Category: Leisure, culture and heritage

1926 Leisure, culture and heritage posts found.

Let’s Get Ready bookbags launching today, for Libraries Week

07/10/2019
Let's Get Ready For Life

Shropshire Libraries (Shropshire Council), and the council’s education improvement service early years team, are launching resources today to tie in with Libraries…

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Darwin Room Session a great success at Shrewsbury Library

04/10/2019
An image of Shrewsbury Library.

Soaring rock guitar solos, fast-fretted distorted tunes and six-string shredding. Not quite what you’d expect to encounter at a Grade II-listed building,…

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Council venues seek your views on accessibility

04/10/2019
An image of people in the foyer at Theatre Severn. A consultation is currently open to help improve access to Theatre Severn and the Old Market Hall cinema.

Shropshire Council has opened a public consultation asking for your views on accessibility to Theatre Severn and the Old Market Hall cinema…

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Appeal to save original manuscript of the Life of Sir Philip Sidney

03/10/2019
Fulke Greville manuscript

The Friends of Shropshire Archives, a charity who support the work of Shropshire Council’s archive service, have launched an appeal to save…

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Arts Café event at University Centre Shrewsbury

03/10/2019
An image from the giants exhibition at Mythstories, who will be featured at the next arts cafe event at University Centre Shrewsbury.

Artists, community and voluntary art organisations and anyone interested in the arts are invited to attend an Arts Network Event on Wednesday…

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Consultation on update to Shropshire Libraries strategy

02/10/2019
An image of Shrewsbury Library.

A public consultation about refreshing the library strategy has been launched so the new version can reflect local priorities and needs. The…

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Shropshire Libraries invite you to celebrate Libraries Week

02/10/2019
An image of a graphic promoting national libraries week.

Libraries Week is a week-long celebration of the nation’s much-loved libraries taking place 7 – 12 October. During this week Shropshire Council’s…

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Digging into the Past: Community Archaeology Volunteers wanted

27/09/2019
An image of two volunteers working on a previous archaeology project.

Severn Valley Country Park is looking for budding archaeologists to take part on a community archaeology project this October as volunteers. As…

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Darwin Rooms Sessions kick start with a musical masterpiece

27/09/2019
An image of Jules Morgan with his acoustic guitar. He will be performing in the first Darwin Room Sessions event at Shrewsbury Library.

Join Shrewsbury Library on Saturday 28 September 2019 for a morning of classical music with a rock ‘n’ roll twist with local…

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Shropshire people celebrate the value of landscape and nature

25/09/2019
An image of people from Shropshire creating a heart formation in Carding Mill Valley in the heart of the Shropshire Hill Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

On Saturday 21 September 2019, around 100 people gathered in Cardingmill Valley to sing songs written about the Shropshire Hills and to…

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