WESK - What's ON UK digest issue Jan 13
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(What Everone Should Know)
WHATS ON IN THE UK? (Digest)
a weekly guide to events & happenings across the UK.
You are advised to contact the venues prior to setting out on long
journeys to avoid disappointment.
London
"London International Mime Festival"
six venues until Jan 20
BAC Lavender Hill
Circus Space Coronet St
Cochrane Theatre WC1
Holborn Centre WC1
ICA Nash House SW1
Royal Festival Hall SE1
"Apparitions, Graveyards and Alleyways"
Blackfriars Tube New Bridge St., Sundays
Legendary spectres tour of London.
"Brass Rubbing"
Westminster Abbey Parliament Sq. Westminster Mon-Sat
Make your own picture from the Kings & Queens collection.
"Brer Rabbit Vists Africa"
Puppet Theatre Barge Little Venice until Mar 03
music and sounds of Africa.
NORTH
"Northern England Open Air Museum"
Beamish County Durham winter opening Tue-Thu / Sat & Sun
Trams,1900's dentist, brewery and yard (Sun Inn) traditional sweet
factory stores etc.
"Granada Studio Tours"
Water Street Manchester winter hours until Jun (Wed-Sun)
Coronation St,Baker St, Downing St, Motion Master cinema
"Anything to Declare"
Merseyside Maritime Museum Albert Dock Liverpool until 31 January
Series of events organised by HM Custom & Excises
"Vroom Toys"
Bradford Industrial and Horses at Work Museum until 3rd February
Exhibition contemporaryy and traditional transport toys.
"Treasures Of The British Coal Collection"
National Coal Mining Museum Overton Wakefield until 4 February
Exhibition of early mining relics.
"Survival Island"
National Museum of Photography Bradford until 31 May
Six floors of displays.UK's largest cinema screen, David Attenboroughs
latest wildlife film.
"Why buildings stand up and why they fall down"
Archaelogical Resource Centre York until 26 Jan
Science & History exhibition / experiments.
"Saved for Yorkshire"
Leeds City Art Gallery until 27 Jan
Thomas Chippendale and Turner masterpieces.
Pontefract Castle Castle Chain Yorkshire
Ruins plus working blacksmiths / site of Richard 2 death
free entry
"Millennium"
Harbourside Scarborough daily until May
time travel adventure thro 1,000 years.
"Land of the Pharoes"
Hancock Museum Newcastle On Tyne permanent exhibition
Life and death in Ancient Egypt loaned by the British Museum
"Get Wick-ed"
Cheshire Candle Workshops Tatton near Chester daily
see candle carvers and glass sculptors at work
"Dewa Roma Experience"
Chester daily
climb aboard a roman galley or roam the recconstructed Roman streets.
"David Hockney Exhibition"
Gallery Sataire West Yorkshire until 29 Feb
lithos drawn between 1979/80
"Big Fibs and Tall Stories"
Museum for children Halifax Yorkshire daily
interactive workshop
"Bedes World"
Jarrow Tyne and wear tues - sat during winter
early middle age monastic church, anglo saxon farm
"Colin Middleton"
Ulster Museum Belfast until 31 Jan
exhibition 20th Ulster artist
"Lough Neagh Discovery Centre"
Craigavon County Armagh wed-sun winter opening
bird watching hides/interactive touch screens
"Home and Away"
Internationalism and British Art
Tate Gallery Albert Dock Liverpool Tues-Sun till April 1997
Influences of travel on British Artists
"Saturday Concerts"
Town Hall Leeds until May 18
Leeds International Concert Season Mozart Faure and Bizet
"Yorkshire Museum of Farming"
Murton Park Near York daily (trains on Sunday)
3 experiences Houlton Dark ages village, Valley Railway
"Museum of Automata"
Tower St. York until Easter Mon-Fri
19th century set theatre setting of French automata
SCOTLAND
"Inverarary Jail"
Argyll daily 9.30- 6.00
Learn what jail was like between 1820 and 1869
"Official Loch Ness Monster Exhibition"
Drumnadrochit Inverness-shire winter opening daily 10-4
Exhibition in collaboration with research teams.
"Marine World"
Mallaig Invernesshire Mon - Sat till May
West coast acquarium models exhibition
"Phantom Of the Opera"
Edinburgh Playhouse until 20 April
Webbers hit on a bigger scale than London or Broadway
"Pirates"
Deep Sea World Fife until March
excitement & adventure of Spanish Main/ China Seas life sie models and
sound effects
"Scottish Fisheries Museum"
Anstruther Fife Mon-Sat until March
award winning attraction insight of Scotland's maritime industry
"Snowboard School"
Aviemore daily
recognised snowboard school on Caingorm
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