The Front Room is a (lovely) community exhibitions space at The Beaney, Canterbury, focused on promoting Arts, Culture & Heritage for Heath and Wellbeing.
Canterbury, Kent
Joined June 2012
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Don't miss our current exhibition Refocus: Out of the Shadows on until Sunday 21 May.
A photography exhibition shining new light on dementia. Developed by Gill Ashington, in partnership with @BrightShadow_uk
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Coming this Saturday to the Front Room gallery
Rooted in Fabric
An exhibition exploring Black Identity through textiles.
More info below 👇
Opening soon:
🧵Rooted in Fabric. An exhibition exploring Black Identity through textiles.
💬 A 200-year journey, from its origins to its role in global culture today, to understand how this iconic textile has become a way to visually represent Africans / the African diaspora.
ALT Textile dealer presents her colorful fabrics in Togo © Alexander Sarlay via CC BY-SA 4.0
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Opening soon:
🧵Rooted in Fabric. An exhibition exploring Black Identity through textiles.
💬 A 200-year journey, from its origins to its role in global culture today, to understand how this iconic textile has become a way to visually represent Africans / the African diaspora.
ALT Textile dealer presents her colorful fabrics in Togo © Alexander Sarlay via CC BY-SA 4.0
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📢 Calling the faces of #Canterbury!
📸 Have your #portrait taken today and tomorrow at #TheBeaney (21 and 22 October) by professional photographer Rikard Osterlund (@rikardolino on Instagram).
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ALT Person with short red hair and black glasses wearing black roll neck top. They are smiling and in front of metallic embossed artworks
ALT Person with dark curly hair wearing a dark colourful knitted jumper. Their arms are folded and they look off too the right in front of a grey backdrop
ALT Person with short hair wearing a patterned shirt holding glasses in front of their face with one hand. Their face is reflected in both lenses of the glasses.
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🪵 Let’s go into the woods…
🖋 Discovering this wood engraving in the museum collection is one of the things that inspired this year’s #FrightAtTheMuseum: #ScaryTales.
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ALT Wood engraving of skeletal trees with dark shadows
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Please don't miss this / share - Photographer opportunity @The_Beaney
Deadline - noon September 28th 2022.
canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-…
Please don't miss this / share - Photographer opportunity @The_Beaney
Deadline - noon September 28th 2022.
canterburymuseums.co.uk/the-…
Have you visited our new front room exhibition yet? Fruit Full is our latest exhibition, produced by artist Françoise Sergy, in partnership with the University of Oxford.
Learn about how sugar affects our daily lives through intriguing sculptures and photography
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New exhibition alert! 🚨
Drop by @Beaneyfrontroom this Saturday to see work from two Kent-based artists, John Horne and Carol Goodchild, responding to contemporary concerns including environmental issues and the COVID-19 pandemic: bit.ly/3geQPcD
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New Exhibition by a bunch of very talented female photographers @BeachCreative @womensart1 @margatemercury @ramsgaterecorde @broadstairsbeacon @ArtistsOpenHous @CommunityAd @DelayeGallery @IsleMagThanet @Beaneyfrontroom @TCMargate @olbys_create
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POV: your parents just booked a #HalfTerm trip to the Kent Wildlife exhibition ☺️
Struggling to lock in your school break plans? We get it - so many options, so little time. 1/2
ALT A hedgehog smiling amongst flowers
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Feelin' cute in watercolour 🎨🖌
How marvellous is this painting by FromPaperSeeds?! We can't get enough of all your artsy recreations of our facade.
#Repost #Canterbury #LocalHistory #Museum #TheBeaney #HistoricBuilding #ArtGallery #Watercolour
ALT Watercolour of The Beaney facade
Have you seen our latest news? We're on the look out for artists and sitters for our upcoming exhibition - all the details are below 👇
CALL FOR ARTISTS AND SITTERS 🧑🎨🖼
We're working with the @NPGLondon to commission 3 new portraits to celebrate Canterbury's diverse population, forming part of our long term ambitions to ensure the City's collection represents the talent and strength of our local #Community. 1/3
ALT Three empty painting frames on a gallery wall
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Journey through time to feel, experience and get to know Wildlife in Kent with our new interactive family exhibition 🌿🐝
Kent Wildlife - Connected in Time opens Sat 22 January, offering a unique opportunity to discover the amazing creatures that used to live on your doorstep…
ALT Bee on a flower
New Year, new job? Our friends @People_United are looking for an Associate Producer to collaboratively produce & support an arts programme focussed on radical kindness, care & co-creation. Closes tomorrow! peopleunited.org.uk/jobs/wer…
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NEW INTERNSHIP 📣
💰 £18,328 - £19,424 pro rata
🗓 Closing 17th Jan
📍The Beaney
Starting a career in the museums sector? We’re looking for an intern with an interest in portraits, history and people to help our partners as part of their programme with the @smithsoniannpg. 1/2
ALT Little Girl at the Door portrait hanging in The Beaney galleries