Lunchtime talk by the gallery's Collections Team on 400 years of leisure and amusement in Scarborough, linked to the 'Dive In' exhibition.
Scarborough Art Gallery is hosting a lunchtime talk on Tuesday 1 December, titled Entertainment - Fun, Culture and Spectacle. It's led by the gallery's own Collections Team, and the whole thing is built around objects and artworks from the gallery's collection. It forms part of Dive In, the exhibition marking 400 years of Scarborough as England's seaside resort.
The talk runs through four centuries of leisure and amusement in the town, and it doesn't skip the eras. It starts with Georgian assemblies and Victorian promenades, then moves into theatres, concerts, amusement arcades and seaside shows. Along the way, it asks how all that entertainment helped shape Scarborough's identity as one of Britain's most popular resorts. The gallery's collection provides the evidence, so you'll see the actual things they're talking about rather than just hearing about them.
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The venue itself fits the subject. The gallery is an Italianate villa built in the 1840s, set in the Crescent Gardens, so you're sitting in a building from the very period the talk covers. It's a half-hour session, running from 12:00 to 12:30 on Tuesday 1 December at the Scarborough Art Gallery, The Crescent, YO11 2PW. Tickets are £3.00 to £8.00.
