Check out the top events in Warrington for July 2017:
Comedy – Saturday 1 July (8.00pm) – 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: £14
Location: Pyramid
Music – Saturday 15 July (5.00pm) – Summertime Festival – Joanne Shaw Taylor
The best of blues rock is returning to Warrington this summer in the form of Summertime Festival, headlined by Joanne Shaw Taylor. Blues rock sensation Joanne is taking the world by storm having recently been seen on BBC2’s Later with Jools Holland.
Her latest album, Wild, entered the UK album charts at number 20 and was welcomed with rave reviews by the press and her peers. She will be joined by Stevie Nimmo, Bad Touch, and Xander and the Peace Pirates.
Ticket price: £20 stalls/£25 circle
Location: Parr Hall
Music – Saturday 22 July (7.30pm) – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Classic rock icon Steve Harley has enjoyed a prolific career with no less than 11 albums released across four decades. Cockney Rebel originally formed in 1973 and enjoyed top 20 hits with Judy Teen, Mr Soft, Mr Raffles, Here Comes the Sun and, of course, their No.1 Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me).
Steve has also written lyrics for artists including Rod Stewart, who called him “one of the finest lyricists the UK has ever produced”, and continues to play live concerts most years.
Ticket price: £27.50 advance
Location: Parr Hall
Family – Saturday 29 July (11.30am and 3pm) Milkshake! Live – The Magic Story Book
Family favourite Milkshake! Live is returning to Parr Hall with new fun and old friends. This all-singing, all-dancing, musical masterpiece will star kids’ TV favourites like Bob the Builder, Little Princess, Noddy, and Fireman Sam, and promises to take the whole family on an amazing journey through everyone’s favourite fairytales.
Ticket price: £14.50/£13/£51 family ticket
Location: Parr Hall
NEW AND ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition – Ongoing (All Day) – Roots Between the Tides
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
Crafts Saturdays 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 July (1-3.00pm) – Crafternoons at the Museum
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 Despicable Me, Spiderman and Cars 3. Last admission is at 2.45pm – all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Crafts – First Saturday in the month (10-11.30am) – Crafty Saturdays
Join us for free family crafts for children and their grown-ups. On the first Saturday of every month we deliver craft sessions, making a different crafty creation to take home. All children must be accompanied by an adult, check www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk nearer the time for location.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Crafts – Tuesdays and Thursdays during school holidays, starting Tuesday 25 July and ending Thursday 31 August (10.00am-3.00pm) – Craft activities for kids
Free craft activities are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during school holidays between 10am and 3pm, 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
Contemporary Art – Saturday 6 May – Saturday 15 July (All Day) – Louise Giovanelli
Featured as one to watch by Saatchi Art, Louise Giovanelli is an emerging artist whose haunting yet beautiful work is an examination of the sensorial possibilities of paint.
One approach Louise takes is to appropriate and re-imagine details from pre-existing artworks, identifying interesting quirks or peculiarities and then re-configuring them through paint. In this way painting is used as a camera, drawing attention to details that would otherwise be left overlooked or unexplored.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Exhibition – Saturday 20 May – 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 – Thursday 25 May – 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
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
