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A late line-up at the museum
Louise Jury, Evening Standard1 May 2007
Special after-dark events are to be held during Museums and Galleries Month, which starts today.
The programme includes a debate on class with Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry at the National Portrait Gallery and another on slavery at Tate Britain.
There will be jazz at the National Gallery on 19 May and a "surrealist ball" at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 25 May.
Smaller venues taking part include the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, which is hosting a torch-lit tour of its aquarium.
Events over the bank holiday weekend include a festival on the "art of protest" at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park on Monday.
This will include morris and maypole dancing to celebrate the history of May Day.
A total of 1,500 special events are planned for the month in museums and galleries across the country. Further details can be found at www.mgm.org.uk
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Stop! You're making me want to reschedule everything and I can't! Life's too busy to fit in what I want to already! I will be marking KS2 English papers and that writes off most of my beloved activities if I want to do a good job!
- Carlyle Braden, Croydon, UK, 02/05/2007 07:58
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