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SUMMARY:Visit Kew Gardens Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Visit to Kew Gardens’ Exhibitions in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery \nWednesday 18th March 2026\, at 11am \nPlease join us to view the exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens\, consisting of The Singh Twins\, Flora Indica and The Shirley Sherwood Collection. \nThese are complementary exhibitions which explore ‘the complex colonial history of botanical art’ in South Asia. \nThe Singh Twins: Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire \n \nThe Singh Twins\, Amrit Singh OBE and Rabindra Kaur Singh OBE\, are internationally famous British artists born in London in 1966 of Sikh parentage. Their father\, a doctor\, came from India to the U.K in 1947 post partition. The family moved to the Wirral where the twins now live and work. Following their first visit to India in 1980 they were inspired by Indian miniature painting which\, amongst many other influences\, inform their style. They produce their paintings together and identify collectively including in the way they dress\, partly as a resistance to their western teachers who tried to influence them away from their developing style and for each to become more individual and work separately. Their work is widely collected. \nThe present work at Kew consists of large fabric light boxes meticulously detailed. This new work is ‘inspired by Kew’s botanical archives’ which explores ‘the deep connections between botany\, empire and trade’. Click here for more details. \nFlora Indica: Recovering the lost histories of Indian botanical art \n \nIn a completely different style but equally beautifully detailed\, these are botanical paintings by Indian artists from between 1790 and 1850. They were commissioned by British botanists and have been recently rediscovered after being ‘hidden for over a century’. \nThe Shirley Sherwood Collection \n \nDr Sherwood OBE has a degree in Botany from Oxford and since 1990 has amassed a huge collection of botanical art by contemporary artists from many countries. The Sherwood family enabled the building of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew\, the only purpose-built gallery dedicated to botanical art ‘in the world’ which opened in 2008. This exhibition from her collection ‘explores India’s rich biodiversity’ and showcases beautifully detailed artworks. \n*********** \nLunch: There are various venues available for lunch within the botanical gardens after visiting the exhibitions. We propose to book a number of tables at the Pavilion Bar and Grill for those who would like to lunch with the party. Simply order and pay yourself. \nArrival: We will meet just inside the Victoria Gate (the nearest to Kew tube station\, District Line Richmond branch) between 11.00 and 11.15am. \nFor those who are interested there is a free guided tour that morning of the flora of the Indian sub-continent designed to complement the exhibitions in the Sherwood Gallery. It assembles at 11.15 to 11.30am. at the Victoria Gate and the walk finishes at the gallery to view the exhibition. Numbers are limited to 15 people. \nAdmission: It is cheaper to buy tickets online in advance\, rather than at the gate. Click here to check the concessionary ticket prices available on the Kew Gardens’ website. \nChoose the date and ‘Select your ticket’. For concessionary prices scroll down to ‘All other tickets’ and click on the +. The available concessionary rates will appear. \n*********** \nPlease advise if you are joining us by registering via the Events tab on the BACSA website\, or sending an email to events@bacsa.org.uk \nTina Macfarlane\, Chair of the Events Sub-Committee
URL:https://www.bacsa.org.uk/event/visit-kew-gardens-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Kew Gardens\, Victoria Gate\, Kew Gardens\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activities
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SUMMARY:BACSA Annual General Meeting\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:BACSA Annual General Meeting\, 2026: \nDate: Thursday 26 March 2026\nTime: 11:30am\nVenue: The Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, London SE1 8UJ \nThe Union Jack Club is in Sandell Street\, directly opposite the Waterloo Station Jubilee Line ticket hall. Cross Waterloo Road at the traffic lights; Sandell Street is 11 yards to the left and the entrance to the Club is 16 yards along Sandell Street on the right-hand side. \nLunch will be served at 1:15pm\, with drinks available at a pay bar. The charge for the two-course curry meal is £31.00. Payments and requests for lunch must reach Ms Tina Davies\, the General Meetings Officer (GMO) by Tuesday 17 March. Requests received after this date may not be accepted. \nRegistration and Lunch: \nIf you wish to attend the meeting and have lunch\, please either:\n•Book and pay via the Meetings tab on the BACSA website\, or\n•Make your cheque payable to BACSA\, and email the General Meetings Officer (at gmo@bacsa.org.uk) for further instructions. \nIf you wish to attend the meeting\, but not stay for lunch\, please notify the General Meetings Officer by email (at gmo@bacsa.org.uk).
