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A figure walks through a tunnel.
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  • £10
  • 2 Apr 2023
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Orpheus dismembered

Enter a subterranean dreamscape with storyteller Ben Haggarty and musician Jonah Brody.
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Carved frieze showing battle scene between Amazons and the Greeks.
Lectures & discussions / Study days & courses
  • 24 Apr 2023
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The Bassai frieze

Discover the Bassai frieze and the delights of the Temple of Apollo with Peter Higgs, Senior Curator of Greece and Rome, British Museum. 
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Detail of pottery mug, showing the lower part in the form of a head of a bearded man.
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  • 5 May 2023
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Fake news: Persia through ancient Greek eyes

Find out more about the ancient Persians and Greeks with Jamie Fraser, Curator for Ancient Levant and Anatolia, British Museum.
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Brightly coloured watercolour and ink depiction of Rustam slaying a pink spotted dragon whose tail is coiled around Rustam's horse Rakhsh.
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  • £10
  • 7 May 2023
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The Shahnameh – Book of Kings

Aerial artiste of the spoken word, Xanthe Gresham, dives headlong into the wild mythology of Persia with musician Arash Moradi.
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A close up photograph of a woman wearing a blue dress underwater, with the sun on her face and her eyes closed.
Performance
  • £10
  • 11 Jun 2023
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Dauntless – Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen

Debs Newbold gleefully delivers the boisterous, remarkable and inspirational story of her hero: Grainne ni Mhaille – Grace O'Malley.
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