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Creative Catch-Up Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 0QP 01782 6197065 | www.bramptonmuseum.co.uk | [email protected] Exhibitions Main Gallery and Window B(u)y Me! For Christmas 16 November—5 January Our annual B(u)y Me For Christmas Exhibition where visitors can buy beautiful, exclusive handmade gifts. Hall Gallery Painting with Stitch-J. Lyn Leech 16 November-12 January An exhibition of artwork by J. Lyn Leech. Lyn creates stunning artwork depicting the natural world. Focusing on landscapes, seascapes, gardens and the seasons, she uses freehand machine embroidery on a hand painted silk background to create a layered, textured finish to her work. Craft Cabinets We have quality handmade gifts for everyone in our craft cabinets where you will find something for everyone even the most difficult person to buy for. Regular activities for visitors Museum Prize Trail (cost 50p) – our themed trail around the museum for families costs just 50p and children will get a small prize when they find all the answers. Hunt high and low, upstairs and downstairs. Great fun for kids of all ages. We change the trail regularly so children will always find a new way to explore our museum. Paper Crafts (cost 50p) - always something different to colour and create. A simple paper activity to complete at our craft table or when you get home. Lots of fun and we regularly provide new themed paper crafts to try. Craft Packs – we create our own themed craft packs at prices ranging from £1 to £4 to buy and create at our craft table or when you get home. Museum Events Meet Father Christmas Saturday 14 December 11am – 4pm £5.00 per child Places are limited so pre-booking is essential, we still have some places available, payment required upon booking. If you would like to book, or for any more information, please ring 01782 619705

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Creative Catch-Up

Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 0QP

01782 6197065 | www.bramptonmuseum.co.uk | [email protected]

Exhibitions Main Gallery and Window

B(u)y Me! For Christmas 16 November—5 January Our annual B(u)y Me For Christmas Exhibition where visitors can buy beautiful, exclusive handmade gifts.

Hall Gallery Painting with Stitch-J. Lyn Leech 16 November-12 January An exhibition of artwork by J. Lyn Leech. Lyn creates stunning artwork depicting the natural world. Focusing on landscapes, seascapes, gardens and the seasons, she uses freehand machine embroidery on a hand painted silk background to create a layered, textured finish to her work.

Craft Cabinets We have quality handmade gifts for everyone in our craft cabinets where you will find something for everyone even the most difficult person to buy for.

Regular activities for visitors

Museum Prize Trail (cost 50p) – our themed trail around the museum for families costs just 50p and children will get a small prize when they find all the answers. Hunt high and low, upstairs and downstairs. Great fun for kids of all ages. We change the trail regularly so children will always find a new way to explore our museum. Paper Crafts (cost 50p) - always something different to colour and create. A simple paper activity to complete at our craft table or when you get home. Lots of fun and we regularly provide new themed paper crafts to try. Craft Packs – we create our own themed craft packs at prices ranging from £1 to £4 to buy and create at our craft table or when you get home.

Museum Events Meet Father Christmas Saturday 14 December 11am – 4pm £5.00 per child

Places are limited so pre-booking is essential, we still have some places available, payment required upon booking. If you would like to book, or for any more information, please ring 01782 619705

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Friends of Brampton Museum Talks

We have a regular programme of talks organised by our Museum Friends.

Please call the Museum to book a place 01782 619705. Tickets to be paid for on the day – payment to

Friends of the Museum.Friends of the Museum and non-members are welcome.

There are currently no scheduled talks.

A Friends Christmas Gathering Sunday 8 December 2019. Come & join us for a cuppa & mince pies at the Brampton Museum Details nearer the time

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Friends of Brampton Museum We have an established Friends group. Their aims are to support the work of the museum by: Organising social events such as talks and social events (see the What's on page for details) Fundraising for the museum to purchase items for the collections and to support museum projects} Being advocates for the museum in the community.

