2010 Bicentenary Information 2010 Celebrations: Latest News | 2010 Bicentenary Information |
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Thank you for visiting the RBAI 2010 Bicentenary celebration web pages.
News The Bicentenary Concert at the Waterfront Hall on April 29th is sold out. Car parking is available in the school on the night of the concert on a first come first served basis. Ticket returns may be available from the Waterfront booking office. Click here for more details on how to contact the waterfront. Before the concert a celebratory quarter peal of church bells will be rung on the Thursday evening between 6:30 and 7:30 pm at St Thomas church on the Lisburn Road. The Gala Dinner at the City Hall on Friday April 30th has a waiting list of approximately forty. Car parking is available in the school on the night of the dinner on a first come first served basis. A list of attendees in both alphabetical and year of leaving order is available at List of Gala Dinner attendees. The Lecture Series is proving to be a huge success. The most recent featured Tim Knox, Director of the Sir John Soane's museum, and Hugh Dixon, National Trust Curator, who spoke on the evolution of John Soane's design for 'Inst'. The lecture was well attended, with the Christ Church library full, and well received by all. The refreshments served by the pupils were much appreciated. The first , An Evening of Poetry with Frank Ormsby and Michael Longley, was a great success and enjoyed by all the over one hundred who attended. Some pictures of the the first lecture and slides to be used in the Architecture lecture above are available to be viewed at http://picasaweb.....RBAI2010Committee or at RBAI Photo Galleries on this website. The next lecture in our bicentenary series is once again in Christ Church on Wednesday May 19th, 7:00 for 7:30pm, when Sir Peter Froggatt will give a talk entitled ‘Medicine in Inst and Instonians in Medicine’. For a complete list of the 2010 Lecture Series please Click here.Commemorative items, medals and ties, are now available for sale. Please click here for more details.
Approximately 500 have registered on the RBAI website and information will also go out via Seahorse and the School News. Please pass on the link below to any Instonian friends in your Internet address book to spread the information as far as possible. //www.rbai.org.uk -- 2010 Register Interest We have previously tried to send anybody who has registered an interest an email but this may have been rejected as spam or as a bulk email. To address this problem we have changed the way we are sending these emails. Also please add the This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it address to your contacts / address book as this may enable you to receive future emails.
The 2010 web pages will be updated periodically and this News page will give notice of new information as it arises. New information will also be emailed to all who register on the RBAI site. Add the RBAI website to your bookmarks or favourites and visit frequently.
All 420 spaces for the gala dinner were allocated on Monday 5th January and tickets are in the process of being sent out. We are operating a waiting list in case some people are unable to make it. This is currently standing at about 50. For more details Click here.
We look forward to a great reunion and celebration in 2010. Links: Click here for Concert information Click here for Dinner information Click here for Sports Events Click here for Lecture Series information Click here for Commemorative Items information Click here for Other Events |
