UCL Museums Host Events for International Gibbon Day and Halloween
By: Julie Musbach Oct. 09, 2018
Animal lovers are encouraged to swing by the Grant Museum on the 24th October for a selection of special events on International Gibbon Day, followed a week later by a one-off talk on Halloween to explore how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has shaped our hopes and dreads around death.
On International Gibbon Day the Grant Museum will be hosting Animal Yoga and Animal Movement sessions, as well as a Storytelling workshop. Yoga teacher Sarah Perry will guide participants through a special yoga session inspired by the movements of animals, followed by an open movement workshop that teaches participants to ape a gibbon. Sarah will share the basics of gibbon movement: from locomotion to postural shapes, gestures and sounds, attendees will learn the benefits of letting out their inner anthropoid. To wrap up the day, artist, writer and storyteller Richard Frost looks at ape aficionados in art. From primates in poetry to gibbons across genres, Richard examines how the hauntingly beautiful singing voices and balletic, arm-swinging form of locomotion used by gibbons have inspired art and literature.
The following week, UCL will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein with a Halloween discussion about how Mary Shelley's seminal novel has influenced our attitudes to death. This event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology will be led by Egyptologist and cultural historian John J Johnston and UCL curator Subhadra Das, who look to pop culture over the past two hundred years to reveal our hopes and dreads. With a free glass of wine included in the ticket price and dressing up strongly encouraged, the event is set to be dead good.
From art to zoology, Egyptology to performance, pathology and beyond: UCL is home to the Grant Museum of Zoology, Octagon Gallery, Pathology Museum, Petrie Museum of Egyptology and UCL Art Museum, as well as the Bloomsbury Theatre and art in the public realm. These world-class spaces and collections are cared for by UCL Culture. Nearly all venues and opportunities are free to enjoy and open to all.
UCL was founded in 1826. We were the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to open up university education to those previously excluded from it, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. We are among the world's top universities, as reflected by performance in a range of international rankings and tables. UCL currently has over 39,000 students from 150 countries and over 12,500 staff. Our annual income is more than £1 billion.
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