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Exhibitions

Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now

7 October 2023 - 28 January 2024

Beyond the Page explores how the traditions of South Asian miniature painting have been reclaimed and reinvented by modern and contemporary artists, taken forward beyond the pages of illuminated manuscripts to experimental forms that include installations, sculpture, and film.

From £5.75 - £20

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Cinema

Home Alone (PG)

8 - 28 December 2023

When Kevin learns that two burglars with a Christmas list of their own are working their way up the block, he is forced to defend the family home and sets about decking the halls with traps to hold the thieves at bay until his relatives come home…

From £5 - £9

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Accessible Events

BSL Artist-led Tour: Beyond the Page

9 December 2023

Join Deaf artist and tour guide Chisato Minamimura for an in-depth exploration of MK Gallery’s current exhibition Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain 1600 to Now.

From £5.75 - £20

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Cinema

CBeebies Panto: Robin Hood (U)

9 December 2023

CBeebies Panto is coming back in cinemas for yet another Christmassy adventure, this time with Robin Hood at the helm! As always, the show will feature many of CBeebies’ most popular actors and presenters. Full of catchy songs, dancing, and pantomime fun, it promises to be the must-see Christmas event for preschoolers and their families.

From £5 - £7

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Upcoming

Workshops

Create and Connect

20 September - 13 December 2023

Create and Connect, hosted at the MK Gallery café, provides a space and opportunity to get creative in a friendly and social environment.

Led by artist Gemma Kimmings, the sessions are designed to bring together and inspire our community to connect through the love of arts and crafts in a hope to help tackle loneliness and isolation.

£7

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Exhibitions

Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now

7 October 2023 - 28 January 2024

Beyond the Page explores how the traditions of South Asian miniature painting have been reclaimed and reinvented by modern and contemporary artists, taken forward beyond the pages of illuminated manuscripts to experimental forms that include installations, sculpture, and film.

From £5.75 - £20

Read more

Accessible Events

Relaxed Exhibition Viewing: Beyond the Page

15 October 2023 - 21 January 2024

Our Relaxed Exhibition Viewings are quiet hours tailored to support visitors with neurodivergence, inclusive of communication or sensory needs, autism and learning disabilities.

Sensory Scout Kits are available on entry to the Gallery with ear defenders and sensory aids included. The hand dryers in the toilets are switched off and tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the galleries.

From Free - £15

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Tours

Conversational Tours: Beyond the Page

27 October 2023 - 26 January 2024

An Introduction to South Asian miniatures, and their influence on contemporary art practice. Discover the features historical works share, how they develop over time, and how contemporary artists have broken free from the ‘rules’ whilst still respectfully quoting their predecessors.

From £5.75 - £20

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Learning

Art Club: Ages 8-11

31 October 2023 - 13 February 2024

Creative weekly after school workshops that aim to promote and nurture children’s love of art in a non-competitive, creative environment.

Running during school term time, this after school club acts as an alternative space for art education that looks to grow our future artists in confidence, expression and creativity led by a practicing artist.

Each half term will focus on a different theme, medium or material loosely based on our main exhibitions programme.

£7.50

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Learning

Art Club: Ages 5-8

31 October 2023 - 13 February 2024

Creative weekly after school workshops that aim to promote and nurture children’s love of art in a non-competitive, creative environment.

Running during school term time, this after school club acts as an alternative space for art education that looks to grow our future artists in confidence, expression and creativity led by a practicing artist.

Each half term will focus on a different theme, medium or material loosely based on our main exhibitions programme.

£7.50

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Accessible Events

SEND Exhibition Tour: Beyond the Page

25 November 2023 - 6 January 2024

Take a journey on our award-winning sensory tours and experience Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now through the multi-sensory magic of artist Julia Collar! A unique and playful sensory exploration designed especially for individuals of all ages with additional and complex support needs, and their families. Makaton signing used throughout.

