🖼 Creatures of the Nile exhibition at Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool

🗣 20 Stories High – Creative Community Drop In Day

🖌 Printmaking for Beginners Workshops at Bluecoat

🎭 The Importance of Being….Earnest? St. Helens Theatre Royal

📚 Writing on the Wall's Banned Book Club: Writer's Marketplace

This afternoon, it was great to chat with Vicki from Liverpool Libraries and Information Services plus archivist and researcher Dateus at the Creative Heritage Day at Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool in University of Liverpool as part of Writing on the Wall . I enjoyed listening to them, plus sharing some of the creative work in terms of art and

We’re hosting Writing on the Wall for a Creative Heritage Day at the wonderful Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool. A cooling environment for conversation and discussion on an increasingly hot day, with great exhibitions upstairs.

Unreal Cities present
C'est Moi dans la Poubelle

with Lalor Roddy and Vincent Higgins

Written by James Lever

Directed by Michael O'Neill (Armchair and Rocket)

Installation Film
Beckett: Unbound 2024

For #InternationalMuseumDay we welcome Writing on the Wall's #CreativeHeritageDay , which will include the George Garrett archive, Great War to Race Riots, Liverpool 8 Law Centre, Liverpool Anti-Racist Community Arts Association archive and the Dorothy Kuya archive project.

12-4pm today.

Final venue for 🎭 Beckett: Unbound🎭 confirmed!
If you want to see the short 📽️ C’est Moi Dans la Poubelle, pop into our friends Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool on 30 May or 1 June.
Featuring Lalor Roddy and Vincent Higgins
FREE, no registration necessary.
More details liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and…

Freshly restocked local makers' wares in the VG&M gift shop, including from @paulcurtisarty and of course the fantastic Sophie Green 🧜‍♀️ 😍 #IDAHAT #PeaceLoveandLiverpool

We've picked this serene drawing of the Nile to respond to this week's #OnlineArtExchange theme: Egypt for Creatures of the Nile at @victoriagallery (curated by Garstang Museum). 🌴🐊

🖼️Edward Lear, On the Nile and Gezier el Azerat, 1854, Walker Art Gallery, Art Funded 2006

We are clocking off now. Thanks to all #OnlineArtExchange -rs for playing along with our Egypt theme today. We loved your cats, dogs, camels, hippos, river scenes and landscapes!

See you all same time next week with a new theme from the ever-supportive Art UK 🤩

We're celebrating the Creatures of the Nile exhibition by Garstang Museum today on the #OnlineArtExchange .
We are quite drawn to this happy hippo showing these teeth!
'Pygmy Hippopotamus' by Linden Hamilton (b.1963) from London Zoo.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange is Egypt for Creatures of the Nile Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool curated by Garstang Museum

We've chosen the vibrant colours of Elijah Walton's 'The Pyramids and the Nile Valley' from the collection of The Stirling Smith

A nod to Edward I who brought a Camel to Chenies Manor in 1290 for #onlineartexchange which celebrates Egypt for #CreaturesOfTheNile at @victoriagallery curated by Garstang Museum

📷 Camels Kate Ethel Cowderoy Bushey Museum

We’re exploring the Nile in #Egypt through watercolour for today’s #OnlineArtExchange Art UK for @victoriagallery

We love the expressive brushstrokes in Ethel Brilliana Tweedie’s ‘Sailing Boat on the Nile’ (@ExploreWellcome) and the vibrant hues in Kitson’s ‘Nile boats’

Our Lady's Bird by #WilliamGiles 🪿

🖼️ This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is Egypt for #CreaturesOfTheNile at @victoriagallery (@GarstangMuseum). In Egypt, the bird was linked to the sun god, Amon-Ra and associated with the all-seeing eye of Horus.

#BritishCouncilCollection

Today's Art UK #onlineartexchange is #Egypt for Creatures of the Nile at @victoriagallery curated by Garstang Museum

Frederic Leighton captured this colour study 'On the Nile' on his trip 1868 to Egypt. See it this autumn at #LeightonAndLandscape buff.ly/4bCAHMG

This weekend, @victoriagallery opened its new exhibition, curated by @garstangmuseum - Creatures of the Nile 🦛🐪🐘
This week's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange is #Egypt -themed, our pick is this bronze cat sculpture by Walter Vivian Cole 😻
Credit: @ryeartgallery

It is a smorgasbord of Egyptian themed art on our timeline today, thanks to Art UK's #OnlineArtExchange 😍

Creatures of the Nile is curated with our artefacts alongside pieces from Manchester Museum and National Museums Liverpool.

On Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool until Oct 5.

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liverpool.ac.uk/garstang-museu…

This week's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange theme is Egypt, in honour of Creatures of the Nile at Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool curated by Garstang Museum
Cleopatra by JW Waterhouse (1888, Private Collection)

This week's #OnlineArtExchange by Art UK theme is Egypt for Creatures of the Nile at Victoria Gallery & Museum Liverpool, curated by Garstang Museum!

Here we have a mummy cartonnage, painted red, green, orange and white, with jackal-headed, hawk-headed and dog-headed gods.