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Apple Day Fun 2022

Apple Day – fun all day!

Another good time with a great community feel was had yesterday in the Breamish Hall, celebrating Apple Day 2022.

A steady trickle of people came along to the village hall to enjoy:

  • apple pressing (with lots of apples provided, so anyone could have a go)
  • printing with apples
  • the longest apple peel competition
  • apple bobbing
  • craft stalls
  • light lunch of soup, bread rolls and apple-inspired cakes
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Wool Catcher

wool catcher : dream catcher

Dream Catchers are used to encourage only good dreams for those that sleep under them. They’re usually placed over the place you would sleep, so that the morning light shines on the catcher when you wake.

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Gallery of Wonder on Tour video

Science, art and wonder…

The Gallery of Wonder on Tour exhibition at the Powburn Show 2015 was a great success.

It surprised visitors who had expected a traditional country show with dog trials, wrestling and jam-making with a “showground curiosity” from the past… “a black tent full of video installations, and taxidermy and all manner of strange and engaging things!”

Wow! That’s the reaction we’re looking for!

Funded by Arts Council England, Berwick Visual Arts, Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice and Northumberland County Council, the Gallery of Wonder on Tour exhibition aimed to encourage questioning of relationships between art and science, gallery spaces and museums.

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