This year’s Wirral Open Studio Tour returns with a weekend of creativity and colour on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June.
Now in its 12th year of celebrating visual arts across the peninsula, this free event will see 60 artists and makers open the doors to their homes or studios. The Tour gives visitors an exciting opportunity to access creative spaces not usually open to the public, chat to artists about their processes, and view their work in the environment in which it is created.
There will be a hugely diverse selection of artworks on show, from original paintings, prints, glass and textiles to photography, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery. At each venue you’ll find the artist ready to welcome you and show you around. Much of the work on show will be for sale so you can, if you wish, take away a piece of original artwork to treasure.
After a challenging couple of years, they are delighted to return to their usual June slot and are really excited about the line-up for this year’s show.
All studios are open from 10am-5pm on Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June, with some venues also open from 6pm-9pm on Friday 10th June.
For more information and to download a tour brochure, visit the Wirral Open Studio Tour website at wirralarts.com or pick up a guide from a library, gallery, community centre, café or shop near you.
Outdoor dining in the Secret Garden returns for four days this Easter weekend.
Choose from a carefully crafted menu of fresh homemade dishes from their locally sourced trusted suppliers including Liverpool Cheese Company, Handyman Gin and Love Lane Brewery.
Tables of up to six people can be booked online now for a £10 deposit that is taken off your final bill. Deposits are non-refundable.
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Join The Reader for a morning or afternoon of seed planting in the Mansion House garden.
Whether you are completely new to gardening or know a thing or two about seeds already, come along to…
Develop your gardening skills
Learn about natural heritage
Explore the important role plants play in our lives
Meet new people and spend time outdoors together
Thanks to support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, this activity is free of charge for anyone to enjoy, please let us know if you book a ticket and can no longer make it.
This event will be cancelled in extreme weather conditions and we recommend wearing appropriate clothes for gardening outdoors. This activity is wheelchair accessible and seats can be provided for those that need them.
Age guidance: 13+.
Wildflowers – 10 April, 11am – 1pm
Sweet peas – 15 May, 11am – 1pm & 2pm – 4pm
Sunflowers – 12 June, 11am – 1pm & 2pm – 4pm
‘I am the seed
that grew the tree
that gave the wood
to make the page
to fill the book with poetry’
– from ‘Windsong’ by Judith Nicholls
Join Black Lodge Brewing to pour your own bottomless beers! Meet the team, and find out a little more about what they do.
Ticket also includes food.
Strictly over 18s only.
Begin your festive season with a visit to Birkenhead Priory’s Christmas event.
They’re delighted to once again be able to host their Christmas Fair and afternoon of music!
Join them from 11am-4pm on Sunday 5th December to find beautiful handmade crafts that make perfect Christmas presents! For children there will be festive face painting with Evie between 12pm-3pm, and Christmas crafts.
There will be a selection of things to eat and drink plus musical entertainment in the Great Hall, provided by a choir and The Christchurch Port Sunlight Handbell Ringers.
All stalls will be outside (under cover of gazebos), so warm clothing and sensible footwear is strongly advised.
In addition to the fair you will be able to climb the 101 steps of St Mary’s Tower for stunning views of the Wirral, the waterfront, the Liverpool skyline and Cammell Laird shipyards.
Timed slots will be available on the day, please see a member of staff on-site to arrange this.
