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THREE GIFTS IN NEW HAVEN
Tour of Yale Center for British Art, Lunch at Union
League Café, & a Play at Long Wharf Theatre

This trip could be the ideal holiday gift for friend or family member!

Wednesday, December 10th
8:30am-6pm
$135 (members $125); includes lunch at the Union League Café
refund date: November 26, 2008

Join fellow Museum members and friends for a Christmastime tour enjoying three cultural gifts of New Haven. Our day begins at the renown Yale Center for British Art with its collection that vividly narrates the story of British art, life, and culture since the end of the Middle Ages. We begin with a highlight tour of the collection. Among the artists best represented are Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Constable, and Turner. There will also be time for exploration of some of their special exhibitions including Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret, a fascinating exhibition about a late 18th-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists. Also on view is Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox, a major retrospective examining the work of this important figure in the development of British landscape and watercolor painting.

We have arranged for a delicious holiday lunch in a private room upstairs at the stylish Union League Café. Our special menu will feature a choice of soup or salad, an entrée, as well as freshly baked housemade rolls and butter, freshly brewed Union League Café coffee, decaf, and tea, followed by a sensational seasonal dessert.

After lunch, we will board the bus for the short trip over to Long Wharf Theatre for the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas. The Museum has booked a block of terrific seats for this music-filled production, with over a dozen period songs, that intertwines many lives and shows us that the gladness of one's heart is the best gift of all. It's 1864, and Washington, DC, settles down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years - in the White House, where President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their gift-giving; on the banks of the Potomac, where a young rebel challenges a Union blacksmith's mercy; and in the alleys downtown, where an escaped slave loses her daughter just before finding freedom. According to The New York Times, "Ms. Vogel has a gift for sustaining humor and pathos at the same time, without trivializing either emotion."

To register for this trip, click here to register online,
complete the Registration Form and fax it in,
or call the Museum at (860) 434-5542, ext. 111.