Walkabout in Winton
Walkabout in Winton is set to Glow
Winton Eccles, Fri 19-Sun 21 September
FREE For everyone
Summer is going out with a bang thanks to the latest exciting Walkabout project from The Lowry. Everything from hoola-dancing to bmx biking is on the menu for a special Glow weekend as the The Lowry’s outreach programme arrives in Winton, Eccles.
The fun begins on the Friday with a Hawaiian Tea Dance at Brookhouse Community Centre with flowery necklaces, grass skirts and palm trees provided to those attending. In the evening there will be bumper fun with a family night at Westwood Primary School with fun and games, a disco and a Wii tournament.
On Saturday Brookhouse Playing Fields and Community Centre will host a Graffiti Bus and DJ alongside street dance and painting with basketballs. Broadslide, a group of local children, will round up the day with a spectacular performance of BMX and street dance.
Official guides will direct local residents on a walk through the estates down to Winton Park on the Sunday, for an afternoon of fun and sport activities. There’s a prize for the person or group who gains the most points on the clues-and-answer quiz along the walk. Salford Reds and Sports Development will be running an afternoon of games for the family in Winton Park alongside music from the Graffiti bus. Local children will also fill the sky with kites they have made over the last few weeks and there will be the opportunity to make a kite.
Walkabout aims to use creative activity to develop opportunities for participation and social engagement among Salford’s communities. Projects are driven by the participants and their ideas, reacting to issues they have identified within their own communities. Walkabout encourages participants to work together to devise, plan and deliver creative projects which, in turn, challenge problems embedded within their communities and contribute to improving life for residents.
The Lowry on Walkabout moves into Eccles after a successful fourteen months in Little Hulton which culminated in the hugely successful Strike the Light event
The Lowry on Walkabout organised Glow with Salford City Council, Brookhouse, Westwood and New Lane resident associations, Salford Community Leisure, Salford City Academy and Salford City Reds.
Posted on Friday, 22 August 2008 under Press Community & Education Press