SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
The Pumpkin Patch mini pick your own pumpkins
Bungalow Farm Mushrooms, 79 Heatons Bridge Road, Scarisbrick
New for 2018 the pumpkin patch barn... pumpkins and gourds of all shapes and sizes including specialist Atlantic giants will be available.
Enjoy a mini pick your own pumpkins with pedal tractors and mini wheelbarrows for the kids, with a second patch of pick your own pumpkins for the bigger kids.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 – WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Playtown’s Amazing Hallowe’en Party
Playtown, Ocean Southport, 4.30-6.30pm.
£10 per child, including a hot meal and drink.
Fun and games, fancy dress competition, spooky setting, sweets and treats plus much more.
Call Playtown on 01704 778444. Plaza,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
Halloweek
Farmer Ted’s,
Lane, Downholland. 10am-6pm.
With a magical Wonderful Wizard Show. And Wendy the Witch and her meddling apprentice, Wallace, will be around the farm all day.
Will you go through our magical maze and find all 10 ingredients the forgetful wizard needs? Find them all and complete the spell, and you will enter our Spellbound Halloweek Prize Draw. Five winners will each receive a Farmer Ted’s Annual Family Pass.
With lots more fun, including fancy dress and free pony rides.
Visit www.farmerteds.com Flatmans
TO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Farmaggedon
Flatmans Lane, Downholland.
With three interactive scare houses: Contagion 3D, Meat Locker and Terror of the Farm plus a paintball experience, Zombie Outlaw.
Visit www.farmaggedon.co. uk
Pumpkin Picking Adventure at Windmill Animal Farm
Windmill Animal Farm, Fish Lane, Burscough.
10am-6pm.
TO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27
The Liverpool School of Artists
The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport
The Liverpool School art movement was launched at its first official exhibition at Liverpool Cathedral in 2014.
The exhibition demonstrated the range of work being created by the four founding members under the parameters set out in the movement’s manifesto.
This is the first new art movement to be created for at least 40 years and the third art organisation to be created in Liverpool, the previous ones being the Sandon Society, formed in 1905, based at the Bluecoat and a much earlier Liverpool school of painters called the Liverpool Academy, first formed in 1769 but which had disappeared by the end of the 19th century.
The Liverpool School’s basic aim is to redefine urban art in geometric painting, both 2D and 3D, using city life, buildings and transportation as its inspiration – anything which depicts and portrays the rhythms of urban life.
As an aesthetic, the urban landscape may be regarded as the vision a society projects about itself into the future.
TO MARCH 16, 2019
The Art of Noise
The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport.
An exhibition of paintings and sculpture drawn from The Atkinson’s collection linking art and music in innovative ways. Experience and create music inspired by the visual arts, featuring music from Vaughan Williams and Wagner to the Beatles and Neil Young and paintings and sculpture by major artists including Laura Knight, Paul Nash and Richard Hamilton.
Frank Hampson – The Man Who Drew Dan Dare
The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport
Frank Hampson created “Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future” in 1950, as the front page strip “that sold The Eagle” and is widely regarded as the most important British comic strip artist of the post-war period.