BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6909@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220608 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220904 DTSTAMP:20220624T154637Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/williamson-art-gallery-museum-tw ice-nightly-the-argyle-theatre-remembered/ SUMMARY:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: Williamson Art Gallery & Museum: T wice Nightly: The Argyle Theatre Remembered DESCRIPTION:Twice Nightly: The Argyle Theatre Remembered\n8th June – 3rd  September 2022\nWilliamson Art Gallery &\; Museum hosts an exhibition about the wonderful Argyle Theatre of Varieties.\nOpened in Birkenhead in 1868\, it entertained thousands of people and featured artistes who becam e household names nationally and internationally. Stars who were already f amous such as Marie Lloyd\, Vesta Tilley\, Harry Houdini\, Arthur Lloyd an d more appeared at the Argyle. It also hosted performers at the start of t heir careers including Charlie Chaplin\, Billie Burke\, George Formby\, an d later a young Betty Driver and Pat Kirkwood.\nThe Argyle was a theatre o f firsts\, and this exhibition tells these stories. It was the first theat re outside London to show moving pictures in 1896 and the first music hall to broadcast to America in the 1930’s. Many of the performers from that time Ted Ray\, Tommy Trinder\, Tessie O’Shea would become favourites wi th a television audience.\nSadly the Argyle received a direct hit from an incendiary bomb in September 1940\, and despite many efforts to raise the funds to restore it the theatre never re-opened.\nTwice Nightly: The Argyl e Theatre Remembered invites you to see Argyle playbills - once so famili ar around Birkenhead advertising the shows - original items saved from the theatre\, and memorabilia from public and private collections. You will g et a sense of what Birkenhead was like in the heyday of live performance. Many of the items have been lent by the Clarke family who owned and ran th e theatre through three generations.\nProject Coordinator Cathy Warren say s that: “It has been fascinating to discover the story of Birkenhead's f amous Argyle Theatre of Varieties and it is a privilege to bring original memorabilia from basements\, attics and archives\, as well as from treasur ed collections\, for people to see over the next few months. I am very gra teful to all those who have helped with the preparation of the exhibition especially the Clarke family whose ancestors owned and managed the Argyle for over seventy years.”\nThe exhibition and events around it\, includin g a schools’ programme and talks for the general public\, are free thank s to the Heritage Lottery Fund and thanks to the support of Kaboodle Commu nity Choir and Williamson Art Gallery.\nThe programme of events alongside the exhibition includes:\n\n\n Talks by Mike Clarke\, grandson of Theatre manager/owner Denis Clarke. Book tickets\n Tours of the exhibition by p roject coordinator Cathy Warren. Book tickets\n Informal musical interlu des on the Gallery by Heswall Musical Society\n\nFurther information about the exhibition and related events can be found on the Williamson Art Gall ery &\; Museum website williamsonartgallery.org. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2022/06/Argyle-Bill-December-5th-1923-scaled.jpg LOCATION:Williamson Art Gallery & Museum\, Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirra l\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom GEO:53.384568;-3.040443 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Slatey Road\, Birkenhead\, Wirral\, CH43 4UE\, Wirral\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Wil liamson Art Gallery & Museum:geo:53.384568,-3.040443 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR