Comedy – Comedy Store – Saturday 1 September 2018 (8.00pm)
Roll up, roll up! Sell-out comedy is returning to Pyramid this month to present the very best names in live stand-up, thanks to our friends at The Comedy Store. But hurry – this show sells out fast!
Ticket price: £14
Location: Pyramid
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Variety – An Evening with Brian Blessed – Thursday 20 September 2018 (7.30pm)
Spend the evening with a true national treasure as Brian Blessed heads to town. Get ready for a night of king-sized entertainment as this esteemed actor tells tales from his illustrious career on stage and screen, as well as his more recent adventures up Mounts Everest and Kilimanjaro.
Ticket price: £25/£20
Location: Parr Hall
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Family – Milkshake! Live – The Magic Storybook – Sunday 23 September 2018 (11.30am and 3pm)
Step into a magical world of make believe and join all of your favourite characters on a whirlwind adventure you’ll never forget when Milkshake! Live – The Magic Storybook comes to town. Join Bob the Builder, Little Princess, Shimmer and Shine, and more of your favourite characters as Milkshake! presenters guide you through all your favourite fairytales.
Ticket price: £14.50/£13/£52 family ticket
Location: Parr Hall
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Music – An Evening with Ian Paice – Thursday 4 October 2018 (8pm)
Ian Paice is a founder member of rock legends Deep Purple and is regarded as one of the most influential rock drummers of all time. On this very special evening Ian will be joined by his great friend Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden who takes on the role of presenter and interviewer. As well as performing solos, Ian will discuss an astonishing career which spans fifty years at the very top of rock.
Ticket price: £25
Location: Parr Hall
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Comedy – Comedy Store – Saturday 6 October 2018 (8pm)
Roll up, roll up! Sell-out comedy is returning to Pyramid this month to present the very best names in live stand-up, thanks to our friends at The Comedy Store. But hurry – this show sells out fast!
Ticket price: £14
Location: Pyramid
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Music – Paul Young – 35 Years of No Parlez Tour – Tuesday 9 October 2018 (7.30pm)
Firm favourite 80s crooner Paul Young is back on tour, performing his much-loved album No Parlez, in celebration of 35 years since its release. No Parlez was Paul’s debut album; it reached Number 1 in the UK charts in 1983, where it stayed for five weeks, fast becoming triple platinum. The album also produced Paul’s first UK Number 1 single – a cover of Marvin Gaye’s Wherever I Lay My Hat.
Ticket price: £30/£42.50
Location: Parr Hall
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Theatre – Ventoux – Saturday 13 October 2018 (7.30pm)
Relive one the most thrilling battles in sports history with Ventoux. This 2Magpies Theatre production explores the bitter rivalry between sports legends Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani in their quest to be named ultimate champion. Ventoux charts the parallel lives of these two men who overcame great adversity in tandem and the mountain which cast them in opposing directions.
Ticket price: £14/£12
Location: Pyramid
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Music – Echo & the Bunnymen – The Stars, the Ocean and the Moon – Sunday 14 October 2018 (7pm)
Cult 80s rock band Echo & the Bunnymen are now touring their new album The Stars, the Ocean and the Moon, with a date at Parr Hall. This album sees the band return to their peerless back catalogue to reinterpret thirteen of their most beloved songs “with strings and things”. Audiences will hear future classics The Somnambulist and How Far? alongside tracks from their four-decade spanning archive.
Ticket price: £75 VIP/£39.50/£29.50/£19.50
Location: Parr Hall
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Music – Fleetwood Bac & Too Petty – Friday 19 October 2018 (7.30pm)
Relive the magic of one of the world’s best-selling bands with this fantastic tribute. Hailed by The Times as one of the UK’s top five tribute acts, this spellbinding show will recreate Fleetwood Mac’s best hits in full glory. Fleetwood Bac, endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, are the only Mac tribute to authentically replicate the classic Rumours line-up. Special guests Too Petty are a worthy tribute to the legendary and sadly-missed Tom Petty.
Ticket price: £18
Location: Parr Hall
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Music – Magic of Motown – Saturday 20 October 2018 (8pm)
Get ready for a magical event celebrating the golden age of music as the show-stopping spectacular that is Magic of Motown steams into town. This promises to be an unforgettable night of live music, delivering hit after hit. Audiences will be taken back to a time gone by, to experience the Magic of Motown in all its glory, complete with dazzling dance moves and glittering costume changes.
Ticket price: £27/£25/1 in 10 free
Location: Parr Hall
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Dance – Flawless – Chase the Dream: The Reboot – Friday 26 October 2018 (7.30pm)
Make way for one of the biggest dance acts of this generation as Flawless take to the Parr Hall stage. Britain’s Got Talent stars Flawless promise bigger and more jaw-dropping routines than ever before as they tour the length and breadth of the UK with the spellbinding Chase the Dream: The Reboot.
