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Double Weekend Boost for Turnpike Centre
Photo Call: The Mayor of Wigan, Co. Eunice
Smethurst, will officially open ‘An Eye For A Picture’ at 12pm on
Saturday 16th September at the Turnpike Centre. Photographers are also
invited to capture the Turnpike’s Open Day. Please contact Martyn Lucas
on 01942 404469.
If you haven’t visited Leigh’s Turnpike Centre recently, you are in for
a big surprise this weekend! On Saturday 16th September staff at the
Turnpike Centre’s library and gallery are joining forces to showcase
what Leigh’s best community facility has to offer.
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust are hosting a ‘Turnpike Centre Open Day’
to allow the public of Leigh to meet library staff and local community
groups and to find out exactly what the Centre has to offer them for
free.
The Turnpike has three active parts:
• Leigh Library is the biggest and busiest in the borough
• the Turnpike Gallery has one of the largest gallery spaces in the
region and is famous for its interactive exhibitions that bring art to
life
• the Derby Room is home to many local groups and societies and is also
a popular arts venue hosting events such as the Words Literary Festival.
In a double boost for the Turnpike Centre, the gallery’s latest
exhibition ‘An Eye For A Picture’ showcasing the work of some of the
borough’s finest photographers opens on Saturday at 12pm. The exhibition
features hundreds of prints, depicting a range of topics from landscapes
to portraits and still lives to action shots. It includes contributions
from Atherton and District Amateur Photographic Society, Leigh and
District Camera Club, Wigan Photographic Society and Wigan 10 Foto Club.
The exhibition runs until Saturday 30th September and admission is free.
Leigh Library Officer Paul Banks, organiser of the Open Day, says, “The
Turnpike Centre has so much to offer and we want to show people who
perhaps are not regular users exactly what they are missing out on. The
library has far more than just books, there is DVD and CD hire, free
access to the internet and lots of free activities and vital public
information for people of all ages.”
Paul continues, “We also have the Derby Room, Leigh’s most popular
meeting venue. It is used by local society meetings and also as a
training and craft fair space, among many other uses. There is always
something going on! Just upstairs we have the fantastic Turnpike Gallery
- a site of national importance right on our doorstep. We hope lots of
people come along on Saturday to sample a taste of what the thriving
Turnpike Centre has to offer.”
For more information about the Turnpike Centre Open Day, please call
Paul Banks on 01942 404404. To find out more information about the ‘An
Eye For A Picture’ exhibition please contact the Turnpike Gallery on
01942 404469 or visit
www.wlct.org/turnpike.
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NOTES TO EDITORS: For further information on this News Release please
contact Chris Dunbar, Public Relations Officer, Wigan Leisure and
Culture Trust on 01942 486937 or at
c.dunbar@wlct.org.
The Turnpike Gallery: The Turnpike Gallery is the only purpose built art
gallery in Wigan Borough and is situated within the Turnpike Centre in
Leigh, the town’s focal point for a variety of cultural activities. The
Turnpike’s programme of exhibitions and activities gives visitors the
chance to engage with a range of visual arts and engage in hands-on
activities. Please call 01942 404469 or visit
www.wlct.org/turnpike.
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust: Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust is a
charitable trust working on behalf of Wigan Council to manage and
support leisure and cultural facilities, initiatives and events for over
300,000 residents in the Wigan Borough. See
www.wlct.org.
Getting Wigan Active: Getting Wigan Active is Wigan Leisure and Culture
Trust’s vision to ensure that people across the Wigan Borough have the
opportunity to become more physically, mentally and creatively active.
It also aims to increase community activity and to encourage good
citizenship.
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