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Adult Museums and Arts Events: Primetime
Primetime is Harrogate Museums and
Arts' programme of events featuring:- gallery talks exploring the art on show
- tours of local historic sites
- handling sessions featuring objects from the museum collections
- drama presentations
and more, all for adults to discover the museums, galleries, culture and heritage of the Harrogate district.
Practical details:
We recommend that all sessions must be booked in advance
in order to guarantee entry. Payment for charging events is
requested as soon as possible, and at least 1 month in advance, in
order to guarantee a place.
Please note that all sessions (free and charging) are very popular, often with long reserve lists, so if you cannot attend please notify us straight away so someone else can enjoy the event.
Refunds will only be available if a booking is cancelled within 14 days of the event. All cancellations must be in writing to Harrogate Museums and Arts, Mercer Art Gallery, Swan Road, Harrogate, HG1 2SA.
If cancelling within the 14 day notice period, we regret that monetary refunds can only be guaranteed for payments over £10 due to the administrative costs involved. If cancelling a booking for under £10 the monies spent can be held as payment towards a future event
Into Abstraction - Curator's Choice
| Thursday 27th November | 2pm |
£4
Mercer Art Gallery
Gallery talk by Curator of Art, Jane Sellars. Find out how
this exhbition was put together, and hear about Jane's favourite
paintings, including works by Patrick Heron and Ivon Hitchens.
Tours of the Royal Hall
| Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th December | 11am, 1pm and 3pm |
Meet the Mayor of the Borough of Harrogate
| Tuesday 27th January | 2pm |
Council Offices, Crescent Gardens, Harrogate
Silk Painted Baskets - Embroidery Workshop
| Tuesday 10th February | 10am - 4pm |
£22.50 including all materials (Book 2 embroidery workshops and save £5, book all 3 and save £10. Others on 25th November and 25th March).
Mercer Art Gallery
Make a quilted silk basket lid inspired by the beautiful rose windows of medieval cathedrals.
You will also paint a piece of silk for the lining with silk paints textured with salt.
You will learn how to make a handmade cord to finish off the lid and have the option of adding a tassel.
Suitable for beginners as well as more experienced
embroiderers.
Turkish Baths
| Wednesday 18th February | 10am and 11am |
£2.50
Turkish Baths, Parliament Street, Harrogate
The Language of Fans
| Wednesday 25th February | 2pm |
£5
Nidderdale Museum, King Street, Pateley Bridge
Talk with objects: Spend a delightful afternoon discovering Nidderdale Museum's collection of fans, perfume bottles and other ladies' accessories.
Find out all about how fans were used and what the different gestures might mean.
Urban Evolution
| Thursday 26th February | 2pm |
£5
Mercer Art Gallery
Gallery talk by Anne Desmet on her exhibition on show at the Mercer inspired by the restoration of Manchester's Victoria Baths.
Anne is one of the most original talents in contemporary printmaking with a passion for architecture and buildings.
Fabulous Fifties!
| Wednesday 11th March | 2pm |
£10
St Wilfrid's Church Hall, Duchy Road, Harrogate 
Costume presentation by historical wardrobe company Century Adventures.
Enjoy the transformation of the women of Britain as rationing comes to an end and they reinvent themselves as domestic goddesses!
Featuring the fashion magazines and stylish mod cons and couture of the time such as bullet bras, sugared petticoats and teetering stilettoes.
Seeing in the Night Time - Victoria Brookland's paintings
| Thursday 19th March | 2pm |
Mercer Art Gallery
Introduction to Goldwork - Embroidery workshop
| Wednesday 25th March | 10am - 4pm |
Tour of Stonefall Cemetery
| Thursday 2nd April | 1.30pm |
FREE
Canadian airmen are buried.
Journey of Discovery - Perambulations of the Borough of the Forest of Knaresborough
| Tuesday 21st April | 2pm |
£4
Mercer Art Gallery
Talk by Dave Hunt of CLARO Archaeology Group looking into the unusual history of the making of the boundaries of the Forest of Knaresborough's borough.
Historical Tour of Knaresborough
| Sunday 26th April | 2pm |
£4
Turkish Baths
| Wednesday 29th April | 10am and 11am |
£2.50
Turkish Baths, Parliament Street, Harrogate
Tour of Stonefall Cemetery
| Wednesday 6th May | 1.30pm |
FREE
Canadian airmen are buried.
Fantastic Four - Churches Tour
| Tuesday 12th May | 9.15am - 4.30pm |
£22.50
Departure from and return to the Mercer Art Gallery
Talks and tours of churches in Leathley, Adel and Harewood and Bramhope's Puritan Chapel.
Discover a rare Puritan Chapel built in the Commonwealth Period, one of the finest Romanesque works in the North, 15th and 16th century alabaster effigies and much more.
Local historian Maurice Taylor will lead the tour, with complementary readings by Anne Carrick.