URL:https://www.bacsa.org.uk/event/bacsa-annual-general-meeting-2026/
LOCATION:Union Jack Club\, Sandell Street\, Waterloo\, London\, SE1 8UJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tina Davies":MAILTO:gmo@bacsa.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260618T113000
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SUMMARY:Visit to Brighton Pavilion
DESCRIPTION:Tour of the Royal Pavilion\, Brighton – emphasising its Indian-influenced architecture\, and its time as a WW1 War Hospital for Indian Army soldiers. \nThursday 18th June 2026 at 11.30am \nThe Royal Pavilion\, Brighton\nThe Royal Pavilion was extended in 1815 in an Indo-Saracenic style by John Nash\, with Mughal inspired features such as bulbous domes\, chattri-topped minarets and cusped arches. Its exterior is a tour de force\, or an aberration in taste\, depending on your point of view. Its interiors\, designed by Frederick Crace\, are lavish\, with\, among others\, Indian and Chinese influences. \nOver 4\,000 wounded Indian soldiers were admitted to a temporary hospital set up inside the Royal Pavilion estate between December 1914 and February 1916.(The Royal Pavilion and Museum\, Brighton & Hove)\nDuring the First World War the Pavilion was offered by King George V as a military hospital for troops of the Indian Army wounded on the Western Front. As a result of the inevitable fatalities among some of the patients\, a cremation site was set up on the South Downs just north of Brighton where the remains of Hindu and Sikh soldiers could be cremated (Muslims were buried at the Shah Jehan Mosque in Woking). After the war\, the site was turned into a war memorial with a Chattri at its centre. It is a very moving place. \nThe Indian Gate at Brighton Pavilion(mybrightonandhove.org.uk)\nOur tour of the Pavilion will begin at 11.30am. We will meet at the entrance (detailed instructions will be sent to those who have signed up in the week leading up to the event). Inside the Pavilion\, we will visit\, amongst other places\, the Indian Hospital Gallery. \nOn exiting the Pavilion we will look at the Indian Gate\, the southern entrance to the Royal Pavilion estate\, ‘the gift of India in commemoration of her sons who – stricken in the Great War – were tended in the Pavilion in 1914 and 1915’. \nLunch: will follow the tour. There are a large number of eating places close by. If you wish to lunch in a group\, probably over a curry\, this can be arranged closer to the time. Please note that the price of lunch is not included in the charge for the tour. \nThe Chattri on the Downs near Patcham(Phil Duffy MusePhotographic)\nAfter lunch\, for those who are interested\, a visit is proposed to the Chattri War Memorial. Please note that this involves a walk of about a mile (so 2 miles roundtrip) over flat downland. Whilst not unduly strenuous\, it is not on a metalled path\, so suitable footwear is advisable. \nTravel: You will be expected to make your own way to Brighton. If coming by train\, it is a 15 minute walk from the station to the Pavilion\, downhill (but uphill on the way back). There is plenty of parking available in Brighton but it is not cheap. If numbers are sufficient for the proposed visit to the Chattri\, we may hire some form of transport or take public transport. Any cost will be additional. \nPrice: The price of the tour is £15. However\, in addition to this\, you will have to pay for entry into the Royal Pavilion. Normal admission is £21.50\, but we are being offered a special price of £18.50.\nThere are various other discounts available:\n•If you are a member of the Art Fund\, entry is free.\n•If you travel by rail to Brighton\, you can purchase two entry tickets for the price of one (£21.50) on production of your rail ticket. (You will have to do this yourself\, either on the Royal Pavilion’s website or at the ticket office on arrival). \nBooking: \n•The price for the BACSA tour plus admission to the Pavilion (but excluding lunch and a trip to the Chattri) is £33.50.\n•(If you intend to use either the 2-for-1 rail ticket or Art Fund concessions for Pavilion admission\, please pay £15 for the BACSA tour). \nPlease book via the Events tab on the BACSA website. You can pay via the website using a credit card or by bank transfer; or send an e-mail to events@bacsa.org.uk. \nPaul Dean\, BACSA Chairman\n****************************** \n(Suggestions for BACSA website news items\, volunteering opportunities and diary entries\, are always welcome – please send them to ‘comms@bacsa.org.uk’).
URL:https://www.bacsa.org.uk/event/visit-to-brighton-pavilion/
LOCATION:The Royal Pavilion\, Brighton\, The Royal Pavilion\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 1FN\, United Kingdom
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