Join us for the second of our after-hours film screenings of queer films. Lose yourself in immersive vulgar Latin with our screening of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1967), a film which frames a loose retelling of the story of a Christian saint within an explicitly homoerotic gaze.

Before the film starts, there will be a quick intro by Dr Frankie Dytor, a writer and researcher based at the University of Exeter. Their work explores queer and trans visual and literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

An evening of poetry inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture

Dr Victoria Avery, curator of our Rise Up exhibition, shares her fascinating new research alongside violin performances by Nicole Cherry, the Assistant Professor of Violin from University of Texas at San Antonio and founder of the ForgewithGeorge project which commissions new violin compositions inspired by Bridgetower. 

Curated by historian of abolitionist ideas, Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, this unique programme of short films showcases highlights from the University of Birmingham’s groundbreaking conference, last year, Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038.

Challenging familiar, but misleading, narratives of 'abolition’, the rigorous presentations and surprising conversations archived in these fifteen short films consider how communities can commemorate freedom-fighting, resistance, and abolition by harnessing reparative histories

Grab a glass of wine and engage in an evening of unconventional conversation where we will celebrate the body, both sculpted and flesh-and-blood.

What is the place of our body when we enter a museum? How can we find space amongst a roll-call of sculpted perfection for our own embodiment, however messy and real? Choreographer Sivan Rubenstein’s dance performance will foreground the mother’s growing body in transformation, while Caroline Vout and Sarah Fine bring academic and philosophical discourse back to the body.

A celebration of summer and music, Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the Garden’s Main Lawn, providing a perfect opportunity to embrace sights, sounds and summer scents in the Garden with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm, summer evening.

🎵 Picnics are welcome. Food and drink will be provided by food trucks and The Garden Café.

🎵 Bring a rug or picnic chair and relax in beautiful surroundings to some stunning musical sounds!

A celebration of summer and music, Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the Garden’s Main Lawn, providing a perfect opportunity to embrace sights, sounds and summer scents in the Garden with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm, summer evening.

🎵 Picnics are welcome. Food and drink will be provided by food trucks and The Garden Café.

🎵 Bring a rug or picnic chair and relax in beautiful surroundings to some stunning musical sounds!

A celebration of summer and music, Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the Garden’s Main Lawn, providing a perfect opportunity to embrace sights, sounds and summer scents in the Garden with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm, summer evening.

🎵 Picnics are welcome. Food and drink will be provided by food trucks and The Garden Café.

🎵 Bring a rug or picnic chair and relax in beautiful surroundings to some stunning musical sounds!

A celebration of summer and music, Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the Garden’s Main Lawn, providing a perfect opportunity to embrace sights, sounds and summer scents in the Garden with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm, summer evening.

🎵 Picnics are welcome. Food and drink will be provided by food trucks and The Garden Café.

🎵 Bring a rug or picnic chair and relax in beautiful surroundings to some stunning musical sounds!

A celebration of summer and music, Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the Garden’s Main Lawn, providing a perfect opportunity to embrace sights, sounds and summer scents in the Garden with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm, summer evening.

🎵 Picnics are welcome. Food and drink will be provided by food trucks and The Garden Café.

🎵 Bring a rug or picnic chair and relax in beautiful surroundings to some stunning musical sounds!

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