National Portrait Gallery reopens!!! 🎨

**Join us for art and culture; food and drinks and fun people and socialising at the National Portrait Gallery!!! ** 🎨

The National Portrait Gallery reopens after 3 years!!!

We meet inside near the entrance of the National Portrait Gallery at 18:00. There are two entrances. They are located on St Martin’s Place and Charing Cross Road. We will meet at the Charing cross Road entrance.

We will confirm exactly where in the WhatsApp group or we will update here closer to the event. Else we will meet you later on in the evening and share location in the whatapp group chat. We will introduce you all to each other and mix you in with the group!!!

Our museums/galleries whatapp group chat -
https://chat.whatsapp.com/DrckKPIy6UP9omHwq3fK3j

Please pay £2.88 via PayPal or using the link below to attend this event using the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/574751536317
This is simply to offset the costs of running this group.
Thank you :)

The National Portrait Gallery website-
https://www.npg.org.uk/

By Tube/Train
Leicester Square and Charing Cross Underground stations are both located 200 metres from the Gallery (around a 5 minute walk)

Address-
National Portrait Gallery​
St Martin’s Place​
London, WC2H 0HE​

Date & Time-
Friday 23 June 2023 at 18.00–21.00

Please get your free ticket here -
https://my.npg.org.uk/events?startdate=2023-06-22&k=General%20Admission

We may decide to see some of the current exhibitions-

First Look Festival

First Look Festival gives you the chance to celebrate and experience the all new National Portrait Gallery.
A special in-conversation event with Paul McCartney will headline the Festival.
From artist talks and curator tours, to practical workshops and DJ sets, festival highlights include in-conversations with artist Tracey Emin and architect Jamie Fobert.
Meet our team of expert curators, take part in art and photography workshops and attend a variety of free events including poetry performances and Deaf-led and British Sign Language interpreted sessions and descriptive events for partially sighted visitors.
For families, the festival includes a range of free activities on Saturday 24 June and Saturday 1 July, where you can discover our new spaces and faces through trails, storytelling sessions and family tours. Young people can take part in a variety of free activities including artist workshops, tours, spoken word, music and film screenings on Sunday 25 June and Sunday 2 July.

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64
Eyes of the Storm

An unprecedented exhibition, revealing – for the first time – extraordinary photographs taken by Paul McCartney.
In this show, we focus on portraits captured by McCartney, using his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964 – a time when The Beatles were catapulted from a British sensation to a global phenomenon. These never-before-seen images offer a uniquely personal perspective on what it was like to be a ‘Beatle’ at the start of ‘Beatlemania’ – and adjusting from playing gigs on Liverpool stages, to performing to 73 million Americans on The Ed Sullivan Show. At a time when so many camera lenses were on the band, it is Paul McCartney’s which tells the truest story of a band creating cultural history – in one of its most exciting chapters.

Yevonde Life and Colour

An exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s.
Yevonde: Life and Colour tells the story of a woman who gained freedom through photography – as she experimented with her medium and blazed a new trail for portrait photographers. The exhibition features portraits and still-life works produced by Yevonde over a colourful sixty-year career, and draws on the archive of her work acquired by the Gallery in 2021, as well as extensive new research by our teams.

See you there!!! 😄