THIRD THURSDAY TRIP National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street

Name: THIRD THURSDAY TRIP National Portrait Gallery, Queen Street
Start: 2025-10-16T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-16T13:30:00+01:00
Location: National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 09:30 am to 01:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

National Portrait Gallery Edinburgh | Edinburgh, SC

Join us for October's Third Thursday Trip to The National Portrait Gallery on Queen Street. Where we'll Get a 1 hour tour of the amazing murals telling the history of Scotland
Following July's trip to the Gallery of Modern Art to see the photography exhibition Resistance, AFGU, and Royston Wardieburn's Art & Culture group have been collaborating with the National Galleries of Scotland to explore local and international histories of resistance, through collage, song workshops and more.
In this visit to Portrait Gallery, we'll get to discuss and plan for our display of new artworks which will be installed in November in the Communities Gallery on the ground floor.
We're keeping it short this time, so we can get back to set up for our Special, Local Resistance Cinema Event in the theatre at NEA
This trip and activity is open to all adults living in North Edinburgh Arts' local area
ℹ️WHERE & WHEN:
The National Portrait Gallery
Thursday 16th October
- 9:30am - Meet at NEA to travel to Queen Street together
- OR: 10:20AM- Meet in the foyer of the portrait gallery a)
-10:30-11:30 Tour
- 11:30 -refreshments and early lunch in the Farmer Education Suite
- 12:30 - 1:30 Workshop / Try out and discuss our artworks on the plinths in the gallery - And make plans for our celebration events
- 13:30 - Back to NEA / home
ℹ️LUNCH
For this trip Bring your sandwich and a drink. We'll provide the tea and coffee.
ℹ️BOOKING:
Booking essential:
Email: [email protected]
Or call / text: on 07849410813
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This THIRD THURSDAY TRIP ties in with our ongoing creative project around local resistance inspired by the exhibition, Resistance, at National Galleries; https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/resistance