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	Full Events Calendar - February 2008 All events are Free except where indicated. To book ticketed events call 020 7306 0055.

February	Friday 1 February 2008, 18:30 Music Bridge Duo Matthew Jones (viola) and Michael Hampton (piano) return to the National Portrait Gallery with a programme of highlights from the viola repertoire, including music by Bax, Bridge, Matthew Hindson and Prokofiev. Free

February	Saturday 2 February 2008, 12:00 Portrait of the Day Free

February	Saturday 2 February 2008, 15:00 Modern Portrait Techniques Alison Kusner Free

February	Sunday 3 February 2008, 11:00 - 16:00 Sunday Session Sensory Mapping Work in pairs using blindfolds, ear defenders and a Global Positioning System (GPS) to explore the area surrounding the Gallery. Download the data to create a sensory map, as a portrait of the people and place. This session is led by artist Christian Nold and relates to the My Space exhibition. Free My Space Young People's Programme

February	Sunday 3 February 2008, 15:00 Ian Fleming Sylvia Paskin Free

February	Tuesday 5 February 2008, 15:00 Mary Beale and Venetia, Lady Digby Julie Barlow Free

February	Thursday 7 February 2008, 13:15 Beijing: Biography of a City Jonathan Clements Author and historian of China, Jonathon Clements presents an original history of the Beijing region from its prehistoric roots to its place in myth as the site of wars between demigods, its forgotten 101 years as a kingdom in its own right, through the many centuries of the imperial era and the rise of Communism, until the eve of the 2008 Olympics. Free

February	Thursday 7 February 2008, 19:00 Performance Survival Insight DreamsArts and Adobe Youth Voices present Survival Insight, a Black History Youth Arts project that looks at how dances from Africa, the Caribbean and Europe are means of survival and unity. The live dance performance will be followed by a film screening of a youth documentary. Free Young People's Programme

February	Friday 8 February 2008, 18:30 Music Chinese New Year 2008 The Silk and Bamboo Quartet Traditional Chinese instrumentalists perform on the pipa lute, erhu fiddle, yangqin dulcimer and dizi bamboo flute, playing traditional and modern music to celebrate Chinese New Year 2008. Free

February	Friday 8 February 2008, 19:00-20:30 UK film premiere Anna May Wong: Frosted Yellow Willows - Her life, times and legend with an introduction by director Elaine Mae Woo Ondaatje Wing Theatre This film is the story of a pioneering Chinese-American actress who endured many hardships to become an international film star. From humble beginnings in a Chinese laundry, she went on to star in films such as Technicolor's Toll Of The Sea (1922), E.A. Dupont's Piccadilly (1929) and Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932) with Marlene Dietrich. Never one to rest on her laurels, Anna would utilize her fame to aid her country and the country of her ancestors during times of war. Her body of work establishes her as a true pioneer of early cinema. A photograph of Ann May Wong by Edward Steichen is included in the Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition, which opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 14 February 2008. £5/£3 concessions Book online

February	Saturday 9 February 2008, 12:00 Portrait of the Day Free

February	Saturday 9 February 2008, 15:00 Victorian Portraits: G.F. Watts Julie Barlow Free

February	Sunday 10 February 2008, 15:00 Performance Samuel Pepys Colin Pinney Free

February	Tuesday 12 February 2008, 15:00 The Thomas More Family Group Angela Cox Free

February	Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:15 Paintings and the Art of Love Shaun Levin In a special lecture for Valentine's Day, artist and writer Liz Rideal looks at the themes of love and lust in the Gallery's portraits. Free

February	Thursday 14 February 2008, 13:00 - 16:00 Digital Photography Workshop Under-Exposed This workshop is inspired by the portraits of Black British actors from 4 The Record Initiative's Under-exposed public exhibition on the Underground and on public billboards. It will begin with creating a short drama piece, leading to a street performance, which will then be documented with digital cameras. Participants will take the role of both actors and photographers. This is led by photographer Othello De'Souza Hartley and funded by the UK Film Council. Free

February	Thursday 14 February 2008, 19:00 Performance The Language of Love BAFTA-winning actress Virginia McKenna OBE, known for her role as Joy Adamson in the 1966 film Born Free, joins Gabriel Woolf and Richard Furstenheim (piano) to present The Language of Love, an anthology of words and music devised by Anne Harvey especially for Valentine's Day. £5/£3 concessions Book online

February	Friday 15 February 2008, 13:00 - 16:00 Digital Photography Workshop Under-Exposed This workshop is inspired by the portraits of Black British actors from 4 The Record Initiative's Under-exposed public exhibition on the Underground and on public billboards. It will begin with creating a short drama piece, leading to a street performance, which will then be documented with digital cameras. Participants will take the role of both actors and photographers. This is led by photographer Othello De'Souza Hartley and funded by the UK Film Council. Free

February	Friday 15 February 2008, 18:30 Music Mardi Brass Edward Maxwell and Richard Hammond (trumpet), Jonathan Hassan (french horn), Adam Woolf (trombone) and Jeff Miller (tuba) play music by Purcell, Rameau, Warlockand Maxwell. Free