If you join the Friends you will:

Be invited to social gatherings in the Museum Receive mailings about Museum and Friends events Be invited to Private Views Have a reduced admission for all talks Make new friends and have fun

By joining the Friends you can help the museum, meet like-minded people and get involved! The fees are: annual single subscription £6; family £8.50; OAP/student £5; joint OAP £7

Donations Making our museum even better. We want to improve the museum collections storage areas and create a research facility for the public to:

Improve our visitor facilities by providing a café, meeting rooms, better toilets and shop. With better meeting and education rooms we will be able to accommodate larger groups and expand the activities we currently offer to the public

Improve our temporary exhibition space so that we are able to accommodate larger exhibitions, touring exhibitions and loans from regional and national museums We need to raise match funding to help to pay for the costs of this project.

If you would like to support our project by donating money to our fund please contact the Museum on 01782 619705.

Meeting Room Hire For meetings, events or gatherings. We have two meeting rooms available to hire for a wide range of activities for your business, groups or events.

Group meetings, talks, art workshops, yoga and wellbeing sessions, language groups, family gatherings are some examples of the types of activities that have been held at the museum.

For availability, bookings and to discuss your requirements please call or email us, or pop in for an informal visit and chat:

Rooms: The Red Room is situated on the ground floor of the original Museum building and features a bay window with a view onto the park, wooden parquet floor and original historical features. The Red Room also houses some of our topographical local paintings. There is a pull-down projector screen. The room can be closed off to Museum visitors. Toilets are accessed near the main entrance. Maximum occupancy: 25 people

The Green Room is accessed via a corridor from the Main Gallery space. The room features a sink and sideboard and is mainly used for education and arts and crafts, as well as meetings. This room has close access to toilets, kitchen facilities and direct access to a back yard area and parking. Maximum occupancy: 25 people

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Prices: £27 per half day / £50 per full day. We also offer a community/charity rate. Please enquire to discuss if your organisation is eligible.

We can provide your tea and coffee (milk and sugar) with crockery at £1.60 per head, or you can opt to use our self-service coffee machine with prices at £1.20 for tea/hot chocolate or £1.50 for coffees. Groups may bring their own tea, coffee etc., refreshments and catering by arrangement. We can provide hot water and crockery included in the price however the group will be responsible for collecting, washing and returning the crockery at the end of the session. Please contact us for availability and more information either by phone, email or in person.

Opportunities

Opportunity Saturday Creative Workshops Brampton Museum

Date Contact us for availability

Details Are you a creative practitioner who delivers Art and Craft workshops?

We have two rooms available for you to hire on Saturdays throughout the year. You could hire one of our rooms to host your own creative workshop(s) in our Museum.

Rooms: The Red Room is situated on the ground floor of the original Museum building and features a bay window with a view onto the park, wooden parquet floor and original historical features. The Red Room also houses some of our topographical local paintings. There is a pull down projector screen. The room has a door so your event can be closed off to regular Museum visitors. Toilets are accessed near the main entrance. Maximum occupancy: 25 people

The Green Room is accessed via a corridor from the Main Gallery space. The room features a sink and sideboard and is mainly used for education and arts and crafts, as well as meetings. This room has close access to toilets, kitchen facilities and direct access to a back yard area and parking. Maximum occupancy: 25 people

Prices: £27 per half day / £50 per full day For availability and bookings and to discuss your requirements please call or email us, or pop in for an informal visit and chat: 01782 619705 [email protected]

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Opportunity Art Group, Mow Cop

Location Mow Cop Community Hall, Congleton Road, Mow Cop, ST7 3PJ

Date Monday Evenings 7-9pm

Details

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Opportunity Green Shepherd Design Workshops

Location Various

Contact Email: [email protected] Facebook: @GreenShepherdArt Dates Various

Details

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Opportunity Art Tutorials 1: Keeping it Loose - Introduction to Mark making

Date 21 November

Location The Waiting Room Gallery 17 Station Street Longport ST6 4ND

Contact more information can be found here. Details Instructive art workshops, suitable for all levels of ability in a relaxed, calm environment.

The aim is to break down barriers, build confidence and lose your inhibitions to mark making, This will teach you ways of seeing and develop skills to respond visually to the world around you, so you can go forward confidently to create your own unique style of art works. Refreshments provided £5 per session, Limited spaces available.

