Dreams and Nightmares Gallery Tour

Wednesday 15th January

£3, £2.50 for concessions, 12-12:30pm

Join co-curator Victoria Partridge, Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art, for a lunchtime tour of the highlights in Dreams and Nightmares exhibition. Explore spiritual visions, spectral images, fairies, witches, romantic dreams and more with artworks by William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Edward Bawden.

To book your place, please use our online booking system or visit Bedford Central Box Office at 27 Harpur Street, Bedford or telephone 01234 718044.

Dreams and Nightmares - Study Day

Saturday 1st February

£12 (+£3 transaction fee), 11am-4pm

Artists have always been fascinated by the images they see in their dreams. Dreams can be delightful and reassuring, but they can also be unsettling, even terrifying. Explore the theme of Dreams and Nightmares in art with talks by exhibition co–curators Victoria Partridge and Professor Christiana Payne, as well as Dr David Boyd Haycock, curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and Dr Nicholas Tromans, former curator of the Watts Gallery.

Lunch and refreshments are provided.
Sponsored by Oxford Brookes University.

Tickets: £12 (+£3 Transaction Fee)
Tickets available here: bit.ly/2QJO7Pl or ring 01234 718044

Holocaust Memorial Flames Display

Tuesday 21st January – Friday 31st January

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Organisations across the UK are taking part and creating their own Memorial Flames to commemorate this landmark anniversary. 

The Higgins Bedford, in partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, will display Memorial Flames made by local people and Bedford's community groups.

If you would like to contribute to the display, please email Lydia.Saul@bedford.gov.uk for more information.

Keep an eye out for more events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.

Image: Memorial Flames Contribution from Christ Church, Bedford