23 February 2024, 18:00 – 22:00
Hesperides Centenary Dinner
- LocationLecture Theatre, and Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
- Cost£65 or £50 for those who matriculated in 2014 or later
- Booking closing dateWednesday, 07 February 2024 12:00pm
- Dress codeBlack Tie
- Event typeLecture, drinks reception, and dinner
Bookings for the Hesperides Centenary Dinner have now closed. If you have any questions please contact Rebecca Horner at alumnievents@trinhall.cam.ac.uk.
The Trinity Hall Hesperides Society are delighted to announce that their Centenary Dinner will take place on Friday 23 February 2024. It will celebrate the culmination of our 100th Anniversary programme of events.
The dinner is open to old Hesperideans; all alumni who studied English or History of Art; or those with a special interest in the arts, and you are invited to bring one guest.
It will provide a wonderful opportunity for alumni to meet with current students. Further, prior to the dinner we will be joined by artist Sophie Mei Birkin (2014) in conversation with History of Art Fellow, Professor Alexander Marr.
Sophie Mei Birkin, a Bateman Scholar at Trinity Hall (2014), created the latest piece of artwork on display in the Dining Hall. She is a London-based artist specialising in multimedia practice; material exploration is central to her work, particularly how materials interact to create a psychophysical response. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, where she was awarded the Euan Uglow Scholarship for MA Sculpture and an Emerging Artist Award by Sarabande Foundation; and she has recently exhibited work at Barbican Cinema, The Artist Room Gallery and Saatchi Gallery.
She will be joined by Professor Alexander Marr, who commissioned the piece on behalf of the College’s Art Festival last year. Aside from his position as a Fellow at Trinity Hall and Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, he is also President of The Leonardo da Vinci Society and a Trustee of the Walpole Society. It promises to be a stimulating discussion, with a lovely connection to current arts scene around College. Please see below for more information.
Programme
18:00-19:00 Sophie Mei Birkin in conversation with Alexander Marr, in the Lecture Theatre
19:00-19:30 Drinks reception in the Graham Storey Room
19:30-22:00 Dinner in the Graham Storey Room
Speakers
Sophie Mei Birkin (2014)
Sophie Mei Birkin is a London-based artist with a multimedia practice- material exploration is central to her work particularly how materials interact to create a psychophysical response. She investigates the generative potential in the transformation of matter through a variety of material processes such as growing salt crystals and exploring amorphous and decomposing substances. Sophie Mei graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, where she was awarded the Euan Uglow Scholarship for MA Sculpture and an Emerging Artist Award by Sarabande Foundation; she has recently exhibited work at Collective Ending HQ, Barbican Cinema, The Artist Room Gallery, Projektraum Claas Reiss and Saatchi Gallery. Sophie Mei studied History of Art at Cambridge University, where she was a Trinity Hall Bateman Scholar, and was awarded the Hamish Maxwell Prize for Art History and the University’s Winifried Georgina Holgate Pollard Prize for outstanding academic performance.
Professor Alexander Marr
Alexander Marr is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art. He specializes in German, Netherlandish, Italian, French and British art ca. 1450-ca. 1800, especially its intellectual and literary aspects in their social contexts. Before coming to Cambridge, he taught at the University of Southern California and the University of St Andrews. From 2014 to 2019 he was Director of the project Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art & Science, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (€1.8 million). His awards include a Paul Mellon Centre Senior Fellowship, the Robert H. Smith Residency at the V&A, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He was the founding Director of Cambridge’s CVC and has directed research projects at CRASSH, the DAAD-Cambridge Hub for German Studies, and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Marr is Fellow and Dean of Discipline at Trinity Hall, and Director of Studies there and at Clare College. He is the President of the Leonardo da Vinci Society: a learned society dedicated to the study of art and science from the Renaissance to the present day.
Booking and cost
Bookings for the Hesperides Centenary Dinner have now closed. If you have any questions please contact Rebecca Horner at alumnievents@trinhall.cam.ac.uk.
The cost is £65 per person, or £50 for those who matriculated in 2014 or later. The price includes a drinks reception, and three-course meal served with wine (non-alcoholic options available). You are invited to bring a guest.
Please note that spaces are limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Guest list
The guest list is now available to view online via the link above. Please note that only Trinity Hall members, who have given consent to be included, will appear on the list.
Accommodation
Please be aware that the event takes place during term time and therefore we have very limited accommodation available. If you would like to make an enquiry about our Guest Rooms which are charged at £110 per night, please email alumnievents@trinhall.cam.ac.uk. For those wishing to stay in a hotel overnight, the University CAMCard entitles you to discounts at various local hotels or you can check availability at other Colleges at www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/search/Accommodation/in/Cambridge
Photography
We like to take photographs at our alumni events to use in our digital and print communications. If you do not wish to have your photo taken, please let us know in advance or on the day.
Cancellations
We are able to offer refunds for bookings cancelled five working days or more before an event. Requests for late refunds will be considered on an individual basis and refunds will be issued at the discretion of the Alumni & Development Office. We cannot accept responsibility if weather or disruption to travel prevents you from attending. Please email Rebecca Horner or contact +44 (0)1223 763385 at the earliest opportunity if you need to cancel a booking.
Contact
If you have any queries, please contact Rebecca Horner at alumnievents@trinhall.cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223 763385.
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