Opening Celebration Weekend

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Join us at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on 16 and 17 March for a totally free weekend of activities, workshops, music, food and drink and much more. There will be music, storytelling, art-making, workshops, food and drink, and of course, #Selfies like it’s 1804!

Visitors will be able to see the newly conserved Manor, an amazing showcase of Sir John Soane’s architecture, and Anish Kapoor at Pitzhanger Gallery.

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March
10am – 4.30pm
All ages welcome (booking advisable)
Free 

RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY WITH A SPECIAL GUEST

Join us from 10am on Saturday 16 March to officially open Pitzhanger with a very special guest doing the honours. All welcome.

WORKSHOPS

LANTERNS AND LIGHT

Time: 11-1pm; 2-4pm
Venue: The Rickyard, Walpole Park

Join architecture artist Jack Wates to create your own lantern. Saturday School from University of West London will be joining Jack on Saturday.

RECYCLED CITY

Time: 11-1pm; 2-4pm
Venue: Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre

Make buildings, bridges and houses using recycled materials with Hawkins/Brown architects.

THE PAST IS NOW: TIME CAPSULE WORKSHOP

Time: 11-1pm; 2-4pm
Venue: The Education Room, The Manor

We’re making a time capsule! Add your story to the time capsule and help bury it on Sunday afternoon.

MEET THE SOANES

Time: TBC
Venue: TBC

Eliza and Sir John, the famous past residents of Pitzhanger, will greet you around the Manor, Walpole Park and Ealing Shopping Centre. Presented by Big Wheel Theatre.

LIFE AFTER LIVING: STORYTELLING

Time: TBC
Venue: The Monk’s Dining Room, The Manor

Do a double-take and shiver with gothick stories told by Olivia Campbell

BACH TO BABY: MINI CONCERTS (Saturday only)

Time: 11.30-11.50am; 1-1.20pm; 2-2.20pm
Venue: The Upper Drawing Room, The Manor

For these mini-concerts hosted by Bach to Baby we take inspiration from the harp, an instrument popular at the time that residents Eliza and her husband, architect Sir John Soane, lived at Pitzhanger.

About Bach to Baby

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow. No concert is complete without crying, feeding, dancing and nappy changing!

#Selfies LIKE ITS 1804

Time: all day
Venue: throughout the Manor & Gallery

Sir John the collector and architect created the infinity-effect using mirrors in his interiors. Catch your reflection, take a selfie and share with your friends! Tag your photo with #PitzhangerOpening and tag us @Pitzhanger so we can add it to our collection! We will have costumes in The Eating Room to dress up in