{"id":20022,"date":"2022-01-24T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=20022"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T10:02:35","slug":"the-big-friendly-giant-bfg-is-coming-to-newtownabbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2022\/01\/the-big-friendly-giant-bfg-is-coming-to-newtownabbey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) is coming to Newtownabbey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/press-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/press-5-1024x910.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20023\" width=\"512\" height=\"455\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) in Pictures exhibition, is coming to the Flax Gallery, Theatre at The Mill, Newtownabbey, from Thursday 3 \u2013 Friday 25 February. The exhibition features 40 reproductions&nbsp;for Roald Dahl\u2019s much-loved story,&nbsp;\u2018<em>The BFG\u2019<\/em> including illustrations not used when the book was first published in 1982. The exhibition charts the development of one of the most iconic characters in children\u2019s literature and offers a glimpse of a BFG that might have been. These are exhibited alongside reproductions of the final illustrations for the book, providing a fascinating insight into the collaboration between author and illustrator Quentin Blake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition is free of charge and will open during the following hours;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 9am-5pm<\/li><li>Wednesday: 9am-8pm<\/li><li>Saturday: 10am -4pm<\/li><li>Sunday: 10am-2pm<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey Councillor Billy Webb said \u201cI am pleased that the Flax Gallery at Theatre at The Mill is hosting this remarkable exhibition. This is a great opportunity for the public to visit a display of such calibre. BFG is known worldwide and I am thrilled that we have this on display in our Borough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BFG is a children\u2019s book which tells the story of a friendship between 10-year-old orphan Sophie and a friendly Giant.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) in Pictures exhibition, is coming to the Flax Gallery, Theatre at The Mill, Newtownabbey, from Thursday 3 \u2013 Friday 25 February. The exhibition features 40 reproductions&nbsp;for Roald Dahl\u2019s much-loved story,&nbsp;\u2018The BFG\u2019 including illustrations not used when the book was first published in 1982. The exhibition charts the development of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2022\/01\/the-big-friendly-giant-bfg-is-coming-to-newtownabbey\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20024,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions\/20024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}