From Free - £5

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Accessible Events

Toddle Exhibition Tour: Beyond the Page

25 November 2023 - 6 January 2024

A fun-filled sensory experience for you and your little ones! Our exhibition, Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting, 1600 to Now will be brought to life by our sensory tour guide Julia Collar, who will ignite the galleries with music, story-telling, object handling and play. Not to be missed!

From Free - £5

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Cinema

Anatomy of a Fall (15)

8 - 12 December 2023

In this Palme d’Or-winning psychological thriller, a celebrated writer is put on trial when her husband falls to his death. What starts as a murder investigation soon becomes a gripping journey into the depths of a destructive marriage.

From £7 - £9

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Cinema

Home Alone (PG)

8 - 28 December 2023

When Kevin learns that two burglars with a Christmas list of their own are working their way up the block, he is forced to defend the family home and sets about decking the halls with traps to hold the thieves at bay until his relatives come home…

From £5 - £9

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Cinema

On the Adamant (PG)

8 - 12 December 2023

An affirming portrait of a floating day-care centre for people with psychiatric problems.

From £5 - £9

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Accessible Events

Relaxed Screening: CBeebies Panto: Robin Hood (U)

10 December 2023

These screenings have sensory friendly adjustments which aim to reduce over-stimulation and create a relaxed and welcoming environment. Tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the cinema and visitors are free to move around the space as needed. No trailers are shown and the hand dryers in the Sky Room toilets are switched off. Sensory Scout Kits, inclusive of ear defenders, will be available upon arrival.

From £5 - £7

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Cinema

Maestro (15)

15 - 19 December 2023

Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between cultural icon Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

From £5 - £9

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Cinema

May December (15)

16 - 21 December 2023

May December follows married couple Gracie and Joe Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore and Charles Melton) whose 23-year age gap sparked a notorious tabloid romance that gripped the nation two decades ago.

From £5 - £9

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Cinema

Saltburn (15)

16 - 21 December 2023

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate.

From £7 - £9

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Cinema

ROH: The Nutcracker

17 December 2023

Discover the enchantment of ballet with this sparkling festive treat for the whole family.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

Milk & Baby: Love Actually: 20th Anniversary (15)

22 December 2023

Milk & Baby screenings are for guardians and babies under the age of 1 years old. An adult must be accompanied by a baby to attend. Each ticket also comes with a free tea or filter coffee available from the café. Supported by Milk & Beans, Milton Keynes’ first and only Specialty Coffee Roasters.

From £6 - £7

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Cinema

The Muppet Christmas Carol (PG)

22 - 27 December 2023

‘Tis the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale.

From £5 - £7

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Cinema

A Christmas Carol (PG)

23 December 2023

Based on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical extravaganza of festive storytelling that is both heart-warming and deeply moving. A Christmas must see!

From £5 - £7

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Cinema

It’s a Wonderful Life (U)

23 - 27 December 2023

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

From £7 - £9

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Cinema

Love Actually: 20th Anniversary (15)

23 - 28 December 2023

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love.

From £5 - £7

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Accessible Events

Relaxed Screening: Home Alone (PG)

24 December 2023

These screenings have sensory friendly adjustments which aim to reduce over-stimulation and create a relaxed and welcoming environment. Tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the cinema and visitors are free to move around the space as needed. No trailers are shown and the hand dryers in the Sky Room toilets are switched off. Sensory Scout Kits, inclusive of ear defenders, will be available upon arrival.

From £5 - £7

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Cinema

Eileen (15)

29 December 2023 - 3 January 2024

In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracized her.

From £5 - £9

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Cinema

Fallen Leaves (12A)

29 December 2023 - 2 January 2024

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with Fallen Leaves, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness.

From £7 - £9

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Cinema

Milk & Baby: Wish (PG)

29 December 2023

Milk & Baby screenings are for guardians and babies under the age of 1 years old. An adult must be accompanied by a baby to attend. Each ticket also comes with a free tea or filter coffee available from the café. Supported by Milk & Beans, Milton Keynes’ first and only Specialty Coffee Roasters.

