Enjoy watching Lancashire play cricket at SB in Birkdale
Lancashire’s LV= County Championship Division 2 game against Derbyshire began yesterday (Sunday, May 24) and continues until Wednesday (May 27) at the County Cricket Ground, Southport, the home of Southport Birkdale Cricket Club.
Southpot Contemporary Arts Trail has events taking place all week
Southport Contemporary Arts Trail continues this week.
The annual event will run until Sunday, May 31, in association with Southport Festival and Southport BID.
This is the sixth time the trail has taken place and SCA’s creative director, Norrie Beswick-Calvert, says there will be a bigger range of events than ever.
In conjunction with Southport Retailers, Southport Contemporary Arts are running an Art Hunt as part of the trail.
Prizes include an afternoon tea for two, a luxury beauty treat, a silk scarf, and a haircut with a bottle of pink fizz thrown in.
It’s a chance to find some hidden gems of Southport; quality independent retailers and talented artists and craftsmen, as well as being in with a chance to win some fabulous prizes, kindly donated by participating retailers.
Art Hunters can download an entry form on the SCA website.
They then search out the artworks hiding in the shop windows, which are listed on the entry form.
Entries must be returned to ArtHouse by June 7.
* A complete guide to the week-long arts festival can be found here www.southportcontemporaryarts.com or you can pick up a brochure from ArtHouse, 65 Eastbank Street, Southport.
ARTs@ The Piazza – Big Draw
Southport Ceramics Studio will be in Southport today as part of Southport Contemporary Arts Trail
Head down to Princess Diana Gardens at Lord Street in Southport for The Piazza – Big Draw, a fun drawing event for all the family.
This event is part of this year’s Southport Contemporary Arts Trail.
It takes place on bank holiday Monday between 11am and 3pm, and is free to attend.
Artists will be helping draw with all sorts of stuff, and Southport Ceramics Studio will he helping you design and create a colourful tile.
The finished tile can then be collected from their workshop on Saturday, May 30.
Stroll and Snap around Southport
Join a friendly bunch from Southport Photographic Society with any camera you like as they stroll around Southport.
SLR, Bridge, point and shoot, iPhone, iPad, pin-hole camera, wander around Southport, capturing some of famous and some of the less well-known aspects of this historic coastal town.
This free event takes place between 11am and 1pm, and is free to attend.
It is part of this year’s Southport Contemporary Arts Trail.
Meet at The Monument, at Lord Street in Southport, at 11am.
If you’re going why not send your pictures to the Southport Visiter? Please email us at: visiternews@southportvisiter.co.uk or or message editor Andrew Brown via Facebook .
Fringe Writers and Poets in Southport
Enjoy a poetry and background jazz night at The Mount Pleasant pub on Manchester Road in Southport on bank holiday Monday (May 25), between 8pm and 10pm. Admission is free.
This is an opportunity to listen to performance poets from across the region, and to perform at open mic.
Organisers are distributing a free poetry pamphlet ‘Southport Poetry On The Move’ as part f the arts trail – available in pubs and cafes across the area.
The Three Queens sees three Cunard liners come to Liverpool on bank holiday Monday
FOR the first time, the Three Cunard Queens – Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 – will sail into Liverpool together marking the 175th anniversary of Cunard.
This unforgettable spectacular, which is a salute to the company’s spiritual home, will take place during the May bank holiday, from Saturday, May 23 until Tuesday, May 26.
The three ships will only be together for a short time on Monday 25, but activities will take place across the weekend.
The Three Queens weekend forms part of One Magnificent City – a seven week programme of events celebrating Liverpool’s internationally renowned maritime history and transatlantic links.
The ancient Egyptians saw the natural world around them as being filled with divine presence, from the daily crossing of the sky by the sun god, to the annual rise and fall of the river Nile, to a local god who might live in a nearby mountain
They were also extremely skilled creators of buildings which had a variety of ‘sacred’ purposes (including tombs and temples) some of which were built on a spectacular scale.
The Sacred Landscapes of Ancient Egypt at The Atkinson, on Lord Street in Southport, explores the links between the landscape and the objects and buildings that are associated with it.
Opening Times for Exhibitions are:
Monday – Saturday 10am – 4pm
Sunday 11am – 3pm
The exhibition is a joint venture between The Atkinson and Dr Steven Snape, Reader in Egyptian Archaeology at Liverpool University.
Admission is free.
Animal Magic at Farmer Ted’s
Farmer Ted’s is a great place to go this half-term
Enjoy half-term fun at Farmer Ted’s in Downholland.
Just in time for half-term they have their newly revamped and twice the size outdoor adventure play area.
