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Family Welcome Weekend

Lute tour

To celebrate the opening of The Roden Centre for Creative Learning, join us for a weekend of creativity and family fun.
Date
Various dates
  • Saturday, 1 March 2025
  • Sunday, 2 March 2025
Time
12 - 12.50 pm (drop-in)
Audience
Families, ages 5 - 13

About

Bring your friends and family along to join lute player, Andrew Maginley, and Gallery educator and storyteller, Fiona Alderton, for a musical adventure around the Gallery. Through repetition, rhythm and rhyme, Fiona invites you to help her tell a story as you explore a selection of paintings. Join us on a musical tour bringing paintings to life through tales and tunes! 

On this special weekend, help us warm up The Roden Centre for Creative Learning and be a part of your National Gallery’s next adventure. Come and discover all the exciting spaces the new Centre has to offer, with a variety of creative workshops, tours and fun for the whole family. 

Image: Hans Holbein the Younger, 'The Ambassadors' (detail), 1533 © The National Gallery, London

Andrew Maginley

Andrew Maginley is a concert soloist and accompanist. Born in New York City, his musical journey began performing at the Juilliard School’s first performances of Baroque opera while studying lute at the Mannes College of Music, where he gained a Masters Degree in Historical Performance Practice. Andrew was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to further study at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany.

Andrew has performed with some of the world’s leading ensembles and orchestras including Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the English Concert, and the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment.  He has also performed live on the BBC Breakfast Show with soprano Daniel de Niese, and in a film by author Allie Esiri, ‘A Poem for Every Autumn Day’, with Jamal Westman and Helena Bonham Carter.

Fiona Alderton

Fiona Alderton is a Gallery Educator and storyteller. With a background in performing, she writes and gives sessions for adults and children, including commissions for various organisations such as the National Portrait Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Royal Opera House in London.

Tours

Family Welcome Weekend

Lute tour

To celebrate the opening of The Roden Centre for Creative Learning, join us for a weekend of creativity and family fun.
Date
Various dates
  • Saturday, 1 March 2025
  • Sunday, 2 March 2025
Time
12 - 12.50 pm (drop-in)
Audience
Families, ages 5 - 13

Free, drop-in sessions

Spaces are limited, and wristbands will be given on a first come, first served basis from 10:30am.

Children must be accompanied by an adult. We advise a minimum age of 5 years.