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Opportunity Art Classes for 7 – 12 year olds with Artist Nikki Johnson

Dates Saturdays from 9 November

Location Jollies Arts, 6-8 Liverpool Road, Newcastle ST5 2AT

Contact n.johnsonartist@gmail .com | 01782 616700

Details

Opportunity Workshops at Unit Twelve

Date Various, see below

Location Tixall Road, Stafford ST18 0XX Details The visiting artists' workshops for 2020 are:

Rachel Butlin: Silver Stacking Rings on 1st February MORE INFO Hannah Lobley: Pages to Wood- Floral Canvas on 8th Feb MORE INFO Michaela McMillan: Mini Wall Shrines on 14th March MORE INFO Sal Broadhurst: Mini Books Workshop - 18th April MORE INFO Katherine Richmond: Riveted Silver Jewellery on 2nd May MORE INFO Katie Almond: Porcelain Envelope Wall Pockets on 23rd May MORE INFO Lindsey Mann: Colourful Aluminium Jewellery on 20th June MORE INFO Emily Notman: Advanced Wall Hangings on 4th July MORE INFO Emily Jo Gibbs: Illustrative Pictures on 11th July MORE INFO

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Anne Kelly: House and Home workshop on 18th July MORE INFO Bryony Rose Jennings: Textile Owlet workshop on 1st August MORE INFO Kathryn Ashcroft: Mouse in the House workshop on 22nd Aug MORE INFO Richard McVetis: The Art of Hand Embroidery on 5th Sept MORE INFO Stewart Kelly: Following a Line workshop on 24th October MORE INFO Liz Cooksey: ‘Small Worlds' wire workshop on 12th Dec MORE INFO But don't delay, some of these artists sold out super quick last time they visited... Or for details of ALL art workshops at Unit Twelve do check out: https://unittwelve.bigcartel.com/category/all-art-workshops

Funding No funding opportunities to display

Exhibitions and Events Exhibition B(u)y Me For Christmas!

Date 16 November-5 January

Location Brampton Museum, Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 0QP Details Our annual B(u)y Me For Christmas Exhibition where visitors can buy beautiful, exclusive

handmade gifts.

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Exhibition Painting in stitch J.Lyn Leech

Location Hall Gallery Brampton Museum, Brampton Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs ST5 0QP Date 7 September – 10 November

Details

Exhibition Society of Staffordshire Artists

Location Spode Heritage Centre, Stoke. Date 1 November – 15 December Details The SSA have now been fortunate in being able to use this centre as its base for meetings and

latterly for exhibitions as well. This show therefore being the first of its kind here. The centre have created an excellent new exhibition space and there is provision for some twenty-three members to exhibit two pieces each of their works. This will run from Nov 1st to Dec 15th.

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Exhibition Society of Staffordshire Artists

Location Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek https://www.foxloweartscentre.org.uk/category/location/

Date 9 November 2019 – 4 January 2020, The Foxlowe Gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-4pm

and the first Sunday of the month (11am-4pm)

Details

Foxlowe Arts Centre will host a group exhibition titled 'Small Worlds' in the Gallery from Saturday 9 November 2019 – Sunday 5 January 2020. All are welcome at the Preview on Friday 8 November from 7.00-8.30pm. The exhibition aims to delight, with a display of small work depicting small things – the mini-worlds we often overlook; the corners of the mundane that contain hidden treasures. The work of 7 local artists and makers is included: Richard Wade, Marie McGowan-Griffin, Peter Fox, Michela Griffith, Frances Naggs, Philip Proudlove and Sue Fox. As a concession to the gift-buying season, work that is sold can be taken away throughout the exhibition. Etchings by Richard Wade prove popular wherever he exhibits, with his unique view of everyday subjects rendered in the rich tones of traditional etching, a medium not frequently seen in modern galleries. There are exquisite raku-fired pots by Marie McGowan-Griffin, imaginative and high quality hardwood items of home décor by master craftsman Peter Fox (of Fox Country Furniture renown), and the stunningly poetic cameo landscapes of photographer Michela Griffith. Three painters complete the show, with works of very different character – Frances Naggs brings nature to life with her joyful vibrant canvases, while Philip Proudlove excels at painterly scenes alive with light and atmosphere. Sue Fox is exhibiting from her award-winning series of jewel-like birds in bright landscapes, both as original paintings and framed prints.

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Event Cherished Chimney’s Christmas cheer

Location Cherished Chimneys, 34 Station Street, Longport ST6 4NA

Date Saturday 31 November and Sunday 1 December 10 am– 4.30pm Details https://www.facebook.com/events/348144206094435/

🎄Cherished Chimneys Christmas Cheer🎄 lots of unique stalls, local artists adding festive magic, mulled

wine, mince pies , lots of lovely people including Santa 🎅

Exhibition Orme Art

Location Whitfield Community Centre, Whitfield Avenue, ST5 2J2 Date 30 November – 1 December 11am-4pm

Details

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Event The Waiting Room Gallery Christmas Workshops

Location 17 Station Street, Longport ST6 4ND

Date See below Details

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Exhibition Absent Tribe – Keith Brymer Jones

Location Centre Space Gallery (Pot Bank), Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4QQ Date Running until 24 November Details A beaker sits perfectly in two cupped hands, held together as if drinking hot chocolate on a cold

autumnal night, or taking sacramental wine to celebrate the Eucharist.

Of course, that form echoes its making: this was a weighed handful of soft grey clay until Keith Brymer Jones cupped his practiced hands around it. Each beaker is a human thing, comforting in its form and scale, shape and size as old as the history of humanity.

The oldest, most ancient people - we only know them through the pottery they left behind, through roughly-fired clay shaped by hands like Keith's. The old British tribes, the Iceni and the Durotriges and the Cornovii, are all absent except for their pottery traces. The work at Spode was arguably the finest pottery ever made, the end-point of 6000 years of making in the British Isles.

The people who once filled the Spode site with skilled labor, with laughter, falling in love, learning a craft - we will soon only know them through the pottery they left behind. They are now as absent as the Cornovii. Josiah Spode acquired this site in 1776, and it finally ceased production in 2008. Nearly 250 years of making happened here.

Every piece of pottery ware made in Stoke has been touched by about 15 pairs of hands. In its prime, this site employed over 1000 people. Imagine all those hands, all that history.

Keith has, as he has made 1100 beakers, one for every one of the workforce when the site was at its busiest, and a smaller one for every child working on the site. He remembered their hands as he shaped the beaker that holds their memory. Each beaker has been handmade by Keith in his Kentish studio, decorated with transfers printed in Stoke, and then brought here to fill this space in one of the old Spode mold rooms. Keith has filled this place with memory and made the ghosts of this place solid.

Take home a piece of Spode - All beakers within the installation will be available to buy, by pledging during the exhibition. Each beaker is a limited edition and a hand-thrown ceramic piece made by Keith Brymer Jones. The beakers will cost between £20- £35 with all the proceeds going towards The Donna Louise Hospice. The beakers will be sent out directly after the exhibition has finished at the end of November.

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Event Stoking Curiosity Festival 2019 Location Centre Space Gallery (Pot Bank), Spode Works, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4QQ Date 22 and 23 November 10am- 4pm

Details

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Exhibition #Scar: from the Rich Earth – Ian R.Persall

Location Valentine Clays Valentine Way in Fenton. ST4 2FJ

Date 3rd October 2019 - 29th November 2019 (Every day) 09:30 - 17:30. Thursday 3 October @ 5.30pm

private view. Details An exhibition of new paintings by local artist Ian R Pearsall hosted by Valentine Clays at their new

HQ. Working under the title #Scar: from the Rich Earth, Ian is collaborating with diverse creative forces; multimedia artists; ceramic artists and writers Mike Cain and Dave Harper, known as The Penkhull Artists Association; Lindy Martin from Carmarthenshire, and Rebecca Perry from Sheffield. Author and columnist for The Sentinel Newspaper; Dave Proudlove, Lindsay Bainbridge and Stoke-On-Trent's first poet laureate Stephen Seabridge collaborate for the definitive words that celebrate Stoke-On-Trent - the ultimate inspiration for the exhibition.

