Events at the Stirling Smith
Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
An Exhibition to Celebrate the Sixtieth Birthday of HRH The
Prince of Wales
Graciously loaned by Her Majesty The Queen
Programme of Events
A Private View of Ten Drawings
by Leonardo da Vinci
Reception hosted by Provost Fergus Wood on behalf of Stirling Council
Thursday 7 August 2008, 7.30pm
Admission to this event is by invitation only.
A Garden Party to Celebrate the Opening of Ten
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
Exhibition opening by Karen Clements, Relationship Director,
Capita
Friday 8 August 2008, 3pm-4.30pm
Admission to this event is by invitation only.
Illustrated talks
Wednesday and Friday, 12noon to 1.00pm.
Tickets £4.00. Booking advised.
- The history of imaging the body from Leonardo to the
present
10 September
John Reid, Consultant Radiologist, Borders General
Hospital
- Charles Dickens and Italy
17 September
Professor Grahame Smith, Stirling Book Festival event
- Leonardo through his drawings
24 September
Martin Clayton, Deputy Curator of the Print Room, the Royal Collection
- Mechanical Birds and Renaissance Stirling
1 October
Professor Charles McKean, University of Dundee
- A Cartographic Renaissance? The European
context to mapping Scotland during the sixteenth century
8 October
Christopher Fleet, Deputy Map Curator, National Library of Scotland
- Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock, Master of Work
1579-1583
15 October
Michael Pearce, Historic Scotland
- How successful was Leonardo as a painter?
22 October
Peter Russell, Artist and Art Historian
- Equestrian sculpture in Edinburgh as related to
Leonardo’s Sketches for Equestrian monument, 1508 -10
29 October
Shannon Hunter Hurtado
- Leonardo da Vinci and the Reform of Drawing
31 October
Professor Martin Kemp, University of Oxford
Free guided walking tours of
Kings Park and Renaissance Stirling
Friday 15, 22 and 29 August, Starting at 11am
Places limited - booking advised
The Big Draw
Throughout October. Join in and create some 21st century Stirling
Heads. Free materials available.
Life Drawing Classes
Saturdays - advance booking essential.
Off the Page: The Stirling Book Festival 2008
Events at the Stirling Smith
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Stirling Writers at the Smith
Stirling, Scotland’s heart, has a central place in the history of Scottish
literature. Many contemporary writers choose to live and work in Stirling
today and the Smith will host sessions by a few of them.
- Professor Richard H. Roberts
Tuesday 16 September, 12 noon-1pm. £3.50/£2.50 concession
Richard H. Roberts is Honorary Professor of Religious
Studies at the University of Stirling. He is an internationally known writer
on theology and religion, with many interests, among them shamanism, ritual
and healing. Professor Roberts is a stimulating and challenging speaker who
believes that the religion, literature and poetry of Scotland have both
public and hidden histories that, once decoded, can help us discover anew
how to cherish ourselves, our neighbours - and the Earth.
- Professor Grahame Smith
Wednesday 17 September, 12 noon-1pm. £3.50/£2.50 concession.
Professor Grahame Smith of the University of Stirling is
an expert on the works of Charles Dickens, and has a mission to get everyone
reading Dickens again. Of his Dickens Book Group earlier this year at the
Smith, participants wrote “Superb series of lectures, bringing to life a
novel which I would have had difficulty getting much out of if I had been
reading it on my own” and “inspirational speaker”. The subject will be
Dickens and Italy, as the Book Festival coincides with the Smith’s Leonardo
da Vinci exhibition
- Robert McEwen
Thursday 18 September, 12 noon-1pm. £3.50/£2.50 concession.
Robert McEwen was born and grew up on Hillhead Farm,
Cambusbarron, which he managed from the age of 16. Farmers are also
builders, and he developed a second vocation. He built and refurbished
houses throughout the area. He has a powerful memory and a talent for rhyme.
His autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Robert McEwen was published
earlier this year.
- Book Launch: Light on Dumyat by Rennie McOwan
Friday 19 September, 7.30pm-9.30pm. Admission Free.