Welcome to the Bryn Du Mansion! With a mission of historical preservation and cultural, recreational, educational and artistic experiences, there is always something happening. |
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| | Taste of Italy Comes to Bryn Du Are you ready for some amazing food?! The Berwick Catering, which visits our campus often for weddings, is taking their homemade Italian goodness on the road and bringing it to our parking lot for easy pick-up! Bryn Du is thrilled to be participating in a "Taste of Italy" event on Saturday, February 6th. Pre-order some tasty meals for our special fundraiser and pick up your order between 5 and 6:30pm. A portion of the proceeds will come right back to Bryn Du to support our community programming and historic preservation. PS: This is the day before the Super Bowl! Make sure to get something yummy to enjoy during the festivities! ORDER DEADLINE: February 4 at 5pm. | | |
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| | Honored by The Knot The Bryn Du Mansion and Field House is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a 2021 winner of The Knot Best of Weddings! This accolade represents the highest and most-rated wedding professionals as reviewed by real couples, their families and wedding guests on The Knot, a leading wedding planning and registry brand and app. This is the third year that the Bryn Du Mansion and Field House has been named a winner of The Knot Best of Weddings awards. In 2021, only five percent of hundreds of thousands of local wedding professionals listed on The Knot received this distinguished award. Thank you to all of our brides and grooms! | | |
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| | Art Show Opens Next Month This year's artist submissions for the 17th Annual Bryn Du Art Show were phenomenal! Thank you to all of our artist friends who submitted their work for consideration. Although our juror had a tough job, she was able to select some truly fantastic pieces for your viewing pleasure at next month's show. This year's Bryn Du Art Show will be held from March 5 through March 27th. It will be held both in-person with restrictions and virtually. We promise to share lots of details with you in next month's newsletter but for now please visit our Art Show webpage for current information. We can't wait to share this year's talent with you! | | |
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| | Last Chance to Vote As was mentioned last month, Bryn Du is excited to have been nominated in TWO categories for the Best of Columbus Weddings 2021! Best of Columbus Weddings is an annual readers’ poll that recognizes the top vendors in dozens of wedding-related categories. If you are so inclined, we would appreciate your vote for Bryn Du in both categories: Reception Historic and Ceremony Outdoor. One vote is allowed per person at the below link. Voting is only open through February 5th. We welcome you to visit cbuswedmag.com/Vote today to place your votes! Thank you for your support! It is always appreciated! | | |
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| | Current Art Center Classes Despite the pandemic, the Bryn Du Art Center still going strong! We currently have new rounds of classes available for sign-up. Adults may pre-register to join us for a watercolor painting course (all skill levels) or one of our oil painting classes (beginners and intermediate/advanced). In addition, children ages 7-12 can enjoy a cool Character Creation take-away course. Feel free to check back often as we add additional spring classes to the online registration system. | | |
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| | Free Valentine's Craft Create some Valentine's Day magic in the comfort of your own home! Please enjoy this free Valentine's Day craft instructional video from Bryn Du Art Center instructor, Sarah Gray. Using materials you can likely find at home, enjoy creating these super sweet Hot Air Balloon Valentines to give to those special people in your life. The video will be available online for the entire month of February. Thank you for the unique Valentine's Days craft, Sarah! We can't wait to create some of these ourselves! | | |
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Are you recently engaged? We'd love to help! Whether you are planning an intimate wedding or a larger gathering, contact us for your ceremony and/or reception venue needs. “2020 was a difficult year to plan a wedding, but Athena and Bruce were attentive and reassuring through every step of the process. They were flexible when changes were needed to comply with COVID -19 guidelines and helped me navigate obstacles with creativity and optimism. My wedding was beautiful, in the end, but I couldn't have pulled it off without their kindness and encouragement.” - Maygan, December Bryn Du Bride | | |
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Quincy's History Corner Hi friends! Did you know that the Bryn Du Art Show is about to turn 17?! It all started as a local show that was part of Granville's 200th anniversary celebration and, WOW, we have grown so much since then! It used to be held in September, which I'm sure was nice, but now we're helping our friends to fill their cold March days with art instead. Processes, categories and prizes have changed (we now offer a $1,000 Best in Show award! That's A LOT of dog bones!). We are also now a national show attracting artists and visitors from across the country (but Ohio is FILLED with amazing artists so we still get to really celebrate them!). We've started a few newer things in the past number of years: A Kids Night for local children to come enjoy activities and see the Show, public-art making activities that visitors can work on together, and networking events for artists (when there's not an international pandemic, that is!). For our 15th anniversary, we created a super cool quilt barn square that's now hanging on our Barn. The year before that I was given the honor of a very special Art Show position, "Art Dog" (I earned this esteemed title because I was covered with chalk after a cool group activity! I helped a lot and it was awesome!). The main reason I go is for the actual art, though. The landscapes remind me of places where I can run free - those are my favorites. I have to say... I would really love more pieces of my fellow dog friends... maybe life-sized 3D ones! Anyway, next month's show is going to be a great one and I hope to see you there (but if you can't come, make sure to see it on our website starting March 5!). Love, Quincy the "Art Dog" *Check out a cool picture of me below. You can see that I'm taking my duties as Art Dog very seriously and am making sure that Athena (Events/Office Coordinator and the artist who designed the square) and Angela (Program/Promotions Coordinator who, I guess, is technically in charge of the Art Show) have done a good job with the quilt barn square. After this shot, I got to watch them all try to transport the four huge pieces of the quilt square to the Barn on the golf cart. It was hilarious watching them. They claimed that the sections were very heavy... silly humans. I would have helped but I was too spent from overseeing everything. An Art Dog's job is just never done. |
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| | Love is in the Air In honor of Valentine's Day, we would like to take a moment this month to thank all of you. We absolutely love our Bryn Du family! We love our neighbors and visitors, caterers and event vendors, art students and artists, brides and grooms, dogs and dog walkers, community partners and everything in between. Thank you for your continued support. We appreciate you and wish you all a very happy Valentine's Day! | | |
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| | Read All About It... Again! Do you ever have those "I-thought-I-saw-that-somewhere-but-I-can't-remember-where?" moments? If it has to do with the Bryn Du community, we might be able to help! We are now archiving all of our past newsletters right on our website. So if you've lost that email from 6 months ago that talked about something you were interested in, no worries! Check out all of our past issues of the newsletter at the link below. | | |
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Your Support is Appreciated Bryn Du is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is managed by the Bryn Du Commission volunteer Board of Directors. Donations of any size are truly appreciated and go towards historic preservation and cultural, recreational, educational and artistic community programming. We are so grateful for you and your continued support. Thank you! | | |
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