February	Saturday 16 February 2008, 11:30, 14:30 Small Faces Third Saturday of every month. Family session exploring portraits in the Collection, followed by an art activity. Suitable for ages 5+. Free tickets required and available on the day from the Information Desk. Free, tickets required

February	Saturday 16 February 2008, 12:00 Portrait of the Day Free

February	Saturday 16 February 2008, 14:00, 15:00 Are You Sitting Comfortably? Drop-in storytelling sessions on the third Saturday of every month. Suitable for ages 3+. Free

February	Saturday 16 February 2008, 15:00 20th-Century Portraits Miranda Lopatkin Free

February	Monday 18 February 2008 - 22 February 2008, 11:30, 14:30 Strike A Pose A week of activities inspired by the Gallery's two exhibitions - Vanity Fair Portraits and the Photographic Portrait Prize 2007. Suitable for ages 5+. Free tickets required and available on the day from the Information Desk. Free, tickets required Photographic Portrait Prize 2007

February	Tuesday 19 February 2008, 15:00 Propaganda and Symbolism in Tudor Portraits Amy Wedderburn Free

February	Wednesday 20 February 2008 - 22 February 2008, 11:00 - 16:00 Three-day Workshop Deconstructed Fashion Inspired by Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, this fashion design course, led by tutors Jenny Hughes and Sharon Laurent,will culminate in a public showcase of the work at Fashionable Friday on 22 February at 17.00. Free - Fully Booked Young People's Programme Vanity Fair

February	Thursday 21 February 2008, 19:00 Edward Steichen: "I will sign the pictures" William A. Ewing Ondaatje Wing Theatre Steichen photographed the clothes of all the great couturiers of the 20s and 30s: Worth, Doucet, Poiret, Lanvin, Patou, Lelong, Chanel, Schiaparelli, along with the works of dozens of less known designers. He photographed accessories, scarves, shoes, and jewellery with the same brio he accorded his private work. In retrospect, it has become clear that there is simply no other archive with as broad a sweep. This lecture will take a broad look at this remarkable body of work and make the argument that Steichen was 'the' finest fashion photographer of the twentieth-century. Free on a first come, first served basis

February	Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:15 Hollywood and the Corporate Image Sandra Shevey Free Pop Art Portraits

February	Friday 22 February 2008, 17:00 Performance Fashionable Friday A showcase resulting from the Deconstructed Fashion course. Free Young People's Programme

February	Friday 22 February 2008, 18:30 Music Las Morochas Ianina Pietrantonio (flute) and Cecilia Zabala (guitar) interpret the works of Astor Piazzolla, Argentina's iconoclastic tango musician, composer and cult figure for classical and jazz lovers throughout the world. Free

February	Saturday 23 February 2008, 10:30 - 15:30 National Portrait Gallery Walk Fitzrovia Just north of its more famous Soho neighbour, Fitzrovia is London's hidden Bohemia, a fascinating district of narrow passages, some of the city's oldest residential streets and the celebrated Fitzroy Tavern - a popular haunt for many artists and writers including Augustus John, Dylan Thomas and George Orwell. The day begins with an introductory lecture and tour of the Gallery and is followed by a 90-minute walking tour led by Jane Brand. £15/£10 concessions (transport to Fitzrovia not included) - - Fully Booked

February	Saturday 23 February 2008, 12:00 Portrait of the Day Free

February	Saturday 23 February 2008, 12:00 Highlights of the Collection Marc Woodhead Free

February	Tuesday 26 February 2008, 15:00 Self-Portraits - Analysing the Artist as Sitter Alison Kusner Free

February	Wednesday 27 February 2008, 14:00 - 15:30 Visualising Portraits Picture description for visually impaired visitors. Free

February	Thursday 28 February 2008, 13:15 Raving Expressionism - The Portraits of Tracey Emin Sumi Ghose 'At the side of the unmade bed a Polaroid portrait of the artist, out of focus but smiling and healthy, gathers dust, evidence perhaps of a time before the sickness and alcoholism took hold' Once described as a 'raving expressionist', artist Tracey Emin has produced a body of work in a range of media including monoprint, drawing, photography, video and installation that focuses almost entirely on the representation of the artist's own identity. Whilst she is vilified by certain sections of the media, and her work is criticised for its self-indulgence and vulgarity, Emin's self portraiture is actually carefully crafted and seems to hold up a mirror to our confessional, celebrity-driven society. This talk, by Sumi Ghose, Public Programmes Manager of the Gallery considers the photographic self-portraits, monoprints and the infamous installation My Bed, and explores the influences behind Britain's most controversial artist. Free

February	Thursday 28 February 2008, 19:00 Vanity Fair Portraits Exhibition Tour Marc Woodhead provides an introduction to this fascinating photographic exhibition, which brings together 150 classic and contemporary images from the archives of Vanity Fair magazine. Free, but tickets required and available on the night, on a first come, first served basis in addition to a timed exhibition ticket. Available from 5pm

February	Friday 29 February 2008, 18:30 Music The Sarah Bennett Trio Sarah Bennett (vocals), Pat Sprakes (guitar) and Ian Beestin (drums) play contemporary jazz standards and classic jazz repertoire. Free

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