St Helens World of Glass
Our trip from Manchester Piccadilly Train Station to St Helens World of Glass was by train and bus with the last section on foot.
The World of Glass is a local museum and visitor centre dedicated to the local history of the town primarily through the lens of the glass industry.
We arrived around 12.00 noon and started with teas and coffees before viewing a glass blowing demonstration. We then had a guided tour around a couple of the galleries. In the Past Gallery we saw Victorian St Helens and witnessed the lives of those who lived there.
One of the stories was by Austin, a male aged 22:
We had lunch – sandwiches, wraps and salad – before another guided tour, this time around the tunnels.
All in all it was an informative and fascinating trip where we learnt about the manufacture of glass and how it can be moulded into different shapes such as bowls, vases and swans.
More photos can be seen here.
The Rug of Identity
It is a tale as old as time … your assassin mother has a one-night stand in the Charing Cross Gent’s and you endeavour on a quest to find your father.
All that lies in the way is your lesbianism, a Scottish hot-dog seller, and a Mrs Gambell of Milton Keynes.
See told you it was a tale as old as time!
Jill Fleming’s The Rug of Identity which was originally performed in 1986 is being revived for the modern stage. A lesbian farce like no other (are there others?) The Rug of Identity is still as rib-tickling and preposterous as it was in the 80s and brings a great injection of queer joy to the modern day.
This show has an interval!
Monday 8 April, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
The Kings Arms, 11 Bloom St, Salford M3 6AN £8 – £10 (+ £1 Booking fee)
Vaslav Nijinsky
We are celebrating the birth of legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, born on 12 March 1889 in Kiev, Russia, to a family of celebrated dancers.
At age 9, he entered the pre-eminent ballet school in the world – the Imperial School of Dancing – where his extraordinary talent was soon apparent. Upon graduating in 1907, Nijinsky joined the Mariinsky Theatre as a soloist where, for the next three years, he danced all the male leads.
Audiences and critics alike were so thrilled by his talent that, in 1909, when impresario Sergei Diaghilev launched the Ballets Russes, he asked Nijinsky to join as a principal dancer. He accepted and the two soon became lovers.
Often called the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century we are proud to honour the LGBT heroes that Russia works to erase.
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Out in the City 