From £6 - £7

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Cinema

Wish (PG)

29 December 2023 - 4 January 2024

In Wish, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force – a little ball of boundless energy called Star.

From £5 - £7

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Cinema

Napoleon (15)

31 December 2023 - 4 January 2024

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix.

From £7 - £9

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Accessible Events

Relaxed Screening: Wish (PG)

31 December 2023

These screenings have sensory friendly adjustments which aim to reduce over-stimulation and create a relaxed and welcoming environment. Tickets are limited to reduce the number of people in the cinema and visitors are free to move around the space as needed. No trailers are shown and the hand dryers in the Sky Room toilets are switched off. Sensory Scout Kits, inclusive of ear defenders, will be available upon arrival.

From £5 - £7

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Workshops

Exploring Miniatures with Noor Ali Chagani

13 January 2024

Join artist Noor Ali Chagani for this 3-hour workshop exploring the tradition of miniature painting. 

You will learn about the different types of miniature painting, basic theory and techniques before having the opportunity to make your own miniature drawing. 

£45

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Talks

Beyond the Page Conference

19 January 2024

This day-long conference will explore key themes from Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now.

Artists, art historians and authors discuss entangled histories of Britain and South Asia, their impact on the evolution of the miniature painting tradition and its revival as an aesthetic and critical force in the 20th and 21st centuries.

From £25 - £35

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Talks

Beyond the Page Conference (Online)

19 January 2024

Book here to watch the conference online. A link to watch the conference will be sent closer to the event.

This day-long conference will explore key themes from Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now.

Artists, art historians and authors discuss entangled histories of Britain and South Asia, their impact on the evolution of the miniature painting tradition and its revival as an aesthetic and critical force in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

From £10 - £20

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Workshops

Life Drawing in the Galleries: Beyond the Page

26 January 2024

A unique opportunity to draw from a live model in the galleries during our Beyond the Page exhibition. This exclusive after-hours experience will be led by artist Sara Myers with model Musa from Bare Life Drawing a collective that promotes diverse life models and body positivity.

Myers will guide you through different techniques and activities to create your own observational drawings inspired by the artworks in the show.

£45

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Cinema

NT Live: Dear England

27 January 2024

Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Rusalka

28 January 2024

This poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvorak’s lyric fairy tale reveals our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it.

From £12 - £19

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Workshops

Portrait Drawing: Full Day Workshop

3 February 2024

A full day workshop, led by Paul Berryman, to develop your skills and confidence in creating portraits.

£75

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Workshops

Life Drawing: Full Day Workshop

10 February 2024

This full day workshop, led by Paul Berryman, will provide you with an introduction to the principles of life drawing. You will explore measuring the figure and proportion, mark making and drawing techniques to create your own observational drawings from a nude model.

£75

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Cinema

ROH: Manon

11 February 2024

Torn between her desire of a life of splendour and riches and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux, the feckless and capricious Manon pays the ultimate price.

From £12 - £19

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Exhibitions

Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World

17 February - 2 June 2024

American photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013), one of the most important practitioners of the post-war period and a pioneer of colour photography, celebrated for his evocative images of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, will be the subject of a major survey at MK Gallery opening 17 February 2024.

From £5.75 - £11.50

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Cinema

NT Live: Vanya

24 February 2024

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Madama Butterfly

31 March 2024

Puccini’s devastating tragedy about a young geisha who falls in love with an American naval officer.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Macmillan Celebrated

14 April 2024

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Swan Lake

28 April 2024

Classical ballet’s most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: The Winter’s Tale

26 May 2024

Shakespeare’s profound story of love and loss, artfully adapted into a contemporary three-act narrative ballet by Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, celebrates its tenth anniversary.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Message in a Bottle

2 June 2024

The iconic songs of Sting. The electrifying choreography of Kate Prince. This is a tale of hope.

From £12 - £19

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Cinema

ROH: Andrea Chenier

16 June 2024

Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging of Giordano’s epic historical drama, conducted by long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano.

From £12 - £19

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