Culture Warrington Announces December Lineup

Culture Warrington has announced its December lineup! For more information, visit www.culturewarrington.org.

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/

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/

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/

Music

Tuesday 5 December

7pm

Johnny Hates Jazz

Iconic 80s band Johnny Hates Jazz are celebrating the 30th anniversary of hit album Turn Back the Clock with a new tour, on which the duo will be performing their acclaimed, double-platinum selling debut album in its entirety. It is arguably one of the definitive albums of the 1980s making this a show not to be missed.

Ticket price: £89 VIP/£35/£25

Location: Parr Hall

http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/whats-on/event/johnny-hates-jazz/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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

http://www.warringtonmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/event/roots-between-the-tides-jam-remixes-warrington-museum/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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 250th anniversary 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/

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