Check out the top events in Warrington for February 2017:
Comedy Store – Saturday 4 February (8.00pm)
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 of comedy talent. The shows run on the first Saturday of each month – don’t miss out!
Ticket price: £14
Location: Pyramid
Omid Djalili: Schmuck for a Night – Saturday 4 February (8.00pm)
The award-winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili known for his legendary stand-up performances is back. The British-Iranian comedian is intelligent, sometimes provocative and always entertaining and his Schmuck for a Night tour promises to be a hugely energetic and captivating comedy masterclass.
Ticket price: £24
Location: Parr Hall
Al Murray the Pub Landlord: Let’s Go Backwards Together – Friday 17 February (7.30pm)
Al Murray’s Let’s Go Backwards Together tour will see him embark on a common sense campaign to “re-Great Britain”.
The critically-acclaimed comedian’s pub landlord persona will discuss Europe, the NHS, “whatever the hell is going on in the Middle East”, the gathering storm of fortnightly bin collections and plenty of other issues in his typical brash style.
Ticket price: £27.50
Location: Parr Hall
The Sooty Show – Tuesday 21 February (11.00am and 2.30pm)
This brand new show, inspired by the hit CITV programme, will see Sooty, Sweep and Soo spreading mischief while their friend Richard Cadell tries to keep things running smoothly.
Expect magic, music and mayhem with a bucket-full of audience participation. This is a spectacular treat for Sooty fans old and new.
Ticket price: £12/£10
Location: Parr Hall
Rob Beckett: Mouth of the South – Tuesday 21 February (8.00pm)
Comedian Rob Beckett is back with a brand new show and this time he is taking on the big issues like Kit-Kats and flatbread.
The so-called “Mouth of the South” has appeared on every top comedy show going, including BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, and is currently a team captain on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats.
Ticket price: £16
Location: Parr Hall
Reckless Rulers – Saturday 25 February (6.30pm, 7.30pm and 8.30pm)
Become part of the history books with the cast of Reckless Rulers. Dive into the horrible side of Warrington’s past as amazing actors lead visitors through real haunted rooms, becoming immersed in the live action.
Join the Roman Empire, fight against the Yorkshire puddings by helping Henry Tudor defeat the vicious Richard III in the War of the Roses, and discover the truth behind “The Great Fire of Warrington”.
Ticket price: £7.50/£25 group of 4/free to Culture Warrington members
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Circus of Horrors – Saturday 25 February (7.30pm)
The darkly popular Circus of Horrors is celebrating its 21st anniversary as it takes to the road with a show at Parr Hall.
The Never-ending Nightmare is a spectacular show which features an amazing amalgamation of bizarre, brave and beautiful acts all woven into an “Alice in Horrorland”-style story, performed with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek.
Ticket price: £26/£23/£22/£19/£16/£3 off “early bat” bookings
Location: Parr Hall
NEW AND ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Crafty Saturdays at the Museum (formerly Crafty Saturdays at Bank Park) – Saturday 4 February (10.00 – 11.30am)
Join us at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery for free family crafts for kids aged 3-12 and their grown-ups. One Saturday every month we will be delivering craft sessions, making a different crafty creation to take home.
The sessions are free and open to children aged 3-12 of all abilities. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Crafternoons at the Museum – Saturdays 4, 11, 18 and 25 February (1.00pm – 3.00pm)
Free craft activities for kids every Saturday from 1pm. There’s something different to try at the museum every week. Last admission at 2.45pm, all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Ticket price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Exhibition – Us and Them and Way Back When – 14 January – 4 March (All day)
Us and Them and Way Back When was created by young people who use the Relationships Centre in Museum Street.
By researching the previous inhabitants of the 1877 building and some of the neighbouring addresses, the group explored the lives of Warrington’s teenagers over the past 130 years, comparing the support systems of the past with that available today.
Ticket price: free
Location: Pyramid Gallery
Exhibition – Slippers in the Rain – Until Saturday 28 January (All day)
Creativity helps people to face challenges like loneliness and failing health, to celebrate and share memories, and to respond to the world around them.
Slippers in the Rain, named after Jenny Joseph’s classic poem Warning, reflects this and features work produced by Lymm residents in the later years of their lives.
Ticket price: free
Location: Pyramid Gallery
Exhibition – Keep the Home Fires Burning – Friday 11 November – Saturday 11 March (All day)
Our second exhibition about Warrington in the Great War of 1914-1918 looks at life on the Home Front. As Warrington’s men were away fighting in the trenches of the Western Front or other theatres of war find out what life was like back home.
Munitions girls, nurses, aid workers, conscientious objectors and the women left behind fighting on the kitchen front; all had their part to play in the story of these tumultuous years.
Ticket Price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Exhibition – Your Country Needs You! – Friday 11 November – Saturday 4 February (All day)
This World War One commemorative exhibition features a fascinating selection of original WWI posters from the museum’s collection.
They were originally created by the British Government for public display as a form of propaganda to persuade men to join the armed forces after the country went to war in August 1914, and then throughout the war as it dragged on for four long years.
Brightly coloured posters with striking images and memorable slogans were the ideal means of mass communication in an age before television, the internet and social media.
Ticket Price: free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Art – Literally Murals – Saturday 12 November – Saturday 25 March (All day)
What happens when you cross a housebound resident with a street artist? Find out in this exhibition where Warrington’s housebound residents are given the opportunity to tell their stories in a unique and exciting way.
By working with a street artist specialising in typography, Warrington’s housebound residents will be able to communicate their thoughts, ideas and emotions to the museum’s visitors using the striking medium of graffiti.
The exhibition will also include a section dedicated to the artist explaining the process and techniques used as well as the historical origins of typographical street art.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
