We're having an 18th-century Twelfth Night celebration on January 6th to raise funds for our education work. All welcome to come along and liven up early January. Details below.
All too often in the twenty-first century early January is marked only by gloom and short-lived resolutions, and Twelfth Night passes by uncelebrated. In Samuel Johnson’s day it was often the greatest occasion of the winter season. Now you, like many of his friends, are invited to Johnson’s own home, where there will be an evocation of a 1750s Twelfth Night. Take a glass of good wine punch and a pie, listen to the fashionable music of the day, join in the singing if you wish, sharpen your wits with the Georgians’ answer to Trivial Pursuit, and be the first to attend a read-through of the latest work by Johnson’s friend David Garrick. Georgian costume optional.
For more info visit www.drjohnsonshouse.org/events or email me.
Merry Christmas!
Morwenna
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