Category: Leisure, culture and heritage

1924 Leisure, culture and heritage posts found.

Black History Month 2021 at Shropshire Museums

29/09/2021
Mask from the Mende tribe of Sierra Leone. Copyright: Shropshire Museums

This year Shropshire Museums are supporting Black History Month (October 2021) by staging a series of events across its sites and online…

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Celebrate your local library and discover how we are taking action and changing lives 

28/09/2021
Libraries Week 4-10 October 2021 graphic

Libraries Week is a week-long celebration of the nation’s much-loved libraries, this year highlighting the significant role that libraries play in their…

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More Wild Toddlers events at Severn Valley Country Park

28/09/2021
Wild Toddlers pond-dipping

Families with young children are invited to join a host of outdoor adventures over the autumn at Severn Valley Country Park in…

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We’re proud to say that Oswestry Leisure Centre has been rated ‘Excellent’

21/09/2021
The 25 metre pool at the new Oswestry Leisure Centre

A nationally-recognised quality scheme for sport and leisure has rated Oswestry Leisure Centre as ‘Excellent’ following a two-day assessment. Quest is an…

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Cast of Theatre Severn pantomime unveiled as 25,000 tickets already sold

20/09/2021
Peter Pan cast 2021

The cast of Theatre Severn’s forthcoming pantomime “The Pantomime Adventures Of Peter Pan” were unveiled last week, as the venue prepares to…

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LEGO® makes a welcome return to SM&AG – but this time with an arty theme

17/09/2021

The Brick by Brick exhibition which opens at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 18th September gathers the work of 18…

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Meremaids ‘in the swim’ for national award

15/09/2021
Sally Poynton with her own Meremaid creation made from a feather duster, plastic knives and cotton buds

News from our partners A community art initiative in Ellesmere featuring a ‘flotilla’ of mermaid figures has been shortlisted for a national…

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Little ones invited to join in Wild Toddler events this autumn

14/09/2021
An image of children learning about mini woodland beasts such as slugs and snails at Severn Valley Country Park.

Families with young children are invited to join a host of outdoor adventures over the autumn at Severn Valley Country Park in…

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The detectorist and the sun pendant: how Bob made “most significant Bronze Age metalwork find” in last 100 years

10/09/2021
Picture by Shaun Fellows / Shine Pix Ltd. Pictured are Bob Greenaway (Detectorist) and Emma-Kate Lanyon (Shropshire Council's Curator of the Exhibition).

Bob Greenaway, a retired former engineer from Oswestry, found a sun pendant in an undisclosed Shropshire field in 2018. The stunning 3,000-year-old…

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News from our partners: British Museum and Shropshire Museums to develop new Partnership Gallery

09/09/2021
An image of the Bronze Age gold bulla that was found in Shropshire in 2018. The bula could potentially hold international importance due to it's rarity.

News from our partners British Museum The British Museum today announces plans to develop an exciting new Partnership Gallery at Shrewsbury Museum…

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