Night at the museum

News Release
11th May 2010
For immediate Release

Get Creative and Spend a “Night at the Museum!”

Three local landmarks are throwing open their doors, after hours to give you the chance to experience a real life “Night at the Museum” - and all for free. 

Over the weekend of 14th, 15th and 16th May, six professional artists, from Action Factory Community Arts in Blackburn, will work with visitors to mix art and heritage.  All activities will be aimed at children and adults, so fun, exploration and creativity for all ages is on offer.

Visitors to Turton Tower will be using images from the Tower and recycled and coloured plastics to  create stained glass;
At Clitheroe Castle visitors will create skulls, fossils and bugs from clay and recycled junk to go in the drawers in the Curious Collectors’s Study; 

Hold onto your hats at Helmshore Textile Museum as there are plans to waken the “six cylinder devil” using projections of light and playful drawings onto the machine

Action Factory is working with POPL (Perspectives of Pennine Lancashire) to create these three extraordinary nights of creative fun!  POPL is a network of arts organisations, local authorities and heritage venues coming together to create exciting visual arts and raise the profile of visual arts in Pennine Lancashire.

Helmshore Mills Textile Museum, Holcombe Road, Helmshore BB4 4NP
14th May 2010 3pm to 9pm
“Waking the sleeping Beast” (the six cylinder devil) with devilish fun.

Clitheroe Castle Museum, Castle Hill, Clitheroe BB7 1BA
15th May 2010 3pm to 9pm
Creating a collection of artefacts for the Curious Collector’s Study from clay and recycled junk.

Turton Tower Museum, Chapeltown Road, Turton, Bolton, BL7 0HG
16th May 2010 3pm to 9pm

Taking inspiration from the many windows and intricate Tudor, woodwork visitor will create stained-glass windows using recycled plastics.

Chris Johnstone, artist based at Clitheroe Castle says “I can’t wait to see what we make, children have great imaginations and I am hoping they are going to come up something really eye-catching.”

Night at the Museum is a national campaign for late night opening at museums that is run across the UK.

Background

Funded by Renaissance NW, Museum for Changing Lives and Arts Council NW, through Perspectives of Pennine Lancashire (POPL).

The POPL network formed in 2009 in response to key issues for the sector, including the fragmented nature of the visual arts offer and a desire to raise the quality and ambition of visual arts and heritage programming for Pennine Lancashire. POPL is managed by Creativity Works – an initiative co-ordinated by the arts officers of Pennine Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, Creative Lancashire, Curious Minds, Arts Council England NW and Regenerate.

For more information contact
Nicole Pattinson, Project Manager, npattinson@actionfactory.org
or Janet Windley, Marketing,  jwindley@actionfactory.org
At Action Factory Community Arts
T. 01254 679335

For more information on Action Factory see our website www.actionfactory.org