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Eureka! Science + Discovery giving families a helping hand this summer EUREKA! Science + Discovery is offering families on universal credit £1 tickets over the summer holidays.

Next Sunday, our studio will be open from 10am until 2pm as an experiment to be open more regularly and to tie in with the nearby Oxton Village Market which is a great new foodie adventure for Oxton. If you have needed to catch up for a chat this will be a great opportunity as Abscraft.com will be there for any drop off “waste” plastic or metal or broken jewellery. We have some parking in the space and Ceramic Organic will be helping hold the fort. There will be artwork on show in our new resident artist gallery space and the opportunity to see our space as we have it normally.

Sorry no pets. Why? This is a working space and there are residual glazes and wire on the floor that could be harmful to unprotected paws. We can bring bowls of water outside and there is a bench in the courtyard. We have quite a lot of wildlife around, a family of cats and lots of birds.
We are located at Wellington Road Art Studios which is off Wellington Road behind the shops. Near Hursts Bakery.

From the RAFA club you could go down onto Shrewsbury Road beyond the roundabout and fill up at the Oxton Refill with all your shampoos etc and then up Arnside Road onto Welly Road, past SDA architects and Edith Smith’s Blue Plaque, past Gary’s Festival Flowers (spotting his wellies on the way a hang over from my Welly Road gets the Boot in Project from over a decade ago) and past Hursts then turn left into our drive and up into the tiny oasis of small businesses where we are located.

Last chance! Apply now to join our team and help welcome Port Sunlight's thousands of visitors ☀️

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 & 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿
This new role will oversee the management of the visitor experience and commercial activity at Port Sunlight Museum and across all venues, including the visitor welcome, ticketing, retail activity, and ensuring that visitor facilities are maintained to a high standard.
🕑 Full time (part time considered), permanent
💵 £30,515–£32,909 pro rata
⏳ 10am, Monday 22nd July

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁
As Visitor Services Assistant, you will help showcase Port Sunlight to all visitors. You will meet and greet group, independent and school visitors, creating a safe, welcoming, and friendly environment for learning, discovery, and enjoyment. You will process all ticket and gift shop transactions and encourage Gift Aid and other types of donations to maximise income.
🕑 Casual hours
💵 Minimum wage
⏳ 10am, Monday 22nd July

👉 To download role descriptions and find out how to apply, go to: portsunlightvillage.com/job-opportunities

We are working on plans at Wellington Road Art Studios to be open on part of the last Sunday of the month to coincide with new Oxton Village Market at the nearby RAFA club on Columbia Road. Sounds like a great destination for foodies and “foodies” are also often arty types who we like very much 😀.

We will be mostly set up as we are when we are creating there but also a nod towards the tidiness of when we take part in Wirral Open Studios or our Christmas event.

We often find random people wandering in the courtyard who are curious about the buildings are their former purpose - more of this later and others are keen to find out about what goes on in the studio. Few people realise the two units house seven artists/jewellers/ceramicists/painters/basket makers - and yes many of us multitask. Watch this space or our studio page or even Studios of Oxton as we will finalise these details soon.

Not every artist will be present at each event but each will have a presence in their work being available to see in our gallery space.

Many of us take cards and all take cash. We also have many greetings cards and can make you a cup of tea.

I mysef always have deliveries of interesting rubbish at the studio and happy to distribute interesting waste to creative types and this may become a pivotal morning for collection/drop off. .ewing.315

We are working on plans at Wellington Road Art Studios to be open on part of the last Sunday of the month to coincide with new Oxton Village Market at the nearby RAFA club on Columbia Road.

We will be mostly set up as we are when we are creating there but also a nod towards the tidiness of when we take part in Wirral Open Studios or our Christmas event.

We often find random people wandering in the courtyard who are curious about the buildings are their former purpose - more of this later and others are keen to find out about what goes on in the studio. Few people realise the two units house seven artists/jewellers/ceramicists/painters/basket makers - and yes many of us multitask. Watch this space or our studio page or even Studios of Oxton as we will finalise these details soon.

Not every artist will be present at each event but each will have a presence in their work being available to see in our gallery space.

Many of us take cards and all take cash. We also have many greetings cards and can make you a cup of tea.

I myself always have deliveries of interesting rubbish at the studio and happy to distribute interesting waste to creative types and this may become a pivotal morning for collection/drop off.

Green Bibliofest 2024 Welcome to interactive presentation, created with Publuu. Enjoy the reading!

A tent was used in the making of my giant thistle - recently revamped and will be on show soon at Eureka! scienceandiscovery

Do you take your tent home after a festival? 🎪

More than 250,000 tents are abandoned at UK festivals each year. Your tent alone could contain as much plastic as 9,000 straws or 22 LPs 🤯

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4cGW13Z

I can not say I have a plastic free week as I reuse plastic in my work. Not just my plastic but I reuse plastic donated by others and my shelves have colour sorted crates of materials sourced from multiple locations.

Plastic Free July® is a global movement that is trying to help people be part of a solution to plastic pollution. Take a look at www.plasticfreejuly.org and see if you can get involved.

Last chance to see The Red Dress at before we head to South Africa on Tuesday 💥

Opening hours:
Friday & Saturday 10-5pm (last admission 4pm)

The exhibition has been very busy, with queues to get in at busy times (although I hear the conversations to be had in them are brilliant!)

This is the last Somerset exhibition for a good few years, so do come along if you can!

i will be contributing to this

News: Wirral’s Green Bibliofest offers a new approach to storytelling, and we’re all invited

“The summer-long project, Green Bibliofest, is using community storytelling to bring conversations about climate, nature and sustainability to life, with fringe projects including the Story Patch quilt, which has been under development across dozens of galleries, studios, libraries and cafes for the last few months.”

Details with times and locations, with booking options, will be available from mid-June onwards at www.wirral2024.com and www.wirral.gov.uk/libraries

Read more at: https://www.artinliverpool.com/news/green-bibliofest-offers-a-new-approach-to-storytelling-and-were-all-invited/



Image: Sophia Hatfield, photo credit Lucas Smith Photography

Everyone has got the memo - deep pink is in.

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Calling all Folksy artists, designers and makers - Applications for our 2024 Summer Exhibition are OPEN 🤩 ⁠
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Our Summer Exhibition is a celebration of all the wonderful art and design created by YOU.⁠ ⁠
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The idea is simple - you can submit up to 3 pieces of original art and design to go in front of our judging panel who will decide the final works to be displayed in our online exhibition throughout August 2024. ⁠
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This year, we're proud to introduce the Outstanding Piece Award supported by Find A Maker, Fred Aldous and Pedddle. These champions of craft will be teaming up with our judging panel to select a shortlist of 8 pieces. ⁠From these 8, one winner and two runners-up will be announced and will receive some incredible prizes. 🤩⁠
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Want to find out more?⁠
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Tap the link to read full details of how to take part, discover what prizes are up for grabs and enter your favourite 3 pieces. 👩🏻‍🎨🌟

https://blog.folksy.com/2024/05/31/folksy-summer-exhibition-2024

Rag Rugging with the public with Gaia for Wirral MakeFest