Saturday 23 May
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm
£12 to include a visit to the exhibition after the event
Venue: Kedleston Hall, DE22 5JH
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Saturday 23 May 5:30pm, Kedleston Hall DE22 5JH
Kedleston Hall’s latest exhibition, How Did We Get Here? is a collaboration between the National Trust and members of the Tibetan community living in Britain.
Spotlighting a few of the Tibetan objects from Kedleston's colonial museum collection, it explores how they came to be in Derbyshire, what they mean to the British-Tibetans today, and what the National Trust is doing to uncover these stories.
At the heart of the exhibition is a specially commissioned film by British-Tibetan artist Nyima Murry, capturing poignant encounters between people and objects at Kedleston.
Deepa Anaparra’s new novel, The Last of Earth, complements the exhibition well.
It is set in Tibet in 1869, when the Forbidden Kingdom was closed to foreigners and Britain began training Indians – permitted to cross borders that white men may not – to undertake illicit, perilous expeditions within Tibet.
The story involves Balram, a surveyor-spy, and Katherine, an unlikely explorer who has a plan to become the first European woman to reach Lhasa and the legendary Potala Palace.
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