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Exhibition Sandbach Art Club Art Exhibition and Sale Location The Masonic Hall, The Commons, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1FJ

Dates Fri 22 Nov 11am - 4pm | Sat 23 Nov 10am - 4pm | Sun 24 Nov 10am - 4pm

Details Showing a variety of artwork in all types of media and style. Great opportunity to get a unique

piece of art for yourself or a special gift for someone else. Free Entry. Refreshments available.

We can also be found on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Exhibition The Alston Emery Art Trail

Location Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre Details

Residents and visitors will be able to walk in the footsteps of acclaimed borough artist Alston Emery along a one mile, town centre route.

The Alston Emery Art Trail, devised by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, aims to guide walkers from the house owned by Alston to various locations where he painted in the decades before his death in 1996.

In addition to standing in the same spot as the great watercolourist, avid art fans will walk past historic town centre buildings, art galleries, coffee shops and Newcastle’s independent traders. The one-hour walk ends at the Brampton Museum and Art Gallery where the five original paintings from the walk can be seen by arrangement.

There are parking locations on the map, the art trail and images of Alston’s watercolours. It will display on an electronic device such as a mobile phone or tablet in high definition.The Alston Emery Art Trail available here

Exhibition Kitchen Stories

Location Unit Twelve Gallery, Tixall Heath Farm, Stafford ST18 0XX

email: [email protected] tel: 07811 460494

Dates Running until 20 December 2019 open Thurs-Sat, 10-4pm: www.unittwelve.co.uk Details

For workshop listings and booking visit www.unittwelve.co.uk

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Events Arts Keele Programme

Location Various, see listing below

Dates Various, listed below

Details

VISUAL ART

Exhibition - I am 10 October - 29 November | PREVIEW 10 October, 6pm Keele University Art Gallery, Chancellor’s Building A celebration of black and brown artists with a focus on identity and its concepts, discourse, and history. Including painting, photography and poetry the exhibition will be the launch of the Cultural Affairs Project (CAP). CAP is organised by Keele’s BAME society and Women Of Keele Educate (WOKE). Alongside the exhibition there will be a series of events to commemorate the achievements and experiences of people of colour. Funded by Keele Key Fund, Keele Communities Together, KeeleSU. womenofkeeleeducates.com/cap/ Twitter logo @cultaff Instagram logo: cultaff Exhibition - Arts for Advocacy 16 October – 18 December | PREVIEW 15 October, 6pm Keele University Art Gallery, Chancellor’s Building Free Entry “MIGRATION. RÉCITS. MOUVEMENTS.” is a video and photographs exhibition, part of the project “Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with forced displacement in Morocco” (Global Challenges Research Funds AHRC-ESRC), a collaboration between Keele University and the University of Edinburgh. “MIGRATION. RÉCITS. MOUVEMENTS.” is the creative outcome of workshops organised with Moroccan and French artists (Amine Oulmakki, Dabcha, and Julien Fleurance) bringing together citizens from Morocco as well as from Western and Central African countries who live in Rabat (Morocco). The exhibition retraces stories of journeys, obstacles, relationships, love, broken dreams and new hopes. Viewers are invited to navigate a space where bodies trace their own emotional and physical journeys: their stories, their gazes question our imaginary and unsettle our perceptions of forced displacement.

MUSIC KEELE CHAPEL SINGERS Autumn concert 23 November 7.30pm

Keele University Chapel Now in their 28th year, Keele chapel singers are an ecumencial chamber choir, based at Keele University. LAUDATE DOMINUM Monteverdi Mass for 4 voices OR Victoria Missa O Quam Gloriosum Motets by Byrd, Tallis, Lassus and Monteverd MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Peter de Cruz Tickets: £8/ £6 (concessions) under 16s free

Cavendish Winds 27 November | 7.30pm Westminster Theatre, Keele University Fellow Traveller Explore the journeys of composers writing home from home through some of the most famous, and famously forgotten, music written for winds over the last century. Join Cavendish Winds as they delve into the music of displacement, oppression, persecution, and censorship including the music of Ligeti, Hindemith and Schuller.

