Renoir & Love – Pay What You Wish

What better way to spend a Friday evening during early darkness and likely miserable weather than taking in the painterly delights of joyous Parisian scenes, and go for a cosy drink afterwards!

Renoir & Love:
Renoir’s ultimate celebration of life and love, ‘Dance at the Moulin de la Galette’ is on display for the first time in the UK. Renoir is known for joyful social scenes, he loved painting lively gatherings of friends, dancers, and diners enjoying leisure time in Paris.

The National Gallery are offering ‘Pay what you wish’ entry to the Renoir & Love exhibition on some Friday evenings from late October onwards. Many slots on 23rd are already sold out so I suggest 18:15 on Fri 13 November. If this sells out by the time you book, try to go for a slot one earlier or later – we’ll catch up inside the exhibition.

I think this is an excellent way to see this exhibition because I certainly don’t have pockets deep enough for the £25 standard ticket at weekend prices.

You need to pay at least £1, they suggest £10 (Plus attendance fee of £3 applies to go towards Meetup costs).
>>> Please book your own ticket as soon as you can:
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/renoir-and-love/renoir-and-love-pay-what-you-wish

These Friday evenings are going to be very busy and we don’t want to miss our slot, so I’d like us to gather by 6pm near the entrance for ticket holders, the Getty Entrance: “The Getty entrance is close to Charing Cross Road. There are six steps or a lift to the right just inside the doors. The Getty entrance is for paid exhibition ticket holders.” – this is the ground level entrance, not the main portico with its steps, closer to Charing Cross Rd than the other entrances.

Seeing as it’s Friday night, let’s go for a drink afterwards to socialise. The Horse and Guardsman pub on Whitehall has been good to us in terms of finding a table, we’ll try it (they do hot drinks and food too). There are other pubs in the area if it doesn’t come through.

Please pay me the £3 in exact change when you first get there, thank you.
Let’s meet at the Getty Entrance by 6pm please. Make sure you booked your ticket ahead for 6.15pm.