Ticket price: £25/£20 groups of 10 or more
Location: Parr Hall
EXHIBITIONS
Art – Until Saturday 2 March 2019 (All Day) – Warrington Art Treasures: The National Picture
This is the third in a series of exhibitions celebrating landmark events in the history of the oldest public museum in the North West. Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is joining forces with National Museums Liverpool by borrowing three fantastic works – Enrico Coleman’s Oxen Drawing a Block of Stone to the Studio of John Warrington Wood and Sir Luke Fildes’ A Portrait of Fanny Fildes and The Widower.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Contemporary art – Until Saturday 15 September 2018 (All Day) – How to Dust the Surface
Commissioned by Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, this intriguing new work explores what could be created if data was decoded a little differently. Artists Juan Covelli and Neale Willis take on the role of contemporary archaeologists, searching for and sifting data from key sites around Warrington and the collections at Warrington Museum, before manipulating the way the computer processes the data to create new and surprising outcomes.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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History – Until Saturday 15 September 2018 (All Day) – Days of the New Town: Birchwood at 50
In 1968, Warrington was one of several towns across the country to be designated a New Town. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Warrington New Town, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery are presenting a new exhibition which brings together photographs from the Development Corporation archive and a “people’s archive” which reflect Birchwood as both the architects’ vision and its lived and evolving reality.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Exhibition – Until Saturday 15 September 2018 (All Day) – Night Edge
Night Edge is a captivating collection of photographs by local artists Hazel Hughes, Estelle Cadwallader and Eli Regan, documenting life in the city after hours. Part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Night Edge explores the nocturnal hours, looking at aspects ranging from the local landmarks which are brought to life through darkness, to the types of people found abroad once night falls.
Ticket Price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Display – Until Saturday 26 January 2019 (All Day) – Warrington Herstories
Warrington Herstories tells the tales of 21 women with connections to the town – women who have made astounding achievements, shown insurmountable compassion to others or simply dared to be different. From writers to poets, social and political campaigners to natural historians, entertainers, doctors and even the odd criminal, these feisty females rivalled their male counterparts to contradict the widely-held perception that “it’s a man’s world”.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Contemporary art – Friday 28 September to Saturday 27 October 2018 (All day) – Hannah Leighton-Boyce
Manchester artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce has been commissioned by Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival to present a solo exhibition. Hannah’s impressive sculptural works range from site-specific and ephemeral actions, to drawing, sound and installation.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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EVENTS
Artist Marc Turner will be working at Warrington Museum for the week producing a copy of Sir Luke Fildes’ A Portrait of Fanny Fildes. Why not pop in for an opportunity to see how a professional artist works and talk to him about the process of reproducing a famous painting. This event was made possible with a grant from the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Alongside other events, artist Julie Scott will be leading several workshops based on the original curriculum of Warrington School of Art. Come and look at sculptures and paintings of figures before recreating your own sketches and paintings under Julie’s expert guidance.
Ticket price: Free (booking required)
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Today, the name Woodland House in Holland Park, London, is associated with such celebrities such as Robbie Williams and Michael Winner, but few know the house was originally commissioned by Warrington artist Sir Luke Fildes. Join Professor Caroline Dakers as she steps back in time to explore this luxurious London home, and the man who lived there.
Ticket price: Free (booking required)
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Workshop – Saturday 22 September 2018 (10am to 1pm) – Hot Bed Press Textile Printing Workshop
Have fun printing from a selection of designs on screen. Learn to flood and pull a screen to print on fabric and to overprint a second colour, adding to your design and coming away with your own unique printed samples. Age 12+
Ticket price: Free (booking required)
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Workshop – Saturday 13 October 2018 (10am-12.15pm) – Clay hand/torso workshop with Debs Podmore
Be inspired by the beautiful sculptures of John “Warrington” Wood as ceramics artist Debs Podmore hosts the first of two workshops working with clay. Join Debs as she looks at the human form and creates small sculptures of different parts of the body, such as hands or part of the torso.
Ticket price: Free (booking required)
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Workshop – Saturday 13 October 2018 (1.15pm-3.30pm) – Clay tile face workshop with Debs Podmore
Join ceramics artist Debs Podmore as she conducts the second of her two workshops on clay. Inspired by the sculptures of John “Warrington” Wood, this workshop will look at making relief tile panels inspired by the human face. Participants will get the chance to roll slabs of clay to make the tiles and then work directly on the clay to form facial features.
Ticket price: Free
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
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Talk – Tuesday 20 November 2018 (2.30pm) – Talk by Janice Hayes: The Family Behind the Portrait
One of Warrington Museum & Art Gallery’s best-loved works is Fair Quiet and Sweet Rest, a vibrant painting depicting four people drifting down a river on a boat. But who are the four subjects and why are they so significant to Warrington? Join Culture Warrington’s heritage manager Janice Hayes as she unravels this fascinating family history and explores how this painting catapulted artist Luke Fildes into an illustrious career.
Ticket price: Free (booking required)
Location: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