Schuller Suite for Wind Quintet (1945) Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik (1922) Ehrlich By Air (2016) TICKETS: £16 | Students £5 | Keele Music Students FREE

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Gold and Any5 Memberships available for this concert

Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments 11 December | 7.30pm Keele University Chapel Award-winning Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player and singer, Benedicte Maurseth, The Society of Strange and Ancient Instrument’s director, Clare Salaman, and harpist, Jean Kelly, play an array of beautiful and unusual instruments – Hardanger fiddles, Swedish nyckelharpa, and clarsach (celtic harp) TICKETS: £16 | Students £5 | Keele Music Students FREE

DRAMA, FILM LITERATURE

Keele Drama Society November 2019 date tbc The Great Gatsby By Scott F. Fitzgerald, adapted for the stage by Peter Joucla KeeleSU Ballroom,

Film Screening

Keele Hall Readings 25 November 7.30pm Jacqueline Saphra University Common Room Jacqueline Saphra’s The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye 2011) was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller was published by Hercules Editions in 2017. In the same year All My Mad Mothers (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize. Her most recent play, The Noises, funded by Arts Council England and the T.S. Eliot Foundation was produced at The Old Red Lion Theatre in April 2019. Her next collection, Dad, Remember You are Dead will be out from Nine Arches in September 2019. She lives in London and teaches at The Poetry School. FREE Keele Hall Readings 9 December 7.30pm Nikolai Duffy University Common Room Nikolai Duffy is a poet and publisher. He is the author of The Little Shed of Various Lamps (Very Small Kitchen), Up the Creek (Knives Forks and Spoons), Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop (Shearsman), Notes for a Performance, with the visual artist Louise Adkins (Wild Pansy Press) and, as editor, Gap Gardening: The Selected Poems of Rosmarie Waldrop (New Directions). His poetry has appeared in various British and American magazines, including Shadowtrain, Shearsman, Stride, Blackbox Manifold and E.ratio. In addition, he has published various essays on experimental writing practices, contemporary poetics, and small press publishing. He is the founding editor of Like This Press, publishing handmade collections of poetry, short stories, and essays: www.likethispress.com He is the Assistant Head of the Postgraduate Arts and Humanities Centre, and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. FREE One Acts Festival 13, 14 & 15 December Keele Drama Society presents their annual "One Acts" festival. Each year this event raises funds for important charities. The Drama Society will showcase a range of short one act plays, showing off the best of Keele's writing, acting and directing talent. Times to be announced please visit keele.ac.uk/artskeele Keele Hall Readings 16 December 7.30pm Christmas Open Mic University Common Room

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It is that time of year again, mince pies, mulled wine and an open mic for Keele’s very own creative writing talent. Join us for this last Keele Hall Reading of the term to sample our latest student writings. If you yourself would like to read something, please let your creative writing tutor know as soon as possible. FREE LECTURES

Public Lecture Professor Kevin Anderson 27 November 6pm Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure? Salvin Room, Keele Hall FREE

Professor Janet Hemingway 11 December 1pm Ballroom, Keele Hall FREE

HIDDEN TREASURES

RAVEN MASON - THE COMPLETE COLLECTION 2019 Open Dates: 23 November

Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall

One of the treasures of the University, this fascinating ceramics collection is displayed in the graceful surroundings of Keele Hall and is open for anyone to visit. Ironstone china and porcelain by the Mason Family of potters illustrate the highs and lows of ceramics production in the world famous Staffordshire Potteries of the 19th century, ranging from day-to-day tableware to lavish decorative items for the wealthy. Displays are themed around style, date, decoration and purpose, contextualised with information about people, processes and the renowned Mason’s Patent Ironstone China. Enjoy ceramic highlights of the collection, along with artworks and images relating to the Mason Family and the Potteries which together present a fascinating picture of an industry in an era of change. The collection is the creation of the Raven brothers, Ronald William and John Mason and their sister and Dame Kathleen who presented it to the University for all to enjoy. For more information, open hours and visiting: www.keele.ac.uk/ravenmason Email: [email protected]