Check out the top events in Warrington for December
Music
Friday 1 December
7.30pm
Peter Price
Warrington born and bred, Peter Price has a brilliant international reputation, having played festivals and concerts across the UK, Europe, and North America. A gifted performer, his concerts and performances take the listener on strange and exotic journeys from the folk and country blues style of Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell and Leadbelly to jazz, Latin and world music.
Ticket price: £15
Location: Pyramid
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/peter-price/
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Comedy
Saturday 2 December
8pm
Comedy Store
Roll up, roll up! Sell-out comedy returns to Pyramid with the best in live stand-up from our friends at The Comedy Store. But hurry – it sells out fast! The Comedy Store continues its residency at Pyramid presenting the best in stand-up from around the globe and showcasing the brightest names in comedy talent. The shows run on the first Saturday of each month, don’t miss out!
Ticket price: £16
Location: Pyramid
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/comedy-store-8/
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Family
Sunday 3 December
11am and 2.30pm
Father Christmas Comes up Trumps
As he tries to deliver the presents, his tummy rumbles, gurgles and groans but Father Christmas knows he must keep it in – he doesn’t want to wake anyone up! TaleGate Theatre Productions has created a fabulously funny and brilliantly bouncy musical adaptation of Nicholas Allan’s sequel to Father Christmas Needs a Wee.
Ticket price: £12/£10/£40 family ticket
Location: Parr Hall
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/father-christmas-comes-trumps/
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Comedy
Friday 8 December
8pm
Ed Byrne – Spoiler Alert
Top comedian Ed Byrne, the unrivalled master of observational comedy, has enjoyed huge critical and popular success during his 20 years in comedy. He has performed hit tours, sold out many runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, had a successful two-week run in the West End and appeared on the stage and big screen as well as radio and television.
Ticket price: £24
Location: Parr Hall
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/ed-byrne-spoiler-alert/
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Dance
Sunday 10 December
2.30pm
The Nutcracker – Vienna Festival Ballet
Be swept away on a magical adventure in one of the most famous classical ballets of all time – The Nutcracker. Returning by popular demand, Vienna Festival Ballet’s production promises to delight audiences of all ages with its festive setting and captivating story, set to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score.
Ticket price: £19.50/£17.50/£12.50
Location: Parr Hall
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/nutcracker-vienna-festival-ballet/
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Music
Friday 15 December
7.30pm
For Those About to Rock 2017 Christmas Jailbreak!
This spectacular show features two top tribute acts. LiveWire is a unique six-man tribute to AC/DC, complete with trademark cannons, a wall of Marshalls and the power of high voltage rock and roll. And Limehouse Lizzy, recruited to record and tour by members of the original Thin Lizzy, are promising their most explosive show and critically-acclaimed line-up yet.
Ticket price: £20 advance
Location: Parr Hall
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/rock-2017-christmas-jailbreak/
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Music
Friday 15 December
7.30pm
The Houghton Weavers
The Houghton Weavers have been entertaining for more than 40 years with their unique blend of popular folk music, humour and audience participation. During their time together as a group – comprising Tony Berry, David Littler and Steve Millington – they have performed thousands of concerts, recorded more than 30 albums, starred in several of their own highly successful BBC radio and TV series, and made countless appearances on other programmes. This upcoming tour aims to “keep folk smiling”.
Ticket price: £14
Location: Pyramid
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/the-houghton-weavers/
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Family
Friday 5 January 2018 – Sunday 14 January 2018
Various times
Jack and the Beanstalk
This is a giant of a pantomime, full of beans and packed with “fee, fi, fo, fun”! After getting into big trouble with his mother for selling their cow for a handful of beans, Jack’s dreams come true when they start to grow. Join him on the adventure of a lifetime as he outwits the giant and makes his fortune.
Ticket price: £12.50/£10.50/£40 family ticket/offers available
Location: Parr Hall
http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/jack-the-beanstalk/
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NEW AND ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Art
Wednesday 6 December
10am-12.30pm
Beginners’ adult art classes
Free monthly art sessions are now being held at the museum, tutored by a trained local artist. The classes will introduce participants to a range of drawing, mark making, painting and printing techniques. For anyone who’s ever fancied developing their artistic side; no previous experience is necessary but booking is required.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/beginners-adult-art-classes-3/
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Exhibition
Until Saturday 30 December
All Day
Roots Between the Tides
Clair Le Couteur believes Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, one of the 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
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Display
Until Saturday 6 January 2018
All Day
Masonic Tercentenary Display
Freemasonry is the oldest secular organisation in Warrington, with the distinction of having the very first recorded meeting of English Freemasons in October 1646. This display will explore how Freemasons influenced the development of Warrington, from the Old Academy to Warrington Museum, from the Victoria Bridge to Parr Hall. On display will be a late 18th century Masonic apron alongside modern Masonic regalia, Masonic jewels, books and documents.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/masonic-tercentenary-display/
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Contemporary Art
Until Saturday 27 January
All Day
Holly Rowan Hesson – Echo
Echo is a new site-specific installation by Holly Rowan Hesson commissioned by Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival. The projection and sculptural work creates dialogues with materials, memory and the physical space. The installation explores uncertainty, transience and the gap between, and interplay within, purely sensory feeling and experience and more literal, rational thought-based experience and memory. Holly will continue to develop the installation with new work being added to the space mid-way through the exhibition.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Pyramid arts centre
https://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/holly-rowan-hesson-echo/
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Contemporary Art
Until Saturday 27 January
All Day
Ellen Sampson – Worn
Ellen Sampson, an artist who explores the relationships between bodily experience, memory and artefacts, will be using film, photography and installation for Worn: footwear, attachment and affective experience. This exhibition explores our relationship with and attachment to shoes. Focusing on the shoe as an everyday object, it explores the ways the worn shoe may act upon us, examining how garments and people may become entwined. It suggests that our particular attachment to footwear is located in our intimate and tactile relationship to it; that attachment is created through touch and wear.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/worn-footwear-attachment-and-affective-experience/
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Art
Until Saturday 24 February 2018
All Day
Hot Bed Press: Think Ink
This exhibition features contemporary prints by some of the 270 members of Hot Bed Press Printmakers’ Studio in Salford. The diverse variety of original screenprints, etchings, relief prints, monoprints and collagraphs give an insight into why more and more artists are turning to printmaking. The subject matter and styles range from interpretations of landscapes to figurative work and on to more abstract and ethereal responses to colour and composition.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/hot-bed-press-think-ink/
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Art
Until Saturday 10 March
All day
The School of Art
Continuing our series of exhibitions celebrating special events in the history of Warrington Museum, this exhibition celebrates Warrington’s School of Art which was originally housed in the museum from the building’s opening in 1857. Originally run by the Mechanics Institute to provide education that would allow young artists to find employment in industry, the school flourished to become one of the finest in the country, with its students achieving more scholarships than most other art schools of the time. As well as watercolours and other media from graduates of the School of Art, examples of other artists’ work from the museum’s collection are featured.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/the-school-of-art/
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Art
Until Saturday 21 April 2018
All Day
Warrington Art Treasures 2017-18
This is the first of three special exhibitions celebrating important events in the history of Warrington Museum, especially the opening of the main art gallery in October 1877. From its creation in 1848, Warrington Museum has amassed significant collections including works by prominent local Victorian artists who acquired a national reputation as regular exhibitors at the Royal Academy (RA). Some of the best treasures will be showcased in a series of exhibitions marking a joint celebration of the RA’s 250thanniversary and landmarks in the creation of the oldest public museum in the North West of England, which was also home to the Warrington School of Art from 1857.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/warrington-art-treasures-2017-2018/
