connected to the climate crisis?
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Barber Home – Recovery
Thursday 3 December, 5.30 - 6.45pm. Free; online via Zoom.
We'll be on Zoom drawing, making, and reflecting - together.
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Myth Personas: Visual Poems with Holly Hunter
Wednesday 18 November, 6.30 - 7.30pm. Free; online via Zoom.
Join us for an evening drawing workshop - inspired by Greek Mythology in our collection.
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Family
Family Trails
Explore our galleries with our free trails: Art and Nature, our Barber Story, and LGBTQ+
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Jon Sleigh – the queer gaze: emotion and erasure
What is queer historical erasure?
Thursday 6 August, 6 - 7pm | live talk and Q&A via Zoom.
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Barber Home
Our collection, your place
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For Adults
TUESDAY TALKS
Enjoy our third series of mini podcasts
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Writing Together with Sipho Ndlovu
Sunday 25 October, 10 – 11.30am; free via Zoom.
Get writing your own tales, stories and poems with spoken word artist and poet, Sipho Ndlovu!
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For Adults
Tuesday Talks Series One
Enjoy our first-ever programme of mini podcasts
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Barber Home
Mengxia Liu – Illustrated Zoom Background
An illustration that captures the life and energy of the Barber's beautiful original 1930s Art Deco foyer.
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Still Life – Benny Semp
Learn about the hidden significance of the objects found within still lifes - then make your own!
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Overhear with Jacqui Rowe
Read and listen to original poems inspired by our collection
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Women in Hospitality Birmingham
Celebrate the Goddess Ceres and the four seasons with this series of delicious, mouth-watering recipes.
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The Barber Collective
Barber Collective: digital showcase
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Create a Camera Obscura – Jo Gane
Create your own camera obscura at home!
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Infinite Opera
Infinite Opera reflect on their Barber Lates performance.
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Concertina Creepy Crawlies with Ruth Turnbull
Learn about insects and create your own folded sketchbooks and mobiles!
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Laura Onions – ‘Interior of an Inn’
Laura explores the domestic landscape of her own home, inspired by Daubigny's use of light and shadow.
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The Slip-Casting Process with Wendy Tournay
Watch the meditative slip-casting process used to create a teapot.
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Creepy Crawlies Q&A
Entomologist Liam Crowley shares all you need to know about insects!
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CineQ Watch Party (4 June)
Use the power of art, film and community to build collective love in defiance of fear and ignorance.
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St Ives Scrap Sculptures
Turn your household scrap materials into amazing Cornwall-inspired sculptures!
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Zine-making with Sarah Taylor Silverwood
We’re thinking about families… and families come in all shapes and sizes!
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Embrace the Strange with LYNNEBEC
Explore ideas of change, randomness and growth with LYNNEBEC.
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Degas Dancers with Becca Randall
Explore movement and ballet poses inspired by Edgar Degas with contemporary dancer Becca Randall.
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For Adults
Sounds of Nocturnes
Hear an original composition created for Barber Lates
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For Adults Research & Resources
Bellows Exhibition Website
Bellows and the Body
The Barber's special microsite to accompany the exhibition Bellows and the Body: The Real, the Ideal and the Nude is still live!
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Welcome Week
Join us for two artist-led workshops during Welcome Week 2020.
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Research & Resources
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
We work with academics, students and professional services teams from across campus to enhance teaching and develop students’ learning
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Research & Resources
BARBER FINE ART LIBRARY
The library is a specialist research level collection of over 50,000 books, exhibition catalogues and sale catalogues on Western art covering most of the major European schools of painting from the early Renaissance to twenty-first century, the history of collecting, and also some Byzantine art.
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Photography Workshop with Kate Green (18 June)
Led by Birmingham photographer Kate Green, this workshop explored photography techniques and wellbeing.
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Research & Resources
COIN STUDY ROOM
The Barber Institute is home to one of the finest collections of Roman, Byzantine, Sasanian and Medieval Islamic coins in the world, numbering more than 15,000 items.
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Research & Resources
THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS STUDY ROOM
Discover our Prints and Drawings Study Room, which houses our fine collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, comprising more than 1,000 works and six centuries of the draughtsman’s and printmaker’s arts.
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Learning
Barber Schools
Welcome to Barber Schools
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Learning
Sounding Images
A selection of the Barber’s most iconic paintings – as you’ve never heard them before
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Research & Resources
Arts Award Supporter
Those who are already undertaking Arts Award can meet a range of criteria at the Barber Institute
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