Check out the top events in Warrington for August 2017:
Music – Thursday 24 August (7.00pm) – The Little Mix Show
This is a highly-energetic tribute show which follows in the footsteps of the award-winning girl band Little Mix.
The five-star rated show features live vocals and is filled with commercial pop-video choreography. Suitable for kids, tweens, teens and adults alike, The Little Mix Show offers the full pop concert experience.
Ticket price: £15/£12/£48 family ticket
Location: Parr Hall
NEW AND ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition – Ongoing – Roots Between the Tides (all day)
Clair Le Couteur believes Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, one of the world’s oldest municipal museums in the UK, has a unique and unusual story which deserves to be celebrated.
The artist and composer’s Roots Between the Tides is a combination of sculpture, diagram and catalogue which celebrates this – it is a network of about 200 images of the building, its archives and the town, suspended in the centre of the ethnology gallery to create a striking and interactive installation.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery runs free craft activities for kids every Saturday from 1.00pm.
There’s something different to try every week with this month’s themes including hot air balloon hanging, surf board sculptures and tiger craft. Last admission is at 2.45pm – all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Free craft activities are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during school holidays between 10.00am and 3.00pm, with last admission at 2.45pm.
All children must be accompanied by an adult and no booking is required. Themes for the summer holiday sessions include bubble paintings, design a time machine, crazy robots and super puppets.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Exhibition – Until Saturday 16 September (all day) – Predators
The world’s fiercest animals have been spotted on the prowl in Warrington! Explore Dr Herringbone’s Predatorium in this new exhibition at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, featuring specially-selected artefacts, taxidermy and artwork from the museum’s collection.
This family-friendly display will give visitors a chance to discover interesting and unusual facts about nature’s top hunters in a new and refreshing way. From the guts and gore of the hunt to the grossness of animal dung, Predators promises to fascinate old and young alike.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Display – Until Saturday 2 September (all day) Borough Charter Display
In 1847 Queen Victoria granted Warrington a Charter, formally making it a borough, and in that year our modern town was born. To celebrate the 170th anniversary of this important event there will be a rare opportunity to see the original document.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Art – Until Saturday 5 August (all day) – Royal Photographic Society Biennial Members’ Exhibition
From digital to analogue, including alternative processes, phone photography and scientific work, this touring exhibition showcases a broad spectrum of photographic practice, focused exclusively on the creative community of members that are central to The Royal Photography Society.
The exhibition also includes work from several of the society’s Honorary Fellows who are some of the most respected names in photography today.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Display – Saturday 8 July – Saturday 2 September (all day) – Beer, Breweries and the Band of Hope
Brewing is one of the oldest trades in existence and by the Middle Ages every town including Warrington had brewers working on a commercial scale.
This display commemorates the 150th anniversary of one of the longest-established breweries, Burtonwood Brewery, as well as focussing on the local temperance movement which grew in response to concerns over drunkenness and rowdy behaviour.
This display also features testimonies from some of Warrington’s residents who have struggled with alcohol addiction or have ongoing alcohol-related issues.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Contemporary Art – Saturday 29 July – Saturday 2 September (all day) – Bex Ilsley
As the winner of last year’s Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival Open competition, Bex Ilsley will present a new body of work which explores the performance of self, particularly in the digital realm.
Bex combines a variety of fabricated and appropriated objects, props and locations to construct surreal sci-fi portraits and video works, primarily shared through social media and her website. Distributing images, particularly of women online, provokes questions about the ethics and intentions involved.
Ilsley acknowledges this tension but ultimately enjoys the autonomy of creating her own self-image on these digital platforms, seeing the potential for them to be more or less honest, artificial or authentic – they may also travel further and live on longer than Ilsley herself.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
