This section includes any fan-related Exhibitions of which we are aware, along with our own FCI Events.

Information regarding other exhibitions is always welcome. Please let us have any information that we could publish on this site by filling in the form on our Contact Us page. …

An exhibition has been curated by postgraduate Museum & Gallery Studies students at the University of St Andrews, and is being held at St. Andrews Museum in Fife, Scotland, running from now until 1st June.
We understand some of the fans in the exhibition belonged to Lady Victoria Wemyss (1890-1994), a lady-in waiting to Queen  …

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge from 5th March 2019 to 12th January 2020.

The Lady’s Adviser: Love and Courting on Folding Fans
December 8, 2018–June 30, 2019 | Gallery 213

Women’s fans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were often decorated with subjects that were meant to act as conversation starters during social gatherings. Imagery could include any number of themes, from nature to classical mythology, commemorations of  …

In June 2019 Tennants in Leyburn has kindly agreed to loan cabinet space to the FCI for the second exhibition of member’s fans.

During the exhibition period, the second fan auction of 2019 is envisaged.

Due to the successful Event Day in 2018 when many members joined local people for a lecture, lunch and viewing  …

The 2019 AGM will be held in The Netherlands. Utrecht has a lovely old city centre with canals and historic houses, and no doubt our local members will find many fans to show us. …

The Judith Kennedy Collection of fine Antique Fans will be sold at Tennants in Leyburn on March 9th 2019. The collection will be the main focus of the auction, which is supplemented by Part 3 of fans from an ongoing collection dispersal, and some entries from local vendors.

Judith Kennedy joined the FCI in 1977,  …

FCI member Serge Davoudian will be hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Eventails de Créateurs, XIXème, XXème et Contemporains – Icones, Face-à-Face et Univers‘ at Marché Biron, Saint-Ouen, Stand 126 from 1st December 2018 – 14th January 2019.

View the poster here. …

Two parts of the Blackborne Collection of Antique Fans were offered in auction by Tennants in Yorkshire in April and July 2018. 
FCI Members were treated to a view of some of these fans in 1997 and again in 2010, when AGMs were held in Yorkshire. However, in total there are actually more than 450  …

The Fan Circle AGM in 2018 will take place in Edinburgh between 17th and 21st May 2018. The hotel selected is in a very central location near Holyrood and, in addition to the usual ‘AGM’ events, one day will be spent visiting attractions outside the Scottish capital and there will also be a visit to  …