Category Archives: Exhibitions

“Clever and Adroit”: More on the 1902 Nottingham Bartitsu Exhibitions

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th April 2017 The following article from the Tuesday, 25 March 1902 edition of the Nottingham Journal is the most detailed report yet discovered on the short series of Bartitsu exhibitions held in … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu at the Vacheron Constantin FiftySix Launch Event

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th October 2018 Instructor James Garvey (right, above) demonstrates Bartitsu during a recent London media event launching the Vacheron Constantin FiftySix collection, a range of luxury watches. The three-day event drew more than 100 international … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu at the Savile Club

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th October 2018 Instructors Tommy Joe Moore (left) and James Marwood (right) demonstrate Bartitsu during a recent private black-tie function at the Savile Club, a gentlemen’s club in Mayfair, London.

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Bartitsu Class/Demo. at the 1900 Chautauqua (Rockford, Illinois)

Posted on February 10, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 12th June 2011 Instructor Allen Reed (left), in character as a circa 1900 “Professor of Antagonistics”, teaching Bartitsu stick fighting at the 1900 America Chautauqua event at the Midway Village Museum, Rockford, Illinois. Spectators were invited … Continue reading →

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“… the value of the ordinary walking-stick ..” (1901)

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 30th May 2011 An interesting snippet from a review of one of E.W. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu exhibitions at London’s Tivoli Theatre during August 1901. After a jiujitsu demonstration … … Mr Barton-Wright, to … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Lecture in Zagreb, Croatia

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 29th May 2011 Bartitsu enthusiast Goran Dimic recently delivered an illustrated lecture/demonstration on Bartitsu for the Parni Zakon steampunk conference in Zagreb, Croatia. The lecture included information on the origins and nature … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Classes at the 1900 America Chautauqua (Rockford, IL)

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 12th May 2011 Instructor Allen Reed will be teaching Bartitsu classes at the 1900 America Chautauqua. The Chautauqua (June 11-12, Midway Village Museum, Rockford, IL) is set during the year 1900 and will offer numerous … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu at the Gaslight Gathering

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 9th May 2011 Thanks to The Convention Fans Blog for this picture and accompanying report on San Francisco-based Bartitsu instructor Tom Badillo’s demo./class at the recent Gaslight Gathering event in San Diego.

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The “Soft Art” of Japan (1902)

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 30th April 2011 An excerpt from an article published in the Vancouver Sun of January 21st, 1902: At the exhibition given at the “Bartitsu” School of Arms in London recently some remarkable … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Demonstration in Oxford (1902)

Posted on February 9, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 25th April 2011 Thanks to Chris Amendola for tracking down this review of a circa January 1902 Bartitsu exhibition in Oxford, U.K. It appears that Barton-Wright also toured his “troupe” to Cambridge University during … Continue reading →

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