As part of their new exhibition, ‘Age of Elegance’, the Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheatre will be inviting patrons to experience the roaring twenties at a late opening event on Friday 24 February entitled ‘The Cat’s Pyjamas‘.
The evening will feature live music from the ‘smallest big band in the world’, the Rio Trio, who will lead guests in a class to learn the Charleston and Black Bottom alongside the beaded dancers of the London Swing Dance Society. There will also be a pop-up bar from The Anthologist, as well as a hat stall featuring 1920s designs run by exhibition milliner ‘Orizu’, the actor Mark Oosterveen reading from P.G. Wodehouse in a Spoken Word Cabaret and a comedy set from Tommy Ettling, featuring typical comedy from 1920s society.
If you can’t get along next Friday, the ‘Age of Elegance‘ exhibition runs at the Guildhall Art Gallery until 20 May, and includes selected pieces from the City’s art collection ranging from the fin de siecle to 1920s works, along with contemporary millinery, textiles and jewellery that hark back to that golden age of style.
February 8, 2012
Arts and Culture