Members Preview Event

The new exhibition opened to the public today, but yesterday late afternoon I was scheduled for the Members Preview Event, where all the museum Art Club Members were invited to a preview tour, and to meet the curators at a Curatorial Talk in the Auditorium.

Noura and I were all ready for the occasion:

Noura did the first tour at 4pm, and then it was my turn at 5pm. Since the Curatorial Talk was at 6pm we did anticipate quite a lot of visitors at this tour; but not in my wildest imagination had I thought I would deliver a "tour" to THIS many people!!! Can you see me..??

People just kept coming and insisted on joining in, and as they ran out of headsets I had to use my big voice, ha ha! Lucky I do have strong voice, and really lucky that I am tall and even wore some heels, so people could see me in the huge crowd. They counted 127 people..! Unbelievable!

The nerves always get you a bit on the first tour, but I actually think it went rather well. I got lovely instant feedback from so many, I covered a little bit of everything, and I stuck to the time I was allocated. It felt good!

So fitting, that I woke up this morning to my SmartTV treating me with this image:

(I have a slideshow set on the TV so that each day it changes image, and shows a new artwork from the collections of Musée d'Orsay. This one above is one of my favourites by Vincent Van Gogh, which is on my stationery for my exhibition material.)