Events Calendar
    ongoing events... one-off events    

November 2009
   

2 - 28 November Reoccurrence/Ricercare - a residency/exhibition by Raydale Dower exploring links between sound, mathematics and nature, using material from the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum CCA, Glasgow

   

March 2010
 

19 March – 3 May Two-part exhibition on D’Arcy Thompson’s life and work Gateway Galleries
University of St Andrews &
The Lamb Gallery
University of Dundee

6 - 20 March Exhibition of work by Illustration students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design made in response to the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum Bradshaw Gallery,
Duncan of Jordanstone
University of Dundee

   

April 2010
 

2-3 April Zoology Museum open Good Friday: 2-4.30pm
Easter Saturday: 10am-12.30pm
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
University of Dundee

30 April Public Leture by Professor Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway):
D'Arcy Thompson's theory of transformations and its relations with the evolutionary views of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
5pm Bute Building, University of St Andrews

   

May 2010
 

1 May Music & talks: University Chamber Choir, & speakers: Cathy Caudwell, Matthew Jarron, Mike Taylor, Patrick Randolph-Quinney 2-4.30pm
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
University of Dundee

2 May D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum open, & live street theatre event. 6pm
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
University of Dundee

3 May Notes from the Museum
readings by Creative Writing students, including new work by poet/tutor Jim Stewart
2-4.30pm
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
University of Dundee

1 May Public lecture:
'The Development of Pattern and
Form '
by Prof Lewis Wolpert (UCL)
Dalhousie Building University of Dundee
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1 & 2 May Special openings for the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum further details to follow


June 2010
 

June - September D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum open every Friday 2-4.30pm University of Dundee

June - September Bell Pettigrew Museum open University of St Andrews

September - October Exhibition exploring how artists have responded to D'Arcy Thompson's
ideas and collections
Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee

   

July 2010
     

August 2010
     

September 2010
 

2 September Public Lecture by
Prof Martin Kemp (University of Oxford)
The artistic influences of D'Arcy's Thompson's work
Tower Building, University of Dundee

3 September Afternoon public lectures on D'Arcy's ongoing relevance to academic areas as diverse as biology, methematics, classics, and the arts, followed buffet with music and an appreciation of D'Arcy the man by his successor as Professor of Natural History, Peter Slater.
Bell Pettigrew Museum, Bute Building,
University of St Andrews

3 & 4 September A unique two-day 'town & gown' event to celebrate D’Arcy in Dundee and St Andrews, with a free bus on hand to take visitors back and forth further details to follow