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

27 March Family event:
Polly's Little Artists
more...
2-4pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

30 March & 6 April Family event:
Storytelling
more...
10-10.30am
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

23 March 'Beyond Comparison'
Peter Slater Gallery Lecture
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1-1.30pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews


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

3 April Family event:
Polly's Eggstravaganza more...
2-4pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

17 April Family event:
World Adventurer! more...
2-4pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

24 April Family event:
Wacky Races! more...
2-4pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

14 29 April Curators' Talks
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1pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

19 April 'The Art of Science'
Daniel Herrmann Gallery Talk
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1-1.30pm
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

22 23 29 April Schools event:
Stop the Press! more...
Gateway Building
North Haugh
St Andrews

22 23 30 April Schools event:
Skulls and Swirls more...
Gateway Building
North Haugh
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. 2-4.30pm
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
6pm
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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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