Events for 2007

21st to 30th September
Berwick and Film

An exhibition looking at Berwick’s connection with film from its beginnings in 1897 to the present.

 Open 10-5, Wednesday to Sunday

English Heritage admission charge applies  

Friday, 5th October (At the Maltings Arts Centre)
Berwick Museum Theatre Group
presents

The Making of St Cuthbert: A One Act Play
By Chris Green, with poems by Keith Armstrong

Are saints born or made? That is the question posed by this new play specially written for the Golden Age of Northumbria Festival. St Cuthbert is Northumbria’s best known and most admired saint. But why should this be? The show tells the story of the writing of the first almost-lost biography of Cuthbert, just what the role of the Venerable Bede was, and how The Lindisfarne Gospels come into the story. Using live action and video projection this lively play illuminates an old world of piety where some people’s motives were surprisingly modern.

Maltings Art Centre, Eastern Lane, Friday, 5 th October at 7.30

Tickets: £5 (Maltings Box Office: 01289 330999)

Berwick Museum’s Exhibits of the Month in Berwick Library, Walkergate

(Open: Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat)

October Jug with scenes from The Gentle Shepherd
(Scottish, 1820s)

November Rail from Berwick’s first railway
(Berwick, 1820s)

December Virgin & Child Statuette
(French, 15th century)

January Dish, with Daoist Immortals
(Chinese, 18th century)

February Silhouette Portrait of John MacKay Wilson
(Berwick, 1831)

March Cup & Ring Stone
(Northumberland, 2000 B.C.)