Museum of Oxford/Town Hall

Creation Theatre: Alice in Wonderland drama workshop

Oxford's own Creation Theatre will be running a two-hour drama workshop, helping children create a short Alice performance of their own, which they will show at 12 noon. Suitable for ages 7-12 years.

Tickets £2 per person, available from Creation Theatre box office 01865 766266 or online. Town Hall: main hall.

Creation Theatre: Alice in Wonderland performances

Creation's youth theatre groups will be holding mini workshops, with games and character play, and performing their own devised Alice pieces throughout the day - audience participation welcomed! Each workshop lasts approx. 45 minutes. FREE. Town Hall: main hall.

12.30pm: for 5-7 years
1.30pm: for 8-13 years
2.30pm: for 14-16 years

Curiouser and Curiouser: exhibition and activities

Celebrate Alice's birthday with the opening of the Museum's latest exhibition Curiouser and Curiouser. Discover how Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have inspired different art forms, from work by local artists and schoolchildren to book covers and promotional images by illustrators and designers. Featuring historical collections from the Lewis Carroll Society and fun family drop-in activities. Design your own Mad Hat or a crown fit for the Queen of Hearts, read the stories written by famous Oxford author Lewis Carroll, or try on an Alice character costume.

Family activities cost £1.50 at the Museum of Oxford during opening hours or in the Town Hall Gallery from 1.30  -4.00pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays throughout the school holidays.

A-Z of Literary Oxford: exhibition

See personal possessions and memorabilia belonging to Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell – the real little girl who inspired Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Featuring a pocket watch belonging to the author and a biscuit tin given to Alice’s family by Dodgson on the first publication of the famous book.

The exhibition also features an A-Z of literary links to Oxford and children’s activities including dressing up, puppet shows, books to read and puzzles to solve.

10.00am - 5.00pm. No need to book - just drop in.

Craft activities cost £1.50 per person and will be available all day. Other drop-in activities are FREE and will be available in the Museum and Town Hall gallery all day.

'End at the beginning' walk

Local historian and guide Mark Davies will expand on the information from his book, Alice in Waterland (which traces the all-important role of the River Thames in the creation of the two ‘Alice’ books), during a 60-minute walk around Christ Church Meadow. The walk will include other relevant historical, geographical, and literary references, and end at Folly Bridge, the starting point for all of the river trips taken by Lewis Carroll with the Liddell sisters. Special ‘Alicean’ refreshments available at No 1 Folly Bridge restaurant.

4.00pm. Start at Museum of Oxford, Town Hall; end at No.1 Folly Bridge restaurant. Pre-booking essential: before the day mailto: towpathpress@btopenworld.com; on the day, at the Town Hall. FREE